Sheila Jackson Lee: “I have been on the Homeland Security Committee since the heinous and vile acts of 9/11. I have often said that I was at…”

“I have been on the Homeland Security Committee since the heinous and vile acts of 9/11. I have often said that I was at Ground Zero, and I had the misery of seeing the recovery that was still occurring at that time. I take no backseat to the concern and love for this Nation, as I know that neither do my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. But, Mr. Speaker, this legislation is divided in a simple premise: no to refugees, stop the refugee program, turn your back on children, women, and old people broken and bent. This side is saying that America's values can parallel the love, respect, and commitment to the national security of this Nation. ISIL is determined to divide this bipolar world; divide it between Muslims who share the distorted and profane interpretation and those who live every day under the sun who love freedom. We do not define the faith by those who kill us and maim us. As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: ``The only thing we have to fear is fear itself''-- nameless, unreasoning, and unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert, retreat, and advance. This is the extensive, extensive review that only a small number of Syrians go through that are able to get in this country from refugee camps. That is the only place they come from. This is the extensive one. I say to the President, certify it now.…”