President Obama is intent on admitting thousands of refugees from terrorist hotspots to the U.S. but House Republicans failed to negotiate screening protections for the influx in last year’s omnibus spending bill, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX).
A day after the radical Islamic terrorist attacks in Brussels, more than 50 Republican House members are calling on appropriators to include language in an upcoming spending bill to enhance refugee-screening measures.
Prior to Paul Ryan’s election to House Speaker, American victims of illegal alien crime warned conservatives against supporting Ryan’s Speakership, given his two-decade-long history of pushing for open borders. At an October press conference just days before Ryan’s election as Speaker,
The year-end spending bill is the last change Congress has to put the breaks on President Obama’s plan to admit at least 10,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. despite concerns about the vetting vulnerabilities and national security implications, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX).
Republican House members blasted their GOP leadership Wednesday for caving to Democratic leaders by abandoning the House’s bipartisan bill to tighten screening of refugee applicants from Syria and Iraq.
Congress should use the power of the purse to ensure that the refugee program cannot be allowed to act as a “Trojan Horse” threat to national security, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) and 73 of his House colleagues.
Following Speaker Paul Ryan’s “show-vote” on the nation’s resettlement of Syrian refugees, House conservative lawmakers are demanding that Ryan take sincere action by denying the President funds to refugee resettlement in the year-end funding bill.
Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) says that “we’ve got to stop” the Syrian refugee program, but adds that the bill being voted on in the House to halt the program is “not going anywhere.”
A group of Republican lawmakers are calling for a complete, temporary halt of all refugee resettlement funding, including the resettlement of “special interest aliens” crossing the Southern border.
A letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) requesting that the year-end spending bill feature language to fully defund refugee resettlement to the U.S. has 57 co-signers, according to the letter’s author Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX).
The plan to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees in the U.S. is a “recipe for disaster” and must be defunded, Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) says.
The terrorist attack in Paris is an “alarm bell” requiring that Congress block the Obama administration’s plans to resettle tens of thousands of Syrian refugees in communities across the U.S., Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) says.
The U.S. must learn the costs and national security risks of the refugee resettlement program before it admits any more refugees including Syrian refugees, Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) says. In an interview with Breitbart News, Babin expressed his adamant opposition to President Obama’s recent call to admit at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. next year.
Texas grassroots leader and constitutionalist Dwayne Stovall announced Wednesday that he will be running in the Republican 2016 primary for the office of U.S. Representative for the 36th Congressional District. The seat is currently held by freshman Congressman Brian Babin who famously used his first vote as a Member of Congress to vote “present” in the House Speaker’s race.
Newly elected Congressman Brian Babin (R-TX) choked on his first opportunity to vote as a member of Congress. In the recent election for Speaker of the House, the very first vote a congressional member makes, Babin chose to vote “Present.” He was the only member present to not cast a vote on a candidate for Speaker.
