Pelosi: Refugee Bill ‘Does Not Make Us Safer’

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Pelosi: Refugee Bill ‘Does Not Make Us Safer’

By JM Rieger

Posted November 19, 2015 at 6:46pm

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Speaking from the House floor Thursday, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi decried a bill to tighten admissions of Syrian and Iraqi refugees, saying the bill “does not make us safer … [and] does not reflect our values.”

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