Washington: The US House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Mr Obama's program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them. The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people, was approved on a vote of 289-137, with 47 of Mr Obama's 188 fellow Democrats breaking with the White House to support it. To ask me to have my FBI director or other members of the administration make personal guarantees would...
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