last week. these new details coming to light showing just how active this investigation is allison, christine. okay. pamela, thanks for that. a buildout that imposes the visa waiver program passed overwhelmingly in the house. it would increase information sharing in the u.s. and over three dozen nations where passport holders are allowed to visit america without a visa. it calls for weeding out paejs passengers where they may have been radicalized. they are considering their own bill from using the visa waiver for five years. they praised the billment but warn it could devastate u.s. demand and cost the economy billions of dollars. asian and european shares mostly lower.
the measure would impose travel restrictions stopping citizens from 38 countries if they ve been to syria, iraq, iran or sudan since 2011. this will help neutralize the threat from foreign terrorists entering our country. we re coming together to tackle this threat and we re ready to do more. the concept is preventing those with passports from friendly countries who may have been radicalized. you have more than 5,000 individuals that have western passports, in this program, that have gone to iraq or syria. in the last five years. those are gaps that we need to fix. this is one aspect from president obama s primetime address to the nation, where republicans agree with him. we should put in place stronger screening for those who come to america without a visa. so that we can take a hard look at whether they ve traveled to war zones. many democrats strongly oppose the house vote last month, increasing the standards on syrian and iraqi refugees,
we know that farook and his friend, they have been conspireing to do bad things, officials say. at this point we are learning that they are discovering the extent. federal law enforcement discovering the extent of the 2012 plan following the san bernardino attack. officials have said that farook was not a target of a terror investigation or known to law enforcement before the shooting last week. these new details coming to light showing how active this investigation is. allison, christine. all right, pamela, thanks for. that a buildup imposes new restrictions on the country s visa waiver program overwhelmingly in the house. it would increase sharing in the u.s. and over three dozen nations where passport holders are allowed to visit america without a visa. the bill also calls for the weeding out of passengers who have been in countries where they may have been rad camized. the senate is considering its own bill that would prevent people from using the vis have a
allowed to visit america without a visa. the bill also calls for the weeding out of passengers in countries where they may have been radicalized. the senate is considering its own bill that would pre vent people traveling to iraq and syria from using the waiver program for five years. the obama administration is helping iran negotiate a deal to send part of the enriched stock piles to kazahkstan. the arrangement would speed up sanctions relief for tehran. republicans are calling for new sanctions after they confirmed they conducted a ballistic missiles launched last month and a parent violation of the u.n. resolution. negotiations on a massive new funding bill have stalled in congress. speaker paul ryan says the house may have to pass a short-term funding bill, while talks continue through the week. most of the study plan is in place, but both parties are bogged down over ryder s to the