concern with the last bill that you hope this bill fixes? there was a provision that stuck it to louisiana, a big $1.8 billion just hit to us like no other state. that was not good. you can t have your state singled out for almost punitive is this because you didn t expand medicaid in time? is that what you re referring to. correct. it was a severe disadvantage. then we lost in the other way. that has been addressed. now i just have to look at the other features. i ve got to ask you on that specific feature, so somebody could say, okay, now you re voting for it because it s better for louisiana. does this come across as, okay r now they re finding a way to make you happy with that and make cap i toe with opioid funding, make portman happy with x.? is this what this is looking like right now. not with me. it was like putting a gun to louisiana s fiscal head and putting the trigger. you don t put a fiscal gun to my
and that s what our bill fixes on tuesday. 5,000 of these foreign fighters that have gone to syria and iraq have western passports. and therefore do not have to obtain a visa before they come into the united states. now chris, this is a huge security gap. it needs to be addressed and fixed and the congress understands that as does the white house, and we intend to do that. but if you think again about the majority of the paris attackers having french or european passports, they wouldn t have had to go get a visa before coming to the united states. that s a threat to the homeland, it s a threat to europe, obviously, but the bigger threat to the homeland is the ease of travel visa waiver to get into the united states. another area you were one of the majority in congress who voted to end the nsa s bulk collection of phone data, the fact that my phone number called your phone number and spoke for x number of minutes. and that program ran out last sunday, a week ago.