Conservative Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives pushed ahead on Thursday with an effort to attach a crackdown on Middle Eastern refugees to a $1 trillion spending bill that must pass within days to avert a government shutdown. With negotiations over the spending package gearing up, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, in a Reuters interview, rejected the Republican proposal to make it harder for Syrian and Iraqi refugees to enter the United States. Pelosi said a proposal to deny funding to Planned Parenthood, which conservatives had been pursuing as recently as late October using a similar legislative tactic, was not a part of the latest spending bill offer from Republicans.
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Republicans press for refugee limits in U.S. spending talks