Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican and conservative firebrand who is seen as a likely 2016 presidential contender,- said he would introduce his "Expatriate Terrorist Act" on Monday, the first day Congress is back from its five-week August recess. British Prime Minister David Cameron an**unced plans on Monday to strip suspected Islamist militants of their passports temporarily, to combat the threat posed by radicalized Britons returning from Syria and Iraq. Although the fate of Cruz's measure is uncertain in the Democratic-controlled Senate, Islamic State's advances and reports of brutality, including the videotaped beheading of two U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, also seen as a 2016 presidential hopeful and a leader of the Republican party's isolationist wing, backed revoking fighters' passports in a Time magazine column this week.
09-06-2014, 07:55 AM
Senator seeks to strip U.S. citizenship from Islamic State recruits
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