By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Republican lawmakers defied President Barack Obama on Wednesday and laid out plans to tighten screening of Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, in a political fight that challenges the U.S. view of itself as a refuge for downtrodden immigrants. Concerned about possible strikes against the United States after Islamic State killed 129 people in the French capital on Friday, the Republican chairman of a House of Representatives security committee proposed additional scrutiny of refugees fleeing Syria or Iraq seeking to enter the United States. The White House quickly threatened a veto, saying the measure "would...
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