RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - Democratic Congressman David says President Obama's critics are resorting to "fear-mongering and scapegoating" rather than offering serious foreign policy recommendations in the wake of the ISIS terrorist attack on Paris.

The 4th District congressman makes his case in an op-ed published Wednesday in the Charlotte Observer.

Price accuses Republicans who want a pause or halt to the flow of Syrian refugees into the United States of politicizing the issue and misleading the public.

"Syrian refugees undergo a more extensive screening than any other visitors or immigrants to the United States. They must first interview in-person with representatives of the United Nations, who conduct an extensive initial background check that is verified by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. They are then interviewed and their cases reviewed by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, the State Department, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, the National Counterterrorism Center, Customs and Border Protection, and the federal government’s intelligence agencies," writes the congressman.

Read the full op-ed at http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article45386607.html