TO DAY'S TALKING POINTS 12-09-15

TO DAY'S  TALKI NG POINTS

The House passed a bill that would overhaul the visa waiver program. The legislation limits visa-free travel to the U.S. for people who've visited Iraq or Syria in the past five years.

French authorities identified the third person involved in November's Bataclan concert hall attack as Foued Mohamed-Aggad, a Frenchman who spent time in Syria.

According to the Pentagon, Donald Trump's comments are bad for national security. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the presidential hopeful's comments "bolster [ISIS'] narrative." J.K. Rowling added that even Voldemort "was nowhere near as bad."

Internet users are circulating a petition calling for Trump to be banned from the U.K. If he's unable to “close up” the Internet before the petition gets 100,000 signatures, it could be considered for debate in parliament. While some (but not all) political leaders slam Trump for his comments, he still has a strong base: 76% of Republicans reportedly think Islam is un-American. Also, Trump’s ideas are more American than you’d think.

Millennials officially soared past baby boomers as the biggest voting bloc. Bloomberg painted an interactive picture that shows just how diverse, tricky to pin down and incredibly valuable to politicians millennials really are.

Lawmakers at Paris’ historic climate conference are trying to lead by example. A massive gathering of 40,000 people creates a pretty big carbon footprint. The last conference, which just 11,000 people attended, produced “50,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, the biggest carbon footprint of any U.N. climate meeting to date,” according to the Associated Press. So this time around, delegates are using a recyclable assembly hall, eating sustainable food and working with a hotelier to plant trees to offset the emissions.

Indigenous peoples who traveled to Paris for the summit said “they’re on the front lines of climate change,” but their concerns are going unheard.