A proposal by North Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson to suspend admitting Syrian and Iraqi refugees failed in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon after Democratic lawmakers voted en bloc against it. “Armenpress” reports the aforementioned, referring to StarTelegram.

The document intends to toughen the examinations of all the refugees that the country plans to accept. The bill needed 60 votes to proceed to a Senate vote. The bill was voted with 55 senators for and 43 against.

The House of Representatives defended the bill in November, last year. The fears concerns, however, about the possibility of IS extremists penetrating into the country emerged after Paris terrorists attacks where 129 people were killed in France’s capital.