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Published January 18, 2015

A top Democratic and Republican senator agreed Sunday about the urgent need to address the global terror threat and Irans nuclear program but disagreed on possible solutions and other issues, underscoring the reality that Washington remains as divided as ever.

Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, told Fox News Sunday that hes not seeing the leadership from President Obama to stop the worldwide terror threat -- including the growth of the Islamic State in Syria.

As long as ISIS is not losing, they are perceived as winning, he said. "We have to defeat ISIS. We cant let them continue threatening the rest of the world for years. This is not a threat that is going away. Its growing. Its metastasizing.

He also said the United States has to assume there are sleeper cells inside the country capable of carrying out deadly attacks like the recent ones in Paris.

Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Fox News that he agrees with Obama, who doesnt want a protracted ground campaign in Syria.

The president is right, this is a complicated situation, he continued. Its important that ground support be done by those in the country.

Johnson and Cardin agreed that the U.S. should impose tougher sanction on Iran for failing to make final an agreement to curtail its nuclear enrichment program, which appears to be toward building a nuclear bomb.

Imposing additional sanctions is the only way to bring Iran to the table in good faith, Johnson said.

He also said he had no faith in the Obama administrations ability to negotiate a good deal.

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