red states rule
05-19-2009, 02:06 PM
I wonder how the left leaning posters will react to this. What happened to all the promises and chest thumping about the conditions the terrorists were being kept in at GITMO?
Seems every Dem does not want those terrorists to be placed in a prison in their state
Democrats concede on Guantanamo Bay
In a setback for President Barack Obama, Senate Democrats said Tuesday they will strip out $80 million in new funding in a wartime spending bill to begin the process of closing the Guantanamo detention facility.
The action comes as Senate Republicans have warned that they will offer an amendment to the same $91.3 billion measure barring the administration from relocating any of the detainees to American soil.
With the blessing of his party leaders, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is expected to offer the language as an amendment to a $91.3 billion wartime spending bill that could come before the Senate as early as Tuesday.
As reported from the Senate Appropriations Committee last week, the Senate bill provides the full $80 million sought by the Defense and Justice Departments to begin to carry out Obama’s executive order that Guantanamo be closed by early next year.
The House last week stripped out all of the money, but Appropriations Chairman Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) had hoped to chart a middle course that kep the money in place but allows none of it to be released until the White House has come forward with a detailed plan to address security concerns among lawmakers.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22677.html#ixzz0FyetQaNz&B
Seems every Dem does not want those terrorists to be placed in a prison in their state
Democrats concede on Guantanamo Bay
In a setback for President Barack Obama, Senate Democrats said Tuesday they will strip out $80 million in new funding in a wartime spending bill to begin the process of closing the Guantanamo detention facility.
The action comes as Senate Republicans have warned that they will offer an amendment to the same $91.3 billion measure barring the administration from relocating any of the detainees to American soil.
With the blessing of his party leaders, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is expected to offer the language as an amendment to a $91.3 billion wartime spending bill that could come before the Senate as early as Tuesday.
As reported from the Senate Appropriations Committee last week, the Senate bill provides the full $80 million sought by the Defense and Justice Departments to begin to carry out Obama’s executive order that Guantanamo be closed by early next year.
The House last week stripped out all of the money, but Appropriations Chairman Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) had hoped to chart a middle course that kep the money in place but allows none of it to be released until the White House has come forward with a detailed plan to address security concerns among lawmakers.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22677.html#ixzz0FyetQaNz&B