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Dems Don't Fund Bid To Close Gitmo

House Democrats dealt the White House a setback yesterday and dropped President Obama’s request for $81 million to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp bowing to strong Republican criticism that the administration lacks a plan to relocate terror suspects detained there.

Mr. Obama requested the money as part a spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Democratic appropriators left it out of the bill circulated Monday among House Appropriations Committee staffers. Read more here.

Posted by Brown Staff (05-05-2009, 11:33 AM) filed under Homeland Security, Terrorist Detainees