Steny Hoyer: White House rethinking Guantanamo transfers

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Politico

The second-ranking House Democrat signaled Tuesday that the White House is reconsidering a plan to move Guantanamo detainees to a prison in northwest Illinois.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he agrees that the Obama administration should reassess the plan to move terrorist suspects from the Cuba military base to Thomson Correctional Facility in the state’s northwest corner.

“I think the administration realizes that this is a difficult issue,” Hoyer said, speaking at his weekly meeting with Capitol Hill reporters. “And I think that they are assessing where they are and where they think we ought to be, and I think that’s appropriate and I look forward to discussing it with them.”

Congress would have to appropriate such funds, which could prove a stumbling block for the White House plans. Republicans have been largely unified in opposition to the prison move, and Democrats such as Illinois Rep. Melissa Bean have joined along.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32396.html

[virgogal]

1. More surprises-----or not !

[DJ13]

2. ......

[global1]

3. Wimps!!!! All Of Them.......nt

[harun]

7. Yup.

[Demeter]

4. I Thought They Buried Steny

Too bad.

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. No, they elected him Majority Leader

[Political Heretic]

5. NO WAY! Oh wait that doesn't surprise me at all.

:(

[Nite Owl]

8. This was one of the few campaign

promises that was kept, not so much now.

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. He can only keep this promise if Congress agrees to fund it

[The Stranger]

12. We have majorities in Congress and funding is by reconciliation.

Get it through. This is critical.

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. Apperently there are a significant number of Democrats in Congress who do not support this

[Metta]

9. If this is true, Obama may just as well wear a Hello, Kitty costume from now on.

Standing up for what's right in the face of political opportunism and fearmongering = balls, otherwise, not.

[DeadEyeDyck]

10. one more of those thousand cuts