[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2210]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    CLOSURE OF GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday President Obama presented his plan 
to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and proposed 
transferring up to 60 prisoners to the United States mainland.
  Bringing dangerous terrorists to the American homeland has been 
consistently rejected by bipartisan majorities in Congress. The 
President's plan is lacking key details required under the law, 
including the exact cost and location of an alternate detention 
facility.
  On the same day that the President announced his plan, Spanish and 
Moroccan police arrested four suspected members of a jihadi cell that 
sought to recruit fighters for Islamic State, including one individual 
described as a former Guantanamo detainee who once fought with 
militants in Afghanistan.
  President Obama's stubborn insistence on fulfilling an ill-advised 
campaign promise to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay 
distracts from ongoing threats to American national security and 
highlights the failures of his foreign policy agenda.

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