[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2572]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         CLOSING GUANTANAMO BAY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the cold-blooded, calculating 
terrorists sitting in Guantanamo murdered and plan to continue killing 
Americans.
  Since President Obama took office, he has released 150 terrorists 
back to their home countries. In fact, Spanish and Moroccan police just 
arrested four suspected members of a jihadi cell who recruited fighters 
for the Islamic State. One is described as a former Gitmo detainee who 
formerly fought with militants against Americans in Afghanistan.
  The 91 high-security prisoners remaining at Guantanamo committed some 
of the most repulsive crimes known to all of us.
  Severely lacking in detail, the plan to close Gitmo fails to describe 
where, under what authority, and at what cost the relocation of these 
terrorists will be.
  Mr. Speaker, it is against the law to transfer terrorist detainees to 
American soil without congressional approval.
  The United States should do everything it can to keep terrorists out 
of our country, not purposely bring them here.
  Closing Gitmo endangers our U.S. national security, and it is a bad 
idea.
  And that is just the way it is.

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