House Democratic leaders Monday dropped President Obama's request for $81 million to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, bowing to strong 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...
[Anyone believe this wasn't the 50/50 plan from the beginning?]
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Dems don't fund bid to close Gitmo
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