Sen Scott: Obama “overcooking my grits” on Gitmo decision

“Well, he sure as hell pushed my button”, Roberts said. “Congress has consistently stopped Obama by law from moving a single detainee to the US, and this would be an egregious overstep by the administration ignoring the will of the American people to accomplish the president’s legacy goals”.

The protection bill was trimmed by $ 5 billion to align it with the price range settlement. He said it’s this third group that the administration is considering transferring to places in the United States where they could be securely held. Thornberry says the bill is good for the troops and that he hopes the political maneuvering is over.

The other members of the Kansas delegation – Sen. -Authorizes lethal assistance to Ukraine forces fighting Russian-backed rebels.

-Extends a ban on torture to the Central Intelligence Agency.

That veto was met with outcry from critics such as Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Among the adjustments were $230,000 for the next-generation bomber to replace the aging bomber fleet – money that the Pentagon wasn’t going to spend anyway because it took longer than expected to sign the contract to build it; $1 billion saved because of lower-than-anticipated oil prices; and $442 million in readiness funds for the Army and National Guard. It had strong support from Republicans, who control the House, and from Obama’s fellow Democrats, even though it still contains provisions making it hard to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Closing the jail was a precedence of Obama’s 2008 presidential marketing campaign, and he promised throughout his first days in workplace that he would ultimately shutter the power, which he argues is expensive and provides extremists a recruiting software.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at a daily briefing that Ryan’s comments run counter to the views of many other Republicans in Congress as well as the Obama administration, but gave not new timing about a forthcoming report on the prison where the United States holds terrorism suspects from around the world. “If we continue to be rebuffed by Congress … at this point I would not take anything off the table in terms of the president doing everything that he can to achieve this critically important national security objective”. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), convened a press conference today to protest the administration’s consideration of the Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C., Fort Leavenworth, and two prisons in Colorado as potential transfer sites. Gov. Nikki Haley and Republican Sen.