Ensign: GOP will try to block closing Gitmo
Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman John Ensign (Nev.), returning from a trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said Friday that Republicans will try to block closing the U.S. prison there and may be successful.
Ensign, who traveled to Cuba with GOP senators John Barrasso of Wyoming, Sam Brownback of Kansas and Mike Johanns of Nebraska, said the party plans to offer “three or four” amendments to the military supplemental funding bill being considered by the Senate next week, and that he believes some of them will pass because Democratic senators are unwilling to accept the possibility of detainees in the U.S.