Rodney Frelinghuysen: “I strongly oppose the gentleman's amendment. Our Nation has invested millions of dollars in building state-of-the- art…”

“I strongly oppose the gentleman's amendment. Our Nation has invested millions of dollars in building state-of-the- art, humane, safe, and I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the terrorist detainees at Guantanamo. In order to close that facility, we need to know what the President intends to do with those terrorist detainees who are too dangerous to release but could not be tried. They had an opportunity to prosecute. What has been going on for the last 6 or 7 years? How will he ensure that the terrorists transferred overseas don't return to the fight? No way, apparently, he can reassure us of that because plenty have, and they have killed a lot of our soldiers in the process. And what will he do with terrorists we capture in the future, like the one we captured the other day in Libya? Well, we know what he does. He brings them back to this country, and they are prosecuted as common criminals, not as enemy combatants. He hasn't answered those questions, so our committee is just as adamant as the authorizing committee in opposition to this amendment. I strongly oppose this amendment, and urge my colleagues to do so. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 2130”