Going around the Hill:

SUBJECT: something is amiss for some Democrats on Guantanamo DATE: July 20, 2007 Last evening, as part of the debate on the reconciliation bill, the Senate approved by a vote of 94-3 an amendment by Senator McConnell, number 2351, expressing the sense of the Senate that Guantanamo Bay detainees should not “be transferred stateside into facilities in American communities and neighborhoods.” Among those voting in favor of the amendment were Senators Bingaman, Brown, Clinton, Dodd, Feinstein, Kennedy, Harkin, and Whitehouse. This is, of course, strange, given that just last week, all those Senators co-sponsored an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill, amendment number 2125, directing the President to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, transfer all detainees from the facility, while providing that no detainee “may be transferred to a facility that is located outside the continental United States.”