{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://lynnjenkins.house.gov/press-releases/jenkins-responds-to-report-of-state-department-surveying-fort-leavenworth-as-potential-gtmo-relocation-site/", "Jenkins Responds To Report Of State Department Surveying Fort Leavenworth As Potential GTMO Relocation Site", "2016-09-22", "2016", "2016-09", "Republican", "House", "KS", "Lynn Jenkins", "J000290", "lynnjenkins.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "On Tuesday, following a request by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, the Department of Defense provided a single document concerning administration expenditures to explore potential relocation sites for the prisoners currently housed at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The document showed that President Obama\u2019s State Department spent funds looking at Fort Leavenworth and other locations to which to transfer the prisoners. Following this revelation, Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (KS-02) released the following statement:\r\n\r\n\t\u201cUsing Defense dollars to survey Fort Leavenworth as a potential site for the terrorists housed at Guantanamo Bay is one more example of President Obama ignoring public opinion to push a proposal that would endanger American national security and is actively opposed by the American people. Since I came to Congress, I have led the fight to pass legislation which has banned the use of funds to close Guantanamo Bay \u2013 a law that the President\u2019s own Attorney General admits strictly prohibits any government spending for that purpose. \u00a0That law has passed every year that the President has been in office. Now, nearly eight years later, the President has evidently chosen to waste more taxpayer money on a proposal he knows would be illegal to enact. Unfortunately, this is just one more example of the President putting his legacy above the interests and safety of Americans.\u201d\r\n\r\n\tItems To Note\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Congresswoman Jenkins introduced legislation this Congress that would permanently prohibit closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and would halt all prisoner transfers away from the prison through September, 2017.\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The House of Representatives recently passed legislation to ban all prisoner transfers from Guantanamo Bay until January, 2017.\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In January, 2016, the President\u2019s Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted that it would be illegal for government funds to be used to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.\r\n\r\n\t###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://lynnjenkins.house.gov/press-releases/jenkins-responds-to-report-of-state-department-surveying-fort-leavenworth-as-potential-gtmo-relocation-site/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4810820575803518, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}