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Published 5/20/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
CQPolitics.com - The Senate voted Wednesday to strip funding to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from a supplemental spending bill and bar funding for the transfer of prisoners to the United States.
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