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GOP Accuses Democrats of Delaying Spending Bill Over Guantánamo Fears

By Steven T. Dennis
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 16, 2009, 5:48 p.m.

House Republicans are charging Democrats with delaying a conference committee on a spending bill out of fears of a GOP attempt to stop the transfer of prisoners from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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