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"This thing is so absurd it's not going to go anywhere. There's a reason they don't talk about the cost of something like this," said Sen. James Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican who once threw a snowball on the Senate floor to dispute human-made climate change.
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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a strong proponent of keeping the prison open, said the report's conclusion was predictable, "simply giving cover to President Obama so that he can continue what he is already actively working towards, which is bringing terrorists onto U.S. soil."
