BOEHNER ON FOX: ADMINISTRATION’S PLAN FOR IMPORTING GITMO TERRORISTS IS “VERY DANGEROUS POLICY”

HOUSE GOP LEADER DISCUSSES DANGERS OF BRINGING GUANTANAMO TERRORISTS INTO THE U.S., ADMINISTRATION'S REPORTED APPOINTMENT OF "PAY CZAR"

June 9, 2009 | House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) | Permalink

In an interview today on FOX’s Your World w/ Neil Cavuto, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) questioned the Administration’s decision to import its first terrorist into the United States as well as its political decision to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison without a plan for what to do with the terrorists housed there.  His comments come just days after a USA Today/Gallup poll showed that the 75 percent of Americans are opposed to having terrorists moved into their states.  Boehner also commented on the Administration’s reported decision to appoint a “pay czar” to regulate compensation at private-sector companies.  Full video and key excerpts of Boehner’s interview follow:      

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BOEHNER ON THE ADMINISTRATION’S DECISION TO CLOSE GITMO WITHOUT AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN IN PLACE:

“This was the first step in bringing detainees to the United States.  The Congress is adamantly opposed to this.  Both the House and the Senate have had votes on this whole issue of bringing Guantanamo detainees to the United States.  The fact that the President announced that he was going to close Guantanamo without any plan in place for what he was going to do with these detainees is a very dangerous policy.  The United States Congress and the American people are not going to sit back and allow this prison to be closed and to bring those detainees here.  This case here, they’ve got a very clear case I think against this individual – I’m not surprised that he has plead not guilty – but we don’t want these prisoners here.  And it really begs the bigger question, what is the President’s plan to keep America safe and to go after the terrorists who continue to want to kill Americans?”

BOEHNER ON THE ADMINISTRATION'S IMPENDING APPOINTMENT OF A “PAY CZAR” TO REGULATE PRIVATE-SECTOR COMPENSATION:

“I have worked with Democrats here on Capitol Hill now for 18 and a half years..  They have looked for all different kinds of ways to try to try to control what people are paid.  This is for real.  I work with them.  I just cannot get over the fact that the American public is going to put up with this.  At the end of the day, this is not the government’s business.  We live in America, the greatest country in the world.  What makes us great is that we have opportunities.  Opportunities to be anything that you want to be, do anything you want to do, rise as high as you want to rise if you are willing to work hard enough and if you’re willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary.  The reason that I came to Congress is to make sure that the opportunities that were available to me and available to millions of Americans, are also going to be available for our kids and grandkids.  When you look at what is going on, the bigger the government gets, the more it takes, the more it spends, the smaller family budgets are, the smaller business budgets are.  That means less investments and less opportunities for Americans.  There is a growing concern in our country that before long, this is not going to be the America that we grew up with.  This is not what the American people want.”

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