I wish they would think about America & not Europe: Democrats reject ban on using funds for U.S. facilities to house Guantanamo prisoners

From The Washington Post:

The Senate on Tuesday rejected an attempt to bar using funds from a defense spending bill to build or modify prisons in the United States to hold detainees from Guantanamo Bay, a move that suggested congressional Democrats may be lining up behind President Obama's vision for closing the military prison.

[T]he vote was markedly different from one in May, when the Senate voted 90 to 6 to strip funds from a bill to close the prison, with Democrats joining Republicans in saying that Obama had not produced an adequate plan for Guantanamo. On Tuesday, only two Democrats, Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, joined the GOP, along with Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.).