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Wide top shot of voting on Senate Floor2. Roll call of vote being announced3. Inouye Amendment passes 90 to 6, graphics over top shot of senate floor4. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Inouye, Democratic...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eWashington, DC, US - 20 May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide top shot of voting on Senate Floor\u003cbr/\u003e2. Roll call of vote being announced\u003cbr/\u003e3. Inouye Amendment passes 90 to 6, graphics over top shot of senate floor\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Inouye, Democratic Senator from Hawaii:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I rise today to discuss the Guantanamo amendment, which I offered along with Senator Inhofe.  As all of my colleagues know, the amendment would strip the funding from the supplemental that was requested to begin the process of closing Guantanamo. Let me say at the outset that despite some of the rhetoric concerning this issue, this amendment is not a referendum closing Guantanamo. Instead it should serve as a reality check since at this time, the administration has not yet forwarded a coherent plan for closing this prison.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of Senate floor\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) James Inhofe, Republican Senator from Oklahoma:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The only argument that I hear is against it is 'oh the Europeans don't want it'. Well, where are the Europeans? I am getting a little bit tired of having them dictate what we do in the United States. What if they came forth and said you have to close the Everglades tomorrow, would we roll over and close the Everglades, no we won't.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Exact Date Unknown\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close of Camp Delta sign\u003cbr/\u003e8. US flag, barbed wire in foreground\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC, US - 20 May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dianne Feinstein, Democratic Senator from California:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I believe that this has really been an exercise in fear-baiting. I hope it's not going to be successful because I believe that American justice is what makes this country strong in the eyes of the world. American justice is what people believe separates the United States from other countries.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. FBI Director, Robert Mueller sitting down\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mueller, FBI Director:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Concerns we have about individuals who may support terrorism being in the United States run from concerns about providing financing to terrorists, radicalising others with regard to violent extremism, the potential for individuals undertaking attacks against the United States.  All of those are concerns relevant to an individual comes into the United States from whatever source who may present a challenge.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC, US - 20 May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e12. White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs walking to podium\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We share Congress's belief that before resources are given for a project that they need and deserve a more detailed plan. The president will lay out the framework on many of those decisions and some of the work that has to be done between now and then to make progress in closing Guantanamo Bay.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Cutaway of Gibbs and reporters\u003cbr/\u003e15.  SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The President isn't going to make any decisions, judgements.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Question: But he has already decided to close Guantanamo, so he apparently has made his decision that there aren't risks in doing so and bringing some of the detainees to the United States..)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I haven't said that the...the president hasn't decided where some of the detainees will be transferred. Again, those are decisions that the task forces are working on and that the president begin to lay out and discuss tomorrow. \"\u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide soldier walking around Camp Delta\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid of soldiers inside gated area in Camp Delta\u003cbr/\u003eIn a major rebuke to President Barack Obama, the US Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States and denied the administration the (m) millions it sought to close the prison.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 90-6 Senate vote, paired with similar House action last week, was a clear sign to Obama that he faces a tough fight getting the Democratic-controlled Congress to agree with his plans to shut down the detention centre and move the 240 detainees.\u003cbr/\u003eDaniel Inouye, Democratic Senator from Hawaii and a co-sponsor of the amendment, said the vote was not a referendum on closing Guantanamo Bay.\u003cbr/\u003eInstead, Inouye said the outcome of the vote \"should serve as a reality check since at this time, the administration has not yet forwarded a coherent plan for closing this prison.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRepublican Senator James Inhofe, the other co-sponsor of the amendment, said he was frustrated with what he perceived as a European desire to have the facility shut down.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The only argument that I hear is against it is 'oh the Europeans don't want it',\" said Inhofe on Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I am getting a little bit tired of having them dictate what we do in the United States.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDianne Feinstein, a Democratic Senator from California, said US facilities, including those in California, could be suitable for the detainees.\u003cbr/\u003eFeinstein said the debate on Wednesday had been \"an exercise in fear-baiting (fear mongering).\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe vote came as FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress that bringing Guantanamo detainees to the United States could pose a number of risks, even if they were kept in maximum-security prisons. \u003cbr/\u003eMueller's testimony to a House panel put him at odds with the president and undercut the administration's arguments for shuttering the facility.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The concerns we have about individuals who may support terrorism being in the United States run from concerns about providing financing to terrorists, radicalising others,\" Mueller said.\u003cbr/\u003eLast month, Obama asked for 80 (m) million US dollars for the Pentagon and the Justice Department to close the facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by January. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the eyes of the world, the prison has come to exemplify harsh US anti-terror tactics and detention without trial for almost all of its inmates, most of whom were captured in Afghanistan.\u003cbr/\u003eThe administration put its Democratic allies in a difficult spot by requesting the Guantanamo closure money before developing a plan for what to do with its detainees.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We share Congress's belief that before resources are given for a project that they need and deserve a more detailed plan,\" White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.\u003cbr/\u003eObama is scheduled to give 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