Republicans don't like the bill. Senator Mitch McConnell claims the proposed measure only opens the door for future bailouts.

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Others fear some detainees could be released. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky: "Americans don't want some of the most dangerous men alive coming here or released overseas where they can return to the fight, as many other detainees who have been released from Guantanamo already have,"

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But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky wasn't mollified.

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While one Democratic source said the Senate version could get taken up in the House if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell or Boehner don't raise a blue-slip objection, Republican sources rejected that scenario.

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And one of the things that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell both said is they didn't think that the status quo was acceptable, and that's, right there, promising.

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