chairman.
the question before the house
is whether or not our
taxpayers' hard-earned dollars
are going to be used to build a
prison facility in the united
states to house the terrorists
and killers and cowards held in
guantanamo bay.
that's the question before us.
mr. nadler: will the gentleman
yield?
mr. culberson: yes.
mr. nadler: does the gentleman
not know what has been
testified to repeatedly, that
it would be a lot cheaper for
the taxpayers, to hold them in
the united states than
guantanamo?
mr. culberson: that may be your
opinion, sir, but we will not
and will not ever afford
constitutional rights or house
foreign fighters captured on a
foreign battlefield who have
been killing men and women of
the armed forces of the united
states on a foreign
battlefield, we're never going
to house them in a prison of
the united states, we're not
going to give them
constitutional rights.
those rights are reserved to
the people of the united states
and to people who commit crimes
within the...