Kansas Sen. Roberts Threatens to 'Shut Down Senate' over Gitmo

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 3:43 PM

By: Rick Pedraza

Sen. Pat Roberts Monday condemned President Barack Obama’s plan to move terrorist detainees from the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba to the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth in his home state of Kansas.

In a press release on his Senate Web site, the Republican threatened to shut down the Senate. Later at a press conference with Kansas reporters, Roberts reiterated his condemnation of Leavenworth as the new Gitmo prison.

"I've said it once and I'll say it many more times: Not in my back yard. Not in Kansas,â€