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The Senate Armed Services Committee may have approved Rep. John McHugh’s (R-N.Y.) bid to become Army secretary last week, but CQ reports that Kansas’ two Republican senators, Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback, are putting a hold on McHugh until the Obama administration clarifies whether it plans to move Guantanamo detainees to their state’s Leavenworth prison. [...]

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) has announced that he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, making him the third senator to come out against Sotomayor, reports Congressional Quarterly.
Brownback joins Sens. Pat Roberts (R-Kans.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in an anti-Sotomayor Dust Bowl trio.
“Judge Sotomayor has indicated through past rulings and in her [...]