WASHINGTON, D.C. – During an interview today with Bill Hemmer on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom,” U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) discussed the Obama Administration’s decision to release Guantanamo Bay detainees. Blunt currently serves on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Blunt also announced that he co-sponsored a bill introduced this week by U.S. Senators Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Richard Burr (N.C.), John McCain (Ariz.), and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) to restrict transfers of detainees from Guantanamo Bay in order to best protect Americans and our national security. The “Detaining Terrorists to Protect America Act of 2015” would suspend international transfers of high and medium risk detainees, prohibit transfers of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen, extend the current prohibition on transfers to the U.S., and increase transparency regarding risk assessments of the remaining Guantanamo detainees.