GOP Attempt to Block Challenge to Ports Deal Collapses

[ProSense]

GOP Attempt to Block Challenge to Ports Deal Collapses

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 7, 2006; 6:21 PM

Efforts by Republican leaders to hold off legislation challenging a Dubai-owned firm's acquisition of operations at six major U.S. ports collapsed today when House leaders agreed to allow a vote next week that could kill the deal.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) will attach the legislation as early as Wednesday to a must-pass emergency spending bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A House vote on the measure next week will set up a direct confrontation with President Bush, who has vowed to veto any bill delaying or stopping Dubai Ports World's purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.


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The House, however, is still boiling. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), with bipartisan support, introduced legislation today that would scuttle the deal, mandate that the owners of "critical infrastructure" in the United States -- from ports to highways to power plants -- be American, and demand that all cargo entering U.S. ports be screened within six months of passage.

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House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) has been working toward a compromise that would require DP World to team with an American partner, which would have complete control of operations at the company's holdings at the ports of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami and New Orleans.
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So how long did it take King to remember he's a lying weasel?

[iconoclastNYC]

1. The plot thickens.

Bah bah BAHHH.

I hope the Democrats use this issue in the Congressional elections.

[peacetalksforall]

2. George is a uniter after all. Dems are united with Hunter and King. nt

[SpiralHawk]

3. Cool. Mercury is Retrograde in Pisces until March 25

So lets undo the massive Ports boner that BushCo & NeoCON Cronies want to shove down America's throat

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Any Democratic president who would have attempted half of what

Bush has tried to do would have received a military police escort to the brig. Do any of you have any doubt that this country has been taken over by a nefarious group?

[Libby2]

5. No. Sadly I have no doubt. (nt)

[ProSense]

6. The Republicans are no doubt lining up

to cave on caving on this in true Republican form:

[Sensitivity]

7. Repub congress is not going to let Dubai spoil their party. This is time

for the Xenophobes to beat chests, wave the flag, and fire some shots in the air.

[sadiesworld]

8. You're just being silly now.

The republicans aren't going to allow voter sentiment to stand in the way of their REAL job, i.e., enriching the elite and facilitating corporate globalism.

They stopped working for the people a long time ago, it's just becoming patently obvious now--hence, electronic voting.