House Moves Toward Scuttling Ports Deal

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House Moves Toward Scuttling Ports Deal

Posted on Mar 7, 2006

Washington Post: Efforts by the White House to hold off legislation challenging a Dubai-owned company’s acquisition of operations at six major U.S. ports collapsed yesterday when House Republican leaders agreed to allow a vote next week that could kill the deal.

Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) will attach legislation to block the port deal today 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 sternly vowed to veto any bill delaying or stopping Dubai Ports World’s purchase of London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Co.

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By David, March 8, 2006 at 12:03 pm Link to this comment
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Total crap. THEY WILL CAVE. They always have and they always will. What really needs to be discussed is why are we paying for a Congress at all? It’s not like they have control over ANYTHING. They can pass all the laws they want but if the president ignores or breaks them there is NOTHING they can do. Cheney figured this out way back when. I mean they can’t arrest the president. Hell, he won’t even TALK to them unless it’s on his terms. Mark my words, before the 2008 elections, the 22nd will go down.

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