House Republicans defy Bush on ports deal
Full House to vote next week on issue; Senate also considering measure
Updated: 10:22 p.m. ET March 8, 2006
WASHINGTON - In a congressional election-year repudiation of President Bush, a House panel dominated by Republicans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to block a Dubai-owned firm from taking control of some U.S port operations. Democrats clamored for a vote in the Senate, too.
By 62-2, the House Appropriations Committee voted to bar DP World, run by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, from holding leases or contracts at U.S. ports. The landslide vote was the strongest signal yet that more than three weeks of White House efforts to stunt congressional opposition to the deal have not been successful.
Bush has promised to veto any such measure passed by Congress. But there is widespread public opposition to the deal and the GOP fears losing its advantage on the issue of national security in this fall’s elections.
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As a further slap, I see Bush's veto being overridden.
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kinda distroys his postion that he didn't know about the deal huh?
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kinda distroys his postion that he didn't know about the deal huh?
Kinda.
Never understood the intransigence after the fact, either.
Even if it was the best idea in the world, it was coincidentally the dumbest idea in the world.
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Amazing what election years can do
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Amazing what election years can do
As well as what they do not do.
So Dubai has withdrawn their proffer; it seems every Republican in the land had a hand in this except Bush.
Amazing. :rolleyes:
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Amazing what election years can do
As well as what they do
not do.
So Dubai has withdrawn their proffer; it seems every Republican in the land had a hand in this except Bush.
Amazing. :rolleyes:
care to expand?
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As well as what they do not do.
So Dubai has withdrawn their proffer; it seems every Republican in the land had a hand in this except Bush.
Amazing. :rolleyes:
care to expand?
Not really; I haven't the money for a new wardrobe just now.
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care to expand?
Not really; I haven't the money for a new wardrobe just now.
I am not surprised. :no2:
Anyone know the democrats take on this or was this strictly partisan?:mellow:
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Not really; I haven't the money for a new wardrobe just now.
I am not surprised. :no2:
Anyone know the democrats take on this or was this strictly partisan?:mellow:
The dem leadership has actually said they are still deciding what their reaction should be; I'm sure you can look out any of several windows in your six-sided domicile (no wonder you are so conflicted, ideologically) with a lens and see every democrat finger in metro D.C. raised to test the political winds.