GOP House Panel Votes to Block Ports Deal

GOP House Panel Votes to Block Ports DealWASHINGTON (AP) - 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.The White House said the president's position was unchanged.

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I hope he does veto it and Congress overrides him. To my way of thinking Bush & Co have become just a bit too big for their breeches and need taken down to size.I don't buy this pissing down the back of my neck and telling me its raining crap. If the American people don't want something and it appears we don't want this, then that's the end of it. The pol's all work for us not the other way around!!!!

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