Posted on 02/22/2006 5:10:25 PM PST by Cagey
The Dubai company that's at the center of the controversy swirling around management of several American ports has hired former Majority Leader Bob Dole as its lobbyist to address the bipartisan uproar over the deal, CNN's Andrea Koppel reports: The 1996 Republican presidential candidate was "engaged" by Dubai Ports World shortly after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle began expressing their strong opposition to the deal, said Mike Galloway, an aide to the retired senator.
He is considered a GOP elder statesman, and his wife, Elizabeth, now represents North Carolina in the Senate.
Dole is a special counsel in the Washington office of the law firm Alston & Bird. DP World hired the firm in 2005 to help shepherd its purchase of the British-based firm Peninsular and Oriental, which currently manages the U.S. ports, Galloway said.
Dole is, of course, an experienced politico, a longtime inside-the-beltway insider and someone who still reportedly has some clout within his party.
He is also an experienced salesman who hawked Viagra on television for awhile.
He will have his work cut out for him: members of both parties are concerned that the port deal could do to America's port security what Viagra helps people do...
According to CNN (link in post#8):
A delegation from the UAE is in Washington to lobby for the deal, and the company has hired former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to assist them. Dole was the Republican presidential candidate in 1996 and his wife, Elizabeth, is a senator from North Carolina.
Think about the 1996 presidential election.
It must be contagious.
Yeah, that's it! A man-ho.
Rush said this?
Hmmm...this one is easy and Rush should be ashamed if he did say this. Their $7 billion will net them even more money. We know for a fact that half of the 9/11 hijackers received money that was funneled through Dubai banks in UAE.
What we don't fully know is who in UAE funneled this money. They stopped the investigation. Now would you want to supply money to a government that is handing out money to terrorists. Do you want to allow an unelected government...not a company mind you...the previledge of doing business in the richest country in the world.
Grow the F**k up
They're all prostitutes.
Beltway Bob is going to sell himself to the Christian and Jew hating peoples of Arabia.
Uh oh.....Their case is lost.
Dole couldn't sell viagra in a whore house.
Dole is so out of the loop, and to not even recognize it's a loop.
Semper Fi
For Immediate Release: December 15, 2005 CONTACT: Jason Galanes (202) 225-6572 Oberstar-LoBiondo Bill Would Slow Effort to Reinterpret Airline Ownership Rules DOT plan would allow foreign control over daily operations WASHINGTON— At a Capitol Hill news conference today, a bipartisan Congressional coalition led by Reps. James L. Oberstar (Minn.) and Frank A. LoBiondo (N.J.) announced legislation to ensure Congressional oversight of any attempt to allow more foreign control of US airlines. The action comes in response to a proposed rule change by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to open up US air carriers to a greater share of control by foreign owners. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young (Alaska) is an original cosponsor. The bill has more than 70 cosponsors. “For the past 65 years, the Government of the United States has required that U.S. citizens have actual control over all management decisions of U.S. airlines,” said Oberstar, Ranking Democratic Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “The DOT now seeks to accomplish increased foreign control through the back door by proposing to change the actual control test so that it would cover only safety and security decisions, and allow other airline economic decisions, including day-to-day operations, market strategy, and purchase of aircraft, to be controlled by foreign officials. This is contrary to the requirements of law and would have a major impact on air service in the United States, and jobs for US citizens.” “Allowing the daily operations of our airlines to be controlled by competing - and potentially unfriendly - foreign interests could significantly undermine our homeland security and result in the loss of U.S. jobs,” said Congressman LoBiondo, a member of the Subcommittee on Aviation. “Our legislation is a responsible way to ensure Congress has the opportunity to determine whether reversing more than 60 years of precedent is in the best interests of the country.” Under current law, only an airline that qualifies as “a citizen of the United States’’ may provide service between cities in the United States, or on international routes obtained by the United States through international agreements. The law provides that an airline may qualify as a United States airline, only if the airline is “a corporation or association … which is under the actual control of citizens of the United States.” The Transportation Department has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), announcing its intention to change the interpretation of “actual control,” and allow foreign investors to control all commercial decisions of an airline without affecting its status as a “citizen of the United States.” The Oberstar-LoBiondo bill would: · For a period of one year, prohibit the DOT from issuing any final decision or final rule on the NPRM that would change its interpretation of what constitutes “actual control” of a U.S. airline. · Make it clear that any final rule issued by the DOT is subject to the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to disapprove major regulatory rules issued by federal agencies. · Require the DOT, within 90 days of enactment, to issue a report to Congress that assesses the impact of the NPRM on all aspects of an airline’s operation, including national defense, safety, security, competition, domestic access for small communities, and airline employees. The bill, HR 4542, was introduced late Wednesday with 61 original cosponsors.
Wasn't he an agent for China a while back?
This is not true.
(2) John Snow may have financial stake in Dubai port deal,
This is not true.
and (3) Bob Dole was just hired by Dubai to lobby for port deal.
This is true.
Savage was ripping into Dole like a chain saw a minute ago.
Savage is clinically psychotic, and he's liable to arguing for the ports deal tomorrow.
Dole was a big supporter of the Albanian mob known as Kosovars!
GOPers will come around and support the president, after a "thorough review"
Paragraphs!!!! GAH!
CONTACT: Jason Galanes (202) 225-6572
Oberstar-LoBiondo Bill Would Slow Effort to Reinterpret Airline Ownership Rules DOT plan would allow foreign control over daily operations
WASHINGTON—
At a Capitol Hill news conference today, a bipartisan Congressional coalition led by Reps. James L. Oberstar (Minn.) and Frank A. LoBiondo (N.J.) announced legislation to ensure Congressional oversight of any attempt to allow more foreign control of US airlines.
The action comes in response to a proposed rule change by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to open up US air carriers to a greater share of control by foreign owners. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young (Alaska) is an original cosponsor. The bill has more than 70 cosponsors.
“For the past 65 years, the Government of the United States has required that U.S. citizens have actual control over all management decisions of U.S. airlines,” said Oberstar, Ranking Democratic Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “The DOT now seeks to accomplish increased foreign control through the back door by proposing to change the actual control test so that it would cover only safety and security decisions, and allow other airline economic decisions, including day-to-day operations, market strategy, and purchase of aircraft, to be controlled by foreign officials.
This is contrary to the requirements of law and would have a major impact on air service in the United States, and jobs for US citizens.” “Allowing the daily operations of our airlines to be controlled by competing - and potentially unfriendly - foreign interests could significantly undermine our homeland security and result in the loss of U.S. jobs,” said Congressman LoBiondo, a member of the Subcommittee on Aviation.
“Our legislation is a responsible way to ensure Congress has the opportunity to determine whether reversing more than 60 years of precedent is in the best interests of the country.” Under current law, only an airline that qualifies as “a citizen of the United States’’ may provide service between cities in the United States, or on international routes obtained by the United States through international agreements. The law provides that an airline may qualify as a United States airline, only if the airline is “a corporation or association … which is under the actual control of citizens of the United States.”
The Transportation Department has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), announcing its intention to change the interpretation of “actual control,” and allow foreign investors to control all commercial decisions of an airline without affecting its status as a “citizen of the United States.” The Oberstar-LoBiondo bill would:
· For a period of one year, prohibit the DOT from issuing any final decision or final rule on the NPRM that would change its interpretation of what constitutes “actual control” of a U.S. airline.
· Make it clear that any final rule issued by the DOT is subject to the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to disapprove major regulatory rules issued by federal agencies.
· Require the DOT, within 90 days of enactment, to issue a report to Congress that assesses the impact of the NPRM on all aspects of an airline’s operation, including national defense, safety, security, competition, domestic access for small communities, and airline employees.
The bill, HR 4542, was introduced late Wednesday with 61 original cosponsors.
Your point? I thought you were posting Savage's points.
Anybody who takes Michael Savage seriously ain't a very sharp knife.
You are correct. It is a sad day when Jimmy the peanut Carter backs a Bush policy (-- than I know the idea of giving our enemy the port control is wrong) and Hilary Clinton is on the correct side.
Hmmm guess this reminds me of the grandfather Bush selling oil to the Nazis and the fact that not one Ship of Standard Oil was sunk by a Nazi U Boat.
Perscot Bush a traitor, George Bush a traitor and now George W. Bush a traitor -- not defending our borders and now the ports!
People who defend this move do so because "Bush says so". Here's hoping the nuke goes off near them.
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