The Republicans , democrats and Bushies want the Mexican border open for their own agendas. But this port thing is an issue that can be used against the Republicans and Bushies by the Democrats.
The Republicans have to jump onboard and curtail the Bushies on this proposed fiasco. Similar to what they did to the Bushies on the nomination of Harriet Miers.
This has to be beaten off in a bipartisan fashion . Or the democrats will get the upper hand. - Tom
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-ports1906feb19,0,4469240.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state
A company at the Port of Miami has sued to block the takeover of shipping operations there by a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, officials said Saturday.
It is the first American courtroom effort to capsize the sale embroiled in national debate.
In Washington, the junior senators from New York and New Jersey added their voices to objections about the Bush administration's approval of the deal that will give a Dubai company a central role in operating ports in New York and across the country.
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey, both Democrats, said they plan to introduce legislation to prevent companies controlled by foreign governments from buying American port operations.
The purpose of the bill would be to block the $6.8 billion sale of a British shipping company to Dubai Ports World, a port operator controlled by the government of Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. The British company, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., operates the cruise-ship terminal on the west side of Manhattan and has a half-interest in the Port Newark Container Terminal, the third-largest cargo terminal in New York harbor.