[Revel]

Oppose

Nobody except American should control our ports...Not even Britain. Actually by listening to Fox news today I learned that foreign country's may LEASE space in some ports. But we still control that space. We still control what they do there. They are by no means in control of those ports. Big difference. It always makes me cringe to see the farm we call America being sold out.

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Just checked out something interesting.

Corpus Christy, Port of Houston and Beaumont are three of the ports in question.

Ft Hood makes most of their armored deployments from these three ports.

Do you really really want to see Arabs in control of them?

[CharlesWayneCT]

You opposed because of control, but then said you heard (and apparently believed) that we actually keep control of the ports and are just leasing them.

But that is exactly true in this case as well. We own the ports, and signed LEASE agreements with P&O. Now P&O stockholders want to sell to DP World, and our government is simply trying to rule on whether that sale effects our port security. DP World will have leases to ports that we own and control. We will have security, not them. They will have to follow our rules, will have to submit to our security procedures. Their people will have to go through our background checks, they will have to keep the same records as everyone else.

So the UAE, or DP World, will not control our ports if this deal goes through.