Posted on 03/01/2006 6:27:28 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Since "Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America.", I and others think it's a good idea to centralize what the goes on in the Senate (or House).
So if you see something happening on the Senate/House floor and you don't want to start a new thread to ask if anyone else just heard what you heard, you can leave a short note on who said what and about what and I'll try and find it the next day in THE RECORD. Or if you see a thread that pertains to the Senate, House, or pretty much any GOV'T agency please link your thread here.
If you have any suggestions for this thread please feel free to let me know.
Here's a few helpful links.
C-SPAN what a great thing. Where you can watch or listen live to most Government happenings.
C-SPAN 1 carries the HOUSE.
C-SPAN 2 carries the SENATE.
C-SPAN 3 (most places web only) carries a variety of committee meetings live or other past programming.
OR FEDNET has online feed also.
A great thing about our Government is they make it really easy for the public to research what the Politicians are doing and saying (on the floor anyway).
THOMAS where you can see a RECORD of what Congress is doing each day. You can also search/read a verbatim text of what each Congressmen/women or Senator has said on the floor or submitted 'for the record.' [This is where the real juicy stuff can be found.]
Also found at Thomas are Monthly Calendars for the Senate Majority and Senate Minority
And Monthly Calendars for the House Majority and Roll Call Votes can be found here.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT (aka The Dept. of Defense)
Not all pubbies are bad .. though there are a number of them I'd like to kick in the rear right about now
Now here is my other question, what company in their right mind will want to buy this now vacated interest in these terminals?
I would never say that all pubbies are bad. I have not threatened to take my loyalty else where. I would like to smack a few people however. Nothing new there really.
There are literally thousands of options. DPW creates wholly US-owned subsidiary - or one with controlling interest if not wholly US-owned. Individual operation could be sold off to business consortiums already in the business. Neighbors at various ports may have an interest, etc.
Whatever form the "new deal" takes need not resemble the proposed P&O -> DPW transfer.
I think there are really a number of scenarios that could make this a very sweet deal for some company and I'm pretty sure that someone has been envisioning it in much more detail than I could come up with.
He just replayed Warner's statement, WORD FOR WORD. He can't make a mistake doing that.
Thus making an already convoluted business arrangement even more convoluted. Well I guess that's the best that be done on it. It would have been nice if these "gentlemen" and I use the term loosely had thought of this two weeks ago.
Limbaugh just played Warner's reading of the DPW press release, and it sounds as though DPW will have a hand in setting up a business structure of some sort. I don't see the interests being "sold" lock stock and barrel to some "American company" that already exists.
Oh TOL! To Funny!
Fox says that a presser with Clinton, Schumer and Reid...re: the ports deal is going to be on shortly..
Let's see..."we should not rush into this deal"....after THEY rushed to get rid of the first deal...LOL
"worm their way out of this corner"
Shall we have a pool on who will trample who to get to a microphone this evening?
thanks for the heads up
I have popcorn but no booze! Sigh!
Right. Schumer is hoping that it will be such that he can still demagogue it as Dubai having an ownership interest in the ports and thus risking our national security, but I know these people are not stupid and will figure out a way to set this up so as to deny him the opportunity, although he will do it anyway, which will make him look like a bigger putz.
If Dubya and Karl did this on purpose, I will just spit!
Just by way of example, 100% of companies in Mexico MUST be Mexican owned and controlled. No problem for US companies to establish operations there that return profits to the US Corporation.
:)
Here we go! Frist first up to spin!
Yes, all it does is make it a bit more complicated and a bit less profitable than it otherwise would have been. The corruption down there is, as an aside, just breathtaking.
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