IMO, better to keep this restriction from the standpoint it suppoerts our shipbuilding infrastructure and attendant skills base. You never know when we will need it again.
Has Senator McCain stepped down yet, or is he so power mad that he’s going to stubbornly hold onto the job until the day he dies like Ted Kennedy did?
Former POW - and probable collaborator...
Is the Mayo Clinic a VA hospital?
Which foreign power is stuffing cash in his pockets to get this Bill passed?
NASSCO in San Diego is the last shipyard on the West Coast. There are a lot of blue collar jobs there building ships that travel from West Coast ports to Alaska. I guess McCain wants to kill those jobs before he goes.
Immediately there will be a sellout of US shipping companies to foreign companies..
Just as cancer is eating at McCain’s brain, he is part of the cancer that is eating away at our Constitutional Republic.
His hate for Trump, and the 63 million that voted for him, is so strong that he seeks to destroy the US to get “even”.
He will hide behind his illness to lash out, again and again, at all things American, thinking that people will not rebut him. WRONG!
No. McCain can go and tell the asian/muslims/communists who own him that they’re SOL.
Shipbuilding is a strategic asset.
If McCain and his bitch lindsey had it their way, china would be building all of our aircraft carriers and ships, along with our weapons and jets.
War hawk and free traitor/globalist is a deadly combination to our Republic.
Senator McCain?
What a joke.
At what point does a brain disease disqualify one to be a senator?
The Jones Act should stay in place for all operations on inland waterways in the U.S.
Like your friend Obama said: "Take the pain pill."
McCain needs to step down and spend time with his family.
Yet McCain is still trying to SELL OUT the U.S.
Sorry McCain it will not happen.
[ The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, aka the Jones Act, requires that all goods shipped between ports in the United States be transported on American-built ships that are owned and operated by Americans. ]
And McCain wants to REPEAL this act....
A supposed Navy man advocating to destroy the Merchant Marines. I hope his brain tumor gets him soon!
He has an aggressive brain cancer, he isn’t recovering.
McCain had nothing to do with it.
Even at his best, I suspect he only worked 3-4 hrs a day.
From a a bed being treated for brain cancer....
The only thing he does is scream at Dr and his staff.
Wouldn’t repealing the Jones Act increase the risk of a US seaport terrorist act from increased int’l flagged ship traffic?
Does everyone know that currently the USCG, Customs and Port Authorities DO NOT thoroughly inspect the majority of shipping containers that arrive in our ports?
RAND, military and DHS have indicated such concern in the past:
Effect of Nuclear Blast at Port Would Be National - latimes
articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/16/local/me-nuclear16 Proxy Highlight
Aug 16, 2006 ... A nuclear explosion at the Port of Long Beach would have ... Two years in the making, the detailed analysis by the Rand Corp.’s Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy paints a terrifying ... The study examined the effects of terrorists concealing a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb in a shipping container and ...
Maritime Terrorism: Risk and Liability - RAND Corporation
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs... Proxy Highlight
scenarios involving ferries and cruise ships present large risks relative to .... Maritime attacks that leverage cargo containers could target port .... Nuclear bomb.
McCain demonstrates yet again how good he is at burning people -
1. As a young reckless pilot wet startin his A-4 jelaunched jet that in turn ordinance on deck, burning his shipmates alive.
2. Burning Vietcong
3. Creating, funding, training and supplying ISIS that burned alive hundreds of ISIS jihad victims.
4? A future seaport city incinerated by NoKo, Iran, China container ship terrorist Trojan horse nuke / biochemical attack?
BULLSHIT...plain and simple.