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Article: Hunter calls for scuttling deal with Dubai Ports World.
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- North County Times (Escondido, CA)
- Article date:
- March 3, 2006
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Byline: Mark Walker
Mar. 3--The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee came out full barrel Thursday against the Bush administration's approval of Dubai Ports World taking over operations of port facilities in six U.S. cities.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, said in a telephone interview from Washington that allowing the deal to go through would be wrong.
"We need to kill this deal," Hunter said during a break from an Armed Services Committee hearing on the issue. "We need to have American ports in the hands of and operated by Americans."
As part of his break with the administration, Hunter said he will introduce a bill on ...