House Veto-Proofs Anti-UAE Amendment
Well, I must admit that I had to pick my jaw up off the ground earlier when I learned that House Republicans had not only listened to their constituents but grown back bones. It would seem that despite threats by President Bush, who has yet to veto anything since he took office, to actually veto anything from Congress blocking the UAE ports deal, yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee went right on anhead and blocked the deal by voting 62-2 for an amendement to a $68 billion emergency supplemental funding bill for military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan — tricky that. (After all, he wouldn’t want to veto spending for his war and come off having to say something stupid like “I was for the war before I was against it…” :p ) Oh, and the bill also includes about $19 billion in disaster assistance for the Gulf Coast for Katrina and right now really isn’t the time to be vetoing that either.
Anyway, the messure still has to go before the whole House next week, but it’s expected to pass by a wide bi-partisan veto-proof margin.
Source: “Senator: UAE firm to transfer port operations to U.S. ‘entity’” (CNN.com)
Tags: UAE, House of Representatives, George W. Bush, Hurricane Katrina, Port Deal, politics, Republicans
