Lou Dobbs 15 Jun 06
Bush giving away Airlines
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Lou Dobbs 15 Jun 06
Bush giving away Airlines
Also tonight, the Bush administration is ignoring the demands of Congress and the will of the American people. The Bush administration is pushing ahead with its efforts to give away to foreign ownership control of our airlines. We'll have that report.
DOBBS: The House has voted to block a Bush administration plan to allow foreign control of our airlines. Lawmakers from both parties, however, oppose that plan. But the Bush White House is determined to give away another piece of our critical national infrastructure and assets.
Bill Tucker reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Congress can't stop the Department of Transportation from giving away control of domestic airlines to foreign investors. It's not for lack of trying.
On Wednesday, the House attached an amendment to the transportation budget to stop DOT from proceeding, prompting this response from the Senate side: "The House vote sent a strong signal to President Bush. The American people don't want our nation's transportation system under foreign control -- not our ports, and certainly not our airlines." That from Senator Frank Lautenberg.
Yet, when asked by LOU DOBBS TONIGHT if the Department of Transportation would now back off of its proposed rule change, "No comment" was the response.
CAPT. PAUL RICE, VP, AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOC.: The insistence that the Department of Transportation continue with this notice of proposed rule making and just continue against everybody's wishes, everybody's stated wishes, and to avoid the proper debate that should be done in the House and in the Senate is nothing but arrogance.
TUCKER: DOT's position is that it doesn't have to work with Congress to change a 65-year-old law prohibiting foreign control of domestic airlines because it's not rewriting the law, just reinterpreting it, giving foreign investors control of route planning, ticket prices, plane purchases and staffing decisions.
REP. PETER DEFAZIO (D), OREGON: This administration is hell bent on pushing forward because the Europeans have said, if you won't let us control your airlines, then you can't have an open skies agreement. Yet another meaningless free trade agreement that they can notch on their belt that will cost U.S. jobs.
TUCKER: Also at stake is something known as the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet Agreement, or CRAF. Under that agreement domestic airlines fly American troops and equipment overseas.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUCKER: How important is that agreement? Well, just for Operation Iraqi Freedom more than 1.5 million military personnel have flown overseas on U.S. commercial aircraft, along with nearly 500,000 tons of equipment.
And the question, Lou, would be, how secure would you feel and the American public feel about those troops and that equipment on planes with allegiances outside the United States?
DOBBS: Well, as everyone has -- has testified on this issue. Is there a congressional committee? This nonsense, this idiotic nonsense by the Bush administration, they're just reinterpreting the law, what happened to President Bush's concern about those activist judges? What are we to think of activist transportation secretaries like Norm Mineta? Can we send a delegation up to Capitol Hill and grab him by his little ear and lead him to the truth?
TUCKER: You could, but he'll probably tell you he'll go ahead with this rule change anyway, Lou.
DOBBS: These people are so disgusting that it's beyond belief. Bill Tucker, thank you very much.
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DOBBS: The House has voted to block a Bush administration plan to allow foreign control of our airlines. Lawmakers from both parties, however, oppose that plan. But the Bush White House is determined to give away another piece of our critical national infrastructure and assets.
Bill Tucker reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Congress can't stop the Department of Transportation from giving away control of domestic airlines to foreign investors. It's not for lack of trying.
On Wednesday, the House attached an amendment to the transportation budget to stop DOT from proceeding, prompting this response from the Senate side: "The House vote sent a strong signal to President Bush. The American people don't want our nation's transportation system under foreign control -- not our ports, and certainly not our airlines." That from Senator Frank Lautenberg.
Yet, when asked by LOU DOBBS TONIGHT if the Department of Transportation would now back off of its proposed rule change, "No comment" was the response.
CAPT. PAUL RICE, VP, AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOC.: The insistence that the Department of Transportation continue with this notice of proposed rule making and just continue against everybody's wishes, everybody's stated wishes, and to avoid the proper debate that should be done in the House and in the Senate is nothing but arrogance.
TUCKER: DOT's position is that it doesn't have to work with Congress to change a 65-year-old law prohibiting foreign control of domestic airlines because it's not rewriting the law, just reinterpreting it, giving foreign investors control of route planning, ticket prices, plane purchases and staffing decisions.
REP. PETER DEFAZIO (D), OREGON: This administration is hell bent on pushing forward because the Europeans have said, if you won't let us control your airlines, then you can't have an open skies agreement. Yet another meaningless free trade agreement that they can notch on their belt that will cost U.S. jobs.
TUCKER: Also at stake is something known as the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet Agreement, or CRAF. Under that agreement domestic airlines fly American troops and equipment overseas.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUCKER: How important is that agreement? Well, just for Operation Iraqi Freedom more than 1.5 million military personnel have flown overseas on U.S. commercial aircraft, along with nearly 500,000 tons of equipment.
And the question, Lou, would be, how secure would you feel and the American public feel about those troops and that equipment on planes with allegiances outside the United States?
DOBBS: Well, as everyone has -- has testified on this issue. Is there a congressional committee? This nonsense, this idiotic nonsense by the Bush administration, they're just reinterpreting the law, what happened to President Bush's concern about those activist judges? What are we to think of activist transportation secretaries like Norm Mineta? Can we send a delegation up to Capitol Hill and grab him by his little ear and lead him to the truth?
TUCKER: You could, but he'll probably tell you he'll go ahead with this rule change anyway, Lou.
DOBBS: These people are so disgusting that it's beyond belief. Bill Tucker, thank you very much.
"mad as hell and not going to take it anymore"
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing."
------- Edmund Burke
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http://www.loudobbs.com
The Bald Eagle, The Bird of Freedom
Glides , gazing, calm and sure!
Partial Transcript
Lou Dobbs 15 Jun 06
Bush giving away Airlines
Also tonight, the Bush administration is ignoring the demands of Congress and the will of the American people. The Bush administration is pushing ahead with its efforts to give away to foreign ownership control of our airlines. We'll have that report.
DOBBS: The House has voted to block a Bush administration plan to allow foreign control of our airlines. Lawmakers from both parties, however, oppose that plan. But the Bush White House is determined to give away another piece of our critical national infrastructure and assets.
Bill Tucker reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Congress can't stop the Department of Transportation from giving away control of domestic airlines to foreign investors. It's not for lack of trying.
On Wednesday, the House attached an amendment to the transportation budget to stop DOT from proceeding, prompting this response from the Senate side: "The House vote sent a strong signal to President Bush. The American people don't want our nation's transportation system under foreign control -- not our ports, and certainly not our airlines." That from Senator Frank Lautenberg.
Yet, when asked by LOU DOBBS TONIGHT if the Department of Transportation would now back off of its proposed rule change, "No comment" was the response.
CAPT. PAUL RICE, VP, AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOC.: The insistence that the Department of Transportation continue with this notice of proposed rule making and just continue against everybody's wishes, everybody's stated wishes, and to avoid the proper debate that should be done in the House and in the Senate is nothing but arrogance.
TUCKER: DOT's position is that it doesn't have to work with Congress to change a 65-year-old law prohibiting foreign control of domestic airlines because it's not rewriting the law, just reinterpreting it, giving foreign investors control of route planning, ticket prices, plane purchases and staffing decisions.
REP. PETER DEFAZIO (D), OREGON: This administration is hell bent on pushing forward because the Europeans have said, if you won't let us control your airlines, then you can't have an open skies agreement. Yet another meaningless free trade agreement that they can notch on their belt that will cost U.S. jobs.
TUCKER: Also at stake is something known as the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet Agreement, or CRAF. Under that agreement domestic airlines fly American troops and equipment overseas.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUCKER: How important is that agreement? Well, just for Operation Iraqi Freedom more than 1.5 million military personnel have flown overseas on U.S. commercial aircraft, along with nearly 500,000 tons of equipment.
And the question, Lou, would be, how secure would you feel and the American public feel about those troops and that equipment on planes with allegiances outside the United States?
DOBBS: Well, as everyone has -- has testified on this issue. Is there a congressional committee? This nonsense, this idiotic nonsense by the Bush administration, they're just reinterpreting the law, what happened to President Bush's concern about those activist judges? What are we to think of activist transportation secretaries like Norm Mineta? Can we send a delegation up to Capitol Hill and grab him by his little ear and lead him to the truth?
TUCKER: You could, but he'll probably tell you he'll go ahead with this rule change anyway, Lou.
DOBBS: These people are so disgusting that it's beyond belief. Bill Tucker, thank you very much.
On Illegal Aliens
DOBBS: The House has voted to block a Bush administration plan to allow foreign control of our airlines. Lawmakers from both parties, however, oppose that plan. But the Bush White House is determined to give away another piece of our critical national infrastructure and assets.
Bill Tucker reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Congress can't stop the Department of Transportation from giving away control of domestic airlines to foreign investors. It's not for lack of trying.
On Wednesday, the House attached an amendment to the transportation budget to stop DOT from proceeding, prompting this response from the Senate side: "The House vote sent a strong signal to President Bush. The American people don't want our nation's transportation system under foreign control -- not our ports, and certainly not our airlines." That from Senator Frank Lautenberg.
Yet, when asked by LOU DOBBS TONIGHT if the Department of Transportation would now back off of its proposed rule change, "No comment" was the response.
CAPT. PAUL RICE, VP, AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOC.: The insistence that the Department of Transportation continue with this notice of proposed rule making and just continue against everybody's wishes, everybody's stated wishes, and to avoid the proper debate that should be done in the House and in the Senate is nothing but arrogance.
TUCKER: DOT's position is that it doesn't have to work with Congress to change a 65-year-old law prohibiting foreign control of domestic airlines because it's not rewriting the law, just reinterpreting it, giving foreign investors control of route planning, ticket prices, plane purchases and staffing decisions.
REP. PETER DEFAZIO (D), OREGON: This administration is hell bent on pushing forward because the Europeans have said, if you won't let us control your airlines, then you can't have an open skies agreement. Yet another meaningless free trade agreement that they can notch on their belt that will cost U.S. jobs.
TUCKER: Also at stake is something known as the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet Agreement, or CRAF. Under that agreement domestic airlines fly American troops and equipment overseas.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUCKER: How important is that agreement? Well, just for Operation Iraqi Freedom more than 1.5 million military personnel have flown overseas on U.S. commercial aircraft, along with nearly 500,000 tons of equipment.
And the question, Lou, would be, how secure would you feel and the American public feel about those troops and that equipment on planes with allegiances outside the United States?
DOBBS: Well, as everyone has -- has testified on this issue. Is there a congressional committee? This nonsense, this idiotic nonsense by the Bush administration, they're just reinterpreting the law, what happened to President Bush's concern about those activist judges? What are we to think of activist transportation secretaries like Norm Mineta? Can we send a delegation up to Capitol Hill and grab him by his little ear and lead him to the truth?
TUCKER: You could, but he'll probably tell you he'll go ahead with this rule change anyway, Lou.
DOBBS: These people are so disgusting that it's beyond belief. Bill Tucker, thank you very much.
"mad as hell and not going to take it anymore"
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing."
------- Edmund Burke
LOU DOBBS
http://www.loudobbs.com
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