[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE UAE AND OUR PORTS

  (Mr. KELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KELLER. Mr. Speaker, putting the UAE in charge of our ports is as 
crazy as outsourcing our Border Patrol to Saudi Arabia.
  We have two Achilles heels: our Mexican border and our seaports.
  The UAE says that they are our friends. Here is some straight talk: 
the UAE gave us two terrorists on 9/11. They provided the money for the 
attacks of 9/11. They recognized the Taliban on 9/11. They refused to 
freeze Osama bin Laden's assets after 9/11. They have voted against us 
at the U.N. 90 percent of the time since 9/11. And today they announced 
that they will threaten the United States of America if we block this 
transaction. If these are our friends, what the heck does an enemy look 
like?
  Mr. Speaker, we have but one choice: block this ports deal. We should 
not outsource our national security to anyone.

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