CNN is reporting that White House puppet/GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist blocked a vote this afternoon on an amendment offered by Senator Chuck Schumer that would stop the deal Bush cut with the UAE to run American port security.
AP has a description of the Schumer amendment...and it sure sounds like Chuck is determined to get a vote:
With the issue bubbling toward an election-year boil, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., sought to force a Senate vote on a proposal that would prevent the company from owning or operating U.S. ports. Schumer's provision would bar any American port activities by companies owned by countries that recognized Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, as Dubai did, before the Taliban was overthrown by U.S. forces in 2001.
