Subscribe to RSS feedMcCain seeks to scrap Jones Act
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Rajesh Joshi, New York
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Jul 16, 2010 04:35 PM
SENATOR John McCain, the defeated Republican presidential candidate in 2008 and a known opponent of the Jones Act, has introduced proposed legislation to abolish the 90-year-old US cabotage statute.
Mr McCain has used the Deepwater Horizon spill as the main plank on which his bill is based.
The Obama administration had turned down 21 aid offers from17 countries, including European nations that offered vessels and crews with experience in...
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