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Oil Spill, Foreign Help and the Jones Act

Posted on June 23, 2010 , Corrected on July 1, 2010

Q: Did Obama turn down foreign offers of assistance in cleaning up the Gulf oil spill? Did he refuse to waive Jones Act restrictions on foreign-flag vessels? A: No to both questions. So far, offers from six foreign countries or entities have been accepted and only one offer has been …
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Sunday Replay

Posted on June 7, 2010

This Sunday’s round of political talk shows left a few misimpressions, among them the notion that nothing like the BP blowout had happened before. We clear up the confusion. Barbour on Blowouts Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told "Fox News Sunday" viewers that the BP oil spill is the first time …
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