Lawmaker to press for US infrastructure ownership - Yahoo! News

Lawmaker to press for US infrastructure ownership - Yahoo! News: "Sun Mar 12, 1:43 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican opponent of the collapsed Dubai ports deal said on Sunday that he would press ahead with legislation requiring U.S. ownership of infrastructure deemed critical to homeland security.
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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, Republican of California, said that under the bill, it would be up to the
Pentagon and Department of
Homeland Security to identify facilities critical to national defense.

'If something defined by the secretary of defense as being critical American infrastructure, we would give a five-year period for divestment by the parent company so you don't have a fire sale,' Hunter told the 'Fox News Sunday' program."