Foreign Ownership of U.S. Airlines & Ports Deemed Troubling

The United States Department of Transportationauthority to unilaterally make such a change. Yet
(DOT) on February 8, 2005, presented its decisionit does not begin to reveal all of the implications
before the U.S. House of Representatives Houseof such a historic shift in policy in bypassing the
Aviation Sub-Committee, to change a rule whichU.S. Congress in order to do so.Trade negotiations
would clear the way for foreign corporations towith the European Union to loosen up regulations
own and control U.S. airlines. But members of thein ownership of U.S. airlines is seen as a tradeoff
House Aviation Sub-Committee were all inby the DOT in order for the U.S.
agreement that the DOT may lack the legal