Democrats Want All Ship Containers Inspected

Ridiculing the Bush administration’s port security plans, Democrats on Capitol Hill on Tuesday called for the overseas inspection of every shipping container headed to the United States. The Democrats, who are energized by the embarrassment caused to President Bush by the failed plan by a Dubai company to take over the management of six American port terminals, see the debate on ports as a central element of their election year push to make domestic security an issue that they can call their own.