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Granted. we have not received a request from the coast guard to waive jones act i m aware of. reporter: lieutenant commander told fox news offers of help involving foreign ships are rejected because they don t meet operational requirements of the unified area command. we asked is complying with the jones acts one of the requirements? yes, it does apply. they don t have the patience where situation where equipment is available to take care of this type of catastrophe, but nothing is happening. reporter: some believe the obama administration has been slow in waiving the jones act out of fear it offend organized labor. they hate when the jones act is waived and they pound on the politicians when they do that. so is this a question of we re giving in to unions and not doing everything we can? or is there some impediment we don t know about? reporter: admiral allen said waivers must be considered by a case-by-case basis but in my hand i hold a general waiver granted by ....

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