GOP Panel Rips Donor's Business Practices In Perú

A Republican-controlled House panel on Thursday took the highly unusual step of slamming a U.S. company's environmental and trade practices abroad.

The Foreign Affairs Committee's human-rights panel held a hearing on the mining practices of Doe Run Peru, which is accused of running smelting operations that have caused massive environmental contamination. The company is a unit of the holding company Renco Group, whose billionaire CEO Ira Rennert is a longtime Republican donor who contributed more than $50,000 to House Minority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.)'s reelection this year.

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