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October 8, 2009

Study: House Military Spending Steered to Ex-Staffers’ Firms
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And a new study shows members of a key House appropriations panel
continue to steer millions of dollars in contracts to firms staffed by
former colleagues, who in turn make large donations to the Congress
members’ election campaigns. The Center for Public Integrity says ten of
the sixteen members of the House subcommittee on defense appropriations
won earmarks worth $103 million for companies that have employed former
staffers.



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