The Influence Of The Defense Industry -- DoD BuzzThe Sunlight Foundation put up a fascinating blog post this week matching DoD’s top 10 contractors with the amounts they spent on campaign contributions and lobbying between 2009 and 2010. No surprise, the Pentagon’s top firm is Lockheed Martin, but the company that spent the most on lobbying was Boeing, with almost $35 million, followed by Northrop Grumman, with almost $31 million. (And Lockheed was no slouch: It spent almost $26 million, according to Sunlight’s data.)
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My Comment: Unions, financial and defense industries, foreign governments, special interest groups, etc. .... another example on why Washington is often perceived as being sold and bought by special interests.
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