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The House of Representatives drove home a $447 billion omnibus spending bill yesterday loaded with six of the seven appropriations bills...
(October 30) President Obama signed a $680 billion defense authorization bill this week—the largest such bill ever—with a declaration...
One of the most interesting—and neglected—sections of the annual defense authorization bill steers annual contracting policy both for DOD...
(October 21) Congress handed off a $42.8 billion appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security through fiscal year 2010...
(June 26) We found 13 undisclosed earmarks worth $1.35 billion in the supplemental, including $904 million for seven C-130J aircraft,...
On September 15, 2008 Bank of America acquired the investment bank Merrill Lynch.
Bank of America
Bank of America is the nation’s...
Goodness, the difference an economic crisis can make. A few years ago, advertisements by defense contractors arguing that the U.S. should...
A look at the nuclear weapons budget in the omnibus reveals that while Congress is keeping nuke funding on a short leash, a controversial...
The axe has fallen on the final version of the stimulus bill, and some national security spending ended up on the cutting room floor....
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructs large water projects (dams, levees, pumping sand on beaches)...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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