UPI | Center for Public Integrity - US House Defense Appropriations - 12 of 16 members channeled defense contracts to firms of friends and associates

The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., has been criticized in some quarters for using earmarks to funnel hundreds of millions of Pentagon dollars to companies represented by lobbying firms headed by associates who also donate to his campaigns. Reps. Peter J. Visclosky, D-Ind., and James P. Moran, D-Va., also have come under scrutiny for similar activity but other panel members have not.

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