By this rationale, how could McClintock justify voting against 90% tax rates on the executives of defense contractor Lockheed Martin or any other business that receives funds from the federal government?
Among Trump club members are top executives of defense contractors, a lobbyist for the South Korean government, a lawyer helping Saudi Arabia fight claims over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the leader of a pesticide trade group that sought successfully to persuade the Trump administration not to ban an insecticide government scientists linked to health risks.
Paper boy, Eagle Scout, high school wrestling champ, Navy flier, Republican congressman, White House chief of staff, business executive, secretary of defense -- in this biography, the stages of Donald Rumsfeld's career fit together seamlessly, each offered to illustrate the same earnestness and energy.
Last week, the former chief executive of a defense contractor with ties to Mr. Murtha pleaded guilty to soliciting kickbacks from a subcontractor.
On Bloomberg's "Capitol Gains," Charles Ward, a retired Air Force general, will talk about cuts to defense spending, and Clay Jones, chairman and chief executive of Rockwell Collins, a defense contractor, will discuss the effects of sequestration on his company.
The Pentagon officials, corporate executives and employees of defense giants that have cheated the American people are not heroes... they're liars, crooks and con men.
But it has since escalated into a trans-Atlantic swill of suits and countersuits that now ensnare 3M's chairman and chief executive, Britain's secretary of defense and a well-known Washington lawyer and lobbyist, Lanny J. Davis.
This was the testimony yesterday of Michael Ainslie Michael Ainslie, Sotheby's former chief executive, in defense of his old boss, who is on trial in a Manhattan federal court for price-fixing in the art auction market.
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"You guys are our first line of defense," Casi Callaway, executive director of Mobile Baykeeper, a conservation group, told about 50 volunteers gathered in a room filled to capacity.
