Ex Lockheed Lobbyist Now in Key Defense Oversight Role
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Something Corporate McPravda missed covering...
Ex Lockheed Lobbyist Now in Key Defense Oversight Role
by Ben Freeman, PhD
POGO.org, July 26, 2012
A former executive and lobbyist for defense contractor Lockheed Martin has been appointed to one of the most powerful posts on Capitol Hill overseeing the defense industry.
Ann Elise Sauer, who left Lockheed last year, is now the Republican staff director at the Senate Armed Services Committee. The Committee oversees military spending, including major weapons systems that are central to Lockheeds business.
Sauer received more than $1.66 million from Lockheed during a reporting period that encompasses this year and last year, according to a financial disclosure form she filed in April. The $1.66 million included salary, bonus, deferred compensation and a lump sum described in the filing as RETIRED PAY.
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Lockheed Martin, the Department of Defenses top contractor (in terms of total contract dollars awarded yearly), receives tens of billions of dollars annually from the Pentagon. Last year alone, the firm was awarded Department of Defense contracts valued at more than $33 billion. The company is responsible for some of the Pentagon's most expensive and troubled weapon systems, including the F-22 and F-35 fighter jets.
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http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/07/former-lockheed-lobbyist-now-directing-lockheed-oversight.html
Gosh. Does me pointing this out make me an enemy of Lockheed or of the state? Are they the same thing now?