"Overly-broad language used by lawmakers intending to pull government
funding for community organizing group ACORN may have the unintended effect
of forcing the government to also pull funds from much of the
military-industrial complex, a Tuesday report revealed."
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/could-acorn-defunding-bill-strike-military-industrial-complex/
Companies that could be affected include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Gumman,
and Blackwater. It will be interesting to see how they amend the bill to
punish some lawbreakers but not others.
The text of the bill is here:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3571/text
Lynn Wigglesworth
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