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Outsourcing in FY 2009 Request

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The Senate Approps. Subcmte. on Defense takes up the President's FY 2009 DoD request. Sec. of Defense Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair. Michael Mullen are expected to be questioned about outsourcing, in particular on a tanker contract awarded to Airbus, a European consortium.

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1. GATES: 515.4 Billion dollars = 4% of the GDP

183.8 billion in modernization

158.3 billion for readiness

149.4 billion to enhance quality of life

20 billion to grow services

"new Africa Command"

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2. Hmmm, for some reason its not coming in

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3. I'm watching on television right now. The HOME page link works. LINK is

Click VIDEO from here: http://c-span.org/

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4. Don't miss these videos later, after the hearing.

Sen. Byron Dorgan: Iraq Waste, Fraud, & Abuse
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x134803

$18 BILLION missing in US CASH in Iraq!!!

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5. Watching now!

Thanks for the heads up. :)

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6. Ted Stevens up now. CASH given to ..... "the ammunition of success"

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7. Top Contributors

Veco Corp $88,000
Boeing Co $84,700
Lockheed Martin $66,500
Verizon Communications $54,950
AT&T Inc $53,500
News Corp $48,350
BP $47,050
General Dynamics $46,250
Northrop Grumman $44,000
General Electric $41,500
United Technologies $41,000
Blank Rome LLP $40,550

http://opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00007997

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8. Specter asking Gates, is BUSH wrong in what he said about negotiating

before the Knesset. "It is not appeasment" Specter "the alternatives are very, very bleak"

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9. Feinstein on Guantanamo. Shut it down. Gates agrees.

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10. Working and listening here. Didn't Feinstein say that Iran was working on nukes?

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11. Dorgan up now. Cayman Island faux corporations evading taxes KBR, et.al.

Sen. Byron Dorgan: Iraq Waste, Fraud, & Abuse
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x134803

Dorgan wrote Gates in early April. Auditors have been working to get the right answer since then, according to Gates. LOL

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12. Dorgan. "I want to talk to you about Bin Ladin" We're busy in Iraq.

"What are we doing seven years after our country was attacked?"

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13. Adm. Mike Mullen. "sovereign territory" is a problem WTF. Iraq wasn't???

The warped logic of this guy?

Dorgan, "There ought not be one acre of ground that is safe for Bin Laden" due to sovereignty of territory.

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14. CODE PINK just stood up with a sign "Bring our Troops Home" !!!!