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 April 29, 2005 Taxpayer Groups Tell Chambliss C-130J Transport Aircraft Pork Shouldn’t Fly |
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 For Immediate Release
Contact: Eric Miller at defense@pogo.org or Beth Daley, beth@pogo.org or (202) 347-1122
Media outlets are reporting today that Senator Saxby Chambliss has threatened to hold up the nomination of the Defense Department’s top acquisition official if the Pentagon does not rescind its decision to terminate the C-130J cargo aircraft program (click here to view the Air Force Times story). Chambliss’ threat to block the nomination of Kenneth Krieg as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics comes on the heels of Chambliss’ unsuccessful attempt to block funding for canceling the C-130J, a problem-plagued and overpriced aircraft that is built in Chambliss’ home state of Georgia. “This is naked pork-barrel politics,” said Danielle Brian, POGO investigates, exposes, and seeks to remedy systemic abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience by the federal government to powerful special interests. Founded in 1981, POGO is a politically-independent, nonprofit watchdog that strives to promote a government that is accountable to the citizenry.
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