Handful of Firms Benefit in Senate Bill
by Cam Simpson and Brody Mullins, Wall Street Journal
February 11, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The stimulus package the Senate approved Tuesday may technically be free of "earmarks," but it nonetheless includes several provisions that would likely benefit only a handful of specific corporations.... One example: The Senate added $200 million for a "virtual fence" along the nation's Southwestern border, a project headed by Chicago-based Boeing Co. The bill directs that stimulus money for the program be spent by the end of September 2010. [...]
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http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2008/09/great-wall-of-boeing.html
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