Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren was criticized by fellow senators on the Armed Services Committee for her aggressive questioning of Defense Secretary nominee Mark Esper over whether Esper would agree to ethics rules more stringent than the law requires.
Under ethics rules, Esper, a former lobbyist for Raytheon, the nation’s third-largest defense contractor, must recuse himself from any decision involving Raytheon for two years. Because the two years began when Esper joined the Pentagon as Army secretary, the restriction will expire in November.
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