WHO: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-FL
WHAT: General Dynamics’ high-tech radio program got a second wind, thanks to a $4.5 million earmark Wasserman Schultz inserted in the 2010 House appropriations bill. Costs for the troubled program, which is developing new radios for the Pentagon, have nearly doubled from $3.5 to $6 billion. And some critics say the radios are not even needed.
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