| April 22, 2004 | - General Electric and Siemens, two large contractors in Iraq, suspended most of their operations in the country.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 23, 2004 | - Vice President Dick Cheney defended Halliburton, which continues to pay him a salary, from what he said were "desperate attacks" by opponents of the Bush Administration. "They're rendering great service," he said. "They do it because they're good at it, because they won the contract to do it. And frankly the company takes a certain amount of pride in rendering this kind of service to U.S. military forces."
| Source:
CNN
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| January 11, 2004 | -
Lockheed Martin and Boeing were said to be enthusiastic about the President's
Mars
plan.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 8, 2004 | - The Department of Homeland Security handed out three $2 million contracts to build a missile-defense system to prevent civilian aircraft from being shot down by surface-to-air missiles.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| January 7, 2004 | - The head of the Army Corps of Engineers waived federal contracting requirements for Halliburton's operations in Iraq that would have required the company to submit cost and pricing information on its gasoline imports even though Halliburton was recently accused of overcharging the government $61 million for gasoline.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 30, 2003 | - The Bush Administration approved a research project to develop low-yield bunker-busting nuclear weapons, or "mini-nukes."
| Source:
The Observer
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| October 23, 2003 | - The Pentagon was planning to spend $335 million on high-tech solutions to the guerrilla war; the measures include electronic jamming devices, tethered blimps with digital cameras, and other "rapid-reaction/new solution" technologies.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 17, 2003 | - Defense contractor Lockheed Martin filed suit against antiwar demonstrators for $41,000 in security costs the company incurred preparing for a protest.
| Source:
Veteransforcommonsense.org
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| June 5, 2003 | - The General Accounting Office warned that government is using "immature technology" in its missile defense shield, which is scheduled to be deployed by 2004.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 4, 2003 | -
Tom DeLay, the House Majority Leader, killed a Democratic attempt to extend a new tax credit to 6.5 million low-income families who were left out of President Bush's latest tax cut.
"There are a lot of things that are more important than that," DeLay said.
"To me, it's a little difficult to give tax relief to people that don't pay income tax."
| Source:
New York Times
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