1.0 link 94979 <![CDATA[Report: Lawmakers Have Nearly $200M Invested In Companies Doing Defense-Related Work]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/03/report-lawmakers-have-nea_n_94979.html WASHINGTON &mdash; Members of Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the onset of the Iraq war, according to a study by a nonpartisan research group.

Not all the companies in which lawmakers invested are typical defense contractors. Corporations such as PepsiCo, IBM, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson have at one point received defense-related contracts, notes the report by the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics.

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