Duncan Hunter Still Rakes In Earmarks
Duncan Hunter managed to pad the 2008 defense authorization bill with a little bit of his favorite pork.
One of Rep. Duncan Hunter’s (R-CA) favorite requests, the Sea-Fighter project (also known as X-Craft), built by L3 Communications Titan Group, made it into the bill. Hunter, the committee’s ranking member, requested $22 million for the project. Last year, Hunter added $25.7 million despite the Navy’s reluctance to spend money on the project, according to a Congress Daily report.Hunter, who is running for president, secured $2 million for a skin test antigen to be research and developed by Allermed Laboratories Inc. of San Diego; $1 million for oxygen-diffusion dressings made by Oxyband Technologies Inc. of San Diego; and $8 million out of the research and development pot for a tactical e-field Buoy development program that would benefit Information Systems Laboratories, also of San Diego.
