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Title: Senate confirms former lobbyist as Pentagon No. 2
Source: Yahoo - AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090211 ... on_go_co/pentagon_confirmation
Published: Feb 11, 2009
Author: ANNE FLAHERTY
Post Date: 2009-02-12 00:51:13 by Rotara
Keywords: None
Views: 150
Comments: 6

WASHINGTON – The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to confirm William Lynn as deputy defense secretary, endorsing President Barack Obama's decision to waive ethics regulations by putting a former defense lobbyist in charge of day-to-day operations at the Pentagon.

Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Charles Grassley of Iowa expressed reservations before the Senate voted 93-4 to approve the nomination.

McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was disappointed Obama would backtrack on his promise to keep lobbyists out of the federal government.

On his first day in office, Obama issued an executive order forcing individuals to wait two years before they could be hired for the agencies they had lobbied and to remove themselves from involvement in issues related to their former employers.

"Obviously the American people were promised one thing but delivered another," said McCain, Obama's opponent in the presidential election.

Grassley called into question Lynn's work as Pentagon comptroller during the Clinton administration.

As chief financial officer, Lynn "advocated very questionable accounting practices that were obviously not in the public interest," Grassley told his colleagues on the Senate floor.

Lynn was registered until July as a lobbyist for Raytheon Co., where he advocated for six programs: the Navy's new generation of destroyers called the DDG-1000 surface combatant; the advanced medium-range air-to-air missile; radar for the F-15 fighter jet; a new version of the Army's Patriot anti-missile program; the classified satellite network called the Future Imagery Architecture system, and the Multiple Kill Vehicle, a technology designed to counter ballistic missiles.

Lynn has promised to remove himself from decisions involving these programs for one year. He also has promised in a recent letter to McCain that he would seek written permission from Pentagon lawyers for one year when "circumstances would cause a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts to question my impartiality."

Despite his reservations, McCain voted in favor of Lynn. Opposing were Grassley along with fellow Republicans Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and John Cornyn of Texas. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri was the sole Democrat voting no.

Not voting were Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Judd Gregg, R-N.H. One Minnesota seat is vacant.


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"The DNC and the Obama Campaign are unified and working together to elect Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Our presumptive nominee has pledged not to take donations from Washington lobbyists and from today going forward the DNC makes that pledge as well," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. "Senator Obama has promised to change the way things are done in Washington and this step is a sure sign of his commitment. The American people's priorities will set the agenda in an Obama Administration, not the special interests."

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#4. To: Rotara (#0)

the Senate voted 93-4 to approve the nomination.

The vote total is an in your face affirmation by the "government" that there is only one party, the government party. Disgraceful.

Cynicom  posted on  2009-02-12   7:02:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Cynicom (#4)

The vote total is an in your face affirmation by the "government" that there is only one party, the government party. Disgraceful.

It just makes everything that much more clear imo.

Rotara  posted on  2009-02-12   12:11:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Rotara (#5)

Damned Congress is nothing but a rubber stamp populated by professional politicians with a lifetime grip on power...to hell with the little people and the country.

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