by Leigh Munsil and Austin Wright, Politico, 12 August 2015.
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“I have never known a congressperson who will oppose federal spending that provides many jobs in their district,” said Chares Knight of the Project on Defense Alternatives, a Washington think tank focused on defense reform. “What makes compelling political sense for the individual member of Congress often ends up in distorting federal spending priorities. As Lockheed Martin becomes even more dominant in the defense sector it becomes more likely that defense spending choices will be distorted by the particular business interest of this one giant corporation.”