RSSRep. Murtha dies at age 77
From: The Washington Times | February 9, 2010
Long before he became a national figure for his zealous opposition to the Iraq war, Rep. John P. Murtha was known to every research lab, military base and Defense Department bureaucrat as the go-to man if they needed taxpayer funding. The congressman, who died Monday after 36 years in Congress, was the Democrats' top link to the Pentagon and the web of defense contractors that surround it, and, as his party's top man on the House defense spending subcommittee, he was the gatekeeper for an outsized chunk of the entire federal budget. A Marine who earned two Purple Hearts and ...
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