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Air Force Secretary nominee helped a major defense contractor lobby for more federal funds

When New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson left Congress in 2009, she went to work the same month as a paid consultant for a subsidiary of weapons-contracting giant Lockheed Martin. That company then capitalized on Wilsonโ€™s extraordinary familiarity with Washington to craft a lobbying strategy meant to avoid having to compete for the renewal of a […]

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