{"id":2077,"date":"2013-09-07T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T17:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2013-09-06T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:33:03","slug":"senators-authorizing-syria-strike-got-more-defense-cash-than-lawmakers-voting-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/senators-authorizing-syria-strike-got-more-defense-cash-than-lawmakers-voting-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Authorizing Syria Strike Got More Defense Cash Than Lawmakers Voting No"},"content":{"rendered":"

by David Kravets, Wired
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Senators voting Wednesday to authorize a Syria strike received, on average, 83 percent more campaign financing from defense contractors than lawmakers voting against war.<\/p>\n

Overall, political action committees and employees from defense and intelligence firms such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Technologies, Honeywell International, and others ponied up $1,006,887 to the 17 members of the\u00a0Senate Foreign Relations Committee<\/a>\u00a0who\u00a0voted yes or no<\/a>\u00a0on the authorization Wednesday, according to an analysis by\u00a0Maplight<\/a>, the Berkeley-based nonprofit that performed the inquiry at WIRED\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

Committee members who voted to authorize what the resolution called a \u201climited<\/a>\u201d strike averaged $72,850 in defense campaign financing from the pot. Committee members who voted against the resolution averaged $39,770, according to the data.<\/p>\n

The analysis of\u00a0contributions<\/a>\u00a0from employees and PACs of defense industry interests ranges from 2007 through 2012 \u2014 based on data tracked by\u00a0OpenSecrets.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The authorization must be approved by the full Senate and House.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the deal sets a 60-day engagement limit, and bars U.S. ground troops from combat missions. The plan essentially is the legal basis to authorize President Barack Obama topunish Syria for allegedly using chemical weapons<\/a>, killing some 1,400 people as part of its ongoing civil war.<\/p>\n

The top three defense-campaign earners who voted \u201cyes\u201d were Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) at $176,000; Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) at $127,350; and Sen. Timothy Kaine (D-Virginia) at $101,025.<\/p>\n

The top three defense-campaign earners who voted \u201cno\u201d were Sen. John Barrasso\u00a0(R-Wyoming) at $86,500; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) at $62,790; and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) at $59,250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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