Secrets, part II. (Devil In The Details).
American Prospect, The, December, 2002
SPEAKING OF THE DARK recesses of government, just where did that Eli Lilly profit-protection clause in the homeland-security bill come from?
In the aftermath of the midterm elections, when the Democrats gave up their fight to protect the rights of workers in the new Department of Homeland Security, the House sent its bill over to the Senate. Several new provisions caught the eye of dubious Senate staffers, however. One reversed the bill's original language, which had banned homeland-security contracts from going to U.S.-based companies that had chartered themselves overseas to ...
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