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      U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) attends a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on March 7, 2023 in Washington, D.C.

      Warren Leads Bipartisan Bill to Stop Price Gouging by Military Contractors

      "Defense contractors have been exploiting loopholes in the law and raking in massive profits by price gouging the Pentagon and American taxpayers," said the senator.

      Jessica Corbett
      Jun 21, 2023

      A month after sending letters to the U.S. Department of Defense and military contractors, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday partnered with a pair of colleagues to introduce bipartisan legislation intended to stop price gouging at the Pentagon such as "$71 for a pin that should have cost less than a nickel and $80 for a drain pipe segment that should have cost $1.41."

      Warren (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, and Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Readiness, first unveiled the Stop Price Gouging the Military Act last year. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) joined with them to reintroduce the bill.

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      ​Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) attends a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 18, 2023.

      'Brass for Gold': Warren Report Details Revolving Door Between Capitol Hill and War Profiteers

      "When government officials cash in on their public service by lobbying, advising, or serving as board members and executives for the companies they used to regulate, it undermines public officials' integrity."

      Kenny Stancil
      Apr 27, 2023

      Nearly 700 former Pentagon officials, congressional lawmakers and staffers, and other federal employees now work for major military contractors, primarily as lobbyists, confirming that the revolving door between the U.S. government and the weapons industry is "still spinning rapidly" and must be closed through "legislative and regulatory overhauls."

      That's according to Pentagon Alchemy: How Defense Officials Pass Through the Revolving Door and Peddle Brass for Gold, a report published Wednesday by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel.

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      In Midst of War, US Approves $11 Billion in Combat Ships to Saudi Arabia

      Deal defies global call for arms embargo over mounting evidence of Saudi war crimes in Yemen

      Sarah Lazare
      Oct 21, 2015

      Defying the international call for an arms embargo over war crimes concerns, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced Tuesday it has approved an $11.25 billion deal to sell combat ships to Saudi Arabia, which has been waging a military assault against Yemen for more than six months.

      "The selling of arms in the middle of a war will obviously send the message that the Saudis can do whatever they want and get away with it," Farea Al-Muslimi, Beirut-based Yemeni writer and visiting scholar with Carnegie Middle East Center, told Common Dreams.

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