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Maine: Frank Lautenberg

Thu, 02/21/2008 - 15:07

Allen accuses Collins of protecting Halliburton

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., is accusing U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Bangor, of allowing war profiteering to occur when she denied his request to investigate Halliburton in her role as chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Now, U.S. Rep. Tom Allen, who hopes to unseat Collins in November, has joined him.

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Thu, 02/21/2008 - 14:57

Collins’ staff responds to Allen’s allegations

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Tom Allen is attacking Sen. Susan Collins for allowing war-profiteering when she blocked a request by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., to investigate Halliburton.

Staff for Susan Collins said today that the efforts were a politically charged one-man crusade, and the committee had more important issues to deal with. Lautenberg made his requests between 2003 and 2006, when Collins was chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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Wed, 02/20/2008 - 11:46

Lautenberg to endorse Allen Thursday

By Megan Buerger

Democratic New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg will formally endorse Maine Congressman Tom Allen’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

“From nearly the outset of this war, it was clear that there was a major problem with the largest contractor we had in Iraq: Halliburton," Lautenberg said.

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