Jack Kingston’s Military Industry Money Trail
Congressman John Heddens Kingston, more commonly known as Jack Kingston, sits on the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. In that position, Kingston has much more power than most members of Congress to make decisions about which military projects move forward, providing profits to military contractors.
It’s impossible to say what sort of contact Kingston has had with each particular lobbyist working for corporations doing business with the Department of Defense. However, we can take a look at the financial donations Kingston has accepted from lobbyists who have military contractors as clients. So far in the current election cycle, Representative Kingston is on the record as taking the following donations from such lobbyists:
Should voters accept these kind of lobbyist contributions, from an area in which Congressman Kingston is supposed to be exercising oversight, as part of the ordinary way of conducting business in Washington D.C.?
Information about these lobbyists comes from the Center for Responsive Politics.
