It resembles another instance last year when Edward Conard, a former executive at Bain Capital, acknowledged he was the source of a $1 million contribution in April to Restore Our Future. The donation was initially reported as coming from W Spann LLC, a dummy business with an office in a New York City office building. Several other contributions to the same super PAC came from entities with no apparent business purpose.
“We collect all the information from donors that the [Federal Election Commission] requires from us to disclose on our reports,’’ said Brittany Gross, spokeswoman for the pro-Romney super PAC. “At the request of Jesse and Melinda Rogers, Restore Our Future has amended the report to reflect them as donors.’’
Brian Mooney
Lawmakers propose deep cuts to US nuclear arsenal
WASHINGTON - Taking aim at an area of federal spending left unchecked for generations, two dozen lawmakers today plan to propose legislation mandating deep cuts in the US nuclear arsenal - including submarines, missiles, aircraft, and weapons design laboratories.
According to its chief sponsor, the bill is an effort to jump-start a wider discussion that both progressives and some fiscal conservatives consider long overdue: Why does the United States still need thousands of atomic bombs designed to prevent a war with the Soviet Union?
“Many say that we need a fundamental reevaluation of Medicare and Medicaid and the entire domestic side of government spending,’’ said Representative Edward J. Markey of Malden, who has enlisted dozens of his Democratic colleagues in the effort. “You never hear them talk about a fundamental reevaluation of whether the Cold War defense budget approach makes sense any longer for the 21st century.’’
