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Morning Business: Just Because the Company Vanished ...

By Paul Singer
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 8, 2009, Midnight

The 2010 Defense appropriations bill approved by the Senate this week included an odd item: a $5 million earmark for a company that no longer exists. Sponsored by Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the earmark provides $5 million for Information Manufacturing Corporation of Rocket Center, W.Va., to digitize files for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

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