Defense lobbying firm, PMA Group, got earmarks from over 100 House members

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Firm with Murtha Ties Got Earmarks From Nearly One-Fourth of House
By Jonathan Allen and Alex Knott, CQ Staff


More than 100 House members secured earmarks in a major spending bill for clients of a single lobbying firm — The PMA Group — known for its close ties to John P. Murtha , the congressman in charge of Pentagon appropriations.

“It shows you how good they were,” said Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. “The sheer coordination of that would take an army to finish.”

PMA’s offices have been raided, and the firm closed its political action committee last week amid reports that the FBI is investigating possibly illegal campaign contributions to Murtha and other lawmakers.

No matter what the outcome of the federal investigation, PMA’s earmark success illustrates how a well-connected lobbying firm operates on Capitol Hill. And earmark accountability rules imposed by the Democrats in 2007 make it possible to see how extensively PMA worked the Hill for its clients.

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1. The PMA Group. I would like to know exactly how many jobs this means. If not jobs,

how many States will be helped. If not jobs or States, where is the stimulous for little people?

I found this -

"Though the D.C. based PMA Group initially concentrated on defense issues, they have expanded their areas of expertise to include: Homeland Security; Education; Energy, Environment and Natural Resources; Health; Information Technology and Infrastructure."

"Money to parties
Democratic $385,209
Republican $78,600
Other $25,900 "

http://www.politicalbase.com/groups/the-pma-group/13946/

Then there is this on a US Govt looking web site:

http://www.usgif.org/Membership_OurMembership_PMA.aspx
"The PMA Group (PMA) is a Washington, D.C. – based government relations firm that was founded in 1989 by Paul Magliocchetti, with an initial focus on defense issues. Over time their expertise has significantly expanded to include domestic areas of the federal budget. PMA’s core areas of expertise now include: Defense; Homeland Security; Education; Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources; Health; Information Technology; Labor State and Local Infrastructure; and Transportation. Throughout the years, PMA has given clients an inside track to pursue opportunities with the federal government and is now a respected leader in non-partisan government relations, legislative counsel, and federal sector-funding. "

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is the only organization dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and building a stronger community of interest across industry, academia, government, professional organizations and individual stakeholders.

This is from their home page: "As a not-for-profit educational foundation, USGIF strives to bring together the community at-large and support life-long learning that will ensure a robust cadre of professionals and a healthy tradecraft now and in the future."

Ate they just advisors? Are they going to say how their money is going to be spent? Is Murtha, Pelosi, Moran, Hoyer going to say how the Stimulus Bill money is going to be spent?

[FLAprogressive]

2. look at the names on the right: Almost 100% DLC