Washington DC - Following yesterday's passage of the Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Authorization Act by the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Duncan Hunter announced several initiatives included in the legislation that directly benefit San Diego County.  These initiatives, which were either put forward or strongly supported by Congressman Hunter, will continue providing quality jobs for local defense and aerospace workers. 

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Over the last seven years of combat operations in the War on Terrorism, more than a million brave servicemen and women have faithfully served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nearly 5,000 have died; thousands of others bear the scars of war. All of them, regardless of their individual experience or contribution, were exposed to some level of risk.

Mr. Speaker, recently released documents from AIG accounts for some of the more than $180 billion in aid that AIG has received. And it's revealed that over $58 billion of that $180 billion has gone to foreign banks around the world. And $58 billion have gone to French banks, German banks. French and German banks, respectively, pulled in $19 billion and $17 billion of American taxpayer money.