Our own Sen. Byron Dorgan has just been re-elected as the U.S. Senate’s Democratic Policy Committee Chairman. The committee has heavy influence over Democratic policy making in the Senate. It also holds hearings seeking to fix bad policy

Under Dorgan's leadership, the committee has uncovered some of the most egregious examples of wasted taxpayer dollars, especially in Iraq

Here are some examples: 1) Halliburton billed taxpayers $1.4 billion in questionable and undocumented charges under its contract to supply troops in Iraq, as documented by the Pentagon’s own auditors.

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2) Parsons billed taxpayers over $200 million under a contract to build 142 health clinics, yet completed fewer than 20. According to Iraqi officials, the rest were “imaginary clinics.”

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3) Custer Battles stole forklifts from Iraq’s national airline, repainted them, then leased the forklifts back to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) through a Cayman Islands shell company — charging an extra fee along the way.

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