Frelinghuysen Campaign Took $10K From Boeing Last Year

A veteran U.S. Congressman in New Jersey’s 11th District has taken nearly $100,000 in campaign contributions from aerospace giant and military contractor Boeing over the past decade, a report says.

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and former chairman of the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, has received a $10,000 contribution from the Virginia-based Boeing Company Political Action Committee each election cycle since 2010. In addition, Frelinghuysen also brought in $21,500 in individual contributions from Boeing employees, adding up to a total of $94,500 in recent years, according to PoliticsDW.

According to Federal Election Commission records, Frelinghuysen received four contributions from the Boeing PAC in 2017 for amounts of $5,000, $1,000, $2,500 and $1,500.

Boeing has received millions in federal funds to produce military hardware such as the Super Hornet fighter jet.

In May 2017, Frelinghuysen was among more than three dozen lawmakers who allegedly held millions of dollars in healthcare-related investments when they voted in favor of the revamped American Health Care Act (AHCA), according to a Daily Beast report.

The veteran congressman held "at least $2.2 million" in healthcare stocks at the time of the vote, the report claimed.

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