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John Murtha, the master appropriator, is finding himself a regular spot on the nightly news. Monday he was the topic of CBS' Follow the Money when Sharyl Attkisson needled him for urging defense contractors who receive his earmarked funds to set up offices in his hometown of Johnstown Pa. Now ABC chimes in with a Your Money feature from Jonathan Karl on the Democratic Congressman. Murtha succeeded in raising $150m in federal aviation funds to build an airport in his home town--but this was not a case of If You Build It…. "It pretty much looks like an airport ghost town." For all of its state-of-the-art radar and runways, the John Murtha Johnstown Cambria County Airport handles only three flights a day. All three fly to Washington's Dulles Airport. The average daily passenger load is 20. And federal subsidies pay United Airlines $100 for each seat filled.
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