12-01-2017 02:33 via alaskapublic.org

Arizona senator on a pork hunt targets Kodiak

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., on the U.S. Senate floor Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Jeff Flake)Alaska’s congressional delegation cheered last year when the Missile Defense Agency awarded an $80 million contract for work at the Kodiak Island missile launch facility. But in the U.S. Senate this week, the contract was at the top of one Republican senator’s pork list.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., has taken the mantle as the Senate’s pork-buster-in-chief by publ
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