Young's earmark helps three fishing companies

CAMPAIGN DONORS: Provision was tucked in bill without review.

SOURCE: Wesley Loy // Anchorage Daily News

25 Nov 2007 // Some of the toughest money in America is made fishing for king and snow crab in the tempestuous Bering Sea.

But some crab boat owners also do well on the opposite coast in Washington, D.C.

A case in point is an arcane section written into a bill Congress passed in December, just hours before adjourning for the year. President Bush signed the bill into law about a month later.

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