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Also last March Lockheed Martin -- Fort Worth, Texas and Orlando, won a $213 million Air Force contract to provide Egypt with 20 F-16 fighter jets. Whether planes have been delivered unknown. The following month, its Lockheed Martin Missiles subsidiary in Orlando, Fla. got a $46 million Army contract to provide night vision sensor systems for Apache helicopters.

Again, these export credits expire on Mar. 4th.  After that aid must be renewed by Congress.

[Complete spreadsheet of military hardware contracts to Egypt]

Members of Senate Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations which must approve appropriations to Mubarak government:

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* Senator Patrick Leahy (Chairman) (VT) * Senator Daniel Inouye (HI) * Senator Tom Harkin (IA) * Senator Barbara Mikulski (MD) * Senator Richard Durbin (IL) * Senator Tim Johnson (SD) * Senator Mary Landrieu (LA) * Senator Frank Lautenberg (NJ)

Secretary Hillary Clinton 202-647-5291
Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg 202-647-8636
Special Assistant to the Secretary and the Executive Secretary of the Department Stephen D. Mull 202-647-5301

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