BUSH SUPPORTERS WHO BENEFITED

Business leaders who raised large sums of money for the Bush administration's 2004 re-election campaign have benefited from recent policy changes, according to an investigation by The Blade in Toledo. Here's a look at some:
Heads of stock brokerages and other multinational firms, which, under a special tax incentive in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, are bringing hundreds of millions of dollars they earned or stored abroad back into the United States this year at reduced rates.
Mining executives are tapping new veins of coal, thanks to administrative rule changes that opened swaths of hills and forests to their backhoes and left once-protected streams vulnerable to pollution.
Executives of defense contractors United Technologies and the Washington Group won contracts potentially totaling more than $6 billion to supply American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and rebuild both countries' infrastructure. The same contractors won far less government work under President Bill Clinton.
Associated Press