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"In the bill was an 800,000,000 green energy earmark for Progress Energy. Progress Energy announced a merger later in the day on Jan 10 the day Mrs Turton was killed.

Do you have a link to a confirmation about this? Where, did you see this information?

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I was going from memory it was only 200,000,000 .

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/10/26/daily24.html