Washington, D.C. - Citizen Works today gave Vice President Dick Cheney the "Daddy Warbucks" Award for corporate war profiteering in a demonstration outside the D.C. office of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), one of the biggest winners so far in the Iraq contracting bonanza.

The Halliburton subsidiary's contract exemplifies the Bush administration's troubling policy of awarding billions of dollars for war-related work to a few politically-connected companies.

"The Cheney-Halliburton story is the classic military-industrial revolving door tale," said Charlie Cray, director of the Campaign for Corporate Reform at Citizen Works. "The Bush administration is rife with highly-placed officials with ties to weapons, construction, and oil companies that are exploiting this war for profit. And Dick Cheney's Halliburton stands out. Since the company has far greater access to Cheney than citizens, we are asking the company to deliver the award to him at his undisclosed location."

Citizen Works advocates turning over all reconstruction authority to the United Nations.

"Although the United States has the obligation to pay for the costs of reconstructing Iraq," Cray said, "the United Nations is the only proper body to provide governance and help rebuild a new government, civil society, and physical infrastructure if the current regime is overthrown, not the White House, Pentagon, and their corporate cronies."

The event was part of Big Business Day, Citizen Works' second annual national day of action to focus on the dangers of runaway corporate power. Other activities are planned for Saturday in approximately 100 locations throughout the country, from Boise to Brooklyn, from San Antonio to St. Louis. All over America, rallies, protests, teach-ins and other events will highlight the different ways that unaccountable corporate power is a threat to democracy and the ways that certain corporations are poised to exploit the tragedies of war in Iraq.

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, citizens will hold a protest at a local Clear Channel station. In Huntington Beach, California, Citizens will hold a protest outside a Boeing plant and then march to an ExxonMobil facility. In Akron, Ohio, citizens will focus on oil and big business at a demonstration in front of the Federal Building.

For list of events and more details on Big Business Day, visit http://www.citizenworks.org/corp/bbd03.php

Citizen Works is a nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Ralph Nader to promote citizen participation in democracy.