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Senate panel adds seven F-22s to fiscal 2010 bill

CongressDaily June 25, 2009

The Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday approved its version of the fiscal 2010 defense authorization bill, including money for seven F-22 Raptor fighter jets that the Obama administration did not request, a Senate aide said.

Each of those planes would cost about $250 million.

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The White House has threatened to veto any authorization measure that continues F-22 production or the F-35 alternate engine program. Meanwhile, the Senate bill includes funding for nine more F/A-18E/F Super Hornets for the Navy than requested by the administration, the aide said.

Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and ranking member John McCain, R-Ariz., are expected to release the contents of the committee bill Thursday afternoon.

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  • Larry needs to get a clue. Besides the fact that the military industrial complex is already raping the American people, jobs need to be created in other sectors. More overpriced waste on unnecessary military equipment is not the answer. The President and other forward-thinking elected officials are aiming to create jobs necessary to fix our deteriorating transportation infrastructure, advance alternative energy production, and bring manufacturing back to this country. It's time to close loopholes that allow corporations to move jobs overseas and either vastly improve or eliminate NAFTA and CAFTA. In the meantime, here are some bona fide successes. Read about the hundreds of thousands of transportation jobs being created and saved: http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=43038&dcn=e_gvet Ya know, when you've been rolling down a steep hill (aka, economic downfall), it takes a little time and lots of money to put on the brakes, turn around, and climb back up that damn hill! At least President Obama is trying! TIM BARNES Posted July 1, 2009 10:11 AM
  • If you don't have anything intelligent or constructive to say about an article, how about refraining from writing anything? This isn't a forum for Fox News brainwashed "sheeple" to say stupid stuff. Tim Posted June 29, 2009 10:26 AM
  • He wants to insure we are even footings with his muslim friends dan m ketter Posted June 27, 2009 2:57 PM
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