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- Congress Daily
- June 25, 2009
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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.
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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