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Friday, July 17, 2009

Lawmakers continue pushing for F-22 Raptors

F-22 RaptorThe fight over the Air Force’s premier fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, is zooming toward a showdown.

On Wednesday, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) announced he was postponing a vote on a measure that would have stripped $1.75 billion from the defense authorization bill for seven of the jets.

Almost instantaneously, the White House fired off a Statement of Administration Policy, ripping into lawmakers’ repeated efforts to add money for the advanced fighter jets that the administration says should be phased out and reiterating President Barack Obama’s threat to veto the bill governing defense policy for a year.

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1 comment:

  1. Tejaswy19/7/09 13:41

    F22 is costly to maintain as per your previous.
    No Govt no matter how rich cannot keep F 22, F 35,F 18 F16 and F 15 at service all at once.
    Its just not worth it.

    The cold war is over for a decade now.

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