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House Strips F-22 Funds

Travis | Jul 30, 2009 | there are 0 comments 0

The House just passed Rep. John Murtha’s amendment to remove $368.8 million in unrequested advance procurement funding for more F-22 aircraft from the fiscal year 2010 Defense Appropriations bill. Here’s where the F-22 funding battle now stands:

House Authorization: $368.8 million in advance procurement funding
Senate Authorization: No $
House Appropriations: No $
Senate Appropriations: Yet to act

With each chamber having now rejected F-22 funds, there is an expectation that the rejections will be upheld during conference committee negotiations. I would expect Sen. Daniel Inouye not to include F-22 money in his Senate Appropriations markup because the full Senate already opposed the money once and is likely to do so again.

The House vote today is another nail in the F-22’s coffin.

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