Posted on 05/13/2011 2:08:57 PM PDT by 92nina
The Defense Authorization Bill that was voted out of committee on Wednesday brought back to life an expensive earmark that has plagued taxpayers for years – the F136 alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter. The second engine line has been opposed by both President Bush and President Obama, is unwanted and unneeded by the Pentagon and has been rejected by both chambers of Congress. Already having cost $3 billion in taxpayer funds, the earmark was thought to have finally been laid to rest last month – its reinsertion in to the 2012 Defense bill signals this may not be the last time we see the earmark rise from the dead.
July 2009: Members of the Senate reject funding for the F136 engine in the National Defense Authorization Act. However, the House of Representatives restores funds for the account, despite repeated protests from the Pentagon that it is unnecessary and wasteful.
September 2010: The House of Representatives fails to pass appropriations bills and passes a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government for the 2011 Fiscal Year, starting October 1. The White House issues guidance on CR protocol, prohibiting money for accounts that had not received funding in bills passed by either chamber. Both the House and Senate had passed bills that year that excluded funding for the F136...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/earmark-horrors-mark-friday-th-a6142#ixzz1MGew0Ivr
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Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Delicious and Stumbleupon
So which state and whose district does this benefit?
The article didn’t state that fact, but because it keeps returning, like a zombie, that person must be either powerful or able to sell their vote.
Ohio. The GE engine plant is near where the 1st, 2nd and 8th come together. The reps are Chabot, Schmidt and (what do you know?) Speaker Boehner.
All right! Another reason to chuck cry-baby Boehner out of the House Speaker position.
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