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Gates defuses the Defense budget battle

Marietta : GA : USA | 7 months ago  
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Gates' careful campaign and timing has outflanked lawmakers and lobbyists as he plans sweeping changes in military spending. April 25, 2009 Gates unveiled a plan this month to shift money from big weapons systems including the F-22 fighter plane and invest more in programs geared toward unconventional...
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  • News Source: The Hill | 7 months ago
    Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), a defense appropriator, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the  head of the Environment and Public Works Committee, are circulating a letter among their colleagues to get as much support as possible to buy 15 more C-17s in the...
  • News Source: Los Angeles Times | 7 months ago
    Gates' careful campaign and timing has outflanked lawmakers and lobbyists as he plans sweeping changes in military spending. April 25, 2009 Gates unveiled a plan this month to shift money from big weapons systems including the F-22 fighter plane and...
  • News Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 7 months ago
    Georgia’s two senators, who along with other Georgia lawmakers have frenetically warned for months about massive job cuts in Marietta if the F-22 program was scrapped, now say they’ve been assured by Lockheed Martin that the 2,000 employees who...
  • News Source: Androscoggin News | 7 months ago
    As the F-22 Raptor's once-strong coalition of supporters off the Hill begins to crumble, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said Wednesday he will continue to push to secure funding for 60 more of the stealthy Air Force fighters...But on Tuesday, a senior...
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