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Senate, House Defense Appropriations Panels Clash On Troubled Aircraft Efforts

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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford Senate defense appropriators have staked out different stances than their House counterparts on troubled aircraft efforts, including calling for greater funding reductions to the presidential helicopter and Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) while advocating less substantial changes to the Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) program. Thus, funding for these programs are likely fair game for future House-Senate negotiators on the fiscal year 2009 defense appropriations bill, which is currently stalled in Congress. The version of the legislation the Senate Appropriations…

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