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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Appropriations Action. The Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee, the final of the Big Four defense panels to unveil a budget bill for fiscal year 2010, is scheduled to mark up its Pentagon appropriations bill Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the subcommittee and the full Senate Appropriations Committee, tells reporters he supports continuing to fund the General Electric-Rolls-Royce second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike fighter,…

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