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House To Weigh Axing F-22 Funds, Keeping VH-71 And F-35 Second Engine

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By Emelie Rutherford The House was poised last night to vote today on a plan to strip from the defense appropriations bill F-22 jet funding President Obama said would spur him to veto the fiscal year 2010 measure. Yet House members will leave in the legislation funds for two items Obama may reject: continued work on the canceled presidential helicopter and an alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. House Appropriations Defense subcommittee (HAC-D) Chairman John Murtha (D-Pa.), a…

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