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Air Force

McCain Blasts Tanker, F-35 Programs

Julie Samuel

Friday, July 15th, 2011

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Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Ranking Member John McCain (R-Ariz.), continuing on a recent wave of criticism of defense programs, criticized yesterday the Air Force’s contract for a tanker aircraft. And he joined with SASC Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) in resisting a Pentagon proposal to rejigger monies to cover rising costs with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. “In the current climate of fiscal austerity, we need to assure taxpayers that their interests are protected and that every scarce defense…

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