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Panels Want To Stop Vehicle Production Lapses

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

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A key House panel approved a defense budget yesterday that gives the Pentagon funding it did not request to prevent a temporary shutdown of three vehicles’ production lines, a move another House committee is slated to approve today. The fiscal year 2013 defense appropriations bill the powerful House Appropriations Defense subcommittee (HAC-D) approved behind closed doors yesterday includes $383 million to continue minimum production of General Dynamics’ [GD] M1 Abrams tanks as well as BAE Systems’ Bradley Fighting Vehicles and…

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