By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon and White House reminded lawmakers this week if the final fiscal year 2010 defense appropriations bill continues the canceled VH-71 presidential helicopter program President Obama would veto it. Yet administration officials stopped short of promising a presidential veto of the Pentagon budget measure if it includes funding the administration did not request for the F- 35 Joint Strike Fighter's second alternate engine and for C-17 cargo aircraft. For the General Electric [GE]-Rolls-Royce alternate engine effort,…
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