By Emelie Rutherford The Senate passed a $626 billion fiscal year 2010 Pentagon appropriations bill last night by a 93-7 margin after rejecting an attempt to delete from it 10 cargo plans and securing funding in it for ground-based missile interceptors. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) failed in a second try to remove from the bill $2.5 billion for 10 Boeing [BA] C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft not requested by the Pentagon. His first attempt to ax the C-17 monies failed Sept. 30,…
Senate Approves DoD Approps Bill With 10 C-17 Cargo Planes
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