BUDGET REQUEST - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert F. Hale, undersecretary of defense (comptroller) testify at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the department's 2012 budget request in Washington, D.C., Feb. 16, 2011. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeleyHouse Votes To Scrap F-35 Engine: Why Gates Can't Crow Too Loudly -- Christian Science Monitor
The House voted Wednesday to stop funding for an alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – a program Defense Secretary Robert Gates called 'unnecessary.' But his arm-twisting of Congress is far from finished.
By day’s end Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates had scored a considerable victory.
Just hours after he told Congress that it must halt funding for the production of a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – or he would “look at all available legal options" to do it himself – the House heeded his warning. It voted 233 to 198 to kill the program that Gates had called “an unnecessary and extravagant expense."
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