{"id":187842,"date":"2011-02-19T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/19\/house-votes-to-kill-f136-engine\/"},"modified":"2011-02-19T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T11:54:00","slug":"house-votes-to-kill-f136-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/19\/house-votes-to-kill-f136-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"House Votes to Kill F136 Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I expect to see some continued efforts by GE, Rolls Royce, and their supporters, I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-02-16\/u-s-house-votes-to-kill-f-35-backup-engine-from-ge-rolls-with-funds-cut.html\">this is the death knell for the F136 engine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to kill funding the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter backup engine made by General Electric Co. and Rolls Royce Group Plc.<\/p>\n<p>By a vote of 233-198, the House voted to cut $450 million for the engine from legislation funding the Pentagon for the remainder of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time in more than four years of votes that the House has come out against the GE-Rolls Royce engine for the F-35, the stealth fighter made by Lockheed Martin Corp. In May, 2010, the House voted 231-193 to continue the program. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is important for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First, with this defeat on the table, the onus now falls on the supporter of the F136 to bring the engine back, which is hard.<\/p>\n<p>Second, and more importantly, House Speaker John Boehner, whose district, and neighboring districts, directly benefit from the engine, <b>could not whip the votes necessary to support the engine<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, the engine is toast.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run, this is a bad thing, because leaving Pratt &amp; Whitney as a monopoly supplier for the engine is likely to increase costs, and reduce performance, a <b>lot<\/b> down the road.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I do experience no small amount of amusement because Boehner got seriously served on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I expect to see some continued efforts by GE, Rolls Royce, and their supporters, I think that this is the death knell for the F136 engine: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to kill funding the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter backup engine made by General Electric Co. and Rolls Royce Group Plc. By &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,1006,1111,1128,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-military","category-monopoly","category-propulsion","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}