{"id":196351,"date":"2008-05-04T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/04\/senate-bill-drops-c-17s-funds-f-22s-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2008-05-04T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T04:06:00","slug":"senate-bill-drops-c-17s-funds-f-22s-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/04\/senate-bill-drops-c-17s-funds-f-22s-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Bill Drops C-17s, Funds F-22s (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Armed Services Committee has passed a Defense Authorization bill which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story.jsp?id=news\/AUTH05018.xml&amp;headline=Senate%20Bill%20Drops%20C-17s,%20Funds%20F-22s&amp;channel=defense\">funds 20 additional F-22s, but does not fund additional C-17s<\/a>. (more details at link)<\/p>\n<p>Half way there.  We don&#8217;t need either, though the F-22 funding also includes $497M for shutting down the F-22 line too.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to leave both options open to the next president.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the next president will have the guts to kill the white elephant that is the F-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Armed Services Committee has passed a Defense Authorization bill which funds 20 additional F-22s, but does not fund additional C-17s. (more details at link) Half way there. We don&#8217;t need either, though the F-22 funding also includes $497M for shutting down the F-22 line too. The idea is to leave both options open &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1008,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-defense-procurement","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196351"}],"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=196351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}