House votes down F-35 engine funding !

[Umbro2914]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/politics/17-f-35-engine.html


In a sign that more than half the Republican freshmen are willing to cut military spending, the House voted 233 to 198 on Wednesday to cancel an alternate fighter jet engine that the Bush and Obama administrations had tried to kill for the last five years.

breakdown of votes
http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/house/1/46?ref=politics

[pcosmar]

Hmmm,
5 years of funding of an engine that does not exist.

nice work if you can get it.
:mad:

[madengr]

It's the alternate engine, but it's government, why buy one when you can get two for twice the price.

[bunklocoempire]

"Okay G.E. here's the deal, the engines are out but your green scheme is still on, Boeing needs a taste too right? They paid in just like you and fair is fair. Thanks sport!"

Bunkloco

[Matt Collins]

It's the alternate engine, but it's government, why buy one when you can get two for twice the price.

There is a short video Reason produced about this engine:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJz6PCmFeP8&feature=player_embedded

[Romantarchist]

Roll call for this bitch:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll046.xml

Interesting, so-called "dove" Dennis Kucinich votes No, so called "fiscal conservative" Jason Chaffetz votes No.

[Koz]

Roll call for this bitch:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll046.xml

Interesting, so-called "dove" Dennis Kucinich votes No, so called "fiscal conservative" Jason Chaffetz votes No.

GE must contribute to thier campaigns.

[EvilEngineer]

What annoys me was that tax payer dollars were funding the R&D of any engine developed by a private company. It doesn't take billions of dollars to develop anything. The majority of work on any project boils down to a handful of people, not an entire company... and not for billions of dollars.

If they thought their product was market viable they should absorb the R&D costs them selves and factor it into their already ridiculous sales price per jet. It's not like they were going to give us the engines for free anyway... despite paying the bill for their development.

[Matt Collins]

GE must contribute to thier campaigns.
www.OpenSecrets.org will tell you everything you need to know.

[Matt Collins]

Roll call for this bitch:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll046.xml





breakdown of votes
http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/house/1/46?ref=politics

Thank you for posting this. I can't even begin to tell you how much this has helped me beat up one of my Freshmen Congressmen who voted for this pork. I love RPF, it's a great depository for reference.

[Matt Collins]

Interesting, so-called "dove" Dennis Kucinich votes No, so called "fiscal conservative" Jason Chaffetz votes No.
Wasn't this thing being built in Ohio, Kucinich's home state?

[Pericles]

The whole F-35 program should go. The USAF still has superiority for the near term, and the F-35 generation of development can be skipped for the following generation after the F-35 to keep superiority over other development - assuming we are even financially solvent at that point.