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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13DEFENSE CUTS: "Not in My Backyard"
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- Congress keeps insisting on cuts in the defense budget, but
- one of the biggest obstacles is the schizophrenia on Capitol
- Hill: members who fight a rear-guard defense to prevent the
- Pentagon from cutting weapons made in their districts. Last
- week Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee,
- announced his opposition to the B-2 Stealth bomber. But other
- costly programs that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney wants to
- kill are being protected for pork-barrel rather than military
- reasons. Here are Cheney's multi-year savings estimates and the
- reasons they may not be realized:
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- Pentagon Projected Primary Leading the Fight
- to Hit List Savings Manufacturer Restore Some
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- M-1 tank $6.2 billion General Dynamics Sen. Glenn (OH)
- and (Mich. and Ohio) Sen. Levin
- (MI)
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- V-22 Osprey $6.5 billion Bell (Texas) Sen. Specter
- (PA) transport Boeing (Pa.) and Rep.
- Weldon (PA)
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- Apache $2.5 billion McDonnell- Sen. McCain
- and helicopter Douglas (Ariz.) Sen.
- DeConcini (AZ)
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- F-15 Air $3.3 billion McDonnell- Sen. Dixon (IL)
- and Force Fighter Douglas (Mo.) Rep.
- Gephardt (MO)
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