![]() Veto threats are already in the air, should a September House-Senate defense appropriations conference uphold the House vote. ![]() Whitten Peters, for example, said that killing the program would “be wrong for national security” and “put American service members at unnecessary and unacceptable risk.” Defense Secretary William Cohen wrote Congress that he was so “dismayed” by the House’s recent decision not to provide production funding for the aircraft in the year 2000 budget that he “could not accept” it. In the Air Force’s view, many of these individuals simply need a “better education” about the F-22’s capabilities. The Air Force is mounting an all-out lobbying campaign to rescue the F-22 Raptor from attacks by Representative Jerry Lewis (R-CA) and other critics in Congress. ![]()
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