Mobile Press Register reports the Northrop-Grumman tanker deal won a big victory yesterday in Congress.
On a voice vote with virtually no debate Wednesday night, the House Rules Committee rejected perhaps the strongest attempt yet to keep the military from going forward with a recently awarded contract for aerial refueling tankers.
The amendment by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., would have barred the military from going to full production of the new plane until the U.S. Air Force certified that no more than 15 percent of the aircraft was foreign-made and that final assembly would take place in the United States.
But the Democratic-controlled panel briskly voted it down along what appeared to be party lines.