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The Senate has voted 58-40 to cut off funding for the F-22. There’s still more to come on this, both in the Senate and in conference, but it’s promising news. The case against the F-22 was pretty rock solid, and if the funding cutoff had failed it would have meant that, basically, it’s impossible to cut anything in the Pentagon budget. Score one for common sense.
