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To: longnshort who wrote (22110)	8/24/2007 6:13:18 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) of 71588

"Congress: For Plane That Won't Fly, $63 Mil Is Enough Justin Rood Reports: Millions of dollars later, Congress has effectively killed a military plane program the Pentagon repeatedly rejected, and which never had a successful flight. The $63 million Congress poured into the DP2 program over 20 years was not requested by the Department of Defense. Instead, it was mandated through obscure provisions in bills known as "earmarks." Most of those earmarks for the DP2 were inserted by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., in whose district the plane was designed and built, in prototype. The 2008 defense spending bill does not include an earmark for the DP2. Hunter had wanted to direct $6 million toward the plane's development. Hunter said he still supported the project. "One-third of our present vertical takeoff aircraft have crashed," he said by phone from Texas, where he was campaigning for president. "Continued research and development of the DP2 is warranted." The DP2 project was the subject of an ABC News investigation in June and a calamitous congressional hearing." blogs.abcnews.com

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