House Considers Amendments to Budget-Cutting Plan
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The U.S. House will likely vote today on a bid to kill a backup engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, part of efforts by Republican lawmakers for deeper cuts in a $61 billion spending-reduction plan offered by their leaders.
The lawmakers, taking advantage of House Speaker John Boehner’s promises to allow a free-flowing debate, offered more than 400 amendments to the proposed budget measure. The amendments included spending cuts for foreign aid, farm subsidies and the Environmental Protection Agency. Another would bar the Pentagon from sponsoring Nascar races.