U.S. House Presses to Complete Work on Budget-Cutting Measure
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The U.S. House could complete work as soon as today on a bill to cut the federal budget by at least $61 billion as lawmakers work their way through hundreds of proposed amendments to the plan.
The chamber voted yesterday, 233-198, to kill an alternative engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, part of a push by lawmakers to seek even deeper cuts in spending. Backers of the program included House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican.