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Bennet Votes Against $1.75 billion in Government Waste

By Bennet for Colorado - Jul 22nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm EDT

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Washington, DC -- Michael Bennet took a strong stand against wasteful government spending yesterday by voting for an amendment offered by Senators John McCain and Carl Levin to eliminate $1.75 billion of funding for the F-22 Raptor fighter jet.

Michael Bennet voted to eliminate the program at the request of the Department of Defense. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates urged that the program is wasteful and the funding should be redirected to other, more useful programs. He said lawmakers need to abandon the Cold War mentality of military spending.

Bennet agreed with Gates, "We should be listening when the Air Force tells us not to put any more money into this program. These planes were not used in Iraq or Afghanistan and our military leaders are telling us they don't want the funding. It is only common sense that we redirect the money to weapons and equipment that our troops can actually use to keep our country safe."

President Barack Obama told lawmakers he would veto the military spending bill if the $1.75 billion to purchase more F-22 fighter jets was not eliminated.

"To continue to procure additional F-22s would be to waste valuable resources that should be more usefully employed to provide our troops with weapons that they actually do need," President Obama wrote.

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