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On the recordDecember 15, 2009
I think the President finally saying, if you include funding again for the F-22, I am going to veto the bill, and that was very helpful.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Acknowledging the President's threat to veto funding for the F-22 as beneficial.

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