Jay Inslee: “And I hope we don't have to vote. I hope this protest is successful. But we will be looking at the right ways for…”

“And I hope we don't have to vote. I hope this protest is successful. But we will be looking at the right ways for Congress to exercise the will of the American people through the appropriation or authorization process. And the reason we intend to do that is that we think there were several mistakes made in this contract that essentially resulted in the Air Force selecting a larger, more expensive, and more operationally limited tanker, despite the fact that the domestic Boeing tanker met the requirements of the Air Force. So, we intend to go forward. We hope that our colleagues will join us in this effort. It is the right thing to do. It may take some time to do, we regret that, but America deserves this and deserves better than what happened here.”