Wyden Fights Wasteful F-22 Spending

July 21, 2009: Keeping his focus on protecting American troops and taxpayer funds, Senator Wyden spoke on the Senate floor against spending $1.75 billion to purchase seven more F-22 fighter jets that the Air Force has specifically said it does not want. The Pentagon has already purchased 187 of the jets. The speech was in advance of the senators vote today in support of the Levin-McCain F-22 amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill, S. 1390. The amendment was approved by a vote of 58 to 40.