The President doesn't want it,{OK who listens to the President, but the Secretary of Defense doesn't want it[He's Republican, but still} same with the Defense department, and the one who would use it, the Air force, yet GE is still going for it.
Even the House, controlled by the Republicans , are saying no and their leader in the house , Speaker of, is for it because GE plants are big in his State and area, yet they told their leader , NO .
We are re trying to save money here but does that stop GE and the numerous lobbyist and so many former Congressional on their payroll as Lobbyist now, absolutely not.{sheesh}
This is a $3 Billion dollar expenditure no one wants , oop's, not true, the speaker, and GE want it, and we are arguing here about NPR funding by the Government.
Safe help me out here, OK , you too Krickett, Ed, P.I, Henry, Palm...anyone , explain to me, please???
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a never-say-die approach, General Electrics CEO Jeffrey Immelt has vowed to continue to fight for a high-priced military jet engine contract that President Obama, the Pentagon, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate have all said they don't want.
GE will continue to press our case in the U.S. Senate and elsewhere," Immelt wrote in a note to aviation workers after the recent House vote to eliminate funding for the company's controversial jet engine. The defeat in the House would not, he said, halt development of the Joint Strike Fighter engine, intended as an alternate for one already built for the futuristic fighter by rival firm Pratt & Whitney.
General Electric has already shelled out millions in relentless pursuit of the engine contract, and its vow to fight on is the latest evidence of the company's aggressive strategy for Washington influence. It is an approach that has helped GE become the nation's top corporate spender on lobbying, spending more than $238 million on lobbyists over the past 12 years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics -- money that has helped GE gain access to the corridors of power and some of the most remote crevices of the governing process.
"It shows what deep lobbying is all about in Washington," said Ellen Miller, a founder of the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, which monitors the influence industry. "It's lobbying members of Congress, it's being friendly to the administration, it's being all over the agencies."
While the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Medical Association have spent more on lobbying over the past decade, GE sits high atop the list of corporate spenders. AT&T, the nearest competitor, spent $162 million, while Northrop Grumman and Exxon Mobil spent just over $150 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics
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