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December

F-35: American Engine-uity At Its Best!
Line of Departure - December 22, 2010

Lieberman Statement On Alternate Engine
News Release: Senator Joseph Lieberman - December 21, 2010

Editorial: Pork Barons' Last Gasp
The Orange County Register - December 16, 2010

Earmarkers Feast On Pork One Last Time Before Diet
The Associated Press - December 15, 2010

Will Congress Kill The F-35?
The Washington Examiner - December 8, 2010

Stop Engine Pet Project That Military Does Not Want
Freedom Works - December 8, 2010

Larson Pushes for DOD "Flexibility" When It Comes To The Alternate Engine
The Connecticut Mirror - December 7, 2010

Alternative-Engine Program Appears Headed for a Senate Floor Fight (Subscription Required)
CQ - December 7, 2010

Congress Basking In Its Hypocrisy
Waynesburg Observer-Reporter - December 3, 2010

Pratt & Whitney Sets 'Dramatic' Cost Reduction Plan for F-35 Engine
Flight International - December 2, 2010

November

Venlet Denies F136 Support
DoD Buzz - November 29, 2010

Viewpoint: Extra Engine For F-35 Makes No Sense
Aviation Week - November 26, 2010

Letter: Extra engine not needed
The Rockford Register Star - November 25, 2010

GE Wants Money for Nothing
The Boston Globe - November 21, 2010

Cut A Hole in The Defense Doughnut
The Washington Times - November 18, 2010

F-35’s Extra Engine Should Be First To Go
The Hill - November 17, 2010

F136 Phony Competition, LCS Good
DoD Buzz - November 16, 2010

GOP Civil War on Defense
Politico - November 15, 2010

Larson Fights for Military Contract
WTNH.com - November 12, 2010

GOP House takeover is bad news for UTC in engine fight
The Connecticut Mirror - November 12, 2010

Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart Discuss the “Wasteful F-35 Second Engine”
The Rachel Maddow Show - November 11, 2010

Joint Strike Fighter Needs Only One Engine
The Washington Times - November 10, 2010

New Push to Ban Earmarks in Senate
The Wall Street Journal - November 9, 2010

Extra Engine For New Fighter Is Early Test Of Whether Republicans Are Serious About Deficit Reduction
The Lexington Institute - November 3, 2010

October

JSF Engine Contenders Pass Test Milestones
Aviation Week - October 29, 2010

Pork for Me, Scraps for You, Tragedy for All
Bloomberg - October 26, 2010

Pratt says F-135 Excels in STOVL Qualification Test 
Air Force Magazine - October 20, 2010

Pratt Completes F135 Overtemp And Durability Tests
Aviation Week - October 19, 2010

P&W Details Success with F135 Engine STOVL Tests
Flight Global - October 19, 2010

Langevin Wastes Billions on Engine Pentagon Rejected (Opinion, Mark Zaccaria) (PW)
Providence Journal (RI) - October 15, 2010

A Friendly Warning to House Republican Leadership
Red State - October 8, 2010

Mark Kirk Debates Alexi Giannoulias
Meet the Press - Oct. 10, 2010

Conservatives Should Support Defense Spending Cuts
The Daily Caller - October 7, 2010

Battle Over GE Engine Subsidy Reaches Climax
Forbes Blog - October 5, 2010

September

Gates is Right About Defense Efficiency
The Hill - September 29, 2010

Obama Determined to End 2nd F-35 Engine
Reuters - September 21, 2010

McCain Sees Defeat of GE-Rolls Engine This Year
Reuters - September 20, 2010

Obama Serious About Ending 2nd F-35 Engine-Gibbs
Reuters - September 20, 2010

Congress Drops Funding For Controversial Jet Engine
ABC News - September 14, 2010

Gates Details $100 Billion in Defense Cuts
The Washington Post - September 15, 2010

Key Senators Eye Cut to JSF Order In 2011
Aviation Week - September 15, 2010

Senate Appropriators Reduce Funding for Lockheed's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
The Hill - September 14, 2010

Gates Is Right: An Extra Engine For F-35 Wastes Money
The Lexington Institute - September 1, 2010

August

Gates Hits Mark on Fiscal Restraint Editorial Board
San Antonio Express-News - August 18, 2010

P&W Parries GE's F-35 Thrust Claims
Defense News - August 27, 2010

Pratt Raises Stakes In JSF Engine Battle
Aviation Week - August 27, 2010

JSF STOVL Engine Testing -- Seen Up Close
Aviation Week - August 27, 2010

Defense Cuts Don't Mean a Weak Military
USA Today - August 27, 2010

Defense Procurement Politics: F-35 Backup Boondoggle
The New Atlanticist - August 9, 2010

No, Again, to F-35 Alt-Engine: Schwartz
Defense News - August 4, 2010

Competition for Extra Engine Has Run Its Course
Palm Beach Post - August 3, 2010

July

Self-Styled Budget Hawk Mike Pence Defends Spending $560 Million On Unnecessary Weapons Program
Think Progress - July 31, 2010

QDR Panel Dodges F136 Support
DoD Buzz - July 30, 2010

FLASHBACK: Boehner Said That Wasteful Pentagon Spending ‘All Ought To Be Eliminated’
Center for American Progress - July 27, 2010

Another $450 Million For Fighter Engine The Military Doesn't Want
Congress Okays More Cash For Jet Engine That May Have Already Cost $3 Billion
ABC News - July 28, 2010

GE Finds Itself on Wrong Side of Obama's Defense Agenda
The Washington Post - July 27, 2010

Political Combat Over A Fighter Jet's Engine
National Public Radio - July 27, 2010

Panel Seen Approving F-35 Engine, Risking Veto
The New York Times - July 27, 2010

Panel Seen Approving F-35 Engine, Risking Veto
The New York Times - July 27, 2010

Pentagon Faces Intensifying Pressures to Trim Budget
The New York Times - July 23, 2010

Joint Strike Fighter's GE Jet Engine: We Can't Afford It
The Los Angeles Times - July 22, 2010

Boeing Ally Not Expected to Seek Funds for More C-17s
Congress Daily - July 21, 2010

Alternate Engine Would Be Waste of Money
The Richmond Times Dispatch - July 20, 2010

The Great Engine War Is Over
DoDBuzz.com - July 15, 2010

General Electric Wants Its Engine, Too!
The Atlantic - July 13, 2010

Pratt and GE Escalate Alternate Engine Battle in Congress
The Connecticut Mirror - July 14, 2010

The New Bridge To Nowhere?
Politico: Playbook - July 13, 2010

June

Execs Visit Pratt & Whitney Plant to Drum Up Support for Campaign
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - June 30, 2010

Stop Wasting Our Money
Fort Dodge (Iowa) Messenger - June 30, 2010

What Others Say: Argument for Second Fighter Engine Won't Fly
The Salem News - June 23, 2010

Cut Off Funding For Plane Engine
The Wheeling Intelligencer/News Register - June 23, 2010

Frank’s Mixed Views on F-35 Show Difficulty of Cutting Pork
The Boston Globe - June 22, 2010

GE Challenges Gates On F136 Performance
Aviation Week - June 21, 2010

Gates: Spending Issue Could Cause Veto of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Bill
CNN - June 20, 2010

Editorial: Brown's 'Tough Choices' On Spending
Dedham Transcript - June 20, 2010

General Electric Chastises Gates Over Senate F-35 Testimony
Congress Daily/Government Executive - June 18, 2010

Gates Says GE-Rolls Royce F-35 Engine Falls Short
Reuters - June 16, 2010

Gates Reiterates Veto Threat on Defense Authorization Bill
CQ Politics - June 16, 2010

A Defense Dilemma
The Chicago Tribune - June 10, 2010

We Can't Afford the F-35 Engine
The Washington Post - June 14, 2010

Editorial: Fiscal Responsibility Goes Out the Window
The Roanoke Times - June 13, 2010

F-35 Engine War Costly, Wasteful
The Hartford Courant - June 13, 2010

A Lot Of Defense Spending Is Earmarking In Disguise
Atlanta Journal Constitution - June 7, 2010

CRS: Alt-Engine Could Reduce F-35 Buy
Defense News - June 3, 2010

Editorial:  Cut Out Defense Pork
Orlando Sentinel - June 3, 2010

Alternative engine for F-35 Fighter Jet’s Example of Wasteful Spending
Sun Sentinel - June 3, 2010

Editorial: Keep Fighting Wasteful Spending
Sheboygan Press - June 4, 2010

GOP Votes for Spending Boondoggle
CNN.com - June 4, 2010

Lockheed Wary Of F-35 Engine Battle Impact
Aviation Week - June 3, 2010

Open Letter to GE: Americans Have Bigger Issues to Worry About Than Hiking Your Jet Engine Sales
Forbes - June 2, 2010

The Trillion-Dollar Question
The Huffington Post - June 1, 2010

Spare us the Spare Engines
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - June 1, 2010

May

Don't Fund F-35 Second Engine
Scranton Times-Tribune - May 31, 2010

Why Did Congress Just Approve Unwanted $485 Million Jet Engine
The Atlantic - May 29, 2010

Obama Vows Veto of Any Bill to Fund Second F-35 Engine
Reuters - May 28

OMB Issues Veto Threat Over F-35 Engine
The Hill - May 27, 2010

Time to ground the alternate engine, Second power plant is costly, unnecessary
The Washington Times - May 27, 2010

Jet Engine Project Divides Lawmakers
The Wall Street Journal - May 27, 2010

Fighter Engine War Heats Up
Reuters - May 26, 2010

P&W: Cost For Next Batch of F-35 Engines 10% Less
Defense News - May 26, 2010

Gates on Extra F-35 Engine: Don’t Want, Won’t Buy
CQ Politics - May 26, 2010

Defense Secretary Gates's War of Necessity Against Wasteful Spending
The Washington Post - May 26, 2010

Why Two Jets Are Not Better Than One
Taxpayers for Common Sense - May 26, 2010

Congress’s Version of the $640 Toilet Seat
The Boston Globe - May 26, 2010

Unnecessary Extra Fighter Engine: $3 Billion Defense Spending Waste
The Hill - May 25, 2010

2 U.S. Reps Want to Strip F-35 Alt-engine Funds
John T. Bennett - May 25, 2010

Ground Funding for Jet Engine
Wichita Eagle (KS) - May 25, 2010

U.S. House Readies for Battle Over Fighter Engine
Reuters - May 24, 2010

Pork With Wings: A Second Engine for Texas-made Fighters is Costly Eead Weight
Houston Chronicle - May 24, 2010

A $3 Billion Government Boondoggle?
ABC News - May 21, 2010

Robert Gates Aims to Kill F-35 Jet Engine
Politico - May 20, 2010

Congress May Override Efforts by Secretary Gates to Cut Defense Spending
The Washington Post - May 17, 2010

Lockheed Martin F-35 Fighters Arrive Together At Edwards AFB
Lockheed Martin - May 17, 2010

“The gusher has been turned off …”
Bloomberg TV segment - May 14, 2010
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Multiple Suppliers for F-35 Engines Would Be Wasteful
Arizona Capitol Times - May 14, 2010

Gates Steps Up Campaign to Slash Defense Waste
The Associated Press - May 8, 2010

Carter: No Case for 2nd JSF Engine
Defense News - May 4, 2010

Costly Earmark Undercuts Fighter (Opinion, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - May 4, 2010