House to push ban on F-14 parts sale
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An effort to bar the Pentagon from selling surplus parts for the F-14 fighter jet &#151; a plane now flown only by Iran &#151; will be introduced in the House.
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But it's not going to the president's desk yet, as the House still has to approve the changes. The current ban is scheduled to expire next week.
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WASHINGTON - NASA could be forced to delay its selection of a new contender for space station resupply contracts if the $516 billion domestic spending measure approved Dec. 17 by the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law.
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Congress has barred the Air Force from a $23B deal to lease and buy tankers from Boeing, and has raised the possibility that European rival Airbus SAS could compete to build the refueling planes.
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The UK should not agree to buy the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter unless the US shares technical information, MPs say.
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Republican lawmakers plan to reintroduce a bill to suspend the sale of RU-486, the abortion pill, and probe the process surrounding its approval now that three US deaths have been linked to the drug.
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The U.S. Air Force should reopen the  competition for a $15 billion helicopter contract awarded to  Boeing Co.  last year, the Government Accountability  Office said on Monday, backing a protest by Lockheed Martin  Corp.  and Sikorsky Aircraft.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office said it would rule on Monday on a $15 billion helicopter contract to Boeing Co.  that was protested by Lockheed Martin Corp.  and Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of United Technologies Corp. .
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A Democratic lawmaker says he will press on with legislation to permanently bar the Pentagon from selling leftover F-14 jet fighter parts despite the Defense Department's decision to pull them off the market while it considers national security concerns.
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The House passed a $646 billion defense bill Thursday that supports the Pentagon's ambitious weapons acquisition program but would place new restrictions on foreign-made technology the military could buy
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday pushed for tougher rules to stop American companies from buying illegally logged timber plundered from fragile forests around the world.
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House panel on Tuesday is expected to approve bill aimed at regulating how American companies operate in China and other foreign locales notorious for censorship.
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The House will cast a landmark vote Thursday when it decides whether to reverse U.S. policy and provide contraceptive grants to groups overseas that also provide abortions.
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On Friday, just days before the presidential election, the Bush administration agreed to consider a petition from a coalition of embattled textile manufacturers that would limit some imports from China.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday pushed for new rules to stop American companies from buying illegally logged timber plundered from fragile forests around the world.
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Britain should cancel a deal with the United States to purchase Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets if America does not share sensitive technology by the end of the year, a report by the parliamentary defence committee will say, the Financial Times reported.
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The Bush administration threatened  on Monday to veto a bill the U.S. House of Representatives is  expected to vote on this week that would extend a post-9/11  federal terrorism risk insurance program.