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WASHINGTON -- A $447 billion defense spending authorization bill for fiscal year 2005 is headed to President Bush's desk after passage Saturday in the Senate and House of Representatives. The annual authorization bills set rules and general guidelines for defense spending, which is set each year in an accompanying appropriations bill.
Saturday's bill authorizes funding for Connecticut projects including the purchase of 59 new or overhauled Stratford-built Sikorsky H-60 family helicopters, and $4.1 billion for 22 new F/A- 22 Raptor fighters, each powered by two Middletown-built Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100.See the full content of this document
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Defense Spending Bill Bound for Bush
A pending appropriations bill calls for 24 F/A-22s at a total cost of $4.2 billion.
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