WSJ’s Washington Wire offers this update on a fight over whether to continue funding an alternate engine for the F35 joint strike fighter plane under development for the Pentagon. Wondering about the connection to the material covered on this blog? Near the end of my new draft on lobbying, I discuss the lobbying surrounding this issue, particularly the use of “revolving door” lobbyists and lobbyist bundlers on both sides of this fight—whether to fund an alternative engine that the President and Secretary of Defense have repeatedly said they don’t want, but that members of Congress have insisted upon continuing to fund. See also this WSJ editorial.
I’ll be periodically following this legislative fight on the blog.