From Time.com
As Mark Thompson noted yesterday, the House today voted to strip funding for the the second engine of F-35 aircraft – an engine the Pentagon repeatedly said it doesn't need but members who had parochial stakes in manufacturing the plane -- in Ohio and Massachusetts -- have protected the engine in the past. Republican Senators Brown and Rob Portman of Ohio have the most to lose if the engine is cut. In response to the House cut, Portman reiterated his support for the engine. ...