Levin: Senate Committee Sought 'Balance' In Tank Industrial Base Dispute

By Tony Bertuca / June 14, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has again waded into the tempestuous debate surrounding the Army's Abrams tank industrial base, saying today that lawmakers on his committee sought to strike a balance between funding what the service wants and what industry needs. "We want to be in a position where we can keep our options open," he said at a breakfast with reporters in Washington. "The House did something more than we did, but...

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