The House and Senate Appropriations committees have postponed making a decision on part of a reprogramming request that the Air Force submitted in late June, including funding that would have gone to the service's UH-1N helicopter fleet and funding that would have been moved away from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. In an Aug. 1 letter to Defense Department comptroller Robert Hale, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and Vice Chairman Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) say that...
