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Panel OKs $636 billion military budget

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 5:45 a.m.

President Barack Obama's demands to kill off an expensive fighter jet and an overbudget and behind-schedule presidential helicopter drew a sympathetic hearing from a Senate panel Wednesday.

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