After voting 58-40 to remove funding for additional F-22 fighter jets from the annual defense authorization bill, the Senate is turning its attention to the nation's other jet fighter program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
A new law will bring an end to a tax loophole that allowed some federal contractors to evade federal taxes even while technically following the law. Part of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008, signed into law on Tuesday by President Bush, requires forei...