Jet plan is grounded
Congressional leaders have reversed course on a plan to buy four executive jets for the military, to be used to transport congressional officials on foreign trips. House leaders tried to purchase the jets, at a total cost of more than $300 million, by tacking the appropriation on to the Pentagon’s $636 billion spending bill. But the effort was scuttled after it attracted wide criticism.
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