House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-Tex.) is not participating in the President Bush roundup to lasso a greater role in natural disaster response for the Pentagon. He flatly told the Associated Press, “I don’t want the federal government to take over disaster response.” His reason: “Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy.
The Pentagon is considering ditching the Air Force’s plan to buy the E-7 Wedgetail as it looks to outsource the airborne target-tracking mission to space, defense officials indicated this week.