From Cheers to Groans

June 20, 2008

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The emotions ran the gamut from glee to gloom when the Government Accountability Office announced it hadupheld Boeing’s protest over the award of the Air Force KC-X tanker program to Northrop Grumman-EADS. We offer here a collection of comments from lawmakers on both sides of the issue.

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