Stimulating the Economy With the F-22

New Lobby Tack Stresses Plane’s Economic Benefits

• By George Cahlink
• CongressNow Staff
• Feb. 2, 2009, Midnight

With the economy in a nose dive, backers of the Air Force’s F-22 fighter plane have refined their lobbying strategy to argue that buying one of the costliest Pentagon aircraft ever built will give the country a lift.