Senate Effort To Force F-16 Sale Fizzling

A Texas senator’s effort to force the Obama administration to sell F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan is fading. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) sought to add an amendment to the defense authorization bill for fiscal 2012 mandating the sale of at least 66 F-16s to the island nation. But a vote on the bill is...

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