Lawmakers reject requests on JFK carrier, DD(X)

Despite Bush Administration requests, lawmakers negotiating the $82 billion supplemental spending measure decided to prevent the U.S. Navy from retiring the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier and competing the DD(X) destroyer program. The negotiators, led by top House and Senate appropriations...

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