An amendment to Defense Appropriations eliminated $1.75 Billion which had been slated to produce seven more F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft.. A new aircraft the F-35 will replace and supplement the F-22.

Voting against this modest cut were the following Democratic Senators:
Akaka, Baucus, Begich, Bingaman, Boxer, Byrd, Cantwell, Dodd, Feinstein, Inouye, Liberman, Murray, Shaheen, Tester, Udall, Warner, Webb.

20 Republican Senators voted in favor of the cut.