Sen. DeMint: Labor Board Targeting Boeing

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a news conference Wednesday, said the National Labor Relations Board complaint against the Boeing Company building a facility in South Carolina is really about the company’s decision to move to a right to work state. (0:37)

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Sen. Shelby To Gates: New Pentagon Contract Shows Favoritism

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) says he and his fellow Alabama delegates sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates attempting to demonstrate how a new Request for Proposal (RFP) for a KC-X aerial refueling tanker is unfairly leaning in favor of the manufacturer Boeing. (0:32)
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DoD spokesman: Tanker fleet is ancient

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell speaks about the Government Accountability Office report that sided with a protest lodged by Boeing over a government contract for a refueling tanker given to a competitor. Morrell says that the process of this procurement has gone on seven years too long and that the GAO report is holding up the process even further. (0:28)
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Coalition: U.S. military should not depend on EU companies

George Landrith of Frontiers of Freedom, speaking for a coalition of groups opposed to a recent Air Force contract to the European-based company EADS, asks why the United States should trust military contracts to companies subsidized by European nations "frequently at odds with the United States." (0:31)
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McCain's emphasis on competition led to selection of the "wrong aircraft"

Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, who was also a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under Reagan, says that a letter sent from John McCain to Robert Gates may have played a role in the selection of one defense contractor over another for a refueling tanker contract. (0:29)
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