The Obama Administration threatened to veto the military funding bill if Congress insists on increasing the number of F-22s, and insists on building an alternative F-35 engine.
Secretary Gates had recommended bringing the F-22 Raptor program to an end, but the House voted by one vote, very early in the morning, to extend the program--despite the fact that not a single one of the 183 F-22s we already built has seen action in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
As for the F-35 alternative engine, unfortunately it appears that the Obama Administration's irritation was brought on by the fact that they cut a few of F-35s to pay for the alternative engine (which Secretary Gates also opposes).
This information came from a great summary by Peace Action's Paul Kawika Martin, who has been very busy on Capitol Hill this week, from an article in Congress Daily by Megan Scully (which unfortunately requires a subscription).
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