"We'll Have to Back Down"

Chairman John Murtha and the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee decided to keep funding more F-22s than President Obama and the Secretary of Defense requested.
However, even Chairman Murtha seems to indicate that if the President remains steadfast on his veto threat, more F-22s may not survive the process--here's a key paragraph from the article in The Hill online:
"Murtha, in a briefing with reporters, acknowledged the veto promise and indicated that if the presidential veto is looming over the spending bill and Congress does not have the votes to override the veto and support more F-22s, 'We'll back down on the damn thing.'"
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-defense-appropriators-ok-more-f-22-funds-2009-07-16.html