Via Rummel:

House kills Obama proposal to slash spending on armed airline pilot program

This is a program that permits commercial airline pilots to keep firearms in the cockpit and to use lethal force to defend against air piracy. The measure would have saved taxpayers $12.5 million, which doesn’t amount to much, but the president also recommended trimming the Federal Air Marshal Service by $36.5 million.

Yesterday, Obama’s proposed cuts were rejected by the House of Representatives, according to a press release from Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Fla.).

Of all the wasted bazillions of dollars spent to supposedly increase national security, THIS is one of the things he wanted to cut?