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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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McCain Wins: New Marine One Demo Copter Officially Killed

By Marc Ambinder

Jun 2 2009, 5:00 PM ET Comment

Via the Navy, word that the contract for the next generation of Marine O... hey, a white top just flew by my window in the Watergate.... just this now, as I was writing about them. Seriously. Weird. Ok.  Where was I?  Ah yes. The contract for the VH-71 copter to be built by Lockheed Martin has been terminated. For now, President Obama will have to rely on his older fleet of Sikorsky VH-3D and VH-60Ns. The Pentagon had cut funding for the replacement fleet, but until now, funding continued for the prototype.  The trusty 20-year-old Nighthawks will just have to do...  Sen. John McCain has been the leading Congressional voice against the program, which was more than 50% overbudget. 

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