LIMA, Ohio (AP) — U.S. Senate and House negotiators areplanning to provide as much as $90 million
to keep the production linerunning at an Ohio tank manufacturing plant.The money for theJoint Systems
Manufacturing Center is included in the defense bill,which could get congressional approval as early as this
week. It meansAbrams tanks will continue to roll off the line at the nation’s onlytank manufacturing plant,
in Lima (LY’-mah), about 80 miles south ofToledo.The money for the tank plant will come against the wishesof
the Obama administration, which for the past two years has askedCongress not to spend any money to refurbish
the M1A1 Abrams battletank.Ohio senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman supported keeping the plant
operating.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.LIMA, Ohio (AP) — U.S. Senate and House negotiators areplanning to
provide as much as $90 million to keep the production linerunning at an Ohio tank manufacturing plant.The
money for theJoint Systems Manufacturing Center is included in the defense bill,which could get
congressional approval as early as this week. It meansAbrams tanks will continue to roll off the line at the
nation’s onlytank manufacturing plant, in Lima (LY’-mah), about 80 miles south ofToledo.The money for the
tank plant will come against the wishesof the Obama administration, which for the past two years has
askedCongress not to spend any money to refurbish the M1A1 Abrams battletank.Ohio senators Sherrod Brown and
Rob Portman supported keeping the plant operating.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rightsreserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.