NASCAR and the Ultimate Fighting Championship will continue to see sponsorship money from the military as the House voted Wednesday to continue spending millions to sponsor sports in an effort to attract recruits.
On a vote of 216-202, the House rejected an amendment by Reps. Jack Kingston, R-GA., and Betty McCollum, D-Min., that would have cut $72.3 million from a $608 billion defense bill for sports sponsorship for fiscal 2013.
The measure would have cut the National Guard's $26.5 million sponsorship it spends on NASCAR's most popular driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., and INDYCar Series driver JR Hildebrand. The measure would have also cut money the Army uses on the National Hot Rod Association drag racing, the Marine Corps money to sponsor the Ultimate Fighting Championship and money used to sponsor bass fishing.
Kingston, R-GA., says the sponsorship money is ineffective at attracting recruits and makes no sense when the Army is shrinking from 570,000 to 490,000 and the Mar...
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