"REP. ABERCROMBIE: Ms. Payton, you are right on the edge of getting into the Blues Brothers.Six months later, Abercrombie's hunch proved right on the mark. The defense appropriations conference report approved by the House last week explains that the twin-engined C-27J costs much less than a four-engined C-130J after all. Here's the language:
MS. PAYTON: Sorry sir, I don't mean to be there. I --
REP. ABERCROMBIE: That's when -- when Jake says, Bill, but you lied to us about the band. They lied to me when I was in prison about the band. You haven't kept the band together. He goes, I never lied to you. I bullshitted you a little bit, but I never lied to you."
"The report (H. Rept. 110-652) accompanying the House bill noted that, at the time of the report, the Air Force was reporting a unit cost for JCA of $60.7 million, and was reporting a unit cost for C-130J aircraft of $56.7 million.
After further discussion with the Air Force acquisition officials and clarification of terminology, we believe that a fairer, apples-to-apples comparison of such costs would raise the comparable average procurement unit cost for a C-130J to $84.2 million, in terms of fiscal year 2007 dollars."
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