House Proceeding on Mar 5th, 2009 :: 0:20:05 to 0:21:05
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John J. Jr.Duncan: our liberty and the constitution. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. duncan: request i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. duncan: mr. speaker, in today's "congressional

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Speech By: John J. Jr.Duncan

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John J. Jr.Duncan: quarterly" it says the presidential helicopter program is n $6.5 billion over budget. this is double the pentagon's original estimate. ev president obama said this was, quote, an example of the procurement process gone amutt. it seems that the -- gone amuck. it seems that they can't complete any program without huge cost overruns. almost on every federal program we are given low-ball estimates on the cost on the front end

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John J. Jr.Duncan: and then costs just explodes. this has nothing to do with the current president but no president needs 28 helicopters. the current estimate is that these helicopters will cost at least $13 billion. but the way the pentagon is operating these days, these helicopters will end up costing several billion more