UPDATE 1-Congress will fund 20 more F-22s-Rep Abercrombie

* Key lawmaker backs more jets in bridging strategy

* Says lobbying not a factor

* Faults Pentagon riding "roughshod" over Congress (Adds quotes, background)

By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Congress will fund at least 20 more Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) F-22 fighter jets despite Obama administration plans to cap production at 187, the chairman of a House of Representatives panel with Air Force oversight responsibilities said on Thursday.

"You've got to do 20 more of these" as a bridging strategy while the administration mulls longer-range strategic issues, said Rep. Neil Abercrombie, a Hawaii Democrat who heads the House Air-Land subcommittee. He made the remarks to a group of reporters.

On Wednesday, the House Armed Services Committee voted narrowly to add $369 million in funding to keep the F-22 production alive.

In April, the Obama administration announced it would order only four more of the radar-evading fighters, halting production at 187. Some industry officials are urging Congress to lift an export ban on the F-22 to keep the production line running until the new F-35 fighter production begins to ramp up in 2014.

Boeing Co (BA.N) is a key F-22 subcontractor. Abercrombie said corporate lobbying had not been a factor. He predicted there would be bipartisan support even though he himself had voted against funding additional F-22s in the fiscal 2010 budget, pending identification of where the money would come from to pay for them.

"This is a work in progress," he said, adding that the Pentagon had erred in riding "roughshod" over a congressional consensus on buying 20 more to keep Lockheed's line open while studying longer-term military requirements. (Reporting by Jim Wolf; Editing by Maureen Bavdek)