the war on terror, the cost according to james bovard is $4 trillion.king your comments and questions. (202)-748-8000 for democrats. republicans, (202)-748-8001. independent, (202)-748-8002. start dialing in. also, one of the other big price tags is the fbi, $30 million. where has that many gone? guest: the fbi has a huge increase in the budget, even fbi was a major reason the hijacking succeeded in 9/11. they slept this under the rug after 9/11, but the cia and fbi failed massively as far as keeping track of the people that apparently carried out the 9/11 attacks. there were so many warning signs, but the fed were simply incompetent. their incompetence, there were huge increases in the budget. one thing the fbi has done has massively engaged in trapping and setting of people all over the country. there are some people who are actually dangerous, but what the fbi has done is persuade them to kind of do some babble about the number of times the fbi has given them fake things and then bust them, it works out great for the fbi, two or three days, great hea

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. >> we are talking about james bovard's piece in "reason" magazine, the recent edition of it. the title, "the high price of security theater: the $4 trillion war on terror, where did the money go." martina, north andover, massachusetts. republican. you're next. >> caller: yes. i'm actually independent. but i'm speaking -- i'd like to speak to the issue of the sale of arms being big business, big profit. it ties into the issue of war, the fear-based culture that we live in. president obama's visit to vietnam lifting the arms embargo for sale of arms. my question would be why are we going around the world selling arms, adding to the mayhem, big sale, big arms sales, big bucks, big mayhem. on a most basic level when a child hits a friend with a bat do we give them another bat? no, we take the bat away. and i think james is a voice of reason. and i think many of us need to get on board with practicalities, common sense. why are we arming up all of these people, all of these whatever you want to call them, and wondering about what happens after the fact. >> thanks for your comment.

james bovard, find the piece on reason.com. like we said, house will gavel in. we will bring you up to their chamber with live coverage on c-span. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. may 25, 2016. i hereby appoint the honorable keith j. rothfus to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2016, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate . the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the