you are on with megan scully. caller: i spent 22 years in the army, most of that as a warrant maintenance officer. as far as getting parts for aircraft, for the average mechanic it is a simple process. he fills out a piece of paper, takes it over to the parts room, and the guy looks in a book, the parts manual, and the parts ordered. it is irregardless of the cost because the military cannot just run out on the street and buy a part. it goes pretty well the same way for buying a box of depends. they have to go to the country store, by rules and regulations. they cannot just always rundown aircraft or the local park place and procure a part. it is all governed. the people who buy the parts have no leverage over what it costs. host: puc anyways, in your experience, where things could be done better? -- did you see any ways? caller: that would have to come from higher up. they are working at fort hood, or any place like that, they did not get into the cost of items. the only way a company or commander gets into that

and winni e stachelberg and wrap up with megan scully. she will be here to talk to us about the pentagon hasn't audited it's books and "over paying billions for items it doesn't need." and a brief reminder on c-span today, starting at 11:00 a.m. and running until 4:00 p.m.. you will see the 150th commemoratation of bull run. that's it for this edition of "washington journal". see you tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. : morning. i realize that anything that we say right now could be leaked. but there is a lot of talk in washington about revenue and how may be in the end it could have revenue, but not right away. there could be revenue six months from now. you could direct a committee to have revenue down the road. do you want immediate revenue increases? or will you settle down the road? >> i think that what the democratic caucus has been focused on its balance. balance would include cuts in revenues. i think that every economist that has had an opportunity to take a look at the debt problem recognizes that that is what we have to hav

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host: megan scully with "national journal." and the piece is called "the pentagon premium." thank you for joining us. we will be back at 7:00 a.m. we go to the floor of the house of representatives. continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: we begin another week in political wonderland. the dow falls 100 points at the opening bell. what is it that we should do? well, if we had the knowledge and problem solving skills of college sophomore economic students or women in a church study group, before the week is out we would establish some simple steps. first, we would understand that in a divided government with real economic challenges no one group is allowed especially those representing a minority of opinion to have their way entirely. we would begin by repealing the silly debt ceiling limitation. a law that was enacted in 1917 when the united states was about to embark upon a borrowing binge in world war i. it was used to look like we were more fiscally responsible and it is a charade we have