Ileana roslehtinen to act as speaker pro tempore on this day, signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. 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 the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones madam chairman, thank you very much. Im on the nor again today to talk about on the floor again today to talk about afghanistan, the absolute waste of life and money. A lot of people dont realize this, but if you go back to 2001, the war in iraq and afghanistan, we have spent over 1. 5 trillion which averages out to about 11. 2