We welcome those who join us on heritage. Org. For all the guests inhouse, we that yourtesy check cell phones and other noisemaking devices have been muted as a courtesy to our speaker. Is a graduate of west point and serves as an adjunct or foster an adjunct professor at georgetown university. He serves on the board of trustees at the Marine Corps University foundation and the Advisory Board for the west point center of oil history, the of oral history. Help me in welcoming jim c arafano. James thank you. Pete is not only a great friend, but the definition of a great american. He graduated from princeton and harvard. Stars. Nze having put his life on the line, im not sure what possessed him to write this, but i think in dangerous and politically incorrect in the world in which we live, he deemed to write a book about who are we in who we should be, that seems quite oldfashioned and distasteful to address anymore, but those of us who have walked around the island of the potomac and wal
And Foreign Policy. Tel he is a graduate of west point, army,ear veteran of the serves as a professor at Georgetown University and has visiting professor at the National Defense university. He serves on the board of marine corps the University Foundation and the Advisory Boards for the west for oral history and operation renewed hope. Me in welcoming jim. [applause] you for coming to what should be an extraordinary event. Pete is not only a great friend but he defines the definition of american. Graduate of princeton and harvard. We wont hold that against him. He served in the u. S. Army. Right . Yes. Is another mark in his favor. Three combat tours, right . Three tours. Yes. Three tours. Combatnze stars, infantry man badge. Extraordinary, including now working with fox news. Put his life on the line im not really sure what possessed him to write this, but i think in the arena is both, you know, courageous, dangerous politicallyy incorrect. In the world in which you live, something tha
Speaker. Our interviewers are always welcome to send comments simply emailing speaker at heritage. Org and we will post for everyones future reference following todays program. Hosting our events james who serves as Vice President of our katherine and Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy. Graduate of west point and 25 year veteran of the army serves as adjunct professor at Georgetown University and served as professor at defense university. He serves on the board of trust years at the Marine Corps Foundation and Advisory Boards for the west point center of history and the Hamilton Society and operation renewed hope. Please join me in welcoming jim fano. Pete is not only a great friend but define it is definition of Great American graduated at presentation tone princeston and harvard. Two bronze stars. Working with fox news and so having having put his life on the line im not sure what possessed him to write this. In the world in which we live you write a book about
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, 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 each, to five minutes but in no event shall the debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. We are here in the capitol awaiting decision by the republicans in the house about the next step to deal with the fiscal crisis they have created. Its not really that complicated. The monday deadline approaches to continue the operation of the federal government with a shutdown looming because the republicans have refused to work on a bipartisan basis to resolve the funding issu
Your thoughts on not only what could happen if the government shuts down but your thoughts on if it should or not reviewed here is how you can reach out to us or not. Here is how you can reach out to us. cspanwj on twitter. Facebook. Com cspan. And you can send us email, journal cspan. Org. Newspapers highlight will happen over the next couple of days. From the front page of the post joining us to give us a sense of what could happen, the leadership editor of roll call. Thank you for joining us this morning. Lets start with the house. S speakere boehner has regarding the short term funding bill. Guest republicans are scheduled to meet at noon today. I think that is going to be a pretty important meeting. They have to decide as a behind ae, do they get specific alternative to send back to the senate . They have some choices here. They could just take up the senate bill, put it on the house floor, and it would probably pass with mostly democratic support. A lot of republicans would not v