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conversation we will take your calls, tweets and facebook questions. watch in depth whip cornyn west and robert george live today from noon to 3 p.m. eastern on booktv on c-span2. welcome to kansas city, missouri, on booktv locator on eastern banks banks of the missouri river this one small frontier town went on to establish itself help of a booming livestock and railroad industry. as the city grew immigrants flocked to find work. without of our spectrum cable partners for the next hour and 15 as well as for cities history and literary community. .. we say it the oldest continual retail operation west of the economy be in the whole world. but it s kind of our community center, one of the corner neighborhood grocery stores where people are extending credit in the neighborhood come and people came here for generations and it s now the same thing, people come here to gossip and compared notes and help and kids and all those things come as so it s like a small town crossroads ....
michael pillsbury director of the hutson institute s center on chinese strategy argues that china has a secret plan to supplant the u.s. as the world s largest superpower by 2049. he makes the case in his book, the hundred-year marathon . he recently talked about his book at the hutson institute in washington d.c.. this is an our and a half. good afternoon. i hope all of you can hear me. i am husain haqqani the director for south and central asia here at the hudson institute and it s a pleasure for me today to host this discussion on the hundred-year marathon, the book by michael pillsbury who is now a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy here at the hudson institute. he s a distinguished defense policy adviser former high-ranking government. he served under the reagan and george h.w. bush administrations. the book which i commend to everyone in the audience preferably properly bought in hardcover, paid for. actually reveals how the people s peoples rep ....
simple world to american foreign policy since america s preeminence after the second world war and based on a very simple binary. who can we bomb? who can retake out to lunch? so china is a unique country because they went from being a country that belonged on the two bomb list to take out to lunch list. and it has become a lunch so therefore it has become far more interesting. before we get started with michael s comment and i am question-and-answer with him and then open it to questions and answers from all of you we have a message of some congressmen randy foltz, chairman of the china caucus in the house of representatives dared he could not join us in person, but his message to life in his comments will be read out by my colleague, carolyn stewart. as secretary of the hudson and two. [inaudible] it s a pleasure to have an opportunity to share brief thought on the hundred-year marathon and the contributions of dr. michael pillsbury to the internment is the impo ....
the secretary: i am directed by the president of the united states to deliver to the house of representatives a message in writing. 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 o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 1:50 p.m. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from north carolina, ms. foxx, for five minutes. thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to talk about h.r. 899, the unfunded mandates information and transparency act, which will be considered by the house later this week. i realize, mr. speaker, that this name doesn t come trippingly off the tongue, but it is an important piece of legislation. every year ....