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Questions? >> that's right. because those are the hard, detailed policy work of senators and congressmen that unfortunately gets lost in the modern system. we only have one committee chairman that shows up, but -- but i think i would point out these guys who protect diplomatses, the gentlemen who was just testifying, these are pretty gruesome situations, where your friends and colleagues are killed, and when that happens, i know i worked in the government during the east africa bombings, and there were a lot of tough questions raised by the ambassador there. could we have done more? usually th...

It is based on mileage. >> wayne makes a good point about the privacy issue. transponder tracking my mile it is big brotherish. >> it is and john makes a good argument against it it is a important policy work. it is probably a bad idea. we don't need new tax. the mileage tax could hurt fuel efficient car it is the and questions of heavy congestion times and it is unworkable idea and why the

Billion last year. and china long since passed the u.s. as a major trading partner for africa. but there are criticisms, needless to say, of china's work in africa that they are investing without regard to human rights and in some ways support supported regimes that abuse human rights. some look at it as a model of development, where you can grow economically, c demockratizing. >> egypt, libya, others that dominate our news cycle, we think of them as mideast regimes and think of themselves of that way geopolitically. partly of the african continent. >> we're talking about subsaharan africa. an...

Until maybe somebody saw it, rise up at long the ranks. this scholarship was actually my claim to fame to get to where i was right now. >> but then you did the work, which is always the other piece. >> that's always the other half. exactly. >> yes, the opportunity, but then also you did work. i will give you a quick word on this. is there something that -- should we care as diners. should we care who is our executive chef? make our choices in part financially, based on these kind of issues and concerns? >> it's important to have a complicated idea who is the chef? on the one hand, the idea mak...

Resources. >> and to extract. >> and much of the criticism, most recently from jacob zuma has been that china's relations with africa are not different from european relations in the past. >> colonial. >> exactly. where they extract natural resources, oil, member rmineral, et cetera, and send in inexpensive manufactured goods. by seconding out natural resources, africans aren't able to gain the value of those resources by further developing them. >> turning oil into gas. >> or minerals into electronics goods. >> congressman meeks, perhaps u.s. business and u.s. policy can say, okay, yes, of co...