he bravely gave hilife to try to improve lives of others. and all of our thoughts are with his family and friends. and mr. speaker, as we approach christmas our thoughts are also with all of our troops serving so bravely in afghanistan and elsewhere. many will be spending christmas away from their families and friends to ensure a peaceful christmas for us. and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude. mr. speaker, in this, the last prime is a questions of the year, let me remind the prime minister what he had to say in his new year message of 2011. he said this, uppermost in my minds we enter the new year is jobs. in light of today's unemployment fires can be explained what has gone wrong? >> first of all let me join the right honorable joe been in his fitting tribute and right trigger to our forces at christmastime serving in afghanistan but also serving in other parts of the world at one of the things that most like you in this job is that they are e best of the best. they are brave, courageous, dedicated and their families give up a huge amou

remember the story of john lewis who was on the freedom line, and alabama and was beaten within an f hilifeat i believe was in 1961. >> the white citizens who were witnesses to these kinds of incidents, there had to be people of good heart who would want to -- who were horrified by it, what presented that in these communities from coming forward and insisting that some justice be done? >> in many cases -- i cannot say many. let me not begin counting here. but we uncover cases in which white citizens fought the system. so in one case, out of birmingham, a man who was a sheriff, it was on his day off and you go to the barbershop and gets out of the barbershop and just spending time with his buddies in a barbershop and a black area in birmingham. and he is shot down by a police officer on the street. the officer tells the story about how he was attacked by the victim and the victim was drunk etc.. and so on. and the couple with whom he works, first of all the doctor did an autopsy establishing that the shooting took place that refuted the -- took place in a way that refuted the story, and he s

he was very shy all hilife, and he managed to be folded into a circle of friends in princeton and eyere only friend he had his whole life, very important to him. he felt challenged in a very good way by princeton. he got to be in the oratory and debate societies and he did very well at those things. that was quite a happy time for him. as a boy, there is a huge psychological literature about wilson, and i have read it, but i have the sense that it just reduced him to oedipal tangles that i did not feel like i could deal with on the strength of my own knowledge of the theory. some people have said his stubbornness in later life was a reaction to his father's strictness, and they can point to a story where his father made him revise a little thing he wrote a bunch of times. the divisions are that wilson resented this but he was a good boy and put up with it. you read every mention in his letters of his father, they are worshipful. he never had an unkind word about his father. a presbyterian minister. brian: this is a letter to mary. just between you and me, i have not the least idea of

that is fm the hilif you wanto read it.omay age withhose ntiments,speciay ncerni what nstitutes a bailou you can call on e line you can postn soci media u can xt us at 02) 748-80. onof tho critics on thshow yestday, senatbankin coittee member and north carolina - sou carolina public timcott on the past actions of the biden administration concerning silicon valley bank and signature bank. [video] >> the regulators seem to have been asleep at the wheel without any question. i would say we heard recently they will have the greatest form of corporate cronyism we have seen in a long time. they will ensure all the deposits, even the ones over the $250,000 limit. that means the most sophisticated investors are now going have the insulation of the federa government. that is problematic. it sends a negative statement to the marketplace, and it is something we will have to wrestle within the coming days as we delve into what actually happened. we know it goes right back to where we started this conversation on the economy. the high i

when the texas medical center us ove100 units of blood, an hour-long valiant attempt to save hilife, his fellow police officers stood in lin and raised enough blood to replace all of the bloodhat was used to try to save him. the captain, his supervisor, said he was the ki of officer who didn't say a lot but his fellow officers knew they could always cou on him to be there. mr. speaker, we are all able to go about our everyday lives because of officers like manny. we should never take their sacrifice for grante he was a grave and courageous peace officer every day the o who is wear the badge place the lives between us and the lawless. officer manny was one of those lawmen. he's one of houston's finest. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro mpore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> to address the chamber for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objectio the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i came to thi congress a year ago as a small business man tsolve problems. and one of the critical