mr. leonard is as american as jazz. instead of writing lawrence lived in malanapan. mr. onard writes, lawrence gantz, living up, and he opens quotes, we are not in the imperfect tense. or the present. or in historic present. we are in a kind of marijuana tense. [laughter] raft [laughter] >> storm saying. creamy wandering week verbed. seems to open up a lag in time through which mr. leonard easily slides. gaining entry to his players' hidden minds. he doesn't just show you what these people say and do. he shows you how they breathe. now, all his characters are terrible and pitiable and sometimes downright endearing and always very funny, but they're junk souls. set against these seedy blunderers in every novel, and the one i want to concentrate on is r aye ylin gibb bonds hero, raylan is dead straight, a genuine enforce, unlike the skip tracers and bag men who, in mr. leonard's work, usually represent the law and order history. raylan is an anacreonism for town, and he shows what mr. leonard holds dear, the values he can common in different american rhythm. those of, for i

mr. leonard parker. you are the brother-in-law of the victim. >> my wife got a phone call this morning arod about 3:30 saying that my brother-in-law got shot. somebody invaded the home. demanded money, demanded cash. he got shot in the back. >> seems to be a very quiet neighborhood. your sister-in-law as well as your 16-year-old niece was in the house. they're okay o. but does this scare you? >> well, seems to be a pretty good neighborhood. i think they probably traumatized by the event. but you know, it is a little bit ary. it's the holiday season. somebody just random act of violence. i would be kind of scared myself too, if i was the victims. >> mr. parker, we appreciate your time and best wishes to your brother-in-law. again shlgs around 2:00, aaron, this morning, these multiple suspects broke into the house. the home en, again, in his 40s was shot in the back. the wife is okay as well as the 16-year-old daughter. police still looking for the suspects. that's the latest from here. i'm tony tull. >>>

mr. leonard boswell. as the ranking member on the surface transportation and infrastructure committee of which mr. boswell has served, i can tell you that his expertise on so many issues that we have already heard discussed today have been critical to us in passing much needed legislation. much has been said already but not enough can be said to say thank you to leonard boswell for his serving our country as he has in the u.s. army. to have risen like he did from private to lieutenant colonel, to run as many missions as he did as a helicopter pilot in vietnam, and to have won the -- two distinguished flying crosses is something that this nation can never say thank you enough for what leonard boswell has done, even before he came to the halls of the u.s. congress. in the real world leonard boswell has truled combined a mid wern farmer's common sense with practical everyday living. it's been that experience that's proven so invaluable to us on the transportation and infrastructure committee. his work to draf

36 for gate burger, frederick,fr mr., baltimore 39, leonard down, 34, and to the southwest in thee suburbsulpeper, manassas, you are in the middle 30s. and temperatures will move down, but with the clouds, i think temperatures will still bebe staying pretty much in the mid-30 range for just everybody, maybe a little bit cooler outside the belt way, but not much, and the good news here, if you're going to be out and about, the winds will be light.t so you know how cutting the winds have been.ee one thing is for certain. 2013 is going to start offof chilly for us. the next several days, temperatures will be holding right about 40 degrees, give orr take a few degrees for highs.h so we're at 40 now. there's real cold stuff, to the north, fargo, north dakota,dak zero, international falls, minu 1, so an intrusion of very drydr cold arctic air coming down into canada, and there are indications that late in theth week, as we get toward thed latter part of the week, we might tap into that briefly.thy. so we're just talking about highs in the 30s towards the latter part of the week.ee down to the so

mr. president, please let leonard come home let him be home for christmas that would make my yuletide gay his troubles be far, far away he has been gone some 37 years just think of what he has missed i want to take into ikea and see if he can figure out how to put together a coffee table imagine to gather i want to take them to starbucks and show him the difference between a grande and vinte. i want to bring into my home and let him watch the bachelorette and see if you can guess who gets the single red rose i want to go to city field named after a bank that fleas millions of people and show him the mets still suck although, 10 years into his prison term, they did not. i want to show him all of this 20 women in the u.s. and that an african-american in the white house and no soda over 12 ounces in new york city and maybe, just maybe, he can help us with the next occupy the next battle to stand with the millions who are in need of a courageous leader now more than ever please, mr. president, let's leonard peltier come home, for we shall all very our hearts at wounded knee. >> michael moore

leonard. when you say special orders, mr. speaker, it applies in this case. i didn't know leonard boswell very well when i first got elected in 2006. i knew him but not very well. i was not an elected official before i got elected in 2006 but i had been involved in politics, in democratic party politics for a number of years helping other folks get elected. leonard and i, i think it's fair to say that when i got elected, probably and i think he would say this, i think he would admit this, that neither one of us had any idea what good friends we would become over the years. leonard has been helpful for me to sort of navigate the ways of this chamber, the ways of washington, the ways of congress, something that i think everybody knows is a challenge, whether you've been in the state legislature or any kind of legislative body prior to coming to the congress, it is a challenge to get to know how to operate in this environment. leonard has been very, very good to me, and i appreciate everything he has done. i could talk about his military service and all these oth

leonard wood. in addition the bill continues support for the family of lone range strike bomber programs including the b-2. mr. chairman, i'm proud to vote for this legislation and continue to praise for our troops and thank them for their service and sacrifice. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington. mr. smith: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. mcintyre, the ranking member on the sea power subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina. mr. mcintyre: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of the national defense authorization conference report. i appreciate the hard work of chairman mckeon and ranking member smith and that of my counterpart, chairman akin, on the sea power projection subforces committee of which i serve as ranking member. among other important measures this report provides a 1.7% pay raise, well deserved for our military service members, and authorizes nearly $11 billion which is almost $160 million more than the president's budget originally requested. for our u