louis, and i have no problems -- mr. louie and i have no problems with the church moving next door to me as a neighbor. my concern rests with the structure of the original building. my family -- my grandfather built the building that i own as a neighbor of 401 taraval in 1949. and in 1972 my family was not given the opportunity, as i am here before you today, to express an opinion of what went next door to them. they were simply told, here's the building, you know. you pay for your share of the section that has to be supported structurally for our new big commercial building. so i feel -- my family has hated that building since it went up in 1972 and it's hated it because of where the entrance is located. i wish to heavens i could do something or that planning commission or the church could do something, anybody could do something within reason in terms of cost and times and what have you to move the darned entrance. all the other buildings, the entrances are on the corner. why in heaven's name they have to put it within four

mr. gohmert is the co-sponsor of this, along with jack kingston. i was worried about louie, he was here a minute ago, he left, i'm going to recognize mrs. noem to discuss with me, i yield her whatever time she needs, then we'll get mr. gohmert for a minute. mrs. noem: i appreciate that, i thank the gentleman for yielding to me. i'm one of the new members of congress that has first come here today, this is the first opportunity i've had to give a special order and i cannot think of a better reason to be here tonight than to make sure our military men and women have the opportunity to receive pay for their hard work and service to our country. i think it's important that we focus on all of the important things this congress is doing and the important thing this is republican conference and the house is doing because we recognize that from the very beginning, we took every action possible to ensure that our military could get paid. we started with our first bill that addressed the spending problems that this country has. h.r. 1, we brought it to the house floor, we changed the