please remain standing as the chaplain of the united states house of representatives, the reverend patrick conroy of the universe, we give you thanks for the wonder of your creation. a long time ago in a place far, far away, you called forth a common ancestor of faith to leave his home to travel to a place you would show him. by that call and by his obedience to and trust in you, we continued to be challenged to move beyond the limits of our own imagination. on this day, we gather to give you thanks that we are wondrously made and gifted with the spirit and the will to move beyond the horizon. all of our ancestors at some point left a place familiar to them and to an uncertain future. but that future to them has become our present. we give you thanks for the dreams and hopes of this nation's ancestors, and today for the personal heroism that empowered those being honored today to leave this very planet familiar to them to go to a universe never before visited by our kind. the many advances of science and technology, medicine, and physics, to name only three, have bettered the lives of millions. t

that both the chaplain of the united states house of representatives , our dear friend, father patrick conroy, and reverend mchugh, and reverend mchugh's wife, lindsay, and i are all graduates of a very small institution just to the east of los angeles known as claire month mckenna college. i want to say that i believe hearing from reverend mchugh was wonderful. i would like to enter into the record, i have a copy of his book that he's just give me, and i would like to enter into the record, mr. speaker, a list of the publications that he has put forward and to say he has one coming next year and we all look forward to that. and i hope i get an autographed copy of that one as well. with that i yield back the balance of my time, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair will entertain up to 15 further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> madam spe