[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created 
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable 
Rights * * * to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among 
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. * * 
*--Declaration of Independence.
  God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, God of all people, Lord of Heaven 
and Earth, our Nation was conceived in the hearts and minds of men who 
believed in a God who created all people and endowed them with 
``certain unalienable rights.'' Thomas Jefferson believed that those 
rights would not be secure if the people no longer believed that they 
were a gift of God.
  The prophet Jeremiah wrote:
  For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the 
fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken 
cisterns, that can hold no water.--Jeremiah 2:13, KJ.
  Forgive our naivete, Lord, that we can build a perfect society 
without regard for God.
  In His name who is the Forgiveness of God incarnate. Amen.

              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will please read a communication to 
the Senate from the President pro tempore [Mr. Byrd].
  The assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                  Washington, DC, August 11, 1994.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Herb 
     Kohl, a Senator from the State of Wisconsin, to perform the 
     duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. KOHL thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro tempore.

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