[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 113 (Saturday, August 13, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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:
  Baruch Hashem. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
  God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, on this Sabbath morning give us 
ears to hear, minds to understand, and wills to obey the foundation of 
all teaching in the Torah.
  Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all 
thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in 
thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, 
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou 
walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be 
as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the 
posts of thy house, and on thy gates.--Deuteronomy 6:4-9.
  Baruch Hashem. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 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 13, 1994.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Byron L. 
     Dorgan, a Senator from the State of North Dakota, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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