[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 4 (Monday, January 9, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S609]
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                     TRIBUTE TO REVEREND MARK DEVER

  Mr. HATFIELD. I thank the acting majority leader.
  Mr. President, I want to use this occasion to give a statement of 
appreciation to the Reverend Mark Dever, who has opened the Senate 
today with prayer and will do so each day this week, as our Chaplain 
Halverson is on a week's vacation.
  Mr. President, Reverend Dever is one of the younger breed of 
ministers that has blessed our spiritual world in providing not only 
leadership in the pulpit, but he also has an extraordinary educational 
background, a Ph.D. from Cambridge, and has recently come to the 
Capitol Hill Baptist Church, which is the church of my membership, to 
take over as pastor. It is an old church here in the city and one which 
has, like many cities, found an older population and is in the process 
of rebuilding that church with younger people. He has already attracted 
the interest of many people because of his extraordinary, expository 
preaching.
  So I am happy and proud to be able to ask him, on behalf of the 
majority leader, to fill this role here in the Senate each day for this 
coming week.
  Mr. LOTT addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The acting majority leader is recognized.

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