[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 18 (Friday, February 9, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1233]
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  The House met at 11 a.m. and was called to order by the Speaker pro 
tempore [Mrs. Morella].
  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  With gratitude and praise, with awe and wonder, we offer our thanks 
for the opportunities of this day. In spite of all that should be done 
or must be accomplished and with all the anxieties of a busy world, we 
interrupt all our concerns to thank You, O gracious God, for the myriad 
blessings that You have freely given. The failures and the successes of 
yesterday are gone and tomorrow is not yet here, so in sincere 
appreciation we express these words of thanksgiving to You, our Creator 
and our God. Amen.

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