[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 46 (Friday, March 29, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3173]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  O gracious God, from whom comes every good gift, we thank You today 
for the gifts of our past, those moments in our history when justice 
flowed down like waters and righteousness like an everflowing stream. 
We are grateful that women and men from the years of our birth have 
been models of character and stood for truth. May their witness in 
their day encourage our witness in our day and may their commitment to 
justice encourage each of us to that same commitment, an obligation and 
duty that inspires and makes whole, a responsibility that blesses and 
gives life. Amen.

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