[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 35 (Tuesday, March 18, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1047]
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:
  We are appreciative of those women and men who devote their abilities 
to government service and who see in their tasks the opportunity to 
serve You, oh God, by being of service to others.
  We are indebted to those public servants whose names we know and who 
occupy positions of great trust. But we especially remember this day 
those people whose names are not well-known, but whose commitment and 
enthusiasm to their tasks is acknowledged and valued.
  Whatever our responsibility, let us go forward in unity and in trust 
to do the works of justice and mercy. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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