[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 6, 1999)]
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                        House of Representatives

  This being the day fixed by the 20th amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States, and Public Law 105-350 for the meeting of the 
Congress of the United States, the Members-elect of the 106th Congress 
met in their Hall, and at noon were called to order by the Clerk of the 
House of Representatives, Hon. Jeffrey J. Trandahl.
  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We are thankful, gracious God, for the opportunities of a new day and 
a new season, and we pledge by Your grace to be messengers of peace in 
our world, representatives of honor in our communities, and share 
together as colleagues the qualities of respect and esteem.
  May we so examine our hearts and souls that our thoughts contain 
visions of great opportunity for the works of justice among all people, 
and for security and understanding and mercy for the neediest among us. 
As we share together a hope for a better tomorrow, may each of us do 
what we can so that the good words we say with our lips may be believed 
in our hearts, and all that we believe in our hearts we may practice in 
our daily lives.
  This is our earnest prayer.
  Amen.

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