[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 78 (Thursday, June 13, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3515]
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House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, guide your people by the spirit of understanding which will 
lead them ultimately to eternal wisdom. Since Your servants live in a 
world of human failure and broken promises, may they be tolerant of the 
faults of others because they are so aware of their own unfaithfulness. 
All of us are yet to realize our own full potential as being truly the 
free children of God.
  In this information age, hindsight may give us better sight, but we 
still live only on fragments of what You would have us judge as truth.
  Bless all with a quiet respect for the diversity for opinions. 
Through honest dialogue and contemplative listening, may Your servants 
in government search all the avenues open to them to meet today's 
challenges of integrity and justice.
  Through the formulation of law and the formation of public opinion, 
may this House foster the restoration of credibility in the 
institutional life of this Nation and this Government by the people and 
for the people now and forever. Amen.

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