[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 111 (Thursday, September 5, 2002)]
[House]
[Pages H6064-H6065]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, the Good Book tells us that there is a time 
for every purpose under heaven. There is a time to weep and a time to 
mourn, and tomorrow I will join some 250 of my colleagues in this body 
as we travel to Federal Hall in New York City to do just that. We will 
gather at a place that this Congress met and even adopted the Bill of 
Rights in the year 1789, and we will mourn with those who mourn, and we 
will weep with those who weep.
  The last time I was in New York City, Mr. Speaker, was September 21. 
I stood in the ashes and on the periphery of the devastation at Ground 
Zero, and I expect tomorrow, as we all do, to be a deeply moving day 
emotionally.
  But as we join to pray, let us ever remember that also we are told 
that there is a time for peace, but there is a time for war. As we pray 
for the bereaved, let us also pray for wisdom for

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our President and our leadership in this institution as we choose the 
times and the days ahead for war.

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