[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 44 (Thursday, April 14, 2005)]
[House]
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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:
  Eternal Father and Lord of the living, enable us to approach You with 
humility of heart and poverty of spirit.
  The Members of Congress are powerful people. Their words bear weight 
and their positions before the people deserve respect. Therefore, they 
need to be steeled from arrogance on one side and casual routine on the 
other.
  Lord, only the two-edged sword of Your Word and Your purity of Spirit 
can bring freshness to their spirits and confirming hope to their 
constituents. Strengthen their pledge to uphold the Constitution 
against blatant and subtle attacks and to serve the people with all 
their hearts.
  Then may their speech, their decisions, and their working together 
with the pluralism of this democracy give You the glory, honor, and 
power now and forever.
  Amen.

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