[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 54 (Thursday, April 28, 2005)]
[House]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  Dr. Ivan N. Raley, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Byrdstown, 
Tennessee, offered the following prayer:
  Our heavenly Father, as we gather in this historic and honored hall, 
with these whom You have chosen and our Nation has elected to serve in 
their place here in this special city, we come, Lord, humbly and 
devotedly before You.
  Father, we are reminded in Your Word where a man who had been sick 
for 38 years met Your Son, Jesus, and when He met him and was asked if 
he would be made whole, he said he had no one.
  Father, I believe that across this great Nation of ours there are 
tens of thousands of people who are looking to the men and women of 
this great hall and this great body and are saying, as clearly as the 
layman 2000 years ago, we need someone.
  Father, touch each of these who have been elected, ordain them as 
Your servants and use them gloriously this day. May their voice be 
Yours. May their decisions be Yours.
  Father, God bless this body. God bless America.
  In Your holy name. Amen.

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