[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 23, 2007)]
[House]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  Chaplain Marc Unger, California State Military Reserve, attached to 
the 1-184th Infantry, California Army National Guard, Exeter, 
California, offered the following prayer:
  O God, You have been our refuge in every generation. I thank You, 
Lord, for granting truths self-evident, and endowing us, our Creator, 
with certain unalienable rights: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
happiness, our freedom.
  Help this body, O Lord, to remember that our freedom was bought with 
a price, the blood of our heroes. And defense of our freedom comes at 
the same terrible price.
  Grant the Members of this body: Wisdom as they legislate; freedom 
from partisan politics; unity, not division; and remembrance that they 
serve ``of the people, by the people, and for the people'' under God.
  Help each Representative, Lord, to represent the people, not 
politics; morality, not mores; sacrifice, not self-interest; right, not 
flight; defense, not defeat.
  Lord, please comfort the families of our fallen. Grant the troops 
defending our precious freedoms would: Live under the protection of the 
Most High, be Your servant for good, and be granted overwhelming 
victory in the global war on terror.
  For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
  Amen.

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