[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 183 (Wednesday, December 16, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8689-S8690]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Today's opening prayer will be offered by 
RDML Brent W. Scott, Deputy Chief of Chaplains for the U.S. Navy and 
Chaplain of the Marine Corps in Washington, DC.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Please join me in prayer.
  Heavenly Father, we begin this day in the privilege of prayer, 
thanking You for this great Nation, a people gathered from every tongue 
and tribe, bound together through the more noble ideals of liberty and 
justice and equality, formed and favored as one Nation under God. We 
ask Your help as You continue to make us as one.
  We pray for our Senate in this session and ask You to bless them with 
wisdom and discernment to lead our people toward reconciliation, to 
rebuild our Nation's confidence in justice, to restore our sense of 
equality. Free each one from the divisive distractions of any lesser 
ideals that they may more powerfully serve the people as a body of, by, 
and for the people, making every effort to keep and protect a more 
perfect union.
  We pray blessing for the men and women who wear our Nation's cloth, 
standing watch in every corner and clime of the globe. Give them peace 
as they bring peace to this troubled world.
  We pray in Your Holy Name. Amen.NOTICE

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GREGG HARPER, Chairman.

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                          PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

  The President pro tempore led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows:

       I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of 
     America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation 
     under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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