[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 160 (Thursday, September 27, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H9099-H9100]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Merciful God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  You alone can trace the deepest fault lines of history and read the 
highest aspirations of the human heart. Be with the Members of the 
people's House this day. Give them sound judgment and make them as 
practical and streetwise as the American people who sent them here as 
their representatives.
  Help them to withstand open criticism when they know what is right 
before You and conscience. Often they

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are characterized by half-truths and attributed motives that are far 
beneath them. Uphold them at such times, with personal integrity and 
compassion for those most in need.
  Having called them to serve others to the best of their ability, lift 
them even higher by Your grace and power to live and work for Your 
greater honor and glory, both now and forever.
  Amen.

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