[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 12, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2654]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Claudio J. Kogan, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School 
of Medicine, Edinburg, Texas, offered the following prayer:
  God, source of all living things, we ask Your blessings upon these 
representatives of the people who have devoted their lives to our 
welfare. Strengthen them with Your courage; inspire them as they answer 
the Prophet Isaiah's call to feed the hungry and to clothe the naked, 
to lift up those in this land and in all lands who cannot stand on 
their own.
  Bless them with the capacity to hear and to listen. May this body, 
which hosts rigorous and robust debate, embrace diversity without 
division, unity without uniformity. May this House promote justice, 
moral clarity, ethical living, righteousness, and acts of kindness.
  As an immigrant who came to this country 20 years ago and became an 
American citizen just 7 years ago, I join this House in a prayer of 
profound gratitude and deep appreciation for the blessings we, the 
people of the United States of America, are privileged to enjoy.
  Amen.

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