[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4019]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Reverend R. Perez Gatling, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Virginia Beach, 
Virginia, offered the following prayer:
  O, Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the Earth.
  We give thanks for this day that You have made, and we give thanks 
for these courageous and committed public servants who You have called 
and commissioned to be the voices of the people. We are grateful for 
the freedoms we enjoy in this country, and we are thankful for all of 
the patriarchs and matriarchs and our uniformed and civilian soldiers 
who unselfishly sacrificed their lives as payment for this freedom.
  I pray that You will endow our legislative leaders with knowledge, 
understanding, wisdom, and discernment. Give each leader in this 
Chamber a heart for the people they represent. I pray that through 
today's proceedings, a more perfect Union will be formed, justice will 
be established, domestic tranquility will be assured and ensured, and 
the blessings of liberty will be secured to ourselves and our 
posterity.
  In Jesus' name, amen.

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