[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 6 (Friday, January 10, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H151]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Barry H. Block, Congregation B'nai Israel, Little Rock, 
Arkansas, offered the following prayer:
  Source of blessing, we come before You today asking Your blessings 
upon the United States House of Representatives.
  At this time of grave division, inspire these Members of the people's 
House to reach across every kind of aisle, to build new friendships 
that may grow into opportunities for greater understanding, seeking 
shared solutions to America's greatest problems.
  As the winds of war threaten all humanity, inspire the Members of the 
people's House to work toward peace, for the ability to wage peace is a 
greater measure of a nation's strength than the capacity to wage war.
  Consecrate this House to perfect the Nation our Founders could not 
even envision--justice, liberty, freedom from persecution, and 
discrimination for every person within our borders. Then will this 
House and our Nation truly be blessed.
  Amen.

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