[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 149 (Tuesday, September 24, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today's opening prayer will be offered by our 
guest Chaplain, Pastor William L. Nash, Glad Tidings Pentecostal 
Church, Mangham, LA.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Our eternal God, as this body assembles for session today, we thank 
Thee for the blessings of Heaven upon America in its 248th year of our 
freedom.
  Our prayer on this wonderful September day is for the wisdom and 
anointing of Thy Spirit to descend upon each Senator. May guidance and 
strength for sound legislation move from each committee room to the 
floor of this Chamber. May these honorable servants represent the 
heartbeat of America. After all, they are sent by the people for the 
betterment of the people.
  Forgive us, O God, of our failures; repair our altars. And may this 
Chamber of Calhoun, Webster, Long, and Goldwater become renewed with 
the best fruits of labor. Lead the Senators to the mountaintop of 
victory so that, 100 years from today, we may say: It was good to have 
been here.
  In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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