[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
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            CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 

                United States
                 of America


July 29, 1999




            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Thursday, July 29, 1999

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Dr. Paul A. Wee, Church of the Reformation, ELCA, 
Washington, D.C., offered the following prayer:
  This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in 
it.
  Let us pray.
  O God, we give You thanks for this night past and for this new day. 
Fill it, we pray, with the presence of Your spirit that all we do and 
say may be pleasing in Your sight.
  Inspire within us compassion for all those in want this day in this 
city, this Nation, and this world. Keep before our eyes a burning 
vision of the Shalom that binds in one the human family throughout this 
world. We especially ask Your blessing upon the States from which we 
come and upon the District of Columbia in which we gather.
  May the hospitality shown to each of us here be reflected in the way 
in which we welcome the stranger in our midst. Give us above all this 
day a passion for justice and a spirit of joy in Your service.
  Amen.

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