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             CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 

                United States
                 of America


November 4, 1999



          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Thursday, November 4, 1999

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Father Allen P. Novotny, S.J., President, Gonzaga 
College High School, Washington, D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, You made us to Your own image and set us over all 
creation. Once You chose a people and gave them a destiny and, when You 
brought them out of bondage to freedom, they carried with them the 
promise that all men and women would be blessed and all men and women 
could be free.
  It happened to our forbearers, who came to this land as if out of the 
desert into a place of promise and hope. It happens to us still in our 
time, as You guide to perfection the work of creation by our labor.
  May the women and men of this House bring this spirit to all their 
efforts to establishing true justice and guide our Nation to its 
destiny. May their work today and every day further this mission. Amen.

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