[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17501]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Almighty and faithful Creator, all things of Your making, all people 
are redeemed in Your love and shaped in Your image.
  Today we entrust the soul of Representative Herbert Bateman of 
Virginia to your goodness.
  In Your infinite wisdom and power, You have worked in him to achieve 
Your purpose.
  He is known to You alone from the beginning of time.
  Known to this assembly for his personal friendliness, we ask You to 
reward him for his labors. Grant consolation and peace to his staff and 
his family.
  May we persevere in the tasks You set before us that we may receive 
the reward of the just, now and forever.
  Amen.

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