[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 25615]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  O Gracious Father, all that we have and are is Your gift. Sharpen the 
memories of our hearts so that we may have an attitude of gratitude. 
You have been so faithful to help us when we have humbly asked that You 
would give us Your guidance and strength. May we be as quick to praise 
You for what You have done in the past as we are to ask You to bless 
the future. We have come to You in difficulties and crises and You have 
been on time and in time in Your interventions. Thank You, Lord, for 
Your providential care of this Senate as it deals with the immense 
challenges in completing the work of this 106th Congress. Grant the 
Senators a heightened sense of the dynamic role that You have given 
each of them to play in the unfolding drama of American history.
  And Lord, the Senators would be the first to express gratitude for 
their staffs who make it possible for them to accomplish their work. 
Together we praise You for all of the people who enable this Senate to 
function effectively--all of those here in the Chamber, the 
parliamentarians and the clerks, the staff in the Cloakrooms, the 
reporters of debates, and the doorkeepers. We thank You for the Capitol 
Police, elevator operators, food service personnel, and those in 
environmental services. Help us to express our gratitude to all of them 
as essential members of the Senate family.
  And today we share grief at the recent death of Betty Bunch, who 
served the Senate so faithfully for 23 years and was strategic in 
implementing the Sergeant at Arms' Postal Square facility.
  Most of all, we are thankful for You, dear God, Sovereign of this 
free land, Source of all of our blessings that we have, and Lord of the 
future. Amen.

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