[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9462]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious God, yesterday was the eighty-first anniversary of the 
passage of the nineteenth amendment establishing women's suffrage. 
Thank You for the heroines of our heritage as we celebrate progress in 
the rights of women in our society. We thank You for the impact of 
women on American history. We praise You for our founding Pilgrim 
foremothers and the role they served in establishing our Nation, for 
the strategic role of women in the battle for independence, for the 
incredible courage of women who helped push back the frontier, for the 
suffragettes who fought for the right to vote and the place of women in 
our society, for the dynamic women who have given crucial leadership in 
each period of our history.
  Today, Gracious God, we give You thanks for the women who serve here 
in the Senate: for the outstanding women Senators, for the women who 
serve as officers and in strategic positions in the ongoing work of the 
Senate, and for the many women throughout the Senate family who glorify 
You by their loyalty and excellence.
  In Your holy name we pray. Amen.

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