[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11698]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Wednesday, June 21, 2000

  The House met at 9 a.m.
  The Reverend Dr. Nelson Price, Roswell Street Baptist Church, 
Marietta, Georgia, offered the following prayer:
  Mr. Speaker, to you and your colleagues, it is a privilege to pray in 
your presence as I do often in your absence.
  Dear Lord, with a firm belief that our Nation was given birth because 
of Your concurring aid, we come again to ask Your aid.
  Renew within us the fervor and faith of our founders that we might 
truly be ``one Nation under God.''
  Rekindle the ardor and the awe of our predecessors that we may avoid 
a state of spiritual impoverishment and shrunken moral aspiration.
  We praise You for the bounty of the land and Your blessings on the 
people. In gratitude we bow before You imploring You to give wisdom 
that supersedes knowledge to those who govern here.
  In Your Holy Name I ask it. Amen.

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