[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12516]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Reverence for You, O God, breathes forth a spirit of freedom within 
us. It is this spirit that gives us true self-esteem, a gracious 
attitude toward everyone else, and the power to live out our 
commitments to others with love.
  It is this same spirit that urges us to seek out even greater freedom 
within ourselves and work for the good of our brothers and sisters 
wherever they may be in this country and beyond.
  Thomas Jefferson taught us, O Lord, that ``the very God who gave us 
life gave us liberty at the same time.'' Help us never to separate 
these two great gifts. Make us instruments of life and liberty now and 
forever. Amen.

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