[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23006]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Gracious and living God, we praise You and bless You for faith, 
family, and friends. We are blessed to be part of this Nation which 
annually turns to You on Thanksgiving to acknowledge Your history of 
blessings on these United States.
  We have been blessed again this year to have celebrated this feast 
with table companions who are dear to us, and whom we count as one of 
Your blessings.
  Now that Members have returned to the work of this 107th Congress, we 
ask You to guide them in their deliberations. May the gracious attitude 
of the recent holiday descend upon this House so that everyone may be a 
blessing to one another in spoken wisdom and listening and in 
friendship.
  In gratitude to You for serving the people of this Nation all find a 
commonality that supersedes differences. Make all the Members of 
Congress grateful for Your calling them to serve here, now and forever. 
Amen.

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