[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8174]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       THE REVEREND WHIT W. GRACE

  (Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, today we are privileged to 
have been joined by Reverend Whit Grace, who is the pastor of the First 
United Methodist Church in Long Beach, Mississippi.
  I have to confess it was not until I was elected to Congress that I 
fully appreciated just how tough a job our priests and preachers and 
rabbis and ministers have.
  See, Mr. Speaker, I have discovered that when something goes wrong, 
the local Congressmen usually are the second or the third call. The 
first call is to the local priest or the preacher and minister. It has 
to be an incredibly tough job when all you do is hear someone has 
gotten in trouble with the law or someone is ill or someone has just 
died or someone is near death.
  So, Reverend, for what you do and for what all of our priests and 
preachers do on a daily basis, to listen to our problems and to help as 
best as you can, to ask for divine intervention, I want to thank you, 
and I want to thank everyone who chose to serve our Nation in the 
ministry.

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