[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2084]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Blessed Lord, I commend to Your grace and wisdom this day the Members 
of this Senate and all who support their labors. I ask that You deepen 
their passion for the fragile treasure of democracy. As they engage the 
difficult work of legislating, grant them always to be guided by a love 
for our great Nation and a respect for its diverse people. Finally, we 
ask that You grant that the fruits of their labors in this and every 
session, begun and ended in You, may assist the people of this great 
land to build lives of mutual respect, well-being and service, so that 
poverty of body and mind and spirit may be made extinct among us, even 
in our time. We offer these prayers in the Name of God from whom all 
blessings flow. Amen.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. May I ask that the distinguished minority 
leader lead us in reciting the pledge to our flag.

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