[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8435]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Thursday, April 3, 2003

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, our salvation and our hope, when Jeremiah heard You calling 
him, he tried to evade a response. Jeremiah did not make excuses as we 
often do. He simply did not remain focused on You. He looked to himself 
instead and saw himself inadequate for the task You placed before him. 
As Your word once shook Jeremiah from his self-centeredness, so now 
call the Members of Congress to look beyond self-interest and be 
prophetic leaders of this Nation who will do what needs to be done and 
say what needs to be said.
  Strengthen them by Your commission: ``Go to whatever people I send 
You and say whatever I tell You to say. Fear none of them for I am with 
You and will keep You safe. This is the very word of the Lord.''
  May all of us be responsive now and forever. Amen.

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