[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19888]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Wednesday, September 29, 2004

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Bobby C. Dagnel, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Lubbock, 
Texas, offered the following prayer:
  Our most gracious heavenly Father, we offer thanksgiving for this day 
of life and the opportunities it brings. We acknowledge that the 
freedoms afforded us by this great democracy creates within us not a 
license to do as we please, but a responsibility to act in a way that 
pleases You.
  As this capable body of elected public servants entertain the 
multitude of issues before them, I pray they might have the wisdom of 
Solomon, who urged us to look neither right nor left but to keep our 
eyes fixed straight ahead; to do what is right; to do that which 
reflects the true spirit of democracy, giving consideration to and 
deeming of equal importance the rights and freedoms of every person, 
whether in the majority or the minority, of both the strong and the 
weak.
  We remember, also, this day, those who stand in harm's way to protect 
and promote these very tenets of democracy we hold dear. In Your name 
we pray, O Lord, Amen.

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