[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7030]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Under Your Divine Providence, this Nation was established and has 
been guided through the years. Through turmoil, strife, disasters, and 
even wars, You have brought Your people to renewed faith, greater 
strength, and a deeper longing for peace.
  Be with us now. Protect our Armed Forces wherever they may be. 
Confirm their families in Your love. Guide and enable the Members of 
Congress today as they take up the Nation's business and seek to 
protect and defend its people.
  Through suffering and death, bring forth new life and true freedom by 
Your almighty power, Lord God, now and forever. Amen.

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