[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8263]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, Enlightenment for the world, guide this Nation by Your 
wisdom. Lift up the prize of this Nation, our children, and our young 
people. Create for them a great future by providing them with good 
teachers.
  As Members of Congress call to mind the many teachers You have given 
them through the years, make us all grateful for the women and men who 
have shaped our ways of thinking and opened for us avenues of learning 
and discovery.
  The Scriptures tell us, ``The learned will shine like the brilliance 
of the firmament and those who train others in the ways of justice will 
sparkle like the stars for all eternity.''
  Bless the teachers of these United States, and reward them for their 
noble work, now and forever. Amen.

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