[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12171]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God,
  Your steadfast love stirs us to look beyond self-interest. Your 
Divine Providence has guided this Nation from the beginning and has 
always urged us to look beyond our frontiers. Your Spirit in gathering 
the 108th Congress today moves us to have great aspirations for this 
world and for our times.
  Having tasted Your blessings of freedom ourselves, we long for all 
humanity to enjoy equal justice under law and so we pray this short but 
powerful ancient psalm:
  ``O praise the Lord, all you nations,
  Acclaim the Lord all you peoples.
  Strong is his love of us;
  Our God is faithful forever.''
  Amen.

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