[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 22]
[House]
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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Sunday, December 18, 2005

  The House met at 1 p.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Eternal God, ever faithful and close to Your people, hear our prayer 
today.
  No matter how strong or powerful or how meek and humble each of us 
may be, we all stand in need of Your wisdom to guide our judgments, and 
we rely on Your love to uphold all our relationships.
  Bless the work of the people which is committed to the U.S. House of 
Representatives today, that this Nation may grow in righteousness and, 
as a democratic republic, be an example to other nations of the earth.
  This we ask of You, now and forever. Amen.

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