[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8125]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Paul Silton, Temple Israel, Albany, New York, offered the 
following prayer:
  May the author of liberty and equality, who created all human beings 
in His image, bless all of you who have been chosen by the citizens of 
this great bastion of democracy to represent them.
  May He grant all of you the privilege of discovering His will and 
doing it wholeheartedly. May He touch your lives with the spirit of 
wisdom and insight. May He grant all of you the ability to make wise 
decisions and the satisfaction of doing a multitude of good deeds. May 
He strengthen you to walk in paths of honesty, to courageously meet 
every challenge, and to overcome all obstacles.
  May you be blessed with long and peaceful lives, lives free from 
shame and reproach, lives filled with many years of physical vitality, 
so that you may see all your heart's desires for goodness fulfilled and 
the work of your hands established.

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