[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[House]
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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Saturday, September 27, 2008


  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  All-Holy and All-Knowing God, as creation reveals Your desire for 
wholeness and coordinated unity between all creatures and the human 
family, so images of Your redeemed people give hope that hatred and 
prejudice of any sort diminish as true justice and peace break forth 
within the fabric of society and daily commerce.
  Before You, Lord God, all human life is life in community.
  Human wisdom confirms that each of us as a person is made for 
friendship, community and participation in public life. So, now bind 
this Nation as one. Let us stand together in compassion and the 
discipline of law as representative government addresses the needs of 
our time and searches out the path toward true human fulfillment and 
national security.
  Your love upholds all and therefore calls each one of us to be more 
concerned for one another, both now and forever. Amen.

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