[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 355]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Thursday, January 8, 2009


  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  O God, Who has had compassion on our darkness and sent forth Your own 
light upon our conscience to make right judgments, grant us the joy of 
knowing the closeness of Your love.
  May all our words and actions this day be infused with the creative 
spirit of freedom and bring forth personal integrity, as well as 
justice, and that we all will join together in serving Your people of 
this Nation with true goodness.
  May true freedom and justice reign in our hearts and become 
contagious in our world, now and forever.
  Amen.

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