[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 12742-12743]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:

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  One God and Father of all, we ask You to renew Your spirit within us 
and lift up this Nation in confidence, in determination and 
transformative thinking.
  Members of Congress are distinctly unique individuals representative 
of America. They are not only racially, religiously and politically 
different; they are personally and philosophically different, one from 
another, closest to their families and the people of their districts.
  Yet by coming here, they are called to form one body, to guide and 
protect this Nation as a whole. By unfolding before their very eyes the 
depth and variety of human needs and by seeking a common response to 
economic and social concerns, may they become Your instrument to 
breathe hope in Your people and sustain perseverance in the historical 
institutions of this great Nation, both now and forever. Amen.

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