[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17695-17696]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                LAUS DEO

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, of course we have heard our President say 
we are not a Christian Nation. People can decide for themselves. But I 
thought it was worth pointing out that

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when the Washington Monument, right down the Mall from us, was 
dedicated, they put an aluminum-capped stone on it, four sides, there's 
writing on all four sides, but on the side that faced the Capitol were 
the Latin words ``Laus Deo,'' Praise be to God.
  Now, the reason they put that facing the Capitol was so that every 
day when the first rays of God's sun hit the very first thing in this 
Nation's Capitol, it was the words ``Praise be to God.'' Every morning, 
the first rays of God's sun hit the first thing in the Capitol is 
``Praise be to God.''
  Just thought you ought to know.

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