[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11161]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend W. Douglas Tanner, Jr., Faith and Politics Institute, 
Washington, DC, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, our Creator, our Redeemer, and our Sustainer: On the 
first official day of summer, we ask Your blessing on the lives of the 
Members of this House and on their work as representatives. We remember 
that in this season temperatures in Washington rise into the high 90s 
and beyond. We remember they can be accompanied by humidity so heavy 
that it feels like 90 percent. The days become hazy, and we become 
lazy.
  We remember also a comparable climate that can descend on this 
Chamber, never mind the air conditioning. It comes with a haze that 
diminishes one's ability to see across the aisle--and across the 
country. It brings a laziness that yields to familiar ideological 
formulas and worn-out patterns of politics.
  This summer, we pray, grant us some days of clarity to see new 
possibilities--and send us fresh energy to pursue them. Amen.

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