[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 622]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  ``Open the door. Heighten the security. Gather the people. Proclaim a 
fast. Through the medium of television, enter in, and ready yourself to 
listen, America.''
  Lord God, today this House Chamber and its Members prepare this place 
and this Nation to welcome President Barack Obama tonight to listen to 
his State of the Union.
  Guide and protect him, Lord. Grant him health, wisdom, prudence, and 
forbearance.
  Help all Americans, Lord, for ``we the people of the United States, 
in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure 
domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the 
general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty'' do assemble and 
ready ourselves to hear the President's message and act according to 
the Constitution that holds us together as a new order both now and for 
ages to come.
  Amen.

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