[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4505]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Almighty God, who has made and preserved us as a nation, make our 
lawmakers people of high vision and steadfast fidelity to Your wisdom. 
Use them to lift the banner of righteousness which exalts a nation. As 
they work together, deepen their understanding of one another's 
perspectives so that they will treat their colleagues as they would 
want their colleagues to treat them. Purge them from all that 
blemishes, corrupts, and defiles our common life. Heal our land, Lord, 
and use our Senators as agents of Your healing.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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