[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6257]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     OUR CHAPLAIN, DANIEL COUGHLIN

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, our House Chaplain, Father Daniel 
Coughlin, is retiring from his duties after 11 years of serving the 
United States House of Representatives.
  Since our forefathers established this tradition in Congress in 1789, 
the House Chaplain has provided spiritual guidance, hope, and heavenly 
blessings through prayer every day.
  Each new day, Father Coughlin enters the House Chamber with his happy 
Irish spirit and a twinkle in his eyes, and prays to the Almighty so 
that Members will walk humbly and wise in the Lord's sight. Father 
Coughlin has been here during the troubling days of 9/11, during good 
times, and times that aren't so good.
  Father Coughlin, from Chicago, has been ordained for 50 years, and 
has found time to be an angel to the poor in Calcutta, India, where he 
lived with members of Mother Teresa's community. Over the years, this 
House has needed Father Coughlin's guidance, for, after all, you have 
to be in good with the Lord to pray for politicians every day.
  My prayer for Father Coughlin is that he continues to be a blessing 
to our Nation and to the people he encounters who need spiritual help--
and as he often says when ending his prayers--``both now and forever.''
  And that's just the way it is.

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