[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4082]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Dear Lord, we give You thanks for giving us another day. We use this 
moment to be reminded of Your presence and to tap the resources needed 
by the men and women of this assembly to do their work as well as it 
can be done. May they be led by Your spirit in the decisions they make. 
May they possess Your power as they steady themselves amid the 
pressures of persistent problems.
  The issues facing our Nation this week are monumental to us, but a 
part of the long history of political and policy debate that have 
created a great narrative of participative democracy. Send Your spirit 
of wisdom to the Justices of the Supreme Court, as well as the Members 
who serve in this people's House, that the rulings and bills that lead 
forward might prove to be beneficial to our Nation and its people.
  And may all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and 
glory.
  Amen.

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