[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5642-5643]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

  (Mr. McINTYRE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McINTYRE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today for the observance of the 
National Day of Prayer, which will take place next Thursday, May 3.
  This tradition began under President Eisenhower and continued through 
peacetime and wartime, through times of prosperity and times of 
uncertainty, and demonstrates our commitment as a Nation to maintaining 
a foundation of prayer.
  Through prayer, we acknowledge that God gives us peace in the midst 
of our circumstances, we seek the wisdom to know and act upon God's 
purpose for our lives, and we feel the power of God to protect and 
provide for those of us who call on His name. We know that the true 
source of power cannot be found here in the Halls of Congress or in the 
Oval Office in the West Wing or in the chambers of the Supreme Court, 
but only on our knees before the one who is the true source of power.
  So may we pray not only next Thursday on the National Day of Prayer 
and join communities across this Nation

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which are joining in prayer for our country, but may we do so also in 
honor and in recognition of our national motto, ``In God we trust.'' 
Indeed, may God bless this great Nation.

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