[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 15070]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PRAY FOR WISDOM

  (Mr. VARGAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VARGAS. Mr. Speaker, in the short time that I have been here, I 
have had the honor of meeting many of my colleagues on the Republican 
side, and I have found them to be very honorable people. In fact, I 
have had the solemn opportunity to pray with them. They love their 
families, they love their country, they love their community, just like 
we do. And I would hope that we could both stand back on this issue, 
reopen the government, and find a way to get to a compromise. I think 
that reasonable people can get there.
  So I pray that we are granted wisdom on both sides to step back, to 
take a look at what we're doing, and to see how many people are being 
hurt in our communities and around the country. This is not the way I 
think that we should be acting. I think we are better than that.
  Again, I pray for wisdom.

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