[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15413]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Loving God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  Lord, You know there are many Americans who look to the people's 
House as uncertainty about the future of the economy and their 
livelihoods hang in the balance.
  Bless the Members of the people's House with the understanding that 
it is their work to develop the strategies and the plans to assuage the 
fears of their fellow countrymen and -women.
  We again ask You to impel those who possess power here in the Capitol 
to be mindful of those whom they represent who possess little or no 
power and whose lives are made all the more difficult by a failure to 
work out serious differences.
  May all that is done today be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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