[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15697]
[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. Petty partisanship and ever-
politicizing rhetoric should have no place at all when men and women of 
goodwill come together to serve the common good.
  We ask again that You bless the Members of the people's House with 
the understanding that it is their work to develop the strategies and 
plans to assuage the fears of their fellow countrymen and -women.
  We ask again that You 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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