[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 12014]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O God our Creator and Redeemer, we are accompanied by Your blessings. 
May these blessings motivate our Senators to rededicate themselves to 
Your service, striving to keep America strong. Make their hearts 
reservoirs of love, purity, and honesty. Lord, keep them calm in 
temper, clear in mind, and sound in heart, as You inspire them to do 
justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with You. May the tyranny of 
partisanship and expediency never bend their conscience to low aims 
which betray high principles.
  We pray in Your holy Name. Amen.

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