[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1668-1669]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  God of mercy, we give You thanks for giving us another day.

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  May Your special blessings be upon the Members of this assembly as 
results from another primary election reverberate through our political 
landscape. Give them wisdom and charity, that they might work together, 
with needed focus, for the common good.
  As the candidates now move on to other contests, may all Americans 
hear the call to responsible citizenship, learning the substance of 
candidates' positions and plans for the future of our Nation. May we 
all do our homework so that our experiment in representative democracy 
might flourish and all would take pride in the government to be 
constructed from our votes.
  May all that is done this day in the people's House be for Your 
greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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