[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6824-6825]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  We give You thanks, merciful God, for giving us another day.
  As the various Members of this people's House return, we ask Your 
blessing upon each as they resume the responsibilities that await them. 
Give each the wisdom and good judgment to give credit to the office 
they have been honored by their constituencies to fill.
  Bless the work of all who serve in their various capacities here in 
the United States Capitol.

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  Bless as well all who visit the Capitol this day, be they American 
citizens or visitors or guests of our Nation. May they be inspired by 
this monument to the noble idea of human freedom and its guarantee by 
the democratic experiment that is the United States.
  God, bless America, and may all that is done this day be for Your 
greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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