[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11927]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Marvin Jacobo, City Ministry Network, Modesto, California, 
offered the following prayer:
  Master, I give thanks for our United States of America. I am grateful 
for every man and woman holding governmental positions of authority. 
Make Your truth known to them. Cause them to be men and women of 
integrity, concerned first and foremost with the common good. Grant 
them the deepest of insight to solve our most daunting challenges.
  I pray that each Member would exercise the humility to discern how to 
best co-labor with those that might see issues differently than them. 
Make their hearts and ears alert to good counsel. Honor each one, 
Master, for the investment they make participating in this, our 
representative government. I pray a blessing over their families, 
acknowledging that they, too, sacrifice for the sake of our country. 
May our national proceedings be held in a spirit of mutual respect and 
civility.
  I pray in the name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
  Amen.

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