[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16142]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Gene Hemrick, St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Father, creator of all that is good, You have called our U.S. 
Congress to work in Your world and, by its cooperation, to develop and 
improve the condition of humankind.
  Grant that it may always work together as a loving, devoted family, 
bringing out the best in our Nation.
  Amen.

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