[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4] [House] [Pages 4853-4854] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov] PRAYER The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following prayer: Lord God of the Jewish-Christian scriptures, You call forth Your people to move out from blood-stained doorways into the wandering freedom of the desert, until they found a promised land. [[Page 4854]] By the spirit You led Jesus into the desert to discover Your living presence through fasting and prayer. Guide Your people in these days of grace in and through the political ways of Congress. May the trials of argumentative discussions and the discipline of compromise lead Your people across the barren land of uncertainty. Shape within them new resolves of faithful service, and open for them paths of greater justice and new-found peace. Help us, O Lord, to renew the covenant of old which makes us Your own, even now and forever. Amen. ____________________