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December 30, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 209 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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PRAYER; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 209
(House of Representatives - December 30, 2019)

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                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, Chaplain, U.S. Navy, Retired, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we pray, reflect, and meditate in different ways, but 
as a year--a decade ends--and 2020 begins, may we reaffirm, united, the 
hope of Langston Hughes: ``Let America be the dream the dreamers 
dreamed.''
  Dreamers dreamed a nation founded on equality, rights; a Constitution 
established for a more perfect union for liberty, for us, and our 
posterity. Our votes, oaths, and acts, must reflect those dreams.
  With this decade's last House prayer, we give thanks for progress, 
look ahead with hope, but with eyes wide open to prejudice, hatred, and 
terror, that remain--fueling violence like the anti-Semitic Hanukkah 
party attack Saturday; the Texas church attack Sunday--praying, 
Almighty God, for strength to dream the bravest dream our dreamers 
dreamed, our people dreamed:
  ``We shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome, some day. 
Deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome, some day.''
  And let us say, amen.

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