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[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 94 Introduced in House (IH)]

106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 94

Recognizing the public need for reconciliation and healing, urging the 
   United States to unite in seeking God, and recommending that the 
               Nation's leaders call for days of prayer.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 4, 1999

 Mrs. Chenoweth (for herself, Mr. Armey, Mr. DeLay, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. 
    Burton of Indiana, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Dickey, Mr. 
Doolittle, Mr. Fossella, Mr. Graham, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Hayworth, Mr. Hill 
 of Montana, Mr. Hilleary, Mr. Hostettler, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Istook, Mr. 
Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. McIntosh, Mr. Metcalf, 
  Mrs. Myrick, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Ryun of 
 Kansas, Mr. Schaffer, Mr. Stearns, Mr. Tancredo, Mr. Taylor of North 
Carolina, and Mr. Walden of Oregon) submitted the following concurrent 
  resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

 
Recognizing the public need for reconciliation and healing, urging the 
   United States to unite in seeking God, and recommending that the 
               Nation's leaders call for days of prayer.

Whereas it is the necessary duty of the people of this Nation not only to humbly 
        offer up our prayers and needs to Almighty God, but also in a solemn and 
        public manner to confess our shortcomings;
Whereas it is incumbent on all public bodies, as well as private persons, to 
        revere and rely on God Almighty for our day-to-day existence, as well as 
        to follow the charge to love and serve one another;
Whereas we have witnessed the rejection of God's love through gratuitous 
        violence and mayhem, hate, abuse, exploitation, abandonment, and other 
        harms, much of which has been directed at the most vulnerable of our 
        society, our children;
Whereas oppression, violence, cultural and ethnic division, strife, and murder 
        have stained our communities and the world;
Whereas we are compelled to remind the people of the United States of the events 
        that currently burden the hearts of the people, including--
            (1) the senseless murder of our young people in Jonesboro, Arkansas, 
        West Paduca, Kentucky, Springfield, Oregon, Pearl, Mississippi, and 
        Littleton, Colorado;
            (2) the brutal deaths of individuals by dragging, beating, burning, 
        and exposure in Texas, Alabama, and Wyoming; and
            (3) the civil unrest, systematic genocide, and religious and 
        political persecution in Yugoslavia, Tibet, Turkey, China, Rwanda, and 
        Sudan;
Whereas despite all, we as a Nation have been blessed with great prosperity and 
        an unprecedented period of economic stability, for which we owe a debt 
        of gratitude; and
Whereas in previous times of public need and moral crisis, the Congress and the 
        President have recommended the observance of a day of solemn prayer, 
        fasting, and humiliation: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That the Congress--
            (1) recognizes the unique opportunity that the dawn of a 
        millennium presents to a people in a Nation under God to humble 
        and reconcile themselves with God and with one another;
            (2) urges all Americans to unite in seeking the face of God 
        through humble prayer and fasting, persistently asking God to 
        send spiritual strength and a renewed sense of humility to the 
        Nation so that hate and indifference may be replaced with love 
        and compassion, and so that the suffering in the Nation and the 
        world may be healed by the hand of God; and
            (3) recommends that the leaders in national, State, and 
        local governments, in business, and in the clergy appoint, and 
        call the people they serve to observe, a day of solemn prayer, 
        fasting, and humiliation before God.
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