The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain. Reverend kyle wright ii, Holy Cross Lutheran church and school, collinsville, illinois. The chaplain let us pray. In the name of the father, son, and holy ghost, amen. I thank and praise you heavenly father for moving each and every one of these men and women to serve this country which you sustain in your mercy. Watch over them this day that your will be done in their discussions, decisions, and most of all their actions. You are the god of all power and might who out of love for your creation established order from chaos, peace from discord, and life from death. For the sake of christ jesus our lord, forgive us of our pride, our disobedience, and poor stewardship of what you have placed into our care. According to your mercy, open the eyes and hearts of your people so they may know the depth of your love found only in christ jesus. Dear lord, i commend to your care our congress, our government,
Just the Arctic Refuge, but the wildlife and the indigenous who depend on this sacred, natural landscape. 1146 earlier. R. This year with my republican colleague, brian fitzpatrick, believe, as do 182 other cosponsors of this bill, that are are some places that simply too important, too sacred to be spoiled by oil and Gas Development. His is the same basic proposition that we were presented with yesterday when bipartisan ssed legislation to protect our coasts from offshore drilling, of use the north coast california is too special to have its fisheries and coastal conomy put at risk for the profit of big oil because places like the low country of south too special to be spoiled by oil spills. And today, were here to show the Arctic National wildlife refuge, the largest wildlife refuge in the united too special. So than fuge is home to more 200 different wildlife species pine,at includes the pork caribou herd. He refuge is a special place where veterans, recovering from begin. Find them
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You must be having a lot of boring times, because you are so charged up this morning. [laughter] but thank you. Let me go to you. I am the only one who wants to take lots of questions from the folks, and nows your chance to say whatever you want. I have done a lot of town hall meetings, and they have all been pretty good. So lets not blow this one. [laughter] you have spoken several times about the lord and religious things. Personally, how religious are you . Do you attend weekly . Gov. Kasich first of all, i try not to wear this stuff on my sleeve. But i do believe, that there is a creator. You know what, somebody asked me, what are you talk about god more, you could get more votes . And i said, using god to get a vote . I want to have a view of a golf course when i get up there, and i dont want to cheap in god. The most important thing about faith to me is, the foundation. Terrible things come. They are inevitable in life. Michael novak, the great catholic theologian said, and i thi