Journal of the Senate, Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 3 Page: 2,547
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SEVENTY-THIRD DAY
THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2005
PROCEEDINGS
The Senate met at 11:00 a.m. pursuant to adjournment and was called to order by
the President.
The roll was called and the following Senators were present: Armbrister, Averitt,
Barrientos, Brimer, Carona, Deuell, Duncan, Ellis, Eltife, Estes, Fraser, Gallegos,
Harris, Hinojosa, Jackson, Lindsay, Lucio, Madla, Nelson, Ogden, Seliger, Shapiro,
Shapleigh, Van de Putte, Wentworth, West, Whitmire, Williams, Zaffirini.
Absent-excused: Janek, Staples.
The President announced that a quorum of the Senate was present.
The Reverend Jay K. Abemathy, First Baptist Church, Palestine, offered the
invocation as follows:
Dear God, I am so glad that You are already here and I do not have to
invite You into this room. Instead, You are inviting us to be aware of Your
divine presence and authority in this place. After You created the universe,
You invited humankind to work creatively with You in Your creation. I
believe Your invitation still stands. Thank You for the grace-gift of another
day and the rest that we had last night. Now help us all to be good stewards
of the energy we have at hand. Let Your holy spirit be the guard and guide
of these next few hours of deliberations. Help everyone here see how the
decisions made by a few persons today will impact millions for all eternity.
So, I pray, help us not to settle today just for doing something good when
something great can be done instead. Instead of just being right, let us do
the right thing. Help us not to just please ourselves, or even fall into the
temptation of pleasing others, when we really need to please You. As for
these fellow citizens of mine in this room, I thank You. As I am here, many
others are praying also for them to be the best of citizens under Your divine
authority. They are the men and women in the arena who strive valiantly.
May they spend themselves well on the worthy cause, following the
example of Jesus the Christ, who saw the victory of knowing us worth all
the suffering required of him. For his sake, I pray. Amen.
Senator Whitmire moved that the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of
yesterday be dispensed with and the Journal be approved as printed.
The motion prevailed without objection.
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