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Members said, “We’re not going to leave. We’re not going to be a government in flight.
We’re going to stay here” and the police then stepped in, “No, we really want you to leave.”
Well, and this was the wrong time for a fracture, it seemed,
but it was, it was really heating up. They wanted them to leave,
the Members did not want to leave, and,
and they’d ask me to begin that with a prayer. And I stepped in—I usually never step into things.
I always wait for, to be invited. But I stepped in and I said,
“I think we should just talk this out and maybe we should end this session with, with some prayer.”
And in time, they, they decided that the four leaders would come—
two from the House, two from the Senate—both sides being represented on the steps,
and everybody agreed, we’ll be back here before that.
So that became kind of the reconciling moment. So then we asked, then I said,
“Well okay, well now before we all go our separate ways for a couple of hours,
why don’t we end with some prayers?” Maybe people wanted to bring,
some people started reading some scripture passages. Others prayed silently.
And I said, “And then I’ll just end with a blessing.”
And as they were praying, it came to me, “God Bless America.”
And so I, I said, “Do you remember this song?” and, and I started the song, and,
and then we, we left. I gave a blessing, and everybody dispersed.