Rear Adm. Barry Black:profits tax on the largest oil companies. yesterday members voted against moving forward on the measure. now live to the senate floor. on c-span2. the chaplain: let us pray. our father in heaven, we

Rear Adm. Barry Black:thank you for the beautiful differences in the human family, for its varied shapes and sizes, its features and colors, its abilities and talents. deliver us from the forces that would destroy our unity

Rear Adm. Barry Black:by eliminating our diversity. bless the members of this body. help them in their debates to distinguish between substance and semantics, between rhetoric and reality. free them from personal and partisan

Rear Adm. Barry Black:preoccupations that would defeat their aspirations and deprive americans of just and equitable solutions. may our lawmakers avoid the works of darkness and put on your armor of light. we pray in your holy

Rear Adm. Barry Black:name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it

Harry Reid:stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c, june 11 2008. to the