Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 296
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HOUSE JOURNAL
SEVENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, REGULAR SESSION
PROCEEDINGS
FOURTEENTH DAY - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2005
The house met at 10 a.m. and was called to order by the speaker.
The roll of the house was called and a quorum was announced present
(Record 23).
Present Mr. Speaker; Allen, A.; Allen, R.; Alonzo; Anchia; Anderson;
Bailey; Baxter; Berman; Blake; Bohac; Bonnen; Branch; Brown, B.; Brown, F.;
Burnam; Callegari; Campbell; Casteel; Castro; Chavez; Chisum; Coleman; Cook,
B.; Cook, R.; Corte; Crabb; Crownover; Davis, J.; Davis, Y.; Dawson; Delisi;
Denny; Deshotel; Driver; Dukes; Dunnam; Dutton; Edwards; Eiland; Eissler;
Elkins; Escobar; Farabee; Farrar; Flores; Flynn; Frost; Gallego; Gattis; Geren;
Giddings; Gonzales; Gonzalez Toureilles; Goodman; Goolsby; Griggs;
Grusendorf; Guillen; Haggerty; Hamilton; Hamric; Hardcastle; Harper-Brown;
Hartnett; Hegar; Herrero; Hilderbran; Hill; Hochberg; Hodge; Homer; Hope;
Hopson; Howard; Hughes; Hunter; Hupp; Isett; Jackson; Jones, D.; Jones, J.;
Keel; Keffer, B.; Keffer, J.; King, P.; King, T.; Kolkhorst; Krusee; Kuempel;
Laney; Laubenberg; Leibowitz; Luna; Madden; Martinez Fischer; McCall;
McClendon; McReynolds; Menendez; Merritt; Miller; Moreno, J.; Moreno, P.;
Morrison; Mowery; Naishtat; Nixon; Noriega, M.; Oliveira; Olivo; Orr; Otto;
Paxton; Pefia; Phillips; Pickett; Pitts; Puente; Quintanilla; Raymond; Reyna;
Riddle; Ritter; Rodriguez; Rose; Seaman; Smith, T.; Smith, W.; Smithee; Solis;
Solomons; Strama; Talton; Taylor; Thompson; Truitt; Turner; Uresti; Van
Arsdale; Veasey; Villarreal; Vo; West; Wong; Woolley; Zedler.
Absent, Excused - Martinez; Swinford.
The invocation was offered by Bron L. Barkley, pastor, Shalom Hebraic
Christian Congregation, Kingwood, as follows:
Mr. Speaker and members. It is my great honor to serve you today on behalf
of my esteemed friend and colleague, Representative Debbie Riddle of Houston.
It has been suggested to me that I give a brief explanation before my prayer
so that its unusual nature may not seem strange to any present. I have been an
evangelical Christian minister for over 32 years, all but four of those as a pastor.
For the last ten years I have had the signal privilege to minister in an intercultural
way as a connective link between the traditional Jewish world and the traditional
Christian world, especially helping Christians understand the Jewish roots of the
faith. This has occasioned an immersion for me into much that is Jewish,
including the founding of several ministries that for Christians is what is properly
styled "Hebraic". This Hebraic aspect of the ancient Christian faith is what will be
seen in the opening of my prayer today. I will offer a Hebrew blessing that
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