Senate Chaplain Barry Black on Monday offered a pointed prayer, saying he hopes lawmakers remember that "no gold medals given" for breaking shutdown records.

“Eternal God, our king, when our children and grandchildren want to know what we were doing in the 119th Congress, during the famous shutdown, may we not have to give these answers: ‘I helped set a new record for keeping the government closed,’ ‘I failed to appeal to the better angels of my nature,’ ‘I forgot Matthew 7:12, which states, ‘Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you,’” Black said Monday in the Senate.

“This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and prophets. Lord remind our lawmakers that no gold medals are given for breaking shutdown records, but a crown of righteousness is given to those who tak

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