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Mike Johnson: “That date marks exactly two and a half centuries since our…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson gives Special Order Floor Remarks

Published | Video Starts at 00:31

It's this weekend. It's this weekend on May 17 that our country is going to mark the national jubilee of the prayer, praise and thanksgiving. And as he noted, That date marks exactly two and a half centuries since our founders met in the Second Continental Congress and declared a day of, yes, humiliation, fasting and prayer to ask for God's guidance and the cause of freedom. I think it is an appropriate way to say it. We ought to begin with repentance. And they recognized it back then. (00:31–00:46)

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Asserts that May 17 marks 250 years since the Second Continental Congress declared a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer.

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