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The Congressional Prayer Caucus has worked successfully to advocate for and protect values that are fundamental to the fabric of our nation, and I'm honored to serve as co-chairman.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.