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Minnesota House reads resolution recognizing National Day of Prayer for May 1, 2025
Summary
The Minnesota House of Representatives read a resolution recognizing May 1, 2025, as the National Day of Prayer and commending the observance to state citizens; the resolution was presented through a series of "Whereas" statements, with no roll-call vote recorded in the provided transcript.
The Minnesota House of Representatives read a House resolution recognizing May 1, 2025, as the National Day of Prayer and commended the observance to the state's citizens.
Representative Mueller introduced the resolution on the House floor, saying, "Today, May 1, is, we are celebrating and honoring the National Day of Prayer." Members of the House read a sequence of "Whereas" clauses describing the history and scope of the observance, including references to the first Continental Congress in 1775 and federal legislation enacted in 1988 that designated the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer.
The resolution text presented to the House stated that May 1, 2025, marked the 74th consecutive observance and described interfaith participation at places of worship and civic locations. The text also said the observance includes prayer for members of the armed services, families of those who have died, and people suffering from disease and addiction. The resolution concluded: "Be it resolved by the committee on rules and legislative administration of the house of representatives of the state of Minnesota that it recognizes 05/01/2025 as a day of prayer in the State of Minnesota and commends this observance to all its citizens." Representative Mueller closed the presentation by thanking the speaker.
The transcript does not record a separate roll-call vote or a formal voice vote on the resolution in the provided excerpt. Earlier and later procedural items were recorded: the journal of the preceding day was approved as corrected by the chief clerk and reports of standing committees were adopted after the chair indicated "hearing no objection." Later in the session, Representative Nyska moved a recess "to the call of the speaker," which the House put into effect after a voice vote.
The reading occurred during the House's formal session in St. Paul and was limited to the text of the resolution and the standard prefatory "Whereas" clauses; no policy changes, funding decisions, or program directives were attached to the resolution in the transcript.
Votes at a glance: - Approval of previous day's journal: approved (recorded as "approved as corrected by the chief clerk" in the transcript). - Reports of standing committees: adopted (noted in transcript after "hearing no objection"). - House resolution recognizing National Day of Prayer (05/01/2025): read into the record; vote/result not specified in the provided transcript. - Motion to recess to the call of the speaker (mover: Representative Nyska): approved by voice vote; no roll-call tally in transcript.
The session also included second readings of several house and senate files and the first reading/introduction of House files numbered 3279 through 3288; those items were recorded as procedural readings in the transcript without debate or vote results shown in the excerpt provided.
