John Tanner said "Some of us sometimes feel like a canary in a coal mine. They send a canary in a coal mine to see if it can live because of the gases and so forth. We have been talking about this, the Blue Dogs and others, for at least a year. I think maybe with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm), what he said about USA Today, maybe we are getting through now and people are beginning to see. As I said earlier, the citizens of this country need to know this. I do not think they really fully know, because nobody has talked that much about it, but we are on a road to financial Armageddon. What we are doing around here is just plain wrong." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordOctober 4, 2004

Some of us sometimes feel like a canary in a coal mine. They send a canary in a coal mine to see if it can live because of the gases and so forth. We have been talking about this, the Blue Dogs and others, for at least a year. I think maybe with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm), what he said about USA Today, maybe we are getting through now and people are beginning to see. As I said earlier, the citizens of this country need to know this. I do not think they really fully know, because nobody has talked that much about it, but we are on a road to financial Armageddon. What we are doing around here is just plain wrong.

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John Tanner

Tennessee

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Editor's note · Context

Addressing concerns about the financial state of the country during a discussion with colleagues.

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