[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13599]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               WELCOMING REVEREND W. DOUGLAS TANNER, JR.

  (Mr. LEWIS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, our guest chaplain for the morning 
is the Reverend Doug Tanner. Doug Tanner is a Methodist minister, 
native of the great State of North Carolina, a man of great faith, a 
man of dedication, a man of commitment.
  Doug Tanner was inspired by God Almighty to do what I call get in the 
way. Somehow and some way he was touched, not just by the spirit of 
history, but by the spirit of the Almighty to find a way to bring 
Members together, both Democrats and Republicans, both Members of the 
House and Members of the Senate. Doug was inspired to become the 
founding father of Faith and Politics. Through this organization, 
through this effort, he has been a blessing to many of us.
  So, Reverend Doug Tanner, we want to thank you for being here today, 
but we want to thank you for helping all of us to become better people 
of faith.
  Many of our colleagues may not know that many of us get together with 
you from time to time to put our faith in action. You have led many of 
us to go back to Alabama and visit the historic sites of the civil 
rights movement; to go to Tennessee and do likewise; to go to 
Farmville, Virginia; to go to South Africa. Again, we want to thank you 
for helping us to be reconciled to others.
  When historians pick up their pen and write about this period during 
this part of our congressional lives, they will have to say that the 
Reverend Doug Tanner made a lasting contribution to the cause of 
justice, to the cause of freedom, and made each one of us better human 
beings and better legislators and better individuals of faith. I thank 
the Reverend.

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