George Miller: “I just wish the gentlemen would show some of the courtesy that they complain so hard about. We have rules of debate in…”

“I just wish the gentlemen would show some of the courtesy that they complain so hard about. We have rules of debate in this House. Nobody is going to preclude you. You will be yielded to. You do not have to interrupt the gentleman from California. We can go along in regular order, and we can hash this out, and we can have our votes, and you will win and lose. The gentleman from California [Mr. Thomas] came here and said he had a time problem. He wanted to know if I was going to recognize members of the committee first. I said, ``Bill, go ahead and offer your amendment. You have got to go to the Ways and Means Committee. You have the trade representative over there. Fine, go ahead.'' This is a wonderful response to that kind of courtesy, to that kind of deference. But we have come to expect it from the other side. The fact is we will shortly, when this debate ends, we will accept the amendment of the gentleman from California [Mr. Thomas] as modified by my amendment, which will allow the road to go through, if necessary, if the technology proves itself out, and in fact this land based is needed, so that is what has been going on here. At some point I would hope we would vote on the amendment to the amendment as perfected.”