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George Miller: we have got to understand the kind of time that these people are giving the Government, and now apparently if they are…

On the recordJuly 13, 1995
we have got to understand the kind of time that these people are giving the Government, and now apparently if they are not associated with the USGS, they will still be allowed to do that. They could do it for NASA, they could do it in the fields of education, they could do it at NIH, they can do it everywhere else in the Government, but we are not going to let them wade into our streams and put a beaker down and pick up some water and take it to the laboratory. We are not going to let them pick a little bit of flowers or identify a bird even though they may be the best people in the Nation identifying the bird.
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George Miller
Democratic · California

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Discussing restrictions on scientific research and environmental sampling.

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