George Miller: “this may be a painful biography to point out, but it is an important one, because it goes to the character of this…”

“this may be a painful biography to point out, but it is an important one, because it goes to the character of this amendment and it goes to the character of the company behind this amendment. Because every time this company has engaged a regulatory agency of this Government, the FDIC, who is worried about his banking practices, he has encountered them in court. The Office of Thrift Supervision, which was dealing with the taxpayers money, he has encountered them in court. The California Forest Practices Board, he has encountered them in court. And the Federal judge on forest practices, he has encountered them in court. This man has engaged every law that he has been involved with in his company, and he has essentially violated them all or been charged with violating them all by regulatory agencies and the courts of this country. So what good does he do? He comes to the Congress of the United States, and to suggest that somehow the Members of this body, the Members of this body can be conned into allowing him to do something which nobody else gets to do in California, the Pacific Northwest, in dealing with the problems of our environment, he simply gets to escape his responsibility under the law. He simply escapes his responsibility under the law. Now, they put a couple of families in the lifeboat with him to decorate it up, but the captain and the crew is Mr. Hurwitz and Pacific Lumber Co.…”