George Miller: “I always knew the gentleman from Ohio was never a rubber stamp for our President, but let me just say that in this…”

“I always knew the gentleman from Ohio was never a rubber stamp for our President, but let me just say that in this budget we do an awful lot for local communities, because the forest monies we talked about earlier go to schools and public maintenance out west. We may not want to talk about that in the rest of the country, but the fact of the matter is this entire budget deals with local governments and we can choose. This is a priority. The gentleman may not like this priority, but this is a priority of the American people because this is about their neighborhoods and about crime. All of the evidence is starting to emerge that these are facilities that our neighborhoods need. That is why this program is included in the crime bill, too. The gentleman might have voted against that, but the fact of the matter is that is what the police chiefs and others have said they wanted in their arsenal to fight crime and to work with young people. I would hope the gentleman would take this and support this amendment.”