George Miller: “each and every Member was entitled to offer those amendments. We made our case for preprinting of the amendments because…”

“each and every Member was entitled to offer those amendments. We made our case for preprinting of the amendments because of this very exact point that the gentleman from California [Mr. Thomas] stands there with the map. We needed to know the impact of the amendments on the land base which is the subject of this legislation. We are able to go to the map and look at this. In this case, the gentleman from California [Mr. Thomas] makes a case that is far more expensive if you have to build a road through the mountains. At the same time we want to also make sure that, you know, we have problems with this and concerns with this bill and issues that have been raised all along the boundaries, because the boundaries have to be drawn somewhere. So that was the purpose of preprinting, not to preclude Members' rights to offer amendments. We have some 60 amendments, I think, that were offered.”