George Miller: “This amendment is not about whether or not people or corporations get to come to the United States to work their trades…”

“This amendment is not about whether or not people or corporations get to come to the United States to work their trades, which sounds very noble. This is an amendment about whether or not those corporations, when they come to America to work their trade, ought to continue to receive a Federal subsidy. It is just that simple. This is about whether or not on the Federal lands that are owned by all of the people of the United States in which people lease those lands for the purposes of engaging in grazing, whether or not those Federal, those foreign corporations ought to pay their way. This is simply about whether they should pay their way. The notion that somehow this is not done because of the Taylor Grazing Act, the fact of the matter is, the IG's report points out that, specifically with respect to the Japanese corporation, that it is a Japanese-owned company that is operated in Montana. So this is being done. They ought to just pay their way. That is all we are asking. Just pay what grazers pay the State of California, the State of Colorado, the State of Idaho for the use of those lands and end the Federal subsidies to those people who are among the very largest of the grazers within this program. This is not about being against people who come here and work hard. It is about large corporations that have their own wherewithal coming here and being entitled to a Federal subsidy. That is what has got to stop.”