George Miller: “I want to join and associate myself with her remarks and to add a couple of my own, just to say that for 24 years I have…”

“I want to join and associate myself with her remarks and to add a couple of my own, just to say that for 24 years I have served with the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Yates) about half as long as Mr. Yates has served, and I wish to say what an incredible pleasure it has been for me as a public servant to watch him and to admire his beliefs in our public institutions. I know him as one deeply involved in the issues of this subcommittee, the Interior and natural resources issues and the arts and the cultural issues. He has witnessed many political trends and political fads and schemes of popularity and unpopularity. But I think what we have seen is that he has stood fast for a great portion for the protection of not only our free speech and our free expression, but the protection and the preservation of our culture and our history in the way that no other Member of Congress has. He embodies the very, very best, the very, very best in public service.”