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George Miller: “Again, Mr. Speaker, I want to award a fig leaf to the gentleman from Colorado who has voted five out of five times…”

On the recordApril 23, 1996
Again, Mr. Speaker, I want to award a fig leaf to the gentleman from Colorado who has voted five out of five times against improving our environment and allowing arsenic to continue in the drinking water of children and against adequate funding for cleaning up the Nation's toxic waste program and to continue to allow corporate polluters to dump up to 70,000 chemicals in our Nation's rivers and lakes. The gentleman has a perfect score of five for five that he was on the wrong side of the environment, and he earned his fig leaf.
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George Miller
Democratic · California

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Criticizing a colleague's voting record on environmental issues.

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