George Miller: “I would just want to commend the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Furse) for offering her amendment. Persistence is a word…”

“I would just want to commend the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Furse) for offering her amendment. Persistence is a word that we will long identify with her in this effort. The gentlewoman from Oregon and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), who was here earlier, have been two very, very persistent people who have started off in amendments that received very few votes. The gentlewoman did it on the rider. The gentleman from Massachusetts has done it on forest roads. We saw this Congress arrive at a point where both of those policies have been discredited. They have been dramatically changed. And as was pointed out, we are headed in a direction now for the first time with this agreement that recognizes what I believe is the reality of the forests, the reality of the West.”