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George Miller: in good faith, this is the problem: We once had a little tiny authorization for Steamtown and now we could not stop it…

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996
in good faith, this is the problem: We once had a little tiny authorization for Steamtown and now we could not stop it with a gun. It is costing us millions and millions of dollars. It is a little bit of an operation. Once this project is authorized, unfortunately, the history we have is that the best intentioned groups eventually want some Federal participation, subsidy, however you want to call it. This authorizes operating agreements. That is how we got the Kennedy Center. Pretty soon we were running the whole Kennedy Center, and it was supposed to be done by private individuals. The gentleman from Utah knows this is the history. We start out with a couple of sentences and we end up spending millions.
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George Miller
Democratic · California

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Discussing the financial implications of federal authorization for the Steamtown project.

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