George Miller: “My understanding in this legislation is that this legislation was introduced just 2 weeks ago, and obviously we have not…”

“My understanding in this legislation is that this legislation was introduced just 2 weeks ago, and obviously we have not had hearings nor markups on this bill. Yet what we are doing is we are committing the resources of the National Park System to assist and to help operate what is an interpretive center in Cincinnati, and yet the center has not been built. We do not know the extent of those obligations, and we are creating something now called an affiliated area. The gentleman on the other side of the aisle has very often spoken in the committee and on the floor about the continued spreading of the resources of the National Park Service, given their budgetary problems and the backlogs and all of the other issues they are confronted with, and here we are being asked to commit to something that for the moment does not exist, may never exist, but if it does exist, we do not know the extent of the commitment to which we are asking. Mr. Speaker, I just think that the gentleman is correct in opposing this legislation, since we do not even quite yet understand what the center is going to do.”