George Miller: “My concern, and I think the concern of others, is that recognizing that in both the House and Senate there has been…”

“My concern, and I think the concern of others, is that recognizing that in both the House and Senate there has been strong bipartisan support for the underlying bill of the Presidio, but as is sometimes true to their nature, the Senate has added some 34 unrelated titles to the bill, some of which have not had hearings in our committee. That traditionally has opened the door for others who seek to have the same courtesy extended to them to add bills when we are in conference. Mr. Speaker, my concern is that hopefully there will be some ground rules to the controversy of those items that might be added. I think most of the items currently in either the Senate or in the House bill are essentially noncontroversial. My concern is that as people start to see that this bill has a chance to leave the Congress and go to the President, more and more people will want to jump in the boat here, and we will start taking on water, and all of a sudden we will find out this boat cannot handle it.”