George Miller: “Mr. Chairman, I think as the gentleman said, he shares our dismay at what we heard in the reports from GAO and from the…”

“Mr. Chairman, I think as the gentleman said, he shares our dismay at what we heard in the reports from GAO and from the Forest Service. Hopefully, their acknowledgment of that is the beginning of a change. But let me say in this case, and I did not as I said in my statement, I believe that all of these should be brought on budget and the appropriators should have some say in how this is being done. But this last time, it was 35 percent. The committee says 25 percent. That level of overhead is just unacceptable when we are struggling to do the reforestation programs that we all know are necessary as part of watershed management and going back and trying to correct some mistakes and all the rest of it. I would urge the gentleman from Oregon to have his hearings and to have the authorizing committees make these things, but also I guess we are at the end of the session here. This is the beginning of the fiscal year. I still think that this amendment is very important if we are going to stop this.”