Madam Speaker, we must stop the Smith forest bill because it is not about forest health, it is about a waste of the taxpayers' money and it is about devastation of our national environment, of our national forests. We should not give $250 million more to an agency that cannot account and cannot find and cannot tell us how they spent the $250 million we gave them last year.
Opposing funding for the Forest Service due to accountability issues and environmental concerns.
Share
More from George Miller
This bill will do much more harm than good and we cannot afford to cause any further damage to an ecosystem that is oversubscribed and in jeopardy.
The approach we have put forward, which is backed by business and labor leaders, will secure the multiemployer pension system for millions of current and future retirees' inputs.
Let's just fix the problems with it. Let's don't start from scratch and rewrite the whole law.
The nature of Self-Governance is rooted in the inherent sovereignty of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes.
Other voices in this conversation
