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George Miller: Madam Speaker, we must stop the Smith forest bill because it is not about forest health, it is about a waste of the…

On the recordMarch 27, 1998
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.
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George Miller
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Opposing funding for the Forest Service due to accountability issues and environmental concerns.

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