George Miller: “The fact is, that is being rejected. That is being rejected throughout the country. Each and every time, as the public…”

“The fact is, that is being rejected. That is being rejected throughout the country. Each and every time, as the public learns more and more about what this agenda was, what the ramifications of this contract were on regulatory reform, on environmental laws, on the nutrition laws, on our education program, that has been rejected, and it is being rejected overwhelmingly. We ought not to go back to those days, because in fact our communities have benefited from these environmental laws, our elderly have benefited from programs like Medicare, and poor populations have benefited from the Medicaid. We just cannot go back in this country. That is really what the contract was about. It is about what the first year was about. It is what the shutdown was about. It was about if you do not let us, to go back to a time without Medicare, without Medicaid, without nutrition, we are going to shut down the Government.”