George Miller: “The value they placed on their property, their plant and their equipment was erroneous; they do not know if that is…”

“The value they placed on their property, their plant and their equipment was erroneous; they do not know if that is really what it is worth. $7.8 billion, and $215 million in expenditures, and we do not know if it is accurate or not. We have no way of knowing that. Why? Because over a period of time these funds were created, they were off budget, and they started using them as a slush fund for all of these purposes for which they no longer then had to account. And due to the work of the three committees, and they should be commended for this effort, this has now been exposed and this now has to be changed around. And because of those hearings, the Senate has made a determination that this is going to stop. This is going to stop. They are not going to use 30 percent of the money that people expect to be put on the ground to reforest our lands, to be committed to a wish list from people beyond their allotted administrative overhead.”