George Miller: “Members, the press, and the public should understand the cynical and dangerous strategy being pursued by the Republican…”

“Members, the press, and the public should understand the cynical and dangerous strategy being pursued by the Republican majority on this bill. The Republican plan, like this legislation, is not designed to improve management of the Department of the interior, or even the laws and policies administered by that Department. Instead, it is intended to wreak havoc with the environmental laws, the resource management laws, the species protection laws that we have implemented over the past quarter century to protect the land, the health and the safety of the American people. The Republican majority offers up a new rule, a more restrictive rule, to cut off debate and limit our ability to learn what is in this bill or to offer alternatives to it. The Republican majority claims this new rule is designed to make the House proceed more efficiently. That is untrue. It is designed to allow them to undermine, subvert, and repeal basic environmental, management and safety laws without giving dissenting Members--and the public--a reasonable opportunity to learn what their legislation would do.”