George Miller

It is deeply distressing that public servants who are administering and enforcing the law are subjected to such hostile circumstances that they are forced to leave their jobs and homes.

Rather than perpetuate the disregard and disdain for the government and its laws, I urge my colleagues to use their good offices to create a climate of decency and cooperation.

Gloria Flora, forest Supervisor of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada resigned last week, citing relentless 'fed-bashing.'

We all owe Ted a debt of gratitude for his successful and tireless efforts to preserve and protect precious lands in the Bay Area for generations of Californians.

Ted has been a member of the Board's Executive, Finance and Workforce Diversity Committees, the Contra Costa Water District/EBRPD Liaison Committee, and many others.

He has played a pivotal role in the acquisition of a number of key regional parks and trails, significantly contributing to the Park District's acreage increasing by 40,000 acres since 1978.

I know I speak for all the Members of this chamber when I congratulate Ted Radke for his 20 years of service to the East Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors.

The city of Vallejo simply desires to 'wheel' some of its drinking water through part of the canal.

water supplies for California cities are extremely limited.

Allowing Vallejo to use the Solano Project should be a simple matter, but it is not.

Today I am introducing the 'Tribal Self-Governance Amendments of 1999' and am pleased that 22 of our colleagues have cosponsored the legislation.

the gentleman wants to suggest that under his bill everyone is going to qualify. We know there are about 17 States that are prepared to go. If a State is going to do this right, let us not pretend like they are going to do it this school…

The problem with the bill, and why we have the amendment, is that under the gentleman's they do not have to have it done, they have to make substantial progress toward it. They can have interim assessments, so we will not be able to judge…

I thank the committee so much for bringing this legislation to the floor. We truly honor a man of great character, of great integrity and of great dignity with the naming of this building for our former colleague, Congressman Ron Dellums…

The Congress cannot continue to irresponsibly ignore the worsening crisis or the exploitation of tens of thousands of foreign workers on American soil.

Numerous reports by journalists and the media, human rights workers, Federal agencies, religious organizations, and the administrations of Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton have documented widespread human rights abuses suffered by…

Today forty seven of our colleagues join Mr. Spratt and myself in introducing the Insular Fair Wage and Human Rights Act of 1999 which will permit the U.S. territory of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (U.S./ CNMI) to be…

The U.S./CNMI has morphed into an offshore sweatshop, wrapping itself in the American flag to circumvent quota restrictions and escape payment of hundreds of millions of dollars in duties on imported garments.

We owe it to the taxpayers of the United States, to the textile workers of this country who are enduring unfair competition, and to the garment workers and other foreign workers in Saipan who are being forced to experience a distasteful…

The bill I introduce today will crack down on the enormous, mostly foreign-owned garment industry that employ thousands of foreign workers to sew foreign fabric into garments bearing the 'Made in USA' label which is then shipped to the…

Farm SAFE will require large livestock operations to do their part to reduce water pollution.

Today I introduced legislation to address the most important source of water pollution facing our country--polluted runoff.

The bill improves water quality monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting so that the public knows which CAFOs are polluting.

I hope that this Congress does not continue to ignore this growing national problem.

I am encouraged by recent efforts by the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency to address pollution from animal feedlots.