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George Miller is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 7th congressional district from 1975 until his retirement in 2015. During his tenure, Miller was known for his advocacy on issues such as education, labor rights, and environmental protection. He played a significant role in various legislative efforts, including the Younger Americans Act, which aimed to enhance opportunities for youth engagement and development. Miller was also a prominent voice for Puerto Rico's self-determination, emphasizing the importance of educating residents on their status options.
I am truly sorry that Members were not allowed to offer amendments dealing with the IMF. I think the points made both by the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan), chairman of the subcommittee, and by the gentlewoman from California (Ms…
the vote we take today to release the Starr report without the opportunity for the President to review and formulate his simultaneous response is fundamentally unfair. The charges alleged in this report are very grave. The admitted actions…
it is interesting, because we set up a commission that is going to make these judgments. It is no skin off their tail, because all they are doing is handing out public lands and Federal assets to solve what they perceive to be a problem…
I too want to put a letter into the Record from the head of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, which indicates his enforcement staff, unlike that from the gentleman from Illinois, in our dueling letters here, his enforcement…
I was reminded when the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) talked about people going in and out of this building, people go to the Federal buildings very often seeking help, compassion and understanding. Very often their arguments…
I rise in support of the Tierney amendment for clean campaigns. I want to commend the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays) who is here on the floor this morning and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Meehan) for all of their efforts…
I also want to raise concerns about the treatment of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act under the provisions of the amendment as written, and would hope that they would take into consideration the fact that that is the Federal regulatory…
let me correct what is being proposed this year by this polling plan of the President. He is intentionally not going to count 10 percent of the people initially. He is not going to go out and count everyone. In 1990, they tried to count…
No, that is not true. Reclaiming my time, that is absolutely not true. They are intentionally, intentionally going to not count 10 percent of the people and then use this ICM, this sample, to try to impute what the numbers are. That is…
I rise in support of his motion to instruct conferees to maintain the House position that he has offered. The House has passed a clean energy and water bill without controversy over antienvironmental legislative riders which have bogged…
Mr. Chairman, this is not an innocent effort. This is going around through the back door, because politically they are afraid to go through the front door because they were turned back by the American people. When the American people…
I want to join and associate myself with her remarks and to add a couple of my own, just to say that for 24 years I have served with the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Yates) about half as long as Mr. Yates has served, and I wish to say what…
Because, apparently, as they point out in the report, they anticipate this language, so they have taken a position. Rather than ratifying the practice, they will deal with it when they get to conference.
The point is this: We are not going to get into ratifying a practice that is just there because of sloppiness; that is just there because people do not want to live within the budget constraints that this Congress makes a determination…
So, Mr. Chairman, this is an effort to try to repair. Let us understand something. The Senate is at zero. The Senate has made a determination that this practice is an outrage; that this is contrary to everything that the authorizers in…
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…
Mr. Chairman, I think as the gentleman said, he shares our dismay at what we heard in the reports from GAO and from the Forest Service. Hopefully, their acknowledgment of that is the beginning of a change. But let me say in this case, and…
I think what has become very clear is that we have to start curbing these financial abuses by the Forest Service. This amendment does that. That is why this amendment has the support of not only the environmental groups but almost all of…
earlier this year three committees came together, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Committee on Resources, to hear about the problems, the financial problems of the U.S. Forest Service. The Committee on…
No, I never have been. Ten years ago we made a deal, Senator Stevens and I, and we said for 10 years, that that would be it on the Tongass. It was not a matter of months before riders started appearing on Senate appropriations bills…
it says no appropriated funds, whatever we end up determining is appropriated for new roads, that none of those appropriated funds would be used for new road construction.
Mr. Speaker, only in Washington, D.C. and inside the so-called beltway would this be considered a normal relationship. Unfortunately, when we talk about this normal relationship, we talk about the engagement of China. Every time this…
the gentleman will not because he has such great admiration for this team over there. We know what is coming from the other side. It is clearly a decision to try and to drive additional roads and additional cuts far beyond the market…
We have this wonderful agreement over here on the other side. I can hear the heart beating over there and it is 240 million board feet.
I think he makes an important point about this amendment. That is that due much to the activity of our committee chairman, who has the knack of getting people's attention in the bureaucracy, I think we are all very confident that this…
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