George Miller

I appreciate there is nothing in this bill, but we already know that the Senate is mandating more than doubling the cut of 240 million board feet. This is the Soviet Union saying we are going to cut this. There is no market. The price is…

we have an opportunity to do it right. One of the reasons this has been so extensive is because my colleagues on the other side, rightfully so, we were doing this in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta in the Central Valley of California, the…

let me just say if this was the World Wrestling Federation, this tag team from Alaska would be the world's champions.

I understand that. And that is the whole budget. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula) has been besieged by people all day who said the real cost of this is $350 million. He only had $26 million. We are going to do the best we can. This…

Apparently my amendment is going to lay off 600 people. The gentleman's bill does not have any money in it for new roads to begin with. We are down to $1 million nationwide. So let us not pretend like somebody cares about people, and other…

They were talking about reforestation and how soon these trees would grow back. So we were looking, as the gentleman said, at 500-year-old trees and 400-year-old trees, and there were people from the forestry industry that said, ``See all…

I have been working on UPARR for many years, both on the resources side and on the crime bill side, and the only reason we are tapping this account is that this account is now building up an amount that is supposed to be matched on an…

Many of our colleagues on the other side and many on our side have talked about multiple use. For the first time we are talking about real multiple use that recognizes the watershed value of these forests, that recognizes the timber value…

I would just want to commend the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Furse) for offering her amendment. Persistence is a word that we will long identify with her in this effort. The gentlewoman from Oregon and the gentleman from Massachusetts…

if we go back into our childhoods, we all know the value of a coach, the value of the mentor, the value of the after-school recreation director that helped us get over some trouble spots when we were young children, when we were…

Nobody has been more diligent in trying to warn this Congress and the country about the backlog in the national parks and in the public lands with respect to maintenance and even, to some extent, and clearly, in acquisition. But let me say…

I rise to offer this important amendment to the Interior appropriations bill which will provide urgently needed recreation and after-school opportunities for our Nation's youth. This amendment will rejuvenate the Urban Park Recreation and…

Mr. Speaker, this amendment has been described earlier in the debate. It is offered on behalf of myself and the gentleman from California (Mr. Brown). The purpose of this amendment, somebody said they want to be plain speaking, is let us…

reclaiming my time, let me back up here then. My problem is we are preauthorizing in this legislation. What are we authorizing it from? We were going to authorize it from the land and water conservation fund. Now what are we authorizing it…

I think the gentleman amends proposed section 101(g)(4), which does what the gentleman said it does. But in another section of the bill, in section 102(e) and section 201(d), there is additional monies coming from the land and water…

I hope that this debate does not get redundant, because I think there is a point at which, obviously, both parties to this debate believe that these studies should, in fact, be conducted so that we can make some determinations about how to…

First of all, let us understand that the timetables for the studies is identically the same. The difference is that we asked for a coordination of the scientific studies and the salinity studies to see whether or not we can, in fact, come…

the troubles of the Salton Sea are not new to any of us in California. In fact, the Salton Sea has had serious biological problems for many years. They have been well publicized fish kills and die-offs of migratory waterfowl that raise…

the gentleman knows my first preference was to remove the exemption from the legislation. We were then asked technically on how you would do it if you were going to do it the way you wanted to do it, and we said that is how you would do it…

let me just say in closing on this amendment, I think what this amendment does is it ensures the probability that this legislation will become law, and that we can get on with curing the problems of the Salton Sea. It also ensures that…

This rule is designed to delay, continue the delay, and to destroy the ability to have campaign finance reform. It has been said here often that it is death by amendment. That is what is seeking to be done here. I would hope we would…

I rise in support of H.R. 3035 which would establish an advisory commission to provide advice and recommendations to help create a coordinated federal drought mitigation and response policy. Currently, droughts tend to receive minimal…

I am pleased to have brought this bill to the floor today. My bill extends by 2 years the life of the California Advisory Council on Indian Policy, which was created by legislation back in the 102nd Congress. The bill was unanimously…

as a cosponsor of H.R. 1635, I am pleased that this legislation has finally come to the floor of the House of Representatives for consideration. Although it has been a long and overdue process, I am happy to note that H.R. 1635 now has the…

it is very clear what is going on here this morning. The Republican budget process has failed. They cannot reach agreement among themselves, and they have now been forced to cut tens of billions of dollars out of programs serving the most…