George Miller

do not use this amendment to suggest that we can dramatically change their educational experience. Do not do that. Stand up and say what it is really about. It is about the undermining of the wage enforcement, hours enforcement, of…

the cancer of soft money that is growing on our political system continues, and the cancer of soft money that is corrupting and ruining our ability to govern this Nation is continuing. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times pointed out that…

I would just say that in a number of these programs, one of the interesting by-products we are having is that the number of children that are later eligible for special education is substantially reduced because, by concentrating on basic…

I say one of the Hopkins' programs, again one of the successes they have is they now have parents coming to the school, participating in their education. If they work, the parents are coming to the school, dropping their children off…

Let me just say I think the gentleman from Illinois and the gentleman from Wisconsin have put it quite properly. We have spent, as the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Goodling] and I who sit on the committee, billions and billions of…

If we are going to spend $150 million of the public's money, we have some obligation to spend it in that area where we have some evidence that it will be an effective expenditure of the moneys. These kinds of reforms that are suggested in…

I believe there is no more important issue for this Congress to address in the waning hours than the need to reform our corrupt campaign finance laws. As my colleagues will recall, many of us have called upon Speaker Gingrich to schedule a…

The suggestion of the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Saxton] that somehow this is an effort to defund CAMPFIRE is just outrageous in the sense that the gentleman understands, if he reads the amendment, it is a very simple amendment and…

these limited sales from existing stockpiles can go forward, but not with the dollars that nearly 90 percent of the Americans do not want expended for that purpose. For 8 years U.S. taxpayers have supported CAMPFIRE, and I would hope that…

over 2 years ago the gentleman from Georgia, Speaker Gingrich, and President Clinton shook hands saying they wanted to reform the campaign finance system in this country. A bipartisan group of Members of Congress wrote the President the…

as the ongoing Senate hearings and news reports have revealed, both parties are circumventing our campaign finance laws to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in soft money. The time has come to ban soft money. Over 2 years ago the…

I rise in support of H.R. 2203, making appropriations for energy and water development for fiscal year 1998. This bill provides funds for critical flood control and navigation projects in Contra Costa County and the San Francisco Bay Area…

As the press now starts to report and to analyze the Republican tax cut legislation, the reviews are coming in from across the country and from independent journalists. What we now see is a recognition that what the Republican bill does is…

the industry has got to be reluctant to allow EPA in because EPA has another function. OSHA has another function. That is, in fact, they have to fine them or deal with the industries in a regulatory sense if they see these flaws. And yet…

Mr. Chairman, in January of this year a hydrocracker reactor exploded at an oil refinery in my district and killed a worker, Michael Glanzman, and injured 44 others in a blast that could be felt 20 miles away. The year before that, again…

The criteria mentioned follows: Criteria for Rural Exception Under H.R. 1818 The court, in deciding whether to place a juvenile in an adult jail, should consider the following: The potential impact on the juvenile's general welfare from…

Again, for a State to be in compliance under the bill, a juvenile in a rural area shall be detained in a juvenile facility unless the judge consults with the juvenile and his attorney and receives the consent of the juvenile's parent…

The Wall Street Journal this morning tells the wealthy what to do. Ready, get set, here is how to profit from your big cut in capital gains. What the Journal describes is how the rich can manipulate their income so they avoid paying the…

Seriously, Mr. Chairman, let me say to the gentleman that I think he is making a terribly important and valid point and that is why I alluded to, in my remarks, that I wished when the deal was cut they had spent some time with people who…

it is an interesting refutation we just heard. What we heard is that with respect to people who are struggling to get off of welfare, the Republicans are prepared to take care of old disabled people. We thought they would do that anyway…

Sixty-one percent of the American people now understand that the Republican tax bill gives most of the benefits to wealthy corporations and to wealthy individuals. What is the Republicans' response to this fact? The response is to go out…

Mr. Chairman, let me say at the outset that there is no question that the gentlewoman from Idaho and the gentleman from Alaska, the chairman of our committee, have worked very hard on this legislation, as have the people of the Quincy…

Mr. Chairman, I think what is becoming clear in this debate is there is clearly an agreement in terms of purpose and intent, I believe, essentially among all parties to this legislation; that is, that we ought to try and see as to whether…

I think this rule is incredibly unfair given the complexity and the controversy surrounding this legislation that the Committee on Rules would deem that we can only have one amendment when in fact this is a multifaceted bill which now…

yesterday was luncheon, today it is legislation, tomorrow it is frightening to think of what it could mean. I appreciate the gentleman's cooperation, and I want to thank him for how hard he has worked on this legislation. As he has pointed…