George Miller

the point is this. The point is that the American public is treated on a daily basis to account after account after account where money buys you privilege in the House of Representatives among the leadership and it buys you access. That…

not only will the Republicans not bring campaign finance reform to the floor, but their rhetoric today tells us how far away they are from what is happening in America. They want to suggest that the existing system is just fine, that it is…

There is a very fundamental, a very fundamental difference between these two pieces of legislation. We believe that one of the fundamental differences is about really preserving the truly voluntary choice by the employee, about truly…

Mr. Chairman, we offer this substitute, many of my colleagues on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, we offer this substitute because we do not believe that the legislation before us meets the test of flexibility, that it meets…

Mr. Chairman, these are tough times for many Americans as they struggle to make ends meet while balancing the challenges of work and a family. Families rightly seek greater flexibility and paycheck protection to meet their obligations at…

I said this is about $14 million. Nobody has suggested that the district pay $14 million. What I have suggested is that we have some independent voices and an appraisal of what this district ought to pay for the benefit it received. As I…

The top priority of this Congress ought to be to get its house in order, and the cancer that is spreading throughout this institution and is spreading throughout our Government is the lack of decent, open, and fair ways to finance our…

I too agree with the gentleman from Michigan that this is about our priorities and this rule is about our priorities. One hundred and eleven Members of this Congress... wrote to the Speaker of the House and asked that we have campaign…

like so many of my other colleagues, I am deeply distressed that we continue to live in a country as wealthy as the United States of America and we continue to have 10 million of our children without health coverage, 1 in 7 children in…

many of this Nation's governors are amazing. For the last 2 years they have been coming to Washington and telling anyone who would listen that they could reform the welfare system with one hand behind their back. They said they could do…

one of most important items on the agenda of this Congress is campaign finance reform. Until we are able to reform this system, we will not regain the confidence of the American people that there is a level playing field in the Congress of…

earlier this week this Congress and the Nation watched as the Republican leadership and the Speaker of this House bargained with, negotiated with, and twisted the arms of the members of the Republican caucus to support the Speaker to be…

I rise in support of S. 1973, the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996. This bill is another step in the right direction toward bringing the problems with the land dispute between the two tribes to a close. It will enact the…

I reluctantly oppose the passage of S. 39, the Sustainable Fisheries Act. Like many other Members of the House, I had hoped to be able to give this bill my unqualified support, or to amend it in the same bipartisan spirit with which we…

in good faith, this is the problem: We once had a little tiny authorization for Steamtown and now we could not stop it with a gun. It is costing us millions and millions of dollars. It is a little bit of an operation. Once this project is…

My understanding in this legislation is that this legislation was introduced just 2 weeks ago, and obviously we have not had hearings nor markups on this bill. Yet what we are doing is we are committing the resources of the National Park…

this, I think, as was just demonstrated in the previous testimony, is why this bill should be rejected. The gentlewoman from Idaho talked about the outer zones and the inner zones in these Heritage areas. What she did not talk about was…

just as a Member of the Watergate reform class, I would like to remind the gentleman from New York that this was supported by that well-known Watergate figure, Richard M. Nixon.

Further, ``The committee shall give the outside counsel full cooperation in the issuance of subpoenas. ``The outside counsel shall be free, after discussions with the Committee, to make such public statements and reports the counsel deems…

The point being this, if I can finish reading this section: That no information or testimony received or the contents of a complaint or the fact of a finding, of a filing shall be publicly disclosed by any committee or staff member unless…

I find it incredible that we might stall a vote for support of our troops that may or may not be in harm's way, but are clearly flying at this time missions of risk, and we would stall that based upon whether or not Saddam Hussein believes…

just a few moments ago, a member of theHouse Ethics Committee from Florida came and spoke about the rules of that committee. Earlier today we had a discussion on this floor. In fact, we were prevented from having a discussion about whether…

the New York Times has it about right. For the past 2 years we have witnessed a systematic coverup and stall by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in dealing with the ethics complaints regarding our Speaker, Newt Gingrich. They…

I rise in support of S. 1467, which would authorize appropriations for the construction of a rural water supply distribution facility for areas around Fort Peck Lake in north-central Montana. Most residents of the area now must have their…

Mr. Speaker, we support this legislation to correct these erroneous private surveys and to straighten out the actual property ownership problems and to provide for the conveyance of these lands for fair market value to the adjacent owners…