George Miller

the point is we can continue that loss or we can make up a shortfall. This deals with the national parks, this deals with the presentation of these national parks, this deals with the experience that our constituents and their families…

I always knew the gentleman from Ohio was never a rubber stamp for our President, but let me just say that in this budget we do an awful lot for local communities, because the forest monies we talked about earlier go to schools and public…

All Members of this House should be saddened today by the remarks yesterday of majority leader Dick Armey in his criticism and his remarks about the President's visit to South Carolina today to dedicate the new chapel at Mount Zion A.M.E…

I would like to express my qualified support for H.R. 3268, the IDEA Improvement Act of 1996. While this bill makes some important changes in the 20-year-old law providing special education and related services to 5.8 million disabled…

we have seen the Republicans do everything they can to divert the public's attention for what their plan would do to Medicare. In order to save Medicare, the Republicans tell us they have to take away senior citizens' choice of doctors…

I would say, the last time California raised its minimum wage, there was no job loss by teenagers or others that you are so concerned about. And second, the fact is when you were going to take away the EITC, you were going to take it away…

today we are going to get a vote on the minimum wage, but unfortunately under the amendments offered by Speaker Gingrich and the Republicans, they will repeal and take away the benefits of the minimum wage for up to 10 million American…

what should be made very clear is that after years of expanding the coverage of the minimum wage to hard working Americans in agriculture and sweatshops and other employment, what in fact we are now doing is rolling back and repealing the…

I rise in support of H.R. 2066 and want to commend the gentleman from Pennsylvania for moving this important bill through committee and to the floor. This bill is good for the School Lunch Program and for the children it serves. H.R. 2066…

last year the American public witnessed the Republicans shutting down the U.S. Federal Government so they could try and force the President of the United States to cut Medicare, to give tax cuts to the wealthy. Apparently the Republicans…

My concern, and I think the concern of others, is that recognizing that in both the House and Senate there has been strong bipartisan support for the underlying bill of the Presidio, but as is sometimes true to their nature, the Senate has…

I have spent almost my entire public life trying to make it easier for children to be adopted and to try to find permanent placements for children in foster care. The tax provisions of this bill, the tax credit here will obviously be very…

hard working Americans deserve a raise. They deserve an increase in the minimum wage. Many of our colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle do not want to provide that increase in the minimum wage because they say that, in fact…

So if there was an inholding of 501 acres, we would have to get a direct authorization from Congress?

today we have learned that not only are the Republicans opposed to the minimum wage, but their leadership in a joint statement issued today said that they will simply not allow the minimum wage to come to the floor of the House. Instead…

I think that he is correct and that I concur on the plain reading of the amendment and I have some concerns with it. And that is that when we originally discussed this, I believe the original Pombo amendment was to go to the creation of a…

where we had the notion of creating a new refuge, and some of that may or may not have been speculative in nature, and landholders did not know what was going to happen or not happen, and that the authorization was a way to tell people…

If one looks at the second to the last line, it says ``create or expand that new refuge.''

What I do not understand, I am looking at two different languages. One deals with the issue of expansion.

The language originally, correct me if I am wrong, it was my understanding that the language in the en bloc amendment that the gentleman was going to offer went with the creation of the refuge in excess of 500 acres. This language that the…

I would certainly support improvement of the National Wildlife Refuge System if it really needed it, but it does not. Much of the momentum behind this bill has been generated by sporting groups that seek to elevate the role of hunting and…

And the point made by the gentleman is in fact historically we have worked on a bipartisan basis on most of these measures.

I do not know what the property right is that allows you to take pollution from your land and dump it into the streams and the bays and the waterways of this Nation. I do not know what that property right is that allows you to take…

The point is that what we are talking about is taking people who have continued to lose purchasing power, who have continued to lose their ability to support their families, to purchase the very basics, the very basics of the American…

What we need is we need an up or down vote on the minimum wage. We now have a majority in this House asking for that up or down vote. We have a majority in the Senate asking for that up or down vote, and what they ought to stop doing is…