George Miller

this is about the fact that they have had the most massive meltdown in failure on their side after putting people at risk in this country that now what they want is a minimalist bill and get out of town. This is about just getting out of…

earlier today we had an opportunity to open the Government in its entirety and put people back to work and to make sure that the taxpayers were getting the services for which they are paying. That opportunity was denied us when the Chair…

today, senior citizens can choose their doctor, their hospital, any kind of medical care they went under current Medicare rules. Why are the Republicans offering more choice; why are the Republicans forcing more choice? Because the Golden…

the lyrics to an old song say, ``First you say you will, then you say you won't. You're undecided now, what are you going to do?'' This apparently has become the theme song for the chairman of the Committee on Standards of Official…

if Members want to know how we make cynical voters; if they want to know how to make people hate the system, it is that we mislead them about what the system did. Nobody was mistreated under this system. Those people that voted for 187 and…

this is more about suggesting to them that their review was outside of the system; that they should have prevailed simply because they won at the ballot box. The gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Goodlatte] knows, the gentleman is a lawyer…

if we want to represent that somehow the pure view and motives of the California voting public was overruled, and I am suggesting to the gentleman that we are all residents in California and we watched this process. The initiative process…

reclaiming my time, if you lose in the courts, you lose in the courts. A lot of initiatives have gone down and people have shrugged their shoulders. That is the process.

My concern here is that if we had a three-judge panel in place after 187, and that three-judge panel, as did the appellate panel, find that there were these constitutional questions, we would be here today asking for a five-judge panel…

I am almost less concerned about the content than I am about the political motivation here. I think when we see a country that is more and more disenchanted with its institutions, we are suggesting here that when one side or the other…

again reclaiming my time, what is happening here is the trashing, the absolute trashing of the Government for political motives, which is about trying to lead people to believe that somehow they have been screwed in the process, because…

Sixty-seven percent of the Medicaid costs to go pay for elderly people's long-term care that their families cannot afford. And that is why we want this discussion. But we want this discussion in front of the Committee on Ways and Means…

it is quite telling on how excited my Republican colleagues get when democrats tell the truth about their plan to cut Medicare by $270 billion. I am sure in their districts they got the same reaction that I got in mine when people learned…

we should support the Obey amendment because this legislation is just such an incredibly comprehensive raid on the rights of American workers. Whether those American workers seek to have a bargaining position with their employer over their…

we can argue over the size of the budget cuts, but we also know that very often a budget cut of not a tremendous amount can cripple an agency, and that is unfortunately what our colleagues on the other side of the aisle intended to do when…

I have here a copy of the Medicare trustees report. They make it very clear that unless changes are made, Medicare will be insolvent. They also make a series of recommendations of minor extensions of current law that will make it solvent…

Members, the press, and the public should understand the cynical and dangerous strategy being pursued by the Republican majority on this bill. The Republican plan, like this legislation, is not designed to improve management of the…

we have got to understand the kind of time that these people are giving the Government, and now apparently if they are not associated with the USGS, they will still be allowed to do that. They could do it for NASA, they could do it in the…

Mr. Chairman, what we are being asked to do here is to reduce the law enforcement capability of the Fish and Wildlife Service by limiting their ability to purchase vehicles that they have deemed and the committee has already passed on as…

the supporters of banning American citizens from volunteering for the USGS are simply not being candid with the Members of this House. They say that the volunteers may be biased. Does that mean that people who they want to volunteer for…

No, no. Those are public lands already owned by the United States. Let me say this is not unique.

In the transfer, somebody lost $50 million, and in the transfer they lost the right to all the volunteers, and in the transfer they lost the right of these thousands of citizens to participate with Fish and Wildlife or any other agency who…

I hate to belabor the point, ladies and gentlemen, but the gentleman from Ohio has simply not answered the question the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Dingell] and others have asked, and that is: Why do you have a ban on volunteers? And we…

You are getting bad information. Here is program after program in our State and other States.

There is a restriction. Here are all the grants; here are all the programs ongoing for 5 years, 3 years. They have to be rewritten now because you prohibit the thousands of Americans who are helping their Government because these programs…