George Miller

As already stated, you can have people who have their Ph.D.'s, who have a Nobel Prize, and they cannot volunteer in the science part of USGS under this bill. There are no exceptions. Now, even though they cannot get onto the land that you…

That is the people running this program. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, I appreciate what you are saying. You have taken the National Biological Survey, you have put it into the science function of USGS.

They are in fact using the volunteers. Here it is. You still have not told me why you would ban this group of Americans from participating with the Government like hundreds of thousands of other Americans getting to participate on a…

When the doctor gets to taking your urine sample, who is going to carry it down the hall? Do you want to pay the surgeon's rates, or would you like to have somebody else help out the surgeon?

Let me tell you about the National Biological Survey on private lands. This is an outrage. The issue about the National Biological Survey on private land is this, a lot of local communities and a lot of companies, private enterprise, want…

I would hope that the House would again reject this rule since this rule is contrary to the rules of the House in that it provides for substantial legislation on an appropriation and protects those items of legislation on an appropriation…

Why would we not allow this Government to engage volunteers to collect samples of habitat or to map out areas and give that to the scientists and let the scientists make their determination? It is mindless, again, when private companies…

This backlog, Catellus, is not in it. This backlog is not unique to the Democrats, because the majority on our Committee on Resources just reported out a $5 million new national park. I mean if we are really serious about no backlog and…

I say to the gentleman, you know, you brought up the California desert. That was already Federal land. We changed the management structure from BLM to the National Park Service.

I would hope that we would oppose this rule tonight and vote this rule down. I do so because of the numerous areas in which this legislation seeks to legislate on an appropriations bill in violation of the rules of the House of…

Yesterday a special congressional panel heard stories of growing threats and attacks against public officials, law enforcement officers, environmentalists, and women advocates by extremist right-wing groups and militia in this country…

I rise in support of H.R. 1905 making appropriations for the energy and water development for fiscal year 1996. This bill provides funds for critical flood control and navigation projects in Contra Costa County and the San Francisco Bay…

last week when Senator Bob Dole made his statements about Hollywood, it was unfortunate that they were made in the context of a presidential campaign, because his remarks were immediately analyzed and seemingly split into two camps…

I never both brought a bill to the floor from this committee under a closed rule. They were always open rules. As the gentleman from California can testify, we had the most open rule and the longest debate in the history of the Congress. I…

I do have an amendment to the legislation that would require that prior to the transfer of these facilities, prior to the transfer of title from the Federal Government to the State government that the Federal Government would get an…

this amendment requires that as consideration for the fish hatchery conveyed to the State of Arkansas, that the State pay the Federal Government the fair market value based on an updated appraisal. That payment shall not include the value…

National Park rangers and BLM rangers and other Federal law enforcement officers are daily subjected to threats of violence and danger. The men and women who protect our resources and our citizens deserve our respect and our support…

So in fact what you are saying is when they get a COLA increase, the vast amount of that COLA will simply be absorbed in additional Medicare costs to the Social Security recipient?

Members of the House, the senior citizens of this country should be deeply concerned about the rumblings that they hear on the Republican side of the aisle. The Republicans have now come to face the fact that they cannot give tax cuts to…

Those are priorities. I mean, we have to, we are not wealthy enough. We are going to offer an incentive program for education, recognizing that families are struggling. We heard testimony this last Friday out in San Francisco…

If I could just say, Mr. Speaker, every day we start out the House of Representatives with the Pledge of Allegiance. Members of this House and our guests in the gallery, they pledge allegiance to the United States of America. They do not…

While there was a great deal of controversy in the Committee on Ways and Means and on this floor about the fairness and extent to which the Tax Code should be used to sell these communications assets, it was clearly the intent of the…

Members of the House, this past Friday the gentlewoman from San Francisco, CA [Ms. Pelosi] and the gentlewoman from the Palo Alto Valley south of San Francisco, CA [Ms. Eshoo] and myself held a hearing to listen to both school…

Since Mr. Murdoch is as successful as he is, when you consider all of the things that he has denied knowledge of that affect his business interests, over the last 100 days, but yet somehow he has tremendous success, and apparently it just…

It is not only the appearance now, today, afterward. It is what was put forth to the Members of this House. Members of this House thought they were voting on a good bill to allow for the deductibility of 25 percent of the health costs for…