George Miller

the whole point of the provision of the Ways and Means bill was to cancel these business deals, to cancel them retroactively, and Rupert Murdoch was able to hold on to his deal, and nobody else was, and those are the facts. Those may not…

What we found out, unfortunately, is that, this never ceases to amaze me, but we do have very upstanding members of our communities and corporate members of our community who are fully prepared to rip off the taxpayers. And what we found…

I believe we should privatize the disaster system. We cannot have the 'Disaster of the Month' here draining the Treasury. And I would have hoped that we would have done that with this California aid bill. The gentleman from Illinois…

And that is minimal at this stage; 10 or 15 years ago it was a major problem, but because of the changes that have been made historically on a bipartisan basis with Senator Dole and Congressman Goodling leading the Republican efforts, this…

The point is that when we look at the rescission bill that we will vote on on Wednesday, the cuts come from low-income housing, from elderly housing, low-income energy assistance. We are taking from the poorest people in this country to…

We would like this to be family based and nutrition based and health based for the children of this country.

I would just like to say now that it has been pretty well established that the Republican budget cuts and the welfare reform are prepared to turn their back on the issues of prevention with respect to disabled children and preventing these…

It is not to block grant it. They make a big point about they give in the nutrition program 200 million more a year. But if the money is insufficient to meet the demand of the children that are eligible, the children who need this…

It is interesting that they try to portray to the public that there essentially will be no cuts in these programs affecting the children, what have you, and yet they are also telling everybody that they cut all this money out so they can…

the Republican tax plan announced yesterday takes us back to the days of yesteryear, when 130 of the 250 largest corporations in America paid no income taxes in spite of having profits of $72 billion prior to 1986; 130 of these…

The fact is when we analyze the Republicans' welfare bill, the Republicans' rescission bill, the Republicans' nutrition and school lunch bill, the Republicans' child care bill, and what we see is a systematic assault on children, and…

in 1993, the Ethics Committee explicitly cautioned Speaker Gingrich to avoid using congressional resources in conjunction with his course on American civilization. He rejected that advice and promoted the course from the House floor. Now…

I commend the gentleman. I think this is a very important discussion. This discussion has been delayed too long on the issue the gentleman from Louisiana has raised. But why is the reclamation act struck into this legislation? We are…

I appreciate the remarks. I think he makes a good point. I appreciate that this is in contract law, but let us remember what we are talking about. In parts of Arizona, and a good portion of California, we are talking about people who have…

That is exactly the question, because the Bureau of Reclamation administers that the Reclamation Act guides many of the contractors to that compact. As the gentlewoman knows, in Arizona we have contractors who are going bankrupt, we are…

Can the gentleman or the gentleman from Louisiana explain to me why, then, the Reclamation Act is included as one of the laws under this provision?

Without being argumentative, that sounds exactly contrary to what the gentleman just told me, because all of the water delivered under the Reclamation Act is delivered by virtue of contract. We enter into a contract for a specified period…

I rise in support of the Porter-Farr-Ehlers amendment. I think it a well-reasoned amendment, for reasons my colleagues from New York just reiterated. It is also very fiscally responsible for those of us who are concerned about the Federal…

Currently the growers have a 40-year contract. If the Government, and the new term was changed from 20 years or 10 years, and the banks decide that you do not have a bankable interest, as some growers speculate the banks would say, is that…

In this case the toxic runoff, the reason it was stopped at one point, and it may have to be stopped again in the future, is because of its threat to the water quality in the San Francisco Bay delta.

Can I ask the gentleman another question. Again the runoff from these lands cause duck hunters and others a great deal of consternation because of the impact it has had on the water fowl. If it goes to the quality of the water in those…

Let me ask in another case. We have a situation where irrigated lands, where water is brought to those lands under contract, and in some instances we have had to tell growers in the past, and very likely are going to have to tell them in…

I find it very suspect that this law is now included when it is so narrowly drafted and the rights are handed out based only on contract.

This is about the excesses where a State and its population reach a consensus and whether or not you are going to provide a tool in this legislation so that people can obstruct that and obstruct it on the fallacy that somehow they have…

This is a burden that these States are saddled with through no actions of their own or fault of their own, and now what we are doing is when they had access to money under the Berman amendment, what we are now suggesting is that the States…