George Miller

the clouds of scandal once again are gathering above the House of Representatives. The Wall Street Journal has been running daily accounts of the special favors that the contributors of GOPAC and the contributors to the Progress and…

later in this session we will be discussing efforts at reforming the welfare system in this country, and it is clearly the goal of both the Republicans and the Democrats to make sure that people move from welfare into the American economic…

the Federal Reserve Board yesterday did a terrible disservice to working Americans when for the seventh time in a year it raised interest rates. American homeowners will now get $15 billion of additional mortgage costs charged against them…

I simply rise to commend the Committee on Rules for passing out an open rule and urge support of the rule. I think this is really the test of an open rule, and that is when we have tough issues. We saw an open rule under unfunded mandates…

the American public has watched for the last 3 or 4 days the prosecution and the defense in the O.J. Simpson trial. What was one of the fundamental tenets in that trial that they are arguing about? The ability to be put on notice, the…

Members of the House, the $40 billion bailout for Mexico must be rejected by the Members of this House. It is not in the best interests of the American people or our economy. The Mexican bailout is about hot money, just as the REIT…

there is a very good reason that we on the Democratic side continue to talk about the balanced budget and its implications for Social Security, and there is a very real sense of urgency about that this year as opposed to other years…

in a rush to cut governmental spending, the Republicans seem intent not to look at whether or not programs are effective, whether or not programs have been successful, but simply to cut and to block-grant those programs so that they can…

at the end of last week, the makeup of the Ethics Committee was announced by the Speaker and by the minority leader. We know as Members of this House that that is among the most difficult task Members can be called upon to perform, and…

just as we do not allow families or members of families to be dysfunctional, we cannot allow cities, States and counties to choose not to do what is socially responsible for the good of the people of this Nation. We have had these basic…

either this bill is not on the level, or we desperately need the amendment of the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Taylor]. Because the suggestion is, somehow, when we bump up against the hard question of whether or not we are going to…

I rise in support of this. I think this amendment really highlights one of the concerns that we have, and that is to some extent some of the duplicity of the Governors who have come here and talked about unfunded mandates and the burdens…

We are now the recipients of a vast amount of knowledge that is imparted to use because of the advances in photography and in the satellite monitoring. And obviously what we see and what we show our schoolchildren and our families and…

this legislation strikes at the very heart of the body of laws that bind us together as a progressive society, and with the highest standard of living in the world, the body of law that ensures that no matter where you live in this…

Very often local governments don't do things, not because the local voters don't want them to do things, but because the local power structure doesn't want them to do something, whether it is the local industry or the largest taxpayer in…

Reclaiming my time, that is exactly the point. If you leave it in that fashion, and if you take the Mississippi River as the example, if all of the States and all of the cities do not contribute to cleaning up the river, then it makes no…

I would say to the Members of the House that at the end of this week and the beginning of next week the House will consider a proposal dealing with the issue of unfunded mandates. More importantly, what we will be dealing with is a most…

It is also Federal money that is enabling that bay to be cleaned up, in part. That is true of the whole California coast. So that is the partnership that has been arranged.

I say to the Members of the House it is time now for some candor about the meeting you had with Rupert Murdoch and its relationship to your book deal. The Congress of which you said you were the Speaker of the entire Congress, not just of…

I find it rather interesting now that as the Republicans get ready to present to the Congress a balanced budget amendment, a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, that they seek to deny our constituents the kind of information so…

Members of the House, as a Member of this House on the Democratic side of the aisle who for 20 years never brought a bill to the floor under a closed rule, I am sure that I speak with credibility that this change is supposed to be about…

What we have been treated to here over the last 20 to 30 minutes is a discussion between the Members on the other side of the aisle about an amendment that the committee has agreed to accept. When the gentleman from California [Mr. Thomas]…

When I am done; when I am done. I sat here and let the gentlemen have their debate, and their argument, and now it is my time on the amendment. So the fact is that the record is replete that this has been an open process, and that is the…

Mr. Chairman, the discussion surrounding this amendment is an incredible mischaracterization of the bill, the suggestion that somehow the bill would deny access to private-property owners when, in fact, the law demands that they be given…

I just wish the gentlemen would show some of the courtesy that they complain so hard about. We have rules of debate in this House. Nobody is going to preclude you. You will be yielded to. You do not have to interrupt the gentleman from…