Dan Miller

The sugar program is the 'sugar daddy' of corporate welfare. Why? Because most of the benefits of this program go to huge corporate sugar producers, not the typical family farmer.

Today myself, Representative George Miller and more than 40 of our colleagues are introducing the Sugar Program Reform Act, a bill to phase out the sugar program by the end of 2002.

The Sugar Program Reform Act will do what the 1996 farm bill failed to accomplish.

As a result, the sugar program imposes a 'sugar tax' on consumers, forcing them to pay more than $1 billion in higher prices for food and sugar every year.

It devastates the environment, particularly the fragile Everglades in my home State of Florida.

This legislation is good for consumers, good for the environment, good for American workers, and good for the economy.

The sugar program's sole purpose is to prop up the price of sugar in the United States through a complex system of low-interest, nonrecourse loans and tight import restrictions.

The sugar program is an archaic, unnecessary government handout to corporate sugar producers at the expense of consumers, workers, and the environment.

I rise today to express my concerns with the treatment of senior citizens in the Clinton health care plan. The senior citizens of this Nation are being forced to bankroll a foreseeably ineffective and costly health care package, even after…

I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 2108, the Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act. This bill represents yet another expansion of entitlements without a single thought dedicated to paying for the new spending. The changes made by this…

I rise today in opposition to the Head Start Amendments Act of 1994. As a member of both the Education and Labor Committee and the Subcommittee on Human Resources, I do so with some regret, because I strongly support the concept of Head…

the Clinton administration's Haitian policy du jour has gone from bad to worse to unfathomable. First, hollow military threats, followed by tougher economic sanctions on the Haitian people. Now, the President wants to open the shores of…

Mr. Chairman, this is the last opportunity that Mr. Boehner and I will have to enhance the effectiveness of this education bill by eliminating unwanted and unneeded programs. The National Writing Project was added to H.R. 6 during the…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Michel substitute. It is a streamlined and fiscally responsible way to address the education needs from the Federal Government level. Mr. Boehner and I have offered 8 amendments so far to add some…

I have been proud to have a chance to work with the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner] on a series of amendments to try to cut spending and add fiscal sanity to this bill. This bill started off as $10.5 billion when the President introduced…

Mr. Chairman, as a fiscal conservative, my problem is this is a new program, $200 million of new spending that we do not have. Where is the $200 million going to come from? We have a freeze on spending. We have pay-go type rules. We are…

Mr. Chairman, as we continue debate on H.R. 6, Mr. Boehner and I have focused on trying to bring some semblance of fiscal sanity to this Chamber, and to maintain some minimum level of autonomy for State and local officials to make the…

I rise in strong support of the Barton tax limitation-balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. I was elected on a promise to fight for real change. But here we are today, very little having changed. I have spent the last 15 months…

the opponents of this try and create the impression that I am opposed to library books, that the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner] is opposed to library books or opposed to computers in the classroom. That is not the argument. There are…

this amendment would simply eliminate $550 million per year in new spending added by the Education and Labor Committee--$550 million in redundant spending which has not even been requested by President Clinton in his budget. This amendment…

I rise in opposition to the amendment. Mr. Chairman, the gentlewoman from Hawaii talks about a very fine program, and I commend it, but the question is really a question of educational pork and whether we have all of these categorical…

I rise in support of this amendment. Mr. Chairman, at the beginning of the reauthorization process last year, there was a bipartisan effort to target scarce Federal dollars on title I and other programs focusing on broad national education…

I support my colleague's proposal to eliminate the mandate on local education agencies to spend 1 percent of their Chapter I funds for parental involvement. I cannot justify forcing local educating agencies to narrow the parameters of…

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 6 cannot pass the House in its current form. Somewhere along the line the bill lost track of our tradition of allowing States, local school boards and families to develop education policy and, instead embarked on a…