Jeff Miller: “There is one bill that the minority did support and this is one that the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek) was…”

“There is one bill that the minority did support and this is one that the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek) was pushing and I was supportive of, and this is something that came out in the hearings in Phoenix also with the tribal leaders, is to be able to hire the people go out and do the knocking on doors and helping count those who do not fill out their forms and get them back in. We need to get local people to do that work. Who better than to get the native Indian to go out on their reservation and do their counting and knock on doors? They are the ones who are going to trust their friends and neighbors. In some cases these people may be on some type of welfare-type benefit, a medicaid program or something like that and these are temporary jobs, only going to be around for a few months and so to get them to be able to work those jobs temporarily without losing those benefits would be very desirable. So the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek) introduced legislation which, of course, I cosponsored and we passed yesterday, and I have to give credit to the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek) for pushing this legislation, the Democrats.”