Jeff Miller

Polling is based on sampling. Sampling is very appropriate where you do not have the time and money to go out and do an actual count. This is a $4 billion thing. This should not be the largest statistical experiment in history. That is…

We need to have actual counts. We should not use polling. And we need to work together to trust the system of government. It is too important to play politics with this issue. The President is playing politics with it. It is very clear. We…

Well, I taught at Georgia State University Atlanta, taught statistics for many years. It was the Department of Quantitative Methods up there. I taught at the graduate and undergraduate level, and the MBA. I have taught statistics for years…

In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, when the gentleman from California [Mr. Riggs] was speaking before the committee, on questioning, he was saying we needed to go slow as far as new authorization. Our reluctance was not to increase it too fast…

Mr. Chairman, no sugar is used in Coca-Cola. It is corn syrup. They priced themselves out of the market. There is no sugar in Coca-Cola.

Social Security generates approximately $75 billion more in revenue a year than it pays out. So actually, our deficit is worse than we realize, because Social Security is counted in there. What is really good about the Neumann budget is it…

It was actually the Miller-Schumer-Kingston bill last year. Right. It was a 5-year phaseout. So it was not something that was going to happen immediately. I am a big believer that we need to phase these programs out so we do not really…

Right. It is just not fair. We should be proud of a lot we did with this farm bill last year. We made some historic changes with farm programs that went back all the way to the 1930s. It was a really historic change. Unfortunately, the…

One reason we call it corporate welfare is that there are at least 33 farms that benefit by a million dollars a year. Most of the benefits go to big sugar farmers, sugar plantations in the State of Florida. The largest one, as a matter of…

We have to be proud of American agriculture. It is the most efficient and productive in the world. We are the major exporter of agriculture products. I do not know the number, but that is one of our largest trade surpluses we have. I have…

Right. That is what makes it so crazy is that we are, in effect, subsidizing sugar again; we are buying that land. Another little interesting subsidy about the sugar program is we cannot grow enough sugar in the United States to satisfy…

What we find is that in the private sector, we found health care costs really being very manageable the past several years. Actually for larger businesses with over 100 employees, health care costs have even been going down for some of…

Did the gentleman know that Citizens Against Government Waste favors this amendment. This is not strictly a green scissors vote. It is a green scissor vote and it is a fiscally conservative vote, too.

I know that paper came out of the GAO report. There is a $1.3 billion cost in addition, so that the net cost to the Federal Government is almost $1 billion. This is the revenue, where it goes. There is only $300 million going to the…

I support Mr. Taylor. and his amendment on salvaging timber. That is not the issue we are talking about. The issue we are talking about here is costing the Federal taxpayers money.

Yes, seniors are always on the losing end. In 1993 that tax bill increased the tax on Social Security. Now, I do not know, this is over $34,000 worth of income. That is not a wealthy person to me. They raised the tax on Social Security for…