[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 48 (Tuesday, April 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3399]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          REPUBLICAN TURNAROUND ON ENVIRONMENT COMES TOO LATE

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, after a year of the most 
comprehensive and concentrated attack on the basic environmental laws 
of this country, the Speaker of this House and the majority leader of 
the Republican Party believe that they can turn around a record and con 
the American people into believing that all of a sudden the Republican 
caucus in the House is in favor of environmental protection. It simply 
will not wash.
  After a year of voting against clean air and clean water, voting 
against Superfund liability, voting against the Endangered Species Act, 
voting to eviscerate wilderness areas of this country, you will not 
turn around America's image of the Republican caucus in this House by 
recycling batteries or reauthorizing the Coastal Zone Management Act. 
It takes more than that to protect the environment, and it takes more 
than that to turn around the image the American public have of the 
Republicans and the environment.
  They have tired to destroy the laws, and now they are trying to hide 
the record because they are reading the polls and the election results 
in November.

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