[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 37 (Friday, March 27, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1650]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     WHAT HAPPENED TO $250 MILLION?

  (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. Madam Speaker, yesterday the Republican 
majority brought together three committees, the Committee on the 
Budget, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on 
Resources, to hear the General Accounting Office and the Inspector 
General tell us that the Forest Service had lost and could not find 
$250 million.
  Later today, the Republican majority will ask this Congress to give 
the Forest Service another $250 million to go back to the old, 
discredited policies that gave us this kind of devastation of our 
national forests: clear-cuts and ravages of riparian watersheds that 
will not be corrected, will not be brought back for decades and decades 
after they cut the logs.
  Madam Speaker, we must stop the Smith forest bill because it is not 
about forest health, it is about a waste of the taxpayers' money and it 
is about devastation of our national environment, of our national 
forests. We should not give $250 million more to an agency that cannot 
account and cannot find and cannot tell us how they spent the $250 
million we gave them last year.

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