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Congressman George Miller Reacts to Senate Abramoff Report
House Gives No Oversight to Abuses in the Mariana Islands
WASHINGTON, DC– Representative George Miller (D-Calif.) today addressed the report released by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee which detailed some of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s activites, yet did not address any of his damaging work blocking protections for workers in the United States Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands, despite rampant abuses of workers and documented immigration problems there. Miller’s statement is below.
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DeLay's Departure Rhetoric on Human Dignity Belies His Actions
WASHINGTON, DC– Today in his farewell address on the House Floor, disgraced Congressman Tom DeLay (R-TX) claimed that “human freedom and human dignity” are bedrock principles of the conservative movement, despite the fact that for more than ten years, DeLay deliberately endorsed the trampling of human dignity of poor women in the Northern Mariana Islands, Congressman George Miller (D-CA) said.
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