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Miller, Gary Rep

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller</a></p>

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<b>Gary G. Miller</b>, a<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican</a>, has represented the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CA-42&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CA-42 (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">42nd District</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/California" title="California" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">California</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>in the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. House of Representatives</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>since 1999. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/ca42_109.gif" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">map</a>)</p>

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<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctoggle" style=" font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;[<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Record_and_controversies" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Record and controversies</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#State_Children.27s_Health_Insurance_Program_.28SCHIP.29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Iraq_War" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Iraq War</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Environmental_record" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Environmental record</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Earmarks" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Earmarks</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Real_estate_deal" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Real estate deal</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Federal_investigation_into_land_sales" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.6</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Federal investigation into land sales</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Shelters_profits_from_land_sales" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.6.1</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Shelters profits from land sales</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Possible_Ethics_Committee_violation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.6.2</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Possible Ethics Committee violation</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Named_ranking_member_of_Oversight_and_Investigative_subcommittee" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.6.3</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Named ranking member of Oversight and Investigative subcommittee</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Proclaims_innocence_to_House_Republicans" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.6.4</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Proclaims innocence to House Republicans</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Connection_to_conflict-of-interest_fine" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.6.5</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Connection to conflict-of-interest fine</span></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Rule_change" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.7</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Rule change</span></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Biography" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Biography</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#2006_elections" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">2006 elections</span></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Committees_and_Affiliations" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Committees and Affiliations</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Committees" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Committees</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress_.282005-2006.29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.1</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</span></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#More_Background_Data" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">More Background Data</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Contact" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Contact</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Articles_and_resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Articles and resources</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Resources</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Articles</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">6.3</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Local blogs and discussion sites</span></a></li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2007, Congress took up the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides health care for about 6 million children and 670,000 adults from families who earn too much money qualify for Medicare but not enough to afford health insurance. Congressional Democrats and many Republicans tried to use the opportunity to dramatically expand the program but were opposed by President George W. Bush and other Republicans. In 2006, 5.4 million children were eligible but not enrolled in SCHIP or Medicaid and 9.4 million total children were uninsured.

Rep. Gary Miller voted against the first House bill, which passed along party lines. It would have added $47 billion over five years to the $25 billion cost of the program and added about 5 million people to the program, including children, some legal immigrants, pregnant women and adults aged 18 and 19. The bill was financed mainly by an<b> increase in cigarette taxes</b>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/1737" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[1]</a></p>

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House Democrats, with 45 Republicans, later compromised and passed a bill which expanded the plan by $35 billion and would have insured about 3.5 million more children from families generally making between 250% and 300% of the federal poverty line (about $51,000 to $62,000 for a family of four). Most non-pregnant, childless adults were excluded, as were most legal immigrants and all illegal immigrants. Miller voted against the bill.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/1919" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a>

After President Bush vetoed the bill, Democratic leaders attempted to override the veto with the same bill but failed. Miller voted against the bill.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/2020" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[3]</a>

House Democrats then attempted to override it with another bill, which gave into Republican demands for increased checks for citizenship, the quick phasing-out of adult coverage, a hard limit of 300% of the federal poverty level and funding for families that covered their children through private insurance instead. Republicans, angry that the vote was scheduled during massive fires in California, blocked the veto override. Miller abstained from voting<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/2070" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[4]</a>. For details on the bills and the debate, see the main<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program" title="State Children's Health Insurance Program" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">State Children's Health Insurance Program page</a>.

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<h3 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Iraq_War">Iraq War</span></h3>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Miller voted for the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>that started the Iraq War.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#cite_note-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup></p>

<div style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(220, 232, 248); border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>For more information see the chart of<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._House_of_Representatives_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War</a>.</span></div>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>For more information on environmental legislation, see the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy_(U.S.)" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a></i></p>

<h3 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Earmarks">Earmarks</span></h3>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On June 22, 2006, the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>Washington Post</i><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>reported that Miller helped secure $1.28 million in a 2005 highway bill for street improvements near a planned residential and commercial development in Diamond Bar, Calif. Miller co-owns the development with a top campaign contributor. Kevin McKee, a spokesman for Miller, argued that the road improvement was a mile away from the development. In addition, he stated, the development had designated by Diamond Bar officials as their top priority.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062102210_2.html?sub=AR" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[5]</a></p>

<h3 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Real_estate_deal">Real estate deal</span></h3>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 13, 2006,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill</i><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>reported that Miller took out nearly $7.5 million in promissory notes in 2004 from his top campaign contributor and business partner, Lewis Operating Corp., for the purpose of purchasing real estate from the company.

Miller proceeded to sell some of the land to the Southern California city of Fontana and some back to the contributor, according to property records, information in financial disclosure documents and responses from his spokesman. In 2005, Miller made between $1.1 million-$6 million in real-estate deals that involved Lewis Operating in some part of the transaction, according to his financial disclosure report.

The majority of the land parcels that Miller sold to Fontana are adjacent to the 210 freeway, located roughly two miles from the city of Rialto’s municipal airport. As a member of the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Transportation_and_Infrastructure" title="House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure</a>, Miller pushed for a provision in the 2005 Transportation Bill that allowed the city to close the airport, the first time an act of Congress has ever shut down an airport, a power the Federal Aviation Administration traditionally has sole authority to exercise.

The closing of the airport allowed Lewis Operating, whose employees have contributed at least $19,300 to Miller’s campaign committee since his election in 1998, to win a contract from the city of Rialto to develop the airport land and build a planned community consisting of 2,500 homes, parks and 80 acres of retail space on the former airport and adjacent land.

House rules state that loans to members from sources other than financial institutions must be approved by the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Ethics_Committee" title="House Ethics Committee" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Ethics Committee</a>. Miller, however, called the initial $7.5 million loan "a normal transaction that happens in real estate" because of the difficulty in obtaining bank financing for land that does not have building entitlements. Therefore, he believes it should fall outside the provisions of House rules.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/nationworld/article_1238837.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[6]</a>

Shaun Martin, a law professor at the University of San Diego specializing in professional ethics, said Miller’s business arrangement with Lewis "screams out" as an abuse of power.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/071306/news2.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[7]</a>

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<h3 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Federal_investigation_into_land_sales">Federal investigation into land sales</span></h3>

<h4 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 15px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Shelters_profits_from_land_sales">Shelters profits from land sales</span></h4>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In January 2007, several officials from the California cities of Monrovia and Fontana publicly said they had been interviewed by FBI agents regarding land deals between the cities and Miller. In 2002, Miller had sold 165 acres of land to Monravia for over $10 million. In 2005 and 2006, he sold land and buildings to Fontana. In each case, Miller claimed that the respective cities had imposed eminent domain, meaning they were able to force the sale of his land because it was in the public interest. This, he claimed, gave him the right to shelter the profits he earned from state and federal capital gains taxes through at least 2009. The taxes would have combined to take up to 31% of Miller’s profits.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=4967" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[8]</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-ex-miller30jan31,1,5740863.story?coll=la-headlines-politics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[9]</a>

Both Monrovia and Fontana, however, denied ever invoking eminent domain, insisting that Miller sold his land willingly. In addition, several reports indicated that Miller and his office were actively involved in trying to make the Monrovia land sale possible. Miller appeared at a Monrovia City Council meeting in 2000 to lobby the city to buy his land and convert it into a wilderness preserve. Earlier that day, Miller reportedly asked a staff member to look into placing a member of the City Council on the National Park System Advisory Board, though the member had no experience in the area. The attempt was ultimately unsuccessful, though Miller continued to push for it even after staffers warned that it may appear to be an attempt to bribe the councilman.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miller12dec12,0,5767098.story?coll=la-home-headlines" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[10]</a>

Later that year, Miller allegedly helped Monrovia (which is not in his congressional district) in its attempt to secure money for the preserve by trying to secure a federal earmark. The earmark was allegedly brought to the attention of Rep.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Dreier" title="David Dreier" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David Dreier</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>(R-Calif.), who informed the city he was unable to pursue the manner because some of the the money would go to Miller. Miller denied knowing anything about efforts to secure federal funding, but then-Monrovia City Council member Lara Larramendi Blakely stated that Miller often asked about the progress of the wilderness preserve when she traveled to Washington to lobby on behalf of the city.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/121306/millerland.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[11]</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>In 2002, Miller also attended a meeting in Washington between Monrovia officials and Sen.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barbara_Boxer" title="Barbara Boxer" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Barbara Boxer</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>(D-Calif.) in which funding was allegedly discussed. Ultimately, no federal funds were directed to Monrovia for the wilderness preserve.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miller13aug13,0,2223572.story?coll=la-home-headlines" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[12]</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=156" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[13]</a></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In addition to raising questions about his eminent domain claim, Miller’s efforts to foster the sale of his land to Monrovia raised allegations that he violated<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.House_of_Representatives-_Rules" title="U.S. House of Representatives - Rules" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House rules</a>. The ethics manual warns members to avoid conflicts of interest, such as when “a situation in which an official’s conduct of his office conflicts with his private economic affairs.” Proclaiming he violated no rules, Miller asked the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Ethics_Committee" title="House Ethics Committee" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Ethics Committee</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>to review his business transactions late in 2006 after initial allegations regarding misconduct were reported.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=4967" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[14]</a>

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<h4 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 15px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Named_ranking_member_of_Oversight_and_Investigative_subcommittee">Named ranking member of Oversight and Investigative subcommittee</span></h4>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On January 9, 2007, despite the ongoing investigation, Rep.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Spencer_Bachus" title="Spencer Bachus" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Spencer Bachus</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>(R-Ala.) named Miller as the ranking member of the Oversight and Investigative Subcommittee of the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="House Committee on Financial Services" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Financial Services</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee" title="Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">DCCC</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield responded by stating “House Republicans seem to mistakenly believe that being investigated by the FBI qualifies you for an influential position on the oversight and investigative subcommittee...This kind of lack of leadership and accountability from the GOP is exactly why Americans voted for a change of direction in Congress.”<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/013107/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[15]</a></p>

<h4 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 15px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Proclaims_innocence_to_House_Republicans">Proclaims innocence to House Republicans</span></h4>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On February 6, in a closed-door conference on how House Republicans could regain control of the House majority in 2008, Miller pleaded his innocence to his colleagues. Miller affirmed his previous comments that the press and Democrats had launched a smear campaign against him, singling out<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill</i><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>Los Angeles Times</i><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>as perpetrators, as well as the former Democratic mayor of Monrovia, Lara Larramendi Blakely.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020807/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[16]</a>

Before Miller spoke,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_leadership" title="House leadership" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Minority Leader</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Boehner</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>(R-Ohio) remarked that defining an ethics strategy would be “critical to winning back the majority and that members need to hold each other accountable,” sources said.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020807/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[17]</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/013107/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[18]</a></p>

<h4 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 15px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Connection_to_conflict-of-interest_fine">Connection to conflict-of-interest fine</span></h4>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On February 6, 2007, it was reported that Miller’s Monrovia land deal was not the first transaction to be scrutinized by government agencies. In 1990, while Miller was a member of the Diamond Bar City Council and running for state Senate, he paid $8,000 to Covina City Councilman Christopher Lancaster just before Lancaster voted to support Miller's resolution. In 1992, the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), a state government entity that regulates political activity and investigates conflict-of-interest allegations, subsequently charged Lancaster a $1,750 fine for accepting the $8,000 from Miller.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020607/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[19]</a>

According to the Fair Political Practices Commission summary, Miller’s campaign committee paid Lancaster the money for “his work as a political campaign consultant.” On Sept. 17, 1990, Lancaster subsequently voted in favor of Miller’s resolution, which created a "formula for the exchange and division of property tax revenue between Los Angeles County and the City of Covina."<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020607/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[20]</a></p>

<h3 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Rule_change">Rule change</span></h3>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Following what he called "unfounded allegations in the press that I have used my office to benefit certain individuals or private business," Miller in May 2007 adopted a new rule in his office for cities or counties coming to him seeking federal aid. The rule declared that "From this point forward...any city or county submitting an appropriations request to my office will be required to certify in writing that the request is for the benefit of the community and not the specific benefit of any individual, organization or business entity."<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Miller#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup></p>

<h2 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Biography">Biography</span></h2>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Miller was born October 16, 1948 in Huntsville, Arkansas. He was educated at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, California, served in the United States Army, and was a business owner, a member of the Diamond Bar, California City Council, and a member of the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly" class="extiw" title="w:California State Assembly" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">California State Assembly</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>before entering the House.</p>

<h3 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="2006_elections">2006 elections</span></h3>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No major candidates announced their intentions to contest Miller’s seat in the November 2006 election. (See<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._congressional_elections_in_2006" title="U.S. congressional elections in 2006" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. congressional elections in 2006</a>)<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=CA&year=2006" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[21]</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Miller retained his seat.</p>

<h2 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committees_and_Affiliations">Committees and Affiliations</span></h2>

<h3 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committees">Committees</span></h3>

<ul style=" line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="House Committee on Financial Services" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Financial Services</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Ranking Member</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Transportation_and_Infrastructure" title="House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Highways, Transit & Pipelines</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Railroads</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment</li>

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</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="House Committee on Financial Services" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Financial Services</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Capital Markets Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Transportation_and_Infrastructure" title="House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Highways Transit and Pipelines</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Railroads</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment</li>

</ul>

</li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wikipedia</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>also has an article on<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Miller" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Gary Miller</a>. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">GFDL</a>.</i></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>DC Office:</b>

1037 Longworth House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: 202-225-3201

Fax: 202-226-6962

Email: gary.miller AT mail.house.gov

<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.house.gov/garymiller/index.shtml" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Website</a>

&nbsp;

<b>District Office - Brea:</b>

1800 East Lambert Road, Suite 150

Brea, CA 92821

Phone: 714-257-1142

Fax: 714-257-9242

&nbsp;

<b>District Office - Mission Viejo:</b>

200 Civic Center Drive

Mission Viejo, CA 92691

Phone: 949-470-8484

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.house.gov/garymiller/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Official website</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technorati.com/search/Rep.%20%22Gary%20Miller%22" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Technorati Search: Gary Miller</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=Rep.+%22Gary+Miller%22&btnG=Search+News" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Google News Search: Gary Miller</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Rep.+%22Gary+Miller%22&x=wrt" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Yahoo! News Search: Gary Miller</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/congtravel/member_report.php?member=7220" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Power Trips: How much does Gary Miller travel?</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://opensecrets.org/races/index.asp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Open Secrets</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>- 2006 congressional races database</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susan Crabtree,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/033006/news2.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miller helped free land for a business partner,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill</i>, March 30, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jonathan Weisman,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062102210.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Lawmakers' Profits Are Scrutinized. Hastert and Others Defend Land Gains,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>Washington Post</i>, June 22, 2006. Also see Reps.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dennis_Hastert" title="Dennis Hastert" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dennis Hastert</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ken_Calvert" title="Ken Calvert" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ken Calvert</a>.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susan Crabtree,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/071306/news2.html," style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miller borrowed $7.5M to buy contributor’s land,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>July 13, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susan Crabtree,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/080906/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miller may have violated House ethics rules by borrowing $7.5M,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill</i>, August 9, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Martin Wisckol and Norberto Santana Jr.,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/nationworld/article_1238837.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miller's land deals ethically questionable,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>Orange County Register,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>August 10, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">William Heisel,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miller13aug13,0,2223572.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Official's Tax Break: on Firm Ground?"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>Los Angeles Times,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>August 11, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/activities/campaign.php?view=144" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"CREW Files IRS Complaint Against Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA),"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a>, August 17, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=156" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">“CREW releases second annual most corrupt members of Congress report,”</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, September 20, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Don Hazen,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/44236/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Was Republican corruption the tipping point?"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>AlterNet</i>, November 13, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">William Heisel,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-miller12dec12,0,4830190.story?coll=la-headlines-politics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Ex-aides allege abuse of power. Rep. Gary Miller of Diamond Bar exercised political muscle for personal gain, they say,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>Los Angeles Times</i>, December 12, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Justin Rood,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002128.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"LA Times Shines a Light on Stones-Loving Pol,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>TPMmuckraker</i>, December 12, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susan Crabtree,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/121306/millerland.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Calif. officials tried to secure earmark to buy Miller’s land,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill</i>, December 13, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susan Crabtree,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/013107/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Rep. Gary Miller, in senior perch, is part of FBI probe,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill</i>, January 31, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susan Crabtree,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020607/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miller tied to ’92 conflict-of-interest fine,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill</i>, February 6, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susan Crabtree,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020807/miller.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Rep. Miller defends self to colleagues,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill</i>, February 8, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susan Crabtree,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/miller-earmarks-aided-partner-2007-05-02.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miller earmarks aided partner,"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>The Hill</i>, May 3, 2007.</li>

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<h2>Republican Representative (CA-42)</h2>

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<a id="11-HV320" name="11-HV320">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted YES on opening Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling.</h3>

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<ul>

<li style=" list-style: none;"><b><i>Congressional Summary:</i></b></li>

<li>Makes available for leasing, in the 2012-2017 five-year oil and gas leasing program, outer Continental Shelf areas that are estimated to contain more than 2.5 billion barrels of oil; or are estimated to contain more than 7.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.</li>

<li>Makes the production goal for the 2012-2017 five-year oil and gas leasing program an increase by 2027 in daily production of at least 3 million barrels of oil, and 10 billion cubic feet of natural gas.</li>

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<p><b><i>Proponent's Argument for voting Yes:</i></b>

[Rep. Young, R-AK]: The Americans suffering from $4 a gallon gas today must feel like they're experiencing a sense of deja vu. In 2008, when gasoline prices reached a record high of $4.11 per gallon, the public outcry forced Congress to act. That fall, Congress lifted the offshore drilling ban that had been in place for decades. Three years later, most Americans would likely be shocked to learn that no energy development has happened in these new areas.

<b><i>Opponent's Argument for voting No:</i></b>

[Rep. Markey, D-MA]. In the first 3 months of this year, Exxon-Mobil made $10 billion off of the American consumer; Shell made $8 billion; BP made $7 billion. So what are these companies asking for? These companies are now asking that we open up the beaches of California, Florida & New England to drill for oil. People who live near those beaches don't want oil coming in the way it did in the Gulf of Mexico. Right now, those oil companies are centered down in the Gulf of Mexico. People are concerned because those companies have blocked any new safety reforms that would protect against another catastrophic spill. We have to oppose this bill because, first of all, they already have 60 million acres of American land that they haven't drilled on yet, which has about 11 billion barrels of oil underneath it and an equivalent amount of natural gas. This bill is just a giveaway to Exxon-Mobil and Shell.</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Reversing Pres. Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.01231:">H.1231</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_11-HV320.htm">11-HV320</a> on May 12, 2011</font></center>

<p><a id="11-HV249" name="11-HV249">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted YES on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.</h3>

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<li style=" list-style: none;"><b><i>Congressional Summary:</i></b>Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from promulgating any regulation the emission of a greenhouse gas (GHG) to address climate change.</li>

<li>Excludes GHGs from the definition of "air pollutant" for purposes of addressing climate change.</li>

<li>Exempts from such prohibition existing regulations on fuel efficiency, research, or CO2 monitoring.</li>

<li>Repeals and makes ineffective other rules and actions concerning GHGs.</li>

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<p><b><i>Proponent's Argument for voting Yes:</i></b>

[Rep. Upton, R-MI]: This legislation will remove the biggest regulatory threat to the American economy. This is a threat imposed not by Congress, but entirely by the Obama EPA. This administration wanted a cap-and-trade system to regulate greenhouse gases, but Congress said no. So beginning in early 2009, EPA began putting together a house of cards to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide. The agency began with automobiles, declaring that their emissions endangered public health. That single endangerment finding has since been used by EPA to launch an unparalleled onslaught. The result, two years later, is a series of regulations that will ultimately affect every citizen, every industry, really every aspect of our economy and way of life.

<b><i>Opponent's Argument for voting No:</i></b>

[Rep. Waxman, D-CA]: This bill is a direct assault on the Clean Air Act. Its premise is that climate change is a hoax and carbon pollution does not endanger health and welfare. But climate change is real. It is caused by pollution, and it is a serious threat to our health and welfare. We need to confront these realities. American families count on the EPA to keep our air and water clean. But this bill has politicians overruling the experts at EPA, and it exempts our biggest polluters from regulation. If this bill is enacted, the EPA's ability to control dangerous carbon pollution will be gutted.</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Energy Tax Prevention Act; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.00910:">H.910</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_11-HV249.htm">11-HV249</a> on Apr 7, 2011</font></center>

<p><a id="2009-H477" name="2009-H477">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution.</h3>

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<p><b><i>Congressional Summary:</i></b>Requires utilities to supply an increasing percentage of their demand from a combination of energy efficiency savings and renewable energy (6% in 2012, 9.5% in 2014, 13% in 2016, 16.5% in 2018, and 20% in 2021). Provides for:</p>

<ol>

<li>issuing, trading, and verifying renewable electricity credits; and</li>

<li>prescribing standards to define and measure electricity savings from energy efficiency and energy conservation measures.</li>

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<p>Amends the Clean Air Act (CAA) to set forth a national strategy to address barriers to the commercial-scale deployment of carbon capture and sequestration.

<b><i>Proponent's argument to vote Yes:</i></b>Rep. ED MARKEY (D, MA-7): For the first time in the history of our country, we will put enforceable limits on global warming pollution. At its core, however, this is a jobs bill. It will create millions of new, clean-energy jobs in whole new industries with incentives to drive competition in the energy marketplace. It sets ambitious and achievable standards for energy efficiency and renewable energy from solar, wind, geothermal, biomass so that by 2020, 20% of America's energy will be clean.

<b><i>Opponent's argument to vote No:</i></b>Rep. BOB GOODLATTE (R, VA-6): I agree that this bill has very important consequences, but those consequences are devastating for the future of the economy of this country. It's a fantasy that this legislation will turn down the thermostat of the world by reducing CO2 gas emissions when China & India & other nations are pumping more CO2 gas into the atmosphere all the time. We would be far better served with legislation that devotes itself to developing new technologies before we slam the door on our traditional sources of energy like coal and oil and and nuclear power. We support the effort for energy efficiency. We do not support this kind of suicide for the American economy. Unfortunately, cap and trade legislation would only further cripple our economy.</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: American Clean Energy and Security Act; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.02454:">H.R.2454</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2009-H477.htm">2009-H477</a> on Jun 26, 2009</font></center>

<p><a id="2008-H649" name="2008-H649">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on tax credits for renewable electricity, with PAYGO offsets.</h3>

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<p><b><i>Congressional Summary:</i></b>Extends the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources:</p>

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<li>(1) through 2009 for wind facilities; and</li>

<li>(2) through FY2011 for closed and open-loop biomass, geothermal, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, and hydropower facilities.</li>

<li>Includes marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy as a renewable resource for purposes of such tax credit.</li>

<li>Includes cellulosic biofuel within the definition of "biomass ethanol plant property" for purposes of bonus depreciation.</li>

<li>Allows a new tax credit for the production of qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.</li>

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<p><b><i>Proponent's argument to vote Yes:</i></b> Rep. RICHARD NEAL (D, MA-2): This bill contains extensions of popular tax incentives that expired at the end of last year. This needs to get under way. The R&D tax credit is important. This bill includes a number of popular and forward-thinking incentives for energy efficiency. This is a very balanced bill which does no harm to the Federal Treasury. It asks that hedge fund managers pay a bit more, and it delays an international tax break that hasn't gone into effect yet. It is responsible legislation.

<b><i>Opponent's argument to vote No:</i></b>Rep. DAVE CAMP (R, MI-4): We are conducting another purely political exercise on a tax bill that is doomed in the other body because of our House majority's insistence on adhering to the misguided PAYGO rules. The Senate acted on a bipartisan basis to find common ground on this issue. They approved a comprehensive tax relief package containing extenders provisions that are not fully offset, as many Democrats would prefer, but contain more offsets than Republicans would like. Why is this our only option? Because the Senate, which has labored long and hard to develop that compromise, has indicated in no uncertain terms that it is not going to reconsider these issues again this year.

[The bill was killed in the Senate].</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.07060:">H.R.7060</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2008-H649.htm">2008-H649</a> on Sep 26, 2008</font></center>

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<a id="2008-344" name="2008-344">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on tax incentives for energy production and conservation.</h3>

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<p><b><i>OnTheIssues.org Explanation:</i></b> This bill passed the House but was killed in the Senate on a rejected Cloture Motion, Senate rollcall #150

<b><i>Congressional Summary:</i></b> A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide Tax incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, and to provide individual income tax relief.</p>

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<li>TITLE I--ENERGY TAX INCENTIVES</li>

<li>Sec. 102. Production credit for electricity produced from marine renewables.</li>

<li>Sec. 104. Credit for residential energy efficient property.</li>

<li>Sec. 106. New clean renewable energy bonds.</li>

<li>Part II--Carbon Mitigation Provisions</li>

<li>Sec. 112. Expansion and modification of coal gasification investment credit.</li>

<li>Sec. 115. Carbon audit of the tax code.</li>

<li>Sec. 121. Inclusion of cellulosic biofuel in bonus depreciation for biomass ethanol plant property.</li>

<li>Sec. 122. Credits for biodiesel and renewable diesel.</li>

<li>Sec. 124. Credit for new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.</li>

<li>Sec. 127. Transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters.</li>

<li>Sec. 146. Qualified green building and sustainable design projects.

<p><b><i>Opponents argument for voting NAY:</i></b> Sen. SPECTER: H.R. 6049 would revive important tax provisions that expired at the end of 2007 and extend provisions that are set to expire at the end of 2008. I support extension of the R&D tax credit, the renewable energy tax incentives, and many other important provisions in this package.

Despite the positive elements of this legislation, the main sticking point is whether temporary extensions of tax relief should be offset with permanent tax increases elsewhere. The White House issued a statement recommending a Presidential veto of this bill in its current form. [Vote NAY to] allow the Senate to work its will and pass legislation that can be quickly signed by the President.</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR6049:">HR6049</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2008-344.htm">2008-344</a> on May 21, 2008</font></center>

<p><a id="08-HR5351" name="08-HR5351">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on tax incentives for renewable energy.</h3>

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<b><i>CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: </i></b>Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008:

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<li>Production Incentives: Extends through 2011 the tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources (e.g., wind, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower).</li>

<li>Extends through 2016 the energy tax credit for investment in solar energy and fuel cell property.</li>

<li>Allows a new tax credit for the production of plug-in hybrid vehicles.</li>

<li>Extends through 2010 the tax credits for biodiesel (including agri-biodiesel)</li>

<li>Allows an alcohol fuels tax credit for the production of qualified cellulosic alcohol fuel.</li>

<li>Denies the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production of oil, gas, or any related products.</li>

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<p><b><i>SUPPORTER'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING YES:</i></b>Rep. MATSUI: Today's debate is about investing in renewable energy, which will chart a new direction for our country's energy policy. This bill restores balance to our energy policy after years of a tax structure that favors huge oil companies. Today's legislation will transfer some of the massive profits enjoyed by these oil companies and invest them in renewable resources that will power our economy in the future.

<b><i>OPPONENT'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING NO:</i></b>Rep. SMITH of Texas: I oppose H.R. 5351. While it is well and good to encourage alternative energy development, Congress should not do so by damaging our domestic oil and gas industry. In 2006 all renewable energy sources provided only 6% of the US domestic energy supply. In contrast, oil and natural gas provided 58% of our domestic energy supply. The numbers don't lie. Oil and natural gas fuel our economy and sustain our way of life.

Furthermore, almost 2 million Americans are directly employed in the oil and natural gas industry. Punishing one of our Nation's most important industries does not constitute a national energy policy.

<b><i>LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:</i></b>Bill passed House, 236-182</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.05351:">H.R.5351</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_08-HR5351.htm">08-HR5351</a> on Feb 12, 2008</font></center>

<p><a id="2007-0832" name="2007-0832">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on investing in homegrown biofuel.</h3>

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H.R.3221: New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, and Consumer Protection Act: Moving toward greater energy independence and security, developing innovative new technologies, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, protecting consumers, increasing clean renewable energy production, modernizing our energy infrastructure, and providing tax incentives for the production of renewable energy and energy conservation.

<p><b>Proponents support voting YES because:</b>

Rep. PELOSI: This bill makes the largest investment in homegrown biofuels in history. We know that America's farmers will fuel America's independence. We will send our energy dollars to middle America, not to the Middle East.

Rep. TIERNEY: This bill incorporates the Green Jobs Act, which will make $120 million a year available to begin training workers in the clean energy sector. 35,000 people per year can benefit from vocational education for "green-collar jobs" that can provide living wages & upward mobility.

<b>Opponents recommend voting NO because:</b>

Rep. SHIMKUS: I'm upset about the bill because it has no coal provisions. What about coal-to-liquid jobs? Those are real jobs with great wages. Energy security? We have our soldiers deployed in the Middle East because it's an important national security interest. Why? We know why. Crude oil. How do we decrease that importance of the Persian Gulf region? We move to coal-to-liquid technologies. What is wrong with this bill? Everything. No soy diesel. No ethanol. No coal. Nothing on nuclear energy. No expansion. There is no supply in this bill. Defeat this bill.

Rep. RAHALL: [This bill omits a] framework to sequester carbon dioxide to ensure the future use of coal in an environmentally responsible fashion. We can talk about biofuels all we want, but the fact is that coal produces half of our electricity for the foreseeable future. We must aggressively pursue technologies to capture and store the carbon dioxide.</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: New Direction for Energy Independence; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.03221:">HR3221</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2007-0832.htm">2007-0832</a> on Aug 4, 2007</font></center>

<p><a id="2007-398" name="2007-398">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC.</h3>

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Amends the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to declare it to be illegal for any foreign states to act collectively to limit the US price or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product. Denies a foreign state engaged in such conduct sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction of US courts

<p><b>Proponents support voting YES because:</b>

Gas prices have now reached an all-time record high, $3.27 a gallon, topping even the 1981 spike. This won't be the end of these skyrocketing price hikes either.

OPEC oil exports represent 70% of all the oil traded internationally. For years now, OPEC's price-fixing conspiracy has unfairly driven up the price and cost of imported crude oil to satisfy the greed of oil exporters. We have long decried OPEC, but have done little or nothing to stop this. The time has come.

This bill makes fixing oil prices or illegal under US law, just as it would be for any company engaging in the same conduct. It attempts to break up this cartel and subject these colluders and their anticompetitive practices to the antitrust scrutiny that they so richly deserve.

<b>Opponents support voting NO because:</b>

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<li>We can only affect OPEC subsidiaries in the US. So the result of this bill would be to hurt US companies while not affecting OPEC itself.</li>

<li>OPEC is a cartel, but we have to deal with it diplomatically. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was designed for US monopolies, not international state-run cartels.</li>

<li>We should focus on domestic policies to affect gas prices. We cannot respond to a short-term crisis with a long-term response.</li>

</ul>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act (NOPEC); Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.02264:">H R 2264</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2007-398.htm">2007-398</a> on May 22, 2007</font></center>

<p><a id="2007-040" name="2007-040">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies.</h3>

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Creating Long-term Energy Alternatives for the Nation (CLEAN) Act

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<li>Title I: Ending Subsidies for Big Oil Act--denying a deduction for income attributable to domestic production of oil, natural gas, or their related primary products.</li>

<li>Title II: Royalty Relief for American Consumers Act--to incorporate specified price thresholds for royalties on oil & gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico.</li>

<li>Title III: Strategic Energy Efficiency And Renewables Reserve--makes the Reserve available to accelerate the use of clean domestic renewable energy resources and alternative fuels.</li>

</ul>

<p><b>Proponents support voting YES because:</b>

This legislation seeks to end the unwarranted tax breaks & subsidies which have been lavished on Big Oil over the last several years, at a time of record prices at the gas pump and record oil industry profits. Big Oil is hitting the American taxpayer not once, not twice, but three times. They are hitting them at the pump, they are hitting them through the Tax Code, and they are hitting them with royalty holidays put into oil in 1995 and again in 2005.

It is time to vote for the integrity of America's resources, to vote for the end of corporate welfare, to vote for a new era in the management of our public energy resources.

<b>Opponents support voting NO because:</b>

I am wearing this red shirt today, because this shirt is the color of the bill that we are debating, communist red. It is a taking. It will go to court, and it should be decided in court.

This bill will increase the competitive edge of foreign oil imported to this country. If the problem is foreign oil, why increase taxes and make it harder to produce American oil and gas? That makes no sense. We should insert taxes on all foreign oil imported. That would raise your money for renewable resources. But what we are doing here today is taxing our domestic oil. We are raising dollars supposedly for renewable resources, yet we are still burning fossil fuels.</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation(CLEAN); Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00006:">HR 6 ("First 100 hours")</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2007-040.htm">2007-040</a> on Jan 18, 2007</font></center>

<p><a id="2006-354" name="2006-354">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore.</h3>

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Vote to amend a bill providing for exploration & production of mineral resources on the outer Continental Shelf. The underlying bill revises the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act's guidelines for natural gas lease administration. Voting YES on the amendment would maintain the 25-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling in environmentally sensitive areas offshore. Voting NO on the amendment would lift the 25-year moratorium, and establish incentives to renegotiate existing leases that fail to include market-based price caps.

<p><b>Proponents support voting YES because:</b>

This amendment would preserve the longstanding moratorium so important to coastal States. The amendment would also preserve the underlying bill's one redeeming feature, the renegotiating of the cash-cow leases now pouring billions of dollars into already stuffed oil industry coffers.

We have only 5% of the world's population, but 30% of the world's automobiles, and we produce 45% of the world's automotive carbon dioxide emissions. This addiction harms our environment, our economy and our national security. This underlying bill attempts to bribe coastal States into drilling off their shores by promising them a lot more money.

<b>Opponents support voting NO because:</b>

For 30 years, opponents of American energy have cloaked their arguments in an environmental apocalypse. They have tried to make the argument that no matter what we do, it will destroy the environment.

This amendment takes out all of the energy production. It is a callous disregard for the jobs that have been lost over the last 30 years of following an anti-energy policy. The people who work in oil and gas, their jobs are in the Middle East or Canada. We have exported their jobs. If this amendment passes, we are going to send the rest of them. We should know how important it is to create jobs in this country, to create clean natural gas in this country, so that it can be the bridge to the future.</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.04761:">H R 4761</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2006-354.htm">2006-354</a> on Jun 29, 2006</font></center>

<p><a id="2006-228" name="2006-228">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted YES on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries.</h3>

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<li style=" list-style: none;">Voting YES would allow floor debate on H.R.5254, the Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act, which provides for the following:</li>

<li>The EPA, upon the request of a state governor, shall provide scheduling and financial assistance relevant to consideration of federal refinery authorizations.</li>

<li>The President shall designate at least three closed military installations as potentially suitable for the construction of a refinery.</li>

<li>Requires that at least one such site be designated as potentially suitable for construction of a refinery to refine biomass in order to produce biofuel.</li>

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<li style=" list-style: none;">Proponents of the resolution say:</li>

<li>Over the last several years, we have seen gasoline prices increase steadily</li>

<li>In the last 24 years, our refinery capacity has dropped from 19 million barrels a day to less than 17 million barrels a day.</li>

<li>We must make build new refineries to meet our current demand and to prevent a loss of capacity due to another hurricane, or a terrorist attack</li>

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<li style=" list-style: none;">Opponents of the resolution say:</li>

<li>$3 a gallon gas is a problem, but so is global warming, and so is our dependence on fossil fuels.</li>

<li>Unfortunately, this bill represents another missed opportunity for strategic long-term national energy policy.</li>

<li>There have been no new refineries built in the US since 1976, but there has not been one convincing example of a situation where the permitting process prevented construction of a refinery.</li>

<li>We should reduce demand by promoting energy conservation and fuel efficient forms of transportation, and work to develop renewable sources of fuel.</li>

<li>Taken together, these will help America move towards energy independence. And we are going to stop providing subsidies to companies that are making record profits.</li>

</ul>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.res.00842:">HR 5254 resolution H RES 842</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2006-228.htm">2006-228</a> on Jun 7, 2006</font></center>

<p><a id="2005-519" name="2005-519">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted YES on authorizing construction of new oil refineries.</h3>

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To expedite the construction of new refining capacity in the United States, to provide reliable and affordable energy for the American people, and for other purposes including:

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<li>Authorizing the President to designate sites on Federal land for construction of new oil refineries, including at least three on closed military bases</li>

<li>Allowing the Secretary of Energy to enter into contracts with non-Federal entities to construct or restore new refineries that use crude oil or coal to produce gasoline or other fuel</li>

<li>Establishing a program to encourage carpools by giving grants to states and to evaluate the use of the Internet to link riders with carpools, assist employers establish carpool programs, and market existing programs</li>

<li>Authorizing any facility to use biomass debris as fuel if it meets certain standards, such as resulting from a major disaster</li>

<li>$2.5 million to create an education campaign about gasoline conservation</li>

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<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Gasoline for Americas Security Act; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.03893:">HR 3893</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2005-519.htm">2005-519</a> on Oct 7, 2005</font></center>

<p><a id="2004-241" name="2004-241">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted YES on passage of the Bush Administration national energy policy.</h3>

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Vote to pass a bill that would put into practice a comprehensive national policy for energy conservation, research and development. The bill would authorize o $25.7 billion tax break over a 10-year period. The tax breaks would include $11.9 billion to promote oil and gas production, $2.5 billion for "clean coal" programs, $2.2 billion in incentives for alternative motor vehicles, and $1.8 billion for the electric power industry and other businesses. A natural gas pipeline from Alaska would be authorized an $18 billion loan guarantee. It would add to the requirement that gasoline sold in the United States contain a specified volume of ethanol. Makers of the gasoline additive MTBE would be protected from liability. They would be required though to cease production of the additive by 2015. Reliability standards would be imposed for electricity transmissions networks, through this bill. The bill would also ease the restrictions on utility ownership and mergers.

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Energy Policy Act of 2004; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.04503:">HR 4503</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2004-241.htm">2004-241</a> on Jun 15, 2004</font></center>

<p><a id="2003-630" name="2003-630">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted YES on implementing Bush-Cheney national energy policy.</h3>

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Energy Omnibus bill: Vote to adopt the conference report on the bill that would put into practice a comprehensive national policy for energy conservation, research and development. The bill would authorize a $25.7 billion tax break over a 10-year period. The tax breaks would include $11.9 billion to promote oil and gas production, $2.5 billion for "clean coal" programs, $2.2 billion in incentives for alternative motor vehicles, and $1.8 billion for the electric power industry and other businesses. A natural gas pipeline from Alaska would be authorized an $18 billion loan guarantee. The bill would call for producers of Ethanol to double their output. Makers of the gasoline additive MTBE would be protected from liability. They would be required though to cease production of the additive by 2015. Reliability standards would be imposed for electricity transmissions networks, through this bill. The bill would also ease the restrictions on utility ownership and mergers.

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Bill sponsored by Tauzin, R-LA; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.00006:">HR.6</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2003-630.htm">2003-630</a> on Nov 18, 2003</font></center>

<p><a id="2001-311" name="2001-311">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels.</h3>

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Require a combined corporate average fuel efficiency [CAFE] standard for passenger automobiles and light trucks, including sport utility vehicles, of 26 mpg in 2005 and of 27.5 mpg in 2007. It also would offer incentives for alternative fuel vehicles.

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.4:">HR 4</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2001-311.htm">2001-311</a> on Aug 1, 2001</font></center>

<p><a id="2001-317" name="2001-317">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR.</h3>

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Amendment to maintain the current prohibition on oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by striking language opening the reserve up to development.

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.4:">HR 4</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2001-317.htm">2001-317</a> on Aug 1, 2001</font></center>

<p><a id="2000-323" name="2000-323">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Voted NO on starting implementation of Kyoto Protocol.</h3>

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Vote on an amendment that would allow the implementation of the portions of the Kyoto climate change treaty that are already allowed under law. The Kyoto protocol of 1997, which aims to reduce emissions of certain greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, has not been ratified by the United States. The amendment would allow federal agencies, particularly the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] to implement procedures already allowed under law that are also part of the Kyoto accord before the treaty is ratified by Congress.

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Reference: Amendment sponsored by Olver, D-MA; Bill <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.4690:">HR 4690</a> ; vote number <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2000-323.htm">2000-323</a> on Jun 26, 2000</font></center>

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<h3>Rated 0% by the <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note-CAF.asp">CAF</a>, indicating opposition to energy independence.</h3>

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Miller scores 0% by CAF on energy issues

<p><b><i>OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2005-2006 CAF scores as follows:&nbsp;</i></b></p>

<ul>

<li>0% - 30%: opposition of energy independence (approx. 206 members)</li>

<li>30% - 70%: mixed record on energy independence (approx. 77 members)</li>

<li>70%-100%: support for energy independence (approx. 183 members)</li>

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<b><i>About the CAF (from their website, www.ourfuture.org): </i></b>

<p>The Campaign for America's Future (CAF) is a center for ideas and action that works to build an enduring majority for progressive change. The Campaign advances a progressive economic agenda and a vision of the future that works for the many, not simply the few. The Campaign is leading the fight for America's priorities--against privatization of Social Security, for investment in energy independence, good jobs and a sustainable economy, for an ethical and accountable Congress and for high quality public education.

<b><i>About the CAF report, "Energy Independence: Record vs. Rhetoric":&nbsp;</i></b>

Energy independence has surfaced as a defining issue in the current elections. Are most candidates and both parties truly committed? To help distinguish the demonstrated level of support for homegrown, clean energy alternatives, we examined the voting records of current U.S. Representatives and Senators on bills vital to promoting those interests. Key pieces of legislation included goals for independence, and subsidies for the development of alternatives compared to subsidies for drilling and digging. We then compared votes on these issues with campaign contributions from major oil interests. The results show strong inverse correlations between political contributions from big oil and votes for energy independence.</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Source: CAF "Energy Independence" Report <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Notebook/Note_06n-CAF.htm">06n-CAF</a> on Dec 31, 2006</font></center>

<p><a id="10-AFP" name="10-AFP">&nbsp;</a></p>

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<h3>Signed the No Climate Tax Pledge by <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note-AFP.asp">AFP</a>.</h3>

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Miller signed the No Climate Tax Pledge

<p>No Climate Tax Pledge: I pledge to the taxpayers of my state, and to the American people, that I will oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.

Sponsoring organizations: Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEU); National Taxpayers Union (NTU); Institute for Liberty Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen-leaders committed to advancing every individual's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and intrusiveness of government is the best way to promote individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens to support restraining state and federal government growth and returning government to its constitutional limits. AFP is more than 1.6 million activists strong, with activists in all 50 states. AFP has 31 state chapters and affiliates. More than 70,000 Americans in all 50 states have made a financial contribution to AFP or AFP Foundation. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org</p>

<center><font face="Arial" size="1">Source: AFP website <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Notebook/Note_10-AFP.htm">10-AFP</a> on Nov 2, 2010</font></center>

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<td colspan="2" align="center"><font face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><big><b><i>2012 Governor, House and Senate candidates on Energy & Oil:</i></b></big></font></td>

<td align="center"><font face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><big><b><i>Gary Miller on other issues:</i></b></big></font></td>

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<td valign="top"><font face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b><i>CA Gubernatorial:</i></b>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Antonio_Villaraigosa_Energy+Oil.htm">Antonio Villaraigosa</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Jerry_Brown_Energy+Oil.htm">Jerry Brown</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Jerry_Sanders_Energy+Oil.htm">Jerry Sanders</a><small>

</small><b><i>CA Senatorial:</i></b>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Barbara_Boxer_Energy+Oil.htm">Barbara Boxer</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Dianne_Feinstein_Energy+Oil.htm">Dianne Feinstein</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Elizabeth_Emken_Energy+Oil.htm">Elizabeth Emken</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Gail_Lightfoot_Energy+Oil.htm">Gail Lightfoot</a>

<small> <b><i>Retiring to run for other office:</i></b>

<b><i>Running for President:</i></b>

TX-14:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Ron_Paul_Energy+Oil.htm">Ron Paul</a>(R)

<b><i>Running for Mayor:</i></b>

CA-51:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Bob_Filner_Energy+Oil.htm">Bob Filner</a>(D)

<b><i>Running for Governor:</i></b>

IN-6:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/IN/Mike_Pence_Energy+Oil.htm">Mike Pence</a>(R)

WA-1:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Jay_Inslee_Energy+Oil.htm">Jay Inslee</a>(D)

<b><i>Running for Senate:</i></b>

AZ-6:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Jeff_Flake_Energy+Oil.htm">Jeff Flake</a>(R)

CT-5:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Chris_Murphy_Energy+Oil.htm">Chris Murphy</a>(R)

FL-14:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/FL/Connie_Mack_IV_Energy+Oil.htm">Connie Mack</a>(R)

HI-2:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Mazie_Hirono_Energy+Oil.htm">Mazie Hirono</a>(D)

IN-2:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/IN/Joe_Donnelly_Energy+Oil.htm">Joe Donnelly</a>(D)

MO-2:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Todd_Akin_Energy+Oil.htm">Todd Akin</a>(R)

MT-0:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Dennis_Rehberg_Energy+Oil.htm">Dennis Rehberg</a>(R)

ND-0:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Rick_Berg_Energy+Oil.htm">Rick Berg</a>(D)

NM-1:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Martin_Heinrich_Energy+Oil.htm">Martin Heinrich</a>(D)

NV-1:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Shelley_Berkley_Energy+Oil.htm">Shelley Berkley</a>(D)

NY-9:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/NY/Bob_Turner_Energy+Oil.htm">Bob Turner</a>(R)

WI-2:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Tammy_Baldwin_Energy+Oil.htm">Tammy Baldwin</a>(D) </small></font></td>

<td valign="top"><small><b><i>Lost Primary 2012:</i></b>

IL-16:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/IL/Donald_Manzullo_Energy+Oil.htm">Donald Manzullo</a>(R)

NJ-9:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/NJ/Steven_Rothman_Energy+Oil.htm">Steven Rothman</a>(D)

OH-2:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/OH/Jean_Schmidt_Energy+Oil.htm">Jean Schmidt</a>(R)

OH-9:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/OH/Dennis_Kucinich_Energy+Oil.htm">Dennis Kucinich</a>(D)

PA-4:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/PA/Jason_Altmire_Energy+Oil.htm">Jason Altmire</a>(D)

PA-17:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/PA/Tim_Holden_Energy+Oil.htm">Tim Holden</a>(D)

TX-16:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Silvestre_Reyes_Energy+Oil.htm">Silvestre Reyes</a>(D)

<b><i>Retiring 2012:</i></b>

AR-4:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Mike_Ross_Energy+Oil.htm">Mike Ross</a>(D)

AZ-8:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Gabby_Giffords_Energy+Oil.htm">Gabby Giffords</a>(D)

CA-2:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Wally_Herger_Energy+Oil.htm">Wally Herger</a>(R)

CA-6:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Lynn_Woolsey_Energy+Oil.htm">Lynn Woolsey</a>(D)

CA-18:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Dennis_Cardoza_Energy+Oil.htm">Dennis Cardoza</a>(R)

CA-24:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Elton_Gallegly_Energy+Oil.htm">Elton Gallegly</a>(D)

CA-26:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/David_Dreier_Energy+Oil.htm">David Dreier</a>(R)

CA-41:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Jerry_Lewis_Energy+Oil.htm">Jerry Lewis</a>(R)

IL-12:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/IL/Jerry_Costello_Energy+Oil.htm">Jerry Costello</a>(D)

IL-15:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/IL/Timothy_Johnson_Energy+Oil.htm">Timothy Johnson</a>(R)

IN-5:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/IN/Dan_Burton_Energy+Oil.htm">Dan Burton</a>(R)

KY-4:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Geoff_Davis_Energy+Oil.htm">Geoff Davis</a>(R)

MA-1:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/MA/John_Olver_Energy+Oil.htm">John Olver</a>(D)

MA-4:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/MA/Barney_Frank_Energy+Oil.htm">Barney Frank</a>(D)

MI-5:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/MI/Dale_Kildee_Energy+Oil.htm">Dale Kildee</a>(D)

NC-9:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/NC/Sue_Myrick_Energy+Oil.htm">Sue Myrick</a>(R)

NC-11:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/NC/Heath_Shuler_Energy+Oil.htm">Heath Shuler</a>(D)

NC-13:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/NC/Brad_Miller_Energy+Oil.htm">Brad Miller</a>(D)

NY-5:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/NY/Gary_Ackerman_Energy+Oil.htm">Gary Ackerman</a>(D)

NY-10:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/NY/Ed_Towns_Energy+Oil.htm">Ed Towns</a>(D)

NY-22:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/NY/Maurice_Hinchey_Energy+Oil.htm">Maurice Hinchey</a>(D)

OH-7:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/OH/Steve_Austria_Energy+Oil.htm">Steve Austria</a>(R)

OK-2:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Dan_Boren_Energy+Oil.htm">Dan Boren</a>(D)

PA-19:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/PA/Todd_Platts_Energy+Oil.htm">Todd Platts</a>(R)

TX-20:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Charles_Gonzalez_Energy+Oil.htm">Charles Gonzalez</a>(D)

WA-6:<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Norm_Dicks_Energy+Oil.htm">Norm Dicks</a>(D) </small></td>

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<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Gary_Miller_Crime.htm">Crime</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Gary_Miller_Drugs.htm">Drugs</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Gary_Miller_Education.htm">Education</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Gary_Miller_Energy+Oil.htm">Energy/Oil</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Gary_Miller_Environment.htm">Environment</a>

<a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Gary_Miller_Families+Children.htm">Families/Children</a>

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