George Miller

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) is being touted by two other Bay Area representatives as a possible U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President-elect Barack Obama, according to the Associated Press.

The story published Thursday evening said that U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) and George Miller (D-Martinez) sent a letter to Obama transition team members that suggested Thompson be considered for the role.

While his name has been out there as one of the few sure bets to join President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet as Secretary of Labor, Martinez Congressman George Miller made it clear Thursday he really doesn't want the job.

The election of Barack Obama to be the United States' next president has started a flurry of speculation as to who from California might be tabbed to join his administration.

Media outlets began the guessing game Wednesday and Thursday, with most speculation focusing on names both familiar and less so.

Politico.com speculates that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) could be a potential Secretary of Energy in Barack Obama's (D) cabinet.

With American pension plans losing more than $2 trillion in value over the last 15 months, Congressman George Miller said Wednesday that he is concerned that Californians increasingly will not be able to retire when they plan and when they finally do quit working they will have to live on a lot less.

The Martinez Democrat, who is chairman of the House Labor and Education Committee, spoke this morning on KTVU on the state of the economy and the many negative spin-off effects Americans are experiencing.

WASHINGTON - At the request of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, two Golden State congressmen will travel to the Republic of Georgia this weekend on a fact-finding mission.

Pelosi (D-San Francisco) will send East Bay Congressman George Miller (D-Martinez) and Congressman Howard Berman (D-Van Nuys) to the worn-torn region as part of a larger American delegation. They are due to arrive there sometime Friday.

Miller is chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee and Miller is chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Justin Hamilton, Congressman George Miller's new media and Internet guru, will be taking a leave of absence to handle press relations duties for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign in Missouri, PolitickerCA.com has learned.

Hamilton, a Texas native, is the Martinez Democrat's deputy chief of staff. A spokesperson for Miller's office confirmed the move Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. George Mitchell: Getty Photo ImagesNorth San Francisco Bay Congressman George Miller says the President's recently announced plans to pursue outer continental shelf oil drilling amounts to just bad voodoo that will likely do far more harm than good to the budgets of most American families.

Miller (D-Martinez) said Thursday that President Bush's plan to open protected coastlines to offshore oil drilling would not yield any price relief until the year 2030 and even then any relief would be insignificant - and that's according to the Bush Administration's own Energy Information Administration.

Bay Area Congressmen George Miller and Pete Stark are currently pushing legislation that proposes to join together seven local wildlife refuges.

The bill, HR 6479, would create the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex and would unite the Bay Area's seven separate national wildlife refuges into a single complex to leverage greater federal funding for these unique habitats. The refuges that would be brought together range from San Francisco to the Monterey Bay.