[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 268 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 268

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that no new energy 
taxes or fees should be imposed on the American public for the purposes 
              of complying with the global warming treaty.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 9, 1997

 Mr. Paxon (for himself, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. Hostettler, 
 Mr. Ewing, Mr. Neumann, Mr. Herger, Mrs. Emerson, and Mr. Thornberry) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                           on Ways and Means

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that no new energy 
taxes or fees should be imposed on the American public for the purposes 
              of complying with the global warming treaty.

Whereas in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the United States agreed 
        to take voluntary steps toward reducing emissions to 1990 levels by the 
        year 2000;
Whereas the administration is working toward an agreement on the global warming 
        treaty to be signed in December of 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, to reduce 
        ``greenhouse gases'';
Whereas the Clinton administration currently has under consideration a plan 
        which, through the imposition of new energy taxes and fees, intends to 
        reduce carbon usage and thereby resulting carbon emissions;
Whereas the imposition of regressive energy taxes to comply with the treaty 
        would be devastating to the American taxpayer, our growing economy, and 
        employment;
Whereas decreasing ``greenhouse gases'' by 20 percent in the year 2010 could 
        require an increase in the Btu tax 5 times greater than that proposed in 
        1993;
Whereas a tax increase of $200 per ton of carbon could result in--
            (1) a 60 cent increase per gallon in the cost of gasoline;
            (2) a 50 percent increase in the cost of most fuels used for 
        residential and commercial heating;
            (3) a 4.2 percent reduction, or $350,000,000,000 per year, in United 
        States gross domestic product by 2010; and
            (4) a job loss of 1,100,000 in 2010 and 600,000 annually through 
        2020;

Whereas gasoline and fuel taxes are regressive and less affluent Americans must 
        spend a greater proportion of their income to pay those taxes than do 
        more affluent Americans;
Whereas additional or increased fees for energy producers and suppliers, instead 
        of directly increasing taxes on the American taxpayer, would require 
        increased costs to the taxpayer for home heating and cooling; and
Whereas many Americans now working toward achieving and maintaining economic 
        stability will be placed at financial risk through new energy taxes, 
        including seniors living on fixed incomes, single parent families with 
        children, recently employed former welfare recipients, working students 
        trying to finance their education, and others: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
no new energy taxes or fees should be imposed by the Clinton 
administration on the American public for the purposes of complying 
with the global warming treaty.
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