[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2757 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2757

  To require the return to the American people of all proceeds raised 
             under any Federal climate change legislation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2009

  Mr. Kind (for himself, Mr. Reichert, Mr. Lipinski, and Mr. Inglis) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the return to the American people of all proceeds raised 
             under any Federal climate change legislation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Consumer Assistance Rebate for 
Energy Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) It has been well documented that the Earth's 
        temperature has steadily increased in recent decades and that 
        human activity has contributed to a large degree to this 
        increase.
            (2) Changes in climate will have wide ranging effects on 
        sea level, precipitation, wildfire, agriculture, ecosystem 
        health and viability, wildlife habitat, and more.
            (3) Congressional action to reduce national emissions of 
        greenhouse gasses contributing to climate change is necessary 
        and urgent.
            (4) Such legislation will have impacts on consumers in the 
        form of high prices for energy, transportation, and consumer 
        goods.
            (5) These impacts will fall most heavily on low-income and 
        middle-income families who are least able to absorb price 
        increases.
            (6) A national program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 
        should not impose a tax on the American people in order to fund 
        other priorities.

SEC. 3. RETURN OF PROCEEDS.

    Any Federal climate change legislation that is signed into law 
shall return to the American people all proceeds from the sale of 
allowances or credits, a tax or fee imposed on greenhouse gas 
emissions, or other means, through reductions in individual taxes, 
increases in social security or unemployment benefits, and other direct 
means.
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