[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 8, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8638]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           PRESIDENT CLINTON READY TO IMPOSE NEW ENERGY TAXES

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, there he goes again. President Clinton 
has stepped up efforts to force compliance with the treaty limiting 
greenhouse gas emissions. And with a knee-jerk reaction, how does he 
propose to accomplish this goal? Simply by raising taxes. That is 
right, a tax increase. A tax increase on energy.
  The ink is not even dry on the newly enacted tax cut package and the 
President is proposing a new tax, a green tax, that will place an 
unbearable burden on our most vulnerable citizens. And for what? The 
treaty exempts 132 of the 166 nations of this world. This places the 
entire burden of reducing greenhouse emissions on the industrialized 
nations. That is us. This will not eliminate greenhouse gases, it 
merely changes the point of origin, the point of production.
  By itself the Clinton-Gore-Browner Treaty will have a devastating 
effect on the American workers, but now the President wants to add 
insult to injury with his green tax. I ask the President to think hard 
about his ill-conceived green tax.

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