[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 29 (Tuesday, March 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H1175-H1176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       U.N. GLOBAL CLIMATE ENVOY

  (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, on a day when we are all trying to be 
green, I found an article in today's paper that disturbed my festive 
mood. It seems the UN's Global Climate envoy was in Washington 
yesterday bad-mouthing the United States Congress because we are asking 
the questions that President Clinton is refusing to ask about the 
Global Climate Treaty agreed to in Kyoto. He said the U.S. should 
perhaps get more in touch with the rest of the world and that this 
Congress is acting as if the rest of the world does not exist.
  Now the President may want to blindly follow the UN and their global

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climate folies, but I and many others are not ready to send our jobs 
overseas and our economy into the tank because the UN says we should. 
And if this treaty is so great, then how come China, India, and Mexico 
are not willing to commit to emissions reductions? On a day when I hope 
to be green, I am blue.

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