[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15258]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               PROTECT AMERICAN JOBS AND THE CONSTITUTION

  (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, the price of gasoline in my home State 
of Michigan is currently the highest in the country: still nearly $1.90 
for a gallon of regular. Yet if $2.00 a gallon is troubling, just 
consider the impact of implementing the administration's flawed Kyoto 
Treaty. Tack on at least another 65 cents a gallon and double, double, 
the energy costs of powering our homes and our factories. Compound this 
with the loss of as many as 3.2 million American jobs, and we see what 
this treaty really entails.
  The fate of the American economy would be placed in the hands of 
those nations who do not have to comply with the dictates of the treaty 
but yet are the biggest offenders. Vice President Gore blatantly 
disregarded unanimous Senate advice in 1997 and volunteered American 
taxpayers to the Kyoto Protocol. Three years have now passed and still 
the advice and the consent of the Senate, as mandated by the 
Constitution, has not been sought on this misguided treaty.
  We already pay too much for our energy supplies. We cannot afford to 
further insult the American worker with this damaged and unratified 
treaty.

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