Joseph Knollenberg: “today the House Appropriations Committee accepted my amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. The…”

“today the House Appropriations Committee accepted my amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. The amendment that the gentleman from Indiana now offers is exactly the same wording as what I offered and what was accepted this morning in the full House Appropriations Committee. Mr. Chairman, I want to point out that this amendment regarding the Kyoto Protocol offered by me earlier and now by Mr. Visclosky cannot, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, authorize anything whatsoever on this Energy and Water Appropriations bill, H.R. 4733, lest it be subject to a point of order. This amendment shall not go beyond recognition of the original and enduring meaning of the law that has existed for years now-- specifically that no funds be spent on unauthorized activities for the fatally flawed and unratified Kyoto Protocol. Mr. Chairman, the whole nation deserves to hear the plea of this Administration in the words of the coordinator of all environmental policy for this administration, George Frampton, in his position as Acting Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality.”