On the recordJune 21, 2000
I would like to speak to that issue, because I respectfully disagree that there is anything unclear about the issue or about the agreement associated with the issue that was achieved in the context of the 1999 VA-HUD conference. In that conference it was made clear, to put it in simple turns, that the EPA or the United States Government could not, would not, under the terms of that conference report, and they acknowledged that they would not if there was nothing in the conference report, try to implement the Kyoto Protocol prior to its being ratified by the United States Senate, meaning that they would not engage in a rule-making proceeding to establish standards for American industry out of any requirement, any agreement, flowing out of the Kyoto Protocol.
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