Honorable Jerry Weller
United States Representative, Illinois, Republican
Representative Weller, of the Eleventh District of Illinois, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. He served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1988 to 1994. He sits on the Ways and Means Committee. The following is from the January 18, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 6, the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007. Today, politics trumps policy. If regular order had been followed in this House, allowing this tax increase to go through the Ways and Means Committee, we would have a better understanding of the consequences of today’s $14 billion tax increase. If…
