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| House votes to stop U.S. funding for United Nations |
| 06.17.05 (2:41 pm) [edit] |
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Associated Press WASHINGTON — Culminating years of frustration with the performance and behavior of the United Nations, the House voted today to slash U.S. contributions to the world body if it does not substantially change the way it operates. The 221-184 vote, which came despite a Bush administration warning that such a move could actually sabotage reform efforts, was a strong signal from Congress that a policy of persuasion wasn't enough to straighten out the U.N. "We have had enough waivers, enough resolutions, enough statements," said House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., the author of the legislation. "It's time we had some teeth in reform." The legislation would withhold half of U.S. dues to the U.N.'s general budget if the organization did not meet a list of demands for change. Failure to comply would also result in U.S. refusal to support expanded and new peacekeeping missions. The bill's prospects in the Senate are uncertain. Just prior to the final vote, the House rejected, 216-190, an alternative offered by the top Democrat on the International Relations Committee, Tom Lantos of California, that also would have outlined U.N. reforms but would have left it to the discretion of the secretary of state whether to withhold U.S. payments. Halleluiah. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3230206" title="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3230206" target="_blank"http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/s... |
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