[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3317 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3317

To prohibit the United States representative to the United Nations from 
 voting to approve, expand, or extend any United Nations peacekeeping, 
peacemaking, or peace-enforcing operation unless the President notifies 
                     the Congress before that vote.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 1993

  Mr. Rogers introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the United States representative to the United Nations from 
 voting to approve, expand, or extend any United Nations peacekeeping, 
peacemaking, or peace-enforcing operation unless the President notifies 
                     the Congress before that vote.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT REGARDING UNITED 
              NATIONS PEACEKEEPING, PEACEMAKING, AND PEACE-ENFORCING 
              OPERATIONS.

    (a) In General.--The United States representative to the United 
Nations shall not vote to approve, expand, or extend any United Nations 
peacekeeping, peacemaking, or peace-enforcing operation under Chapter 
VI or VII of the Charter of the United Nations unless, at least 15 days 
before such vote, the President notifies the appropriate congressional 
committees of--
            (1) the total estimated cost of the operation;
            (2) the source of funding for the United States 
        contribution to the operation, such as whether such funding 
        will require--
                    (A) a budget request or an amendment to an existing 
                budget request;
                    (B) a reprogramming of existing funds; or
                    (C) a request for supplemental appropriations;
            (3) the anticipated duration and scope of the operation;
            (4) the anticipated termination date of the operation;
            (5) the goals of the operation; and
            (6) the United States interests that will be served by the 
        operation.
    (b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--For purposes of 
this section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means 
the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.

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