[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 89 (Wednesday, July 12, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H5850]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         U.S. ATTACKED BY KOFI ANNAN AT NOTRE DAME COMMENCEMENT

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, in this year's commencement speech at Notre 
Dame, Kofi Annan, the head of the United Nations, bitterly attacked the 
United States.
  He said the U.S. was one of the ``least generous'' Nations in helping 
the world's poor. Actually, the exact opposite is true. No nation on 
the face of this Earth has even come close to the U.S. in what it has 
given to poor people around the world.
  Mr. Annan called the U.S. ``shameful.'' Actually, U.S. taxpayers pay 
one-fourth of all U.N. costs and most of the costs of the so-called 
U.N. peacekeeping missions.
  Mr. Speaker, most of our tax money for the U.N. is wasted to pay high 
salaries to U.N. bureaucrats who pay no Federal income taxes.
  Interestingly, Mr. Annan has refused to release a copy of his 
financial disclosure as required by law or a copy of his own personal 
charitable giving for the past 5 years as requested by the Freedom 
Alliance.
  Mr. Speaker, Mr. Annan is the one who should be ashamed, not U.S. 
taxpayers.

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