[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 92 (Wednesday, July 7, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H5202]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                KEEP THE U.N. OUT OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS

  (Mr. SMITH of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I was going to make some comments 
about overspending and overpromising and the imposition that puts on 
our kids and grandkids. But just following up on the U.N., I am very 
concerned about the U.N. and how much that the U.N., as a tool, can 
accommodate some of our goals in the United States; and I am 
particularly concerned when some Members have suggested that the U.N. 
should come in and monitor our presidential elections.
  What comes to mind is the fiasco of the Oil for Food program. The 
U.N. bureaucrats in Iraq did not file reports and bring irregularities 
to the attention of the Security Council countries that had a 
particular vested interest, allowing corruption to take place in the 
Oil for Food program.
  I am very concerned, the people of the United States should be 
concerned, how it works, and the fact that a lot of the individual 
ambassadors in the United Nations are looking out for nothing except 
what is in the best interest of their particular country, not what is 
good for the humanitarian, economic or security efforts of the whole 
world.

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