[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 79 (Wednesday, June 15, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H4493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              U.N. REFORM

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, previously I introduced an amendment to 
the appropriations budget which would have called upon the committee to 
remove 50 percent of the United States' annual dues to the United 
Nations. I did so to expound upon a point and to presage a prospective 
debate.
  As we debate the Hyde bill or the Lantos substitute amendment to it, 
let us remember that there is an American cost to the United Nations' 
corruption.
  For example, by reducing the annual dues to the United Nations, 
within this budget alone we could have increased funding for violence 
against women prevention and prosecution by $45 million, increased 
trade adjustment assistance by $40 million, increased spending on 
minority business development by $50 million, increased spending on the 
Manufacturing Extension Partnerships by $40 million, and increased 
money for the United States Institute of Peace by over $6 million.
  So as we enter this debate, let us remember that out of the oil-for-
food corruption and the scandals of sex-for-food in the Congo, that if 
the United Nations does not cleanse itself, that American money could 
be better spent here at home.

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