[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H174]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      OPPOSITION TO UNESCO FUNDING

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, because UNESCO admitted the 
nonexistent state of Palestine to its membership, we were obligated, 
under U.S. law, to cut off funding for that anti-American, anti-Israel 
organization.
  Yet some in Congress are trying to change these laws in the upcoming 
omnibus spending bill without giving Members of Congress the 
opportunity to have an open and honest debate on the merits of having 
our constituents fund UNESCO.
  There is no incentive for the House to go against our principles, to 
go against U.S. law; and I will remain in absolute opposition to any 
proposition that offers the administration a waiver on this or offers a 
plan to fund, partially or fully, any part of UNESCO.
  UNESCO knew what it was doing when it voted Palestine into its club, 
but UNESCO counted on the squishy Obama administration to fund the 
agency anyway.
  Well, Congress should say ``no'' to UNESCO. We should say to UNESCO, 
no, you are not worthy of the hard-earned taxpayer dollars of our 
constituents; and enough is enough, Mr. Speaker.

                          ____________________