[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14741]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     SUPPORT AMENDMENT TO REDIRECT $20 MILLION FROM UNITED NATIONS

  (Mr. SMITH of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, there is going to be a short time 
for debate this afternoon. I am introducing an amendment today to take 
$20 million from the U.N. and redirect it to come up to what the 
President requested for NIST, for research in technology and science.
  And I would just suggest to my colleagues, Mr. Speaker, that after 
the fall of Iraq, information has come to light about the United 
Nations' Oil for Food program and some of the apparent corruption. Now 
there is an unwillingness of several countries, including the United 
Nations itself, to not release the kind of information that is going to 
help us solve this scandal. The U.N., according to the Wall Street 
Journal, has kept hundreds of millions of dollars of Oil for Food money 
that should have gone to the Iraqi people. Now the United States 
taxpayers are paying that.
  I hope my colleagues will support my amendment today.

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