[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12508-12509]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   THE U.N. MUST BE SAVED FROM ITSELF

  (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, systematic mismanagement and 
corruption within the United Nations organization has been part of the 
bureaucratic culture as never before. The United Nations is accountable 
neither to taxpayers nor to voters.
  As a safeguard, the Henry Hyde United Nations Reform Act of 2005 
targets crucial areas of the United Nations organization to ensure that 
U.S. taxpayer funds hauled off to Turtle Bay is spent in a 
deliberative, efficient, transparent and accountable manner.
  Additionally, the bill before us this week empowers the 
administration to fix the United Nations by making it very clear that 
U.S. funding to that body will be drastically cut unless the United 
Nations takes the appropriate action to save itself.
  The discrimination against Israel is one of the many problems in the 
United Nations. The viciousness with which Israel continues to be 
attacked at the U.N., and the reluctance of many member states to 
defend Israel or to accord it the same treatment as other member 
states, suggests that there is considerable anti-Semitic components 
behind the policies pursued in the U.N. forums.
  I believe that in the Henry Hyde United Nations Reform Act this week

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we will make sure that everyone will be on record to say that it is 
unacceptable that Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, 
should remain ostracized by the community of nations, and I urge my 
colleagues to pass the Henry Hyde U.N. Reform Act this week.

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