[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 126-127]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      OPPOSITION TO UNESCO FUNDING

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, there are congressional and 
administration attempts to circumvent and undermine decades-old laws 
that prohibit the United States from funding any agency at the United 
Nations that admits a nonexistent Palestinian state.
  In October 2011, UNESCO chose to welcome Palestine to its membership. 
It did so, knowing full well that this would trigger U.S. laws that 
prohibit us from funding any entity at the U.N. that grants membership 
to the PLO or any other organization that doesn't meet the 
internationally recognized attributes of statehood.
  We must not grant a waiver to UNESCO nor approve any backdoor 
congressional attempt to provide U.S. funding to UNESCO until it 
reverses its decision regarding the Palestinian Authority.
  We are in an economic tailspin, Mr. Speaker. So why waste $250 
million in U.S. taxpayer money by giving it--wasting it--to UNESCO? It 
is madness.

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