House Panel Approves Threat to Withhold Dues to United Nations
The House International Relations Committee today approved a bill that would withhold U.S. dues from the United Nations if the organization does not make a series of changes in how it does business.
Members narrowly rejected, 24-25, an alternative by Tom Lantos, D-Calif., that would authorize but not mandate the withholding of U.S. funds.
The vote comes on the heels of an oil-for-food scandal that has damaged the United Nations’ reputation and brought intensified scrutiny from congressional investigators.
The bill suggests a wide range of “reform” ideas, including an independent oversight board, new codes of conduct for U.N. peacekeeping operations and stricter rules that would keep human rights violaters off the agency’s Human Rights Commission.
Since Congress cannot force changes at the United Nations, International Relations Chairman Henry J. Hyde, R-Ill., wrote a bill that would mandate withholding of up to 50 percent of U.S. assessed dues if the United Nations does not reach 39 goals laid out in the bill.
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