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Republicans Advance Bill Targeting US Funding for UN: ‘What Are We Paying For?’
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Oct 16, 2011 06:19am |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| News Date | Sunday, October 16, 2011 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | (CNSNews.com) – A U.S. House committee Thursday approved a bill linking U.S. contributions to the United Nations to significant financial and other reforms, one day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned she would recommend that President Obama veto the measure if it reaches his desk.
Deeply divided along party lines, the House Foreign Relations Committee voted 23-15 for the U.N. Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act (H.R. 2829), whose most radical provision aims to force the U.N. to change its funding mechanism from the current system of “assessed” contributions to voluntary ones.
Proponents say this would allow the U.S. – and other member states – to fund only those activities and agencies it regards as being efficiently managed, and in the national interest. |
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