Political Quotes

“I think just to summarize, first of all, it requires Congressional notification before U.N. Security Council votes authorizing, extending, or expanding peacekeeping operations. That is section 804. I talked about that section. It requires congressional notification of assistance to the United Nations--section 807--and also bills submitted by the United Nations for assessed contributions; and U.S. payments to the United Nations for peacekeeping. That is section 806. Section 808 requires comprehensive annual peacekeeping funding requests and 3-year cost projection. And as I just talked about, section 811 talks about limiting raiding of Defense Department funds. Section 812 requires reduced U.S. assessment for peacekeeping equivalent to the assessment for general U.N. budget, 25 percent beginning in fiscal year 1996. Section 813 ensures access for U.S. manufactures to U.N. peacekeeping contracts with buy American provision. Section 814 requires steps to ensure safety of Americans captured during U.N. peacekeeping operations. Section 815 requires intelligence sharing with the United Nations to be conducted only pursuant to an agreement. We understand that there be some objection to that. Senator DeConcini may have some objection to that. Section 816 requires withholding of U.S. peacekeeping contributions until we appoint an independent inspector general. I referred to that in my statement. Then the last section 809 requires comprehensive annual reports on U.S.…”