Political Quotes

“the peacekeeping responsibilities of the United Nations have increased enormously in recent years. The United Nations staff is clearly unable to provide all of the goods and services required to carry out ongoing peacekeeping operations. In order to fill the gap, the United Nations has contracted out for engineering services, supply management, communications services and communications management, trucking and transportation management, security and other such services mandated by these growing peacekeeping operations. These contracting efforts now entail large sums of money with the funds coming primarily from regular peacekeeping contributions, with the United States being a substantial contributor to the peacekeeping budget. It would seem only fair that U.S. contractors be given a fair opportunity to compete with other foreign contractors for these lucrative U.N. contracts. All that this amendment is intended to do is to urge the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations to give some attention to this matter and to begin to compile some data to enable the Congress to make some judgment on how well U.S. contractors are faring in obtaining a reasonable proportion of such U.N. contracts. Mr. President, I urge adoption of the amendment.”