On the recordFebruary 18, 2011
In the United Nations over and over again we see enemies of America, enemies of our freedom, voting against us over and over again. We see an organization there that's just rife with fraud, corruption, with a tremendous amount of problems. We see the U.N. bring people over here who have diplomatic immunity who have been caught in the business of spying against America, want to harm us. We see in the U.N. an organization that in their Human Rights Commission is populated by countries that are basically run by terrorist organizations. Mr. Chairman, it's time to take a solid stand against our supporting this kind of organization by giving our taxpayers' hard earned money and taxpayers' dollars to an organization that I believe is not in the best interests of America. Mr. Chairman, I personally would like to see us get out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the U.S., but we cannot do that today. But what we can do is in this continuing resolution we can deny taxpayer dollars being wasted on this organization. And so I have the amendment to stop the United States from paying dues to the United Nations. I think it's in our best interests to do so. I think it's in our best interests to the taxpayers of America to prevent wasting their hard-earned taxpayer dollars on funding the U.N. through our dues to the U.N. So I encourage my colleagues to support this amendment to defund the U.N.
