Phil Gingrey: “I thank my colleague on the Committee on Rules for yielding me this 1 minute. I grew up in the Deep South in the late…”

“I thank my colleague on the Committee on Rules for yielding me this 1 minute. I grew up in the Deep South in the late 1950s. Every other billboard in the South, in my part of Georgia, said, ``Get out of the United Nations.'' I did not think that was correct then, and I do not feel that way now. In fact, maybe we should have joined the League of Nations and we would never have had World War II. But if there is ever a time to reform an organization, it is absolutely now. I am proud to support the rule and the bill, H.R. 2745, the Henry J. Hyde United Nations Reform Act of 2005. The gentleman from California earlier talked about the Ten Commandments and the fact that we are burdening the U.N. with these 39 commandments. But really what he is suggesting is that they are not commandments at all. They become suggestions. It does not really matter, the number. {time} 1730 I think we need some teeth in this reform, and that is what the Henry J. Hyde United Nations Reform Act does. I am fully supportive. I ask my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this, and let us straighten out that organization.”