Pete Domenici: “the bill we will pass contains two provisions on which Senator Hollings and I took the lead in the Commerce, Justice…”

“the bill we will pass contains two provisions on which Senator Hollings and I took the lead in the Commerce, Justice, State, and judiciary appropriations bill, and they have to do with very important aspects of the U.N. activities. The reason I say they are important is because I am concerned that we are going to wake up one day and find that there are scandals with regard to how the United Nations is spending its money, and the American people who want now to support the United Nations because we make a real difference in the world order today are going to say we should not. These scandals are right on the horizon and everybody knows about them, with reference to how they contract, with reference to even some fraud and scandalous activities in who gets paid for some of these very difficult security missions, and how the United Nations goes about contracting. So we started in our appropriations bill some very big pressure on the United Nations to get control over their budgets and fiscal policy. We in the United States have inspectors general. Maybe they can come up with something better. But in the 1994 appropriations bill, we have withheld almost $30 million, 10 percent of that which goes to the United Nations under our assessment, unless and until they get an inspector general-type process in place and in effect.”