Political Quotes

“no one--no one--in this body supports forced abortions. No one. However, the United Nations has no authority to control the acts of any individual nation. Instead of punishing the country that is carrying out the bad policy, this amendment would go after an entity that has no control over the policy and all the while negatively impacting our national interests because it takes away all funding to the United Nations if such a member country is engaged in such acts. It would impact funding for peacekeeping operations in the Golan Heights, in Darfur, in Congo; funding for Syrian refugees, which now exceeds 1 million and is threatening the political and economic instability of Jordan and Lebanon; funding to the International Atomic Energy Agency that we need to go after Iran. These are all reasons this amendment should be voted against. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.”