William Helms: “I stressed the enormous importance of the Senate's support for Senator Dole's Peace Powers Act. I am named to be a…”

“I stressed the enormous importance of the Senate's support for Senator Dole's Peace Powers Act. I am named to be a cosponsor of the bill, S. 1803, and Senator Dole's amendment is designed to bring coordination, responsibility, accountability, and congressional oversight to United States participation in United Nations peacekeeping activities. For far too long we have turned a blind eye to the conduct of U.N. affairs. The other day the Senate adopted the Pressler-Byrd amendment to withhold United Nations-assessed contributions until the U.N. creates an inspector general to systematically investigate fraud, waste, and abuse at the United Nations. U.N. peacekeeping activities have rapidly become the international growth industry of the 1990's and the United States has been fanning these fires with a constant supply of the American taxpayers' money and resources. We have followed the dangerously confused policy of a United Nations-based aggressive multilateralism.”