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Nita Lowey: “This amendment would cut $20 million from the contributions for international organizations. The question posed by this…”

On the recordJune 21, 2007
This amendment would cut $20 million from the contributions for international organizations. The question posed by this amendment is straightforward: Do you want to take funds away from an account that is saving lives every day around the world? Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last year told Senate appropriators that U.N. peacekeeping was an example of the benefit of empowering partner nations, and it would cost the United States taxpayers almost eight times as much.
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Nita Lowey
Democratic · New York
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Discussing an amendment to cut funding for international organizations.

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