Louie Gohmert: “I do have another bill that has not yet been filed. We are in the process of gathering sponsors for this bill, and I…”

“I do have another bill that has not yet been filed. We are in the process of gathering sponsors for this bill, and I have simply entitled it the United Nations Accountability Act. It is high time we did have some accountability from the U.N. So what this bill does, it just simply says, and I can just read the first prohibition. It says simply, United States assistance may not be provided to a country that opposed the position of the United States in the United Nations. It goes on to define that as meaning that, opposed the position of the United States means that the country's votes in the United Nations General Assembly during the most recent session of the General Assembly, and in the case of a country which is a member of the United Nations Security Council, the country's votes in the Security Council during the most recent session were the same as the position of the United States less than 50 percent of the time, using for this purpose the overall percentage of voting coincidences set forth in the annual report submitted to Congress pursuant to section 406 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, fiscal years 1990 and 1991. That is just the date of the act. Each year, on March 31, there is a requirement for a new report to be filed, and in that report, it sets out the votes of all the member nations. And from that, Madam Speaker, you would be shocked, I imagine, to know but from that we have gleaned the following information.…”