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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 12:48 PM
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Looks like the coalition of globalists and xenophobes, AKA the GOP,
is breaking along this line as well:

(CNN) -- The House of Representatives has approved a measure that would withhold dues from the United Nations unless the world body adopts dozens of reforms.

The bill passed on Friday by a vote of 221 to 184 mostly along party lines in the Republican-controlled House.

A senator said he will introduce the measure in the Senate, where it must pass before going to the White House for the president's approval, but the Bush administration has signaled it does not support such threats.

The reform bill, sponsored by House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Illinois, seeks to have the United Nations adopt 39 reforms, and threatens, if the reforms are not adopted within two years, to withhold half of U.S. dues, which amount to roughly one-quarter of the United Nations' operating funds.



http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/18/un.reform/index.html
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