U.N. funding an early target for House Republicans

[The Northerner]

A key House Republican is quickly pressing forward with her goals to scale back U.S. funding for the United Nations.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Hill that oversight would be a key function of the panel, particularly funding to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) that is "a waste of taxpayer dollars."

"I'd like to make sure that we once and for all kill all U.S. funding for that beast," she said last month. "Because I don't think that it advances U.S. interests, I don't think that that's a pro-democracy group, it's a rogue's gallery, pariah states, they belong there because they don't want to be sanctioned."

Supporters of continued U.S. support of and participation on the HRC say that it's essential that Washington have leverage on the panel, renowned for including countries that have their own records of human-rights violations.

Read more: http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/foreign-policy/139563-the-world-from-the-hill-un-funding-an-early-target-for-house-republicans

[RB TexLa]

1. With as many isolationists as we have it this will probably be supported on DU

[DCKit]

3. Or we could ask that the UN spend OUR money on improving people's lives...

instead of the despots that run their countries.

You don't have a clue.

[davidinalameda]

5. I agree

the UN has become pretty much a joke

when it has countries like Saudi Arabia serving on the Human Rights Commission, one tends to lose faith in the organization

[emilyg]

6. +10

[reformist2]

2. It sounds like the House will be preoccupied for the next two years with bills that go nowhere.

[sakabatou]

4. Yup by wasting money and time

[gateley]

7. Really, what funding HAVEN'T they targeted (except for Defense)? nt