Notable U.N. reform successes typically share one thing in common: congressional involvement backed by the threat of financial withholding.
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January 24, 2011 07:50
Republican-Controlled Congressional Committee Targets United Nations
Committee chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is holding a hearing Tuesday entitled “The United Nations: Urgent Problems that Need Congressional Action,” featuring some the U.N.’s most outspoken critics.
June 1, 2010 04:30
U.N. Condemns Israeli Raid, Calls for Probe
Security Council calls for an ‘impartial’ investigation of Israel’s deadly raid on a flotilla taking aid to Gaza
March 9, 2010 01:15
Sanctions Kickback – Obama brings Chicago chicanery to world stage
Is the Obama team so desperate to claim it got a sanctions deal on Iran that it’s offering the same carve-outs it did with Congress on health care? That’s what a new plan looks like. And it won’t work.
In what must be one of its worst ideas ever, the Obama administration is pressuring Congress to exempt China from any sanctions in the U.S. if it continues business as usual with Iran.
