Candidate Notes on 04-HCR443

04-HCR443 on Jun 3, 2004

EXCERPTS OF RESOLUTION:

• Whereas President Ronald Reagan, citing gross financial mismanagement, anti-American bias, and anti-freedom policies, withdrew the US from membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1984;
• Whereas the US rejoined UNESCO in 2003;
• Whereas the US has only a single vote in UNESCO despite being assessed 25% of the UNESCO budget;
• Whereas UNESCO membership may force unconstitutional restraints on US freedom of the press;
• Whereas UNESCO effectively bypasses congressional authority to manage Federal lands by establishing management policies;
• Whereas UNESCO membership would undermine US sovereignty by forcing US adherence to the

UN global policy on bioethics; and

Whereas UNESCO seeks to levy an unconstitutional 'global tax' on Internet use on US citizens

Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives, That it is the sense of Congress that--
1. the United States should formally withdraw from UNESCO; and
2. any funds appropriated towards the US contribution to UNESCO, but not yet transferred to UNESCO, should be returned to the Treasury.

LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Referred to House Committee on International Relations; never came to a vote.