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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5713 
To pursue a policy of weighted voting with respect to the budgets of the 
United Nations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 29, 2006 
Mr. HYDE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on International Relations 
A BILL 
To pursue a policy of weighted voting with respect to the 
budgets of the United Nations. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United Nations Budget 
Reform Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. POLICY WITH RESPECT TO WEIGHTED VOTING. 
It shall be the policy of the United States to use its 
voice, vote, and influence at the United Nations to actively 
pursue the adoption by the General Assembly of formal 
procedures for the use of weighted voting in the General 
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Assembly with respect to the adoption of regularly as-
sessed budgets for biennial periods. In accordance with 
such procedures, the proportionate value of a Member 
State’s vote shall be equal to such Member State’s as-
sessed contribution to the budget under consideration. 
SEC. 3. CONSENSUS VOTING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Until the adoption of procedures 
for the use of weighted voting in accordance with section 
(2), it shall be the policy of the United States to use its 
voice, vote, and influence at the United Nations to actively 
pursue the adoption by the United Nations of formal pro-
cedures that prohibit the passage of a regularly assessed 
budget for a biennial period without first obtaining the 
unanimous consent of all Member States concerning such 
budget. 
(b) PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.—If at any time after 
the date of the enactment of this Act the United Nations 
adopts a regularly assessed budget for a biennial period 
without first obtaining unanimous consent concerning 
such budget by all Member States in accordance with sub-
section (a), thereby adopting such budget over an objec-
tion by the United States or any other Member State, the 
United States shall appropriate, but withhold from ex-
penditure, 25 percent of the contributions of the United 
States to such budget. The penalty described in this sub-
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section shall not apply if such budget is adopted in accord-
ance with a system of weighted voting described in section 
2. 
(c) USE OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Contributions appropriated 
but withheld from expenditure under subsection (b) 
are authorized to remain available until the earlier 
of— 
(A) such time as the Secretary of State 
submits to the Committee on International Re-
lations of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
a certification that the United Nations is in 
compliance with the requirements of this Act, 
or 
(B) the date that is five years after the 
date on which such funds are withheld. 
(2) RELEASE OF FUNDS.—If the Secretary sub-
mits to the committees specified in paragraph (1)(A) 
the certification referred to in such paragraph before 
the date referred to in paragraph (1)(B), the United 
States shall transfer to the United Nations contribu-
tions appropriated but withheld from expenditure 
under subsection (b). 
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(3) REVERSION
TO
UNITED
STATES.—If the 
Secretary does not submit to the committees speci-
fied in paragraph (1)(A) the certification referred to 
in such paragraph before the date referred to in 
paragraph (1)(B), contributions appropriated but 
withheld from expenditure under subsection (b) shall 
revert to the United States. 
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