GOP vote to pull money back from U.N. fails.

[ProSense]

HOUSE GOP LEADERS LOSE ANOTHER ONE....

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This afternoon, the House GOP leadership "endured another embarrassing floor loss," this time on U.N. funding.

A bill that would retrieve money already paid to the United Nations failed Wednesday afternoon 259-169, 290 votes were needed for passage. The bill is the third to fail under House stewardship this week. The U.N. bill would have return $179 million that was paid into the U.N. tax equalization fund.

The measure was brought up under House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) signature budget slashing initiative, known as YouCut, under suspension of House rules that required two-thirds vote for passage.

Several GOP sources said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) had lobbied against the U.N. bill, at the urging of New York city officials. King had spoken to New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly about the funding.

King spoke on the House floor Wednesday, saying defeating the bill is "a matter of life and death."

This didn't persuade many in the GOP caucus, but the argument nevertheless carried the day. As with the vote on the Patriot Act, a House majority supported the GOP proposal, but to expedite matters, the measure was placed on the suspension calendar, so it needed a two-thirds majority, and came up far short.

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What the hell are they doing?

[Ozymanithrax]

1. Perhaps they dont want to cut, but feel they must pretend to their base.

They will use these failed votes to call to their base to elect more Republicans. Because without a real 2/3rds majority, they can't get shit done.

[louis-t]

2. Pandering to the tea crazies.

[RC]

3. What the hell are they doing?

They are destroying this country from the inside, that's what.

[ShadowLiberal]

4. How can you take back money you already donated?

Shouldn't it be up to the UN to decide if we can get our money back that we already gave them? I don't see how this legislation has any muscle behind it.

[tanyev]

5. Welcome to the big leagues, baggers!

[Kdillard]

6. I want them to continue to fail miserably makes me happy during this awful

winter.

[wiggs]

7. Number of jobs created by this effort? nt

[golfguru]

8. Let's keep borrowing from China and give it to UN

very cool! Makes us feel rich and mighty.

[ProSense]

9. Better the U.N. than the rich. n/t

[golfguru]

10. Of course, the UN will create jobs in our country!

You are so right again LMAO.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. And the rich create more and more jobs every day!

[golfguru]

13. I worked for 23 long years for a rich bastard

Sure he paid me decent wages, but he made millions. And I was very
jealous why he should make 50 times what I was making. But that was the
best job ever for me because he let me create products without micro-
managing. Eventually he was bought out by a larger publicly held outfit
in Chicago and I left to work at Argonne National Labs, where the first
sustained nuclear reaction in the world took place.

[pampango]

12. Wackos on the right have been wanting the US to withdraw from the UN forever.

National sovereignty trumps everything, don't you know. Wouldn't want to work out global problems in an international organization or sign an international agreement, because living up to an agreement or abiding by the rules of the organization might infringe on your national sovereignty. And that's all that matters.