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Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2016 -- Continued

Floor Speech

Date: March 25, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Foreign Affairs

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Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, for decades, this Congress has provided
bipartisan support to the U.S.-Israel alliance in part because the
support of the American people for the Israeli people is so strong. Unfortunately, for
almost as long, the United Nations has singled out Israel for unfair,
discriminatory treatment, whether it is the 1975 Zionism is Racism
Resolution or the recent obsession of the Human Rights Council.

It has been the longstanding U.S. policy to prevent unfair,
discriminatory treatment against Israel at the United Nations and other
international institutions. I believe it is urgent that this Congress
reaffirm that policy.

This amendment will allow a funding mechanism to adjust funding to
the United Nations or other international institutions should they
target Israel for unfair, discriminatory treatment. I hope we never
need this mechanism, but I believe it is critical that Congress
reaffirm our commitment to the U.S.-Israel alliance in preventing
unfair, discriminatory treatment.

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