DEMOCRATS' 9/11 BILL
TURNING HOMELAND SECURITY OVER TO THE U.N.?
January 9, 2007
Dear Republican Colleague:
In the first bill being rushed through the 110th Congress, House Democrats are attempting to surrender a key aspect of our homeland security to the United Nations.
H.R. 1, the Democrats' first attempt to draft legislation to make America safe since 9/11, contains language that would subject our country's most effective counterproliferation initiative to limitations imposed by the UN Security Council.
The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is a four year-old program, created and led by the United States, that allows America and our allies to interdict the transfer of banned weapons and technology.  The program consists of 14 core partner countries and dozens of additional supporting nations, all of whom share a mutual interest in preventing the spread of WMD.
Incredibly, H.R. 1 would express the Sense of Congress that this program needs to be authorized by the UN.
It should be obvious that the PSI functions precisely because the UN is not directly involved.  Allowing the Security Council to govern the program would instantly jeopardize the intelligence, routes, and methods used by American and allied forces as they try and keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of terrorists and rogue regimes.
Even more ominously, the Democrat proposal would essentially hand over our efforts to stop nuclear proliferation to a global body that has counted among its membership in recent years both Pakistan and Syria.  It is already a goal of the Administration to broaden international participation in the PSI.  It should not be a goal to expand that membership to the proliferators themselves.
If this effort is part of a broader agenda by Democrat leaders to globalize America's foreign policy and national security, it must stop now.  On Tuesday, Republicans will offer a motion to commit the bill H.R. 1 to committee with instructions to remove this language and ensure that America's homeland security efforts are not controlled by the United Nations.
I strongly urge you to vote YES on the Republican Motion to Commit on H.R. 1.
Sincere regards,
Roy Blunt
Republican Whip