The House of Representatives has approved a measure that would withhold dues from the United Nations unless the world body adopts dozens of reforms. The bill passed on Friday by a vote of 221 to 184 mostly along party lines in the Republican-controlled House, CNN reported. The reform bill, sponsored by House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Illinois, seeks to have the United Nations adopt 39 reforms, and threatens, if the reforms are not adopted within two years, to withhold half of U.S. dues, which amount to roughly one-quarter of the United Nations' operating funds.
