(Monday, June 9, 1997) -- Last Thursday, GOA alerted you to the amendment introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). As you will remember, his amendment would have pulled the United States out of the U.N. Rep. Paul stood up for all of our rights, stating that, "Our Constitution does not give us the authority to sell our sovereignty to an international government body . . . [and] does not allow us, for instance, to undermine the Bill of Rights." Indeed, as documented by our Thursday alert, the U.N. has been quietly pushing a gun control agenda for the member states (like the U.S.). Unfortunately, only 54 Representatives stood firm and supported the Paul amendment, which would have withdrawn the U.S. from the United Nations.
Who voted AGAINST the Paul amendment? Every Democrat voted against the Paul amendment, except for Reps. Hall (TX) and Taylor (MS) who voted for the provision; and Reps. Andrews, Berman, Farr, Fattah, Goode, Jefferson and Lantos who missed the vote. Thus, if you have a Democratic Representative -- and he is not one of the nine men listed above -- he voted against the Paul amendment. The self-avowed socialist, Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), also voted against withdrawing from the U.N.
Listed below are the Republicans who did not support Rep. Paul and voted AGAINST the amendment:
Archer Armey Bachus Baker Ballenger Barrett (NE) Barton Bass Bateman Bereuter Bilbray Bilirakis Bliley Blunt Boehlert Boehner Bono Brady Bryant Bunning Burr Callahan Calvert Camp Campbell Canady Cannon Castle Chabot Chambliss Christensen Coble Collins Cook Cooksey Cox Davis (VA) Deal Diaz-Balart Dreier Dunn Ehlers Ehrlich Emerson English Ewing Fawell Forbes Fowler Fox Franks (NJ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Ganske Gekas Gilchrest Gillmor Gilman Goodlatte Goodling Goss Graham Granger Greenwood Gutknecht Hansen Hastert Hastings (WA) Hayworth Herger Hill Hilleary Hobson Hoekstra Horn Hostettler Houghton Hutchinson Hyde Inglis Jenkins Johnson (CT) Kasich Kelly Kim King (NY) Klug Knollenberg Kolbe LaHood Latham LaTourette Lazio Leach Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Livingston LoBiondo McCollum McCrery McDade McHugh McInnis McKeon Metcalf Mica Miller (FL) Molinari Morella Myrick Neumann Northup Norwood Nussle Oxley Packard Pappas Parker Paxon Pease Peterson (PA) Petri Pitts Porter Portman Pryce (OH) Quinn Radanovich Ramstad Redmond Regula Riggs Rogan Rogers Roukema Sanford Saxton Sensenbrenner Shaw Shays Shimkus Shuster Skeen Smith (MI) Smith (NJ) Smith (OR) Smith (TX) Smith, Linda Snowbarger Souder Spence Stearns Sununu Talent Tauzin Taylor (NC) Thomas Thornberry Thune Tiahrt Upton Walsh Watkins Watts (OK) Weldon (PA) Weller White Whitfield Wicker Wolf Young (FL)