32-50 is a consolidated appropriations act that we want to drop in the U.N. speech for Monday morning. I need you to review the final legislative language so we can shop it around the Hill over the weekend.
What does it call for?
Uh, I don't know.
Sam.
It authorizes payment of nine hundred and twenty-six million in U.N. dues over three years for an exchange in the reduction of U.N. bureaucracy as well as peace-keeping assessments by the General Assembly.
And what are we concerned about?
Well, the language was drafted by Republicans.
We're inscrutable.
I just want you to look for legal landmines.
Like what?
I don't know. A ban on German food, or a hidden amendment saying how annoying the French are.
How about this? We drop out of the UN entirely and use the 926 million to take everyone in the country out to brunch?
Why don't you write that suggestion in the margins?
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