mr. speaker , first of all , let me echo what has been said about the gentleman from illinois ( mr. hyde )  .  there has never been a finer member of congress in the history of the republic than the gentleman from illinois .  he was one of the most eloquent speakers i have ever known in this house .  we really appreciate all his hard work on this bill .  now , let me say to my friend from massachusetts , i have been listening to this stuff for 20 years .  you can not do anything to put pressure on the united nations , because if you do , the whole world is going to hate us .  the sky is going to fall , henny penny .  the state department has been working with the united nations for the last 20 years that i have been here and working on the foreign affairs committee , international relations now .  the problems still exist .  the only difference is , it is worse now than it has ever been .  we have got to do something about it .  mr. bolton needs to be confirmed on the other side because we need a tough guy over there to force the issue .  we have got an oil-for-food scandal that is growing daily .  kofi annan , the head of the united nations , the secretary-general , said , oh , i did n't have anything to do with it .  we now are finding memos where he talked to the people in the oil industry saying that he would give them unqualified support .  a few months ago , he said , oh , i never did that , and he said he would never resign under any circumstances .  now he is hedging his bets on that because the case against him and the oil-for-food scandal is growing and growing and growing .  he is the head man over there .  on his watch , everything has been going haywire .  we have got u.n .  peacekeeping forces raping women and kids , and nothing has been done about that .  we have got all kinds of problems over there and something must be done .  how do you do that ?  we say , well , let 's follow the same course we have been following for the last 20 years .  the state department says , my gosh , we 'll go over there and we 'll do something about it .  i have high regard for condoleezza rice .  i think she is a dynamite lady and going to do a dynamite job .  but this body needs to put the hammer by using american taxpayers ' dollars on the u.n .  to clean up that mess over there .  we can not go on day after day , week after week , month after month , year after year letting this thing be completely out of hand .  the gentleman talked about the mitchell and gingrich report .  they said that it is a mess over there .  how do you clean it up ?  you make a change from top to bottom .  how do you do that when the rest of the world or much of the rest of the world says , oh , my gosh , we do n't want the united states dictating to us .  i can understand that .  we are the big guy on the block .  they do not want us dictating to them , and we do not want to dictate to them .  we want to work with them .  but the fact of the matter is they are not listening in many cases and the corruption goes on and on and on , the mismanagement goes on and on and on , and nothing changes .  and the united states keeps pouring in 25 percent , or almost that much , of the funds out of the taxpayers ' pockets in this country for that body .  how do you change it ?  you take out the hammer , and the hammer is the money .  you say to the world body , the united nations , if you do n't clean up that mess , we are going to withhold funds .  and if we withhold funds , you are going to have a big , big problem over there .  mr. speaker , the gentleman from california ( mr. lantos )  is one of my dearest friends in this place and the gentleman from massachusetts is not a bad friend , either .  we have traveled together .  i have high regard for him , even though he is wrong a lot of the time .  but i just want to say , something has to be done .  there must be something in the water in massachusetts .  i do not know .  but something has to be done .  and what has to be done is we have got to put pressure on the u.n .  and the best way to do it is to say , either you change things over there or we are going to withdraw funds .  