Phyllis Schlafly Recommend this article  Why are Republicans in
Congress trying to help Barack Obama?  Republicans allowed a
bill that carries his name, among nine others, to pass the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee by voice vote last week -
without any hearings. That means there was no roll-call vote so
no member can be held accountable. The same bill passed the
House by voice vote last year.  The Obama bill passed out of
committee with the cooperation of the co-sponsor, Sen. Richard
Lugar, R-Ind. A Rhodes scholar like former President Bill
Clinton, Lugar has never seen a United Nations enhancement he
didn't like.  Obama's costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill
(S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called
the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend
0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts,
which is at least $30 billion over and above the exorbitant and
wasted sums we already give away overseas.   The bill's other
co-sponsors include Sens. Jose