House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen introduced a 153-page bill Tuesday to gradually defund the U.N. until it lives up to its goals and accounts for its actions.

Seems the fat checks coming in from U.S. taxpayers have given the U.N. the idea it can be as anti-American as its dollars allow, especially with the "leading from behind" crowd in the White House going along. Ros-Lehtinen's proposal has teeth and deserves to be passed.

H.R. 2829 will make U.S. funding "voluntary" rather than based on what the U.N. itself "assesses." Passage means the U.N. won't be able to spit in the face of its largest donor without consequences. That's fair to taxpayers, of course, and U.N. bureaucrats will scream.