1. Short title This Act may be cited as the United States Commitment to Peacekeeping Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) United Nations peacekeeping operations are a critical force-multiplier for the United States, and decades of research has found peacekeeping to be highly effective in reducing civilian deaths, shortening the duration of conflicts, containing the geographic spread of war, and reducing the likelihood of conflict reoccurrence and sexual and gender-based violence. (2) The Government Accountability Office found in 2006 and 2018 reviews that it is 8 times cheaper to financially support a United Nations mission than to deploy United States military forces. (3) Every member state of the United Nations is legally required to finance the peacekeeping budget of the United Nations in order to ensure that these missions are properly resourced, and assessment rates are renegotiated every 3 years by the United Nations General Assembly. The United States has consistently voted in favor of these rate structure changes, including during the most recent round of negotiations in 2021, when United States peacekeeping contributions were set at 26.94 percent. (4) Since fiscal year 2017, the United States has accrued more than $1.28 billion in debt on its financial obligations to United Nations peacekeeping, due to congressional enforcement of a 1994 law that limits United States contributions to 25 percent of the total United Nations peacekeeping budget in any fiscal year after 1995. (5) Since fiscal year 2000, Congress has, on a bipartisan basis, lifted the 25 percent cap 15 times, including retroactively for calendar years 2006–2008 during the Bush Administration. (6) In 2019, the Department of State reported to Congress the following impacts of growing United States arrears to the United Nations: (1) Loss of vote or inability to be a member of governing bodies; (2) Diminished U.S. standing and diminished ability to pursue U.S. priorities