A bill to provide a comprehensive strategy for stabilizing Iraq and redeploying United States troops from Iraq within one year.
Latest action · Mar 13, 2007 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3016-3017)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 17, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the President to: (1) complete the redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq within one year of enactment of this Act; (2) change U.S. military priorities in Iraq to the training of Iraqi security forces; (3) condition U.S. political, military, and economic assistance to Iraq upon Iraq's meeting specified benchmarks; (4) maintain an over-the-horizon troop presence in the Middle East to prosecute the war on terror and protect regional security interests; (5) state publicly that the United States does not seek permanent military bases in Iraq; (6) work with Iraqi leaders to convene a diplomatic summit or a series of summits on Iraq; (7) establish an international support group for Iraq's stabilization; (8) establish a regional security alliance to strengthen U.S. allies in the Middle East; and (9) appoint a senior advisor for economic reconstruction in Iraq.
Declares that: (1) the purposes for the authorization of military force in Iraq under P.L. 107-243 (Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002) have been accomplished; and (2) effective as of the date of the enactment of this Act the President shall be authorized to use military force in Iraq solely to implement the strategy provided for under this Act.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress within 60 days of enactment of this Act respecting such strategy's implementation.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 13, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3016-3017)
- Feb 17, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Feb 17, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Alliances
- Arab countries
- Armed forces abroad
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Border patrols
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Collective security
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congress and military policy
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Development credit institutions
- Diplomacy
- Economic assistance
- Energy
- Ethnic relations
- Europe
- European Union
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Human rights
- Insurgency
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- International relief
- Iran
- Iraq
- Iraq compilation
- Legislative resolutions
- Middle East and North Africa
- Military and naval supplies
- Military assistance
- Military bases
- Military occupation
- Military operations
- Military strategy
- Military training
- Military withdrawal
- Minorities
- NATO countries
- Negotiations
- Petroleum
- Petroleum industry
- Political participation
- Political parties
- President and foreign policy
- Presidential appointments
- Regionalism (International organization)
- Sovereignty
- Summit diplomacy
- Syria
- Terrorism
- Turkey
- United Nations
- War relief
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 17, 2007Introduced in Senate
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