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        <fullName>Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Human Costs in Iraq Act of 2008 - Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2008 to require, in a report concerning Department of Defense (DOD) progress toward military and political stability in Iraq, additional information concerning: (1) the total number of Iraqis killed by violence; (2) best efforts to distinguish between combatants, noncombatants, and official Iraqi Security Force personnel killed; and (3) details of the incidents involving each casualty.</p>]]></text>
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        <title>To amend the reporting requirements in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 relating to military and political stability in Iraq to require additional information on the number of combatants and non-combatants killed, and for other purposes.</title>
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      <text>Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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