[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 410 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 410

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that prior to the 
conclusion of the first session of the One Hundred Eighth Congress the 
    House should pass legislation that would create an independent 
   commission or select House committee to investigate United States 
           intelligence relating to Operation Iraqi Freedom.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 21, 2003

  Ms. Lee (for herself, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. 
  McDermott, Mr. George Miller of California, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Ms. 
Woolsey, Mr. Watt, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Cummings, Ms. Watson, Mr. 
Hinchey, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Farr, Ms. Schakowsky, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, Mrs. 
 Christensen, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Clay, Ms. Carson 
   of Indiana, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Stark, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
 Becerra, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Honda, Mr. Bell, 
 Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Capuano, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. 
  Owens, and Mr. Rush) submitted the following resolution; which was 
 referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 
     and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that prior to the 
conclusion of the first session of the One Hundred Eighth Congress the 
    House should pass legislation that would create an independent 
   commission or select House committee to investigate United States 
           intelligence relating to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Whereas Congress and the people of the United States have a right to understand 
        the process by which this Nation went to war against Iraq under 
        Operation Iraqi Freedom;
Whereas grave questions have been raised regarding executive branch efforts to 
        interpret and present estimates of the potential threat posed to the 
        United States by Iraqi weapons of mass destruction;
Whereas members of the United States Armed Forces continue to risk their lives 
        serving in Iraq;
Whereas more than 300 members of the Armed Forces have died and more than 1200 
        have been wounded while serving in Iraq since the beginning of Operation 
        Iraqi Freedom in March 2003;
Whereas military and peacekeeping operations in Iraq currently cost United 
        States taxpayers approximately $1,000,000,000 a week and total costs 
        continue to rise;
Whereas Congress passed an emergency supplemental appropriation of 
        $78,490,000,000 on April 12, 2003 and the President has now asked 
        Congress to appropriate an additional $87,000,000,000, the vast majority 
        of which will fund operations in Iraq;
Whereas both an independent commission and select House committee are needed to 
        investigate the interpretation and presentation of intelligence both 
        within the executive branch and in communications from that branch to 
        members of Congress and the American public regarding the potential 
        level of threat posed by Iraq's alleged attempts to revive its nuclear 
        weapons program, to develop and deploy chemical and biological weapons, 
        and to provide support for terrorist organizations including al Qaeda; 
        and
Whereas the failure of the House of Representatives to pass legislation that 
        would create an independent commission and select House committee to 
        investigate questions about United States intelligence relating to 
        Operation Iraqi Freedom would reduce the likelihood of such an 
        investigation taking place while members of the Armed Forces remain at 
        risk and while taxpayers continue to fund operations in Iraq at enormous 
        financial cost, which could seriously undermine the effectiveness of 
        future intelligence interpretation and threat assessment and could 
        adversely affect this Nation's foreign policy: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
prior to the conclusion of the first session of the One Hundred Eighth 
Congress the House should pass legislation that would create an 
independent commission or select House committee to investigate United 
States intelligence relating to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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