[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3134 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3134

   To prohibit the use of funds for training and equipping the Iraqi 
                            Security Forces.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2007

   Ms. Waters (for herself, Ms. Lee, and Ms. Woolsey) introduced the 
following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the use of funds for training and equipping the Iraqi 
                            Security Forces.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Responsible Security in Iraq Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR TRAINING AND EQUIPPING THE 
              IRAQI SECURITY FORCES.

    (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Over the past 4 years, the United States has invested 
        more than $19,000,000,000 in the organization, training, and 
        equipping of 346,500 personnel of the Iraqi Security Forces.
            (2) As of October 28, 2006, $133,000,000 of the Iraq Relief 
        and Reconstruction Fund has been used to purchase more than 
        370,000 weapons for personnel of the Iraqi Security Forces.
            (3) According to the Special Inspector General for Iraq 
        Reconstruction, only about 10,000 of the 370,000 small arms 
        delivered to Iraq through United States assistance programs 
        have had their serial numbers recorded.
            (4) Despite making significant progress in generating a 
        sizeable national security force, the Iraqi Security Forces 
        have not developed as fast as Coalition countries had planned 
        and, as a result, the Iraqi Security Forces are not yet ready 
        to take responsibility for Iraq's security.
            (5) As the number of personnel of the Iraqi Security Forces 
        trained and equipped has increased, the overall violence in 
        Iraq has not diminished, and the Iraqi Security Forces have not 
        offset United States manpower to allow United States Armed 
        Forces and other personnel in Iraq to be redeployed.
            (6) Initial assumptions that the Iraqi Security Forces 
        could be reformed and prepared to defend the Iraqi people from 
        insurgents and warring factions were seriously flawed.
            (7) Neither the Department of Defense nor the Government of 
        Iraq can determine how many of the nearly 350,000 personnel of 
        the Iraqi Security Forces who have been trained by Coalition 
        forces are still serving in the Iraqi Security Forces and 
        whether such personnel have been properly vetted or trained.
            (8) Many elements of the Iraqi Security Forces remain loyal 
        to local sectarian and militia interests.
            (9) Involvement by the Iraqi Security Forces in 
        extrajudicial killings and kidnappings throughout Iraq has been 
        widely reported.
            (10) According to a recent poll, 51 percent of Iraqis think 
        attacks on United States Armed Forces are acceptable.
            (11) The Government of Iraq seems ill equipped to deal with 
        the problem of sectarian violence in Iraq.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) without a strong central government to which Iraqis are 
        loyal, the United States is arming different sides of a civil 
        war in Iraq;
            (2) training and equipping the Iraqi Security Forces risks 
        arming different sides of a violent power struggle that may 
        escalate in the coming years with an increase in the number of 
        trained, armed fighters;
            (3) training and equipping the Iraqi Security Forces also 
        increases the danger that weapons provided to the personnel of 
        the Iraqi Security Forces will one day be turned against the 
        United States and its allies in the region; and
            (4) the United States should halt the arming and training 
        of the Iraqi Security Forces and thereby stop directly 
        contributing to increasing strife in Iraq.
    (c) Prohibition.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, no funds available to the Department of Defense or any 
        other department or agency of the Government of the United 
        States may be used, directly or indirectly, to--
                    (A) provide training to the Iraqi Security Forces; 
                or
                    (B) sell or otherwise transfer arms to the Iraqi 
                Security Forces, unless such sale or transfer of arms 
                is specifically authorized by an Act of Congress 
                enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act.
            (2) Effective date.--Paragraph (1) takes effect beginning 
        30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (d) Iraqi Security Forces Defined.--In this section, the term 
``Iraqi Security Forces''--
            (1) means all security and military personnel of the Iraqi 
        Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior, including the 
        Iraqi Army, Special Forces, Navy, Air Force, national and local 
        police, and border security units; and
            (2) includes any Iraqi militia, insurgent forces, or local 
        forces.
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