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Union Calendar No. 102 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2446 
[Report No. 110–170] 
To reauthorize the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 22, 2007 
Mr. LANTOS (for himself and Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
MAY 30, 2007 
Additional sponsor: Mr. ACKERMAN 
MAY 30, 2007 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
To reauthorize the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 
2002, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Afghanistan Freedom and Security Support Act of 
2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definition. 
TITLE I—ECONOMIC AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT 
ASSISTANCE FOR AFGHANISTAN 
Sec. 101. Declaration of policy. 
Sec. 102. Purposes of assistance. 
Sec. 103. Authorization of assistance. 
Sec. 104. Certification and phased-in limitation on economic and democratic de-
velopment assistance. 
Sec. 105. Monitoring and evaluation of assistance. 
Sec. 106. Coordination of assistance. 
Sec. 107. Pilot program to provide scholarships to Afghan students for public 
policy internships in the United States. 
Sec. 108. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 109. Clerical amendment. 
TITLE II—ASSISTANCE FOR A NEW SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR 
AFGHANISTAN 
Subtitle A—Amendments to the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 
Sec. 201. Authorization of assistance. 
Sec. 202. Congressional notification requirements. 
Sec. 203. Matters relating to the International Security Assistance Force. 
Sec. 204. Sunset. 
Subtitle B—Other Matters 
Sec. 211. Counter-narcotics activities in Afghanistan. 
Sec. 212. Expansion of international contributions to the security of Afghani-
stan. 
Sec. 213. Training for military personnel of foreign countries that are to be de-
ployed for security operations in Afghanistan. 
Sec. 214. Humanitarian assistance for war victims. 
Sec. 215. Sense of Congress concerning United Nations mandate in Afghani-
stan. 
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
Sec. 301. Donor contributions to Afghanistan and reports. 
Sec. 302. Report on progress toward security and stability in Afghanistan. 
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Sec. 303. Comprehensive interagency strategy for long-term security and sta-
bility in Afghanistan. 
Sec. 304. Special envoy for Afghanistan-Pakistan cooperation. 
Sec. 305. Transit through Pakistan of shipments by India in support of recon-
struction efforts in Afghanistan. 
Sec. 306. Reauthorization of Radio Free Afghanistan. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Nearly six years after the liberation of Af-
ghanistan from the Taliban, who provided Osama 
Bin-Laden and Al-Qaeda with a safe haven for plan-
ning the attacks of September 11, 2001, Afghani-
stan remains highly unstable and the Government of 
President Hamid Karzai remains subject to attacks 
from remnants of the Taliban who have regrouped 
along with other insurgent groups, including some 
foreign fighters associated with Al-Qaeda. 
(2) The Government of Afghanistan supports 
the continued deployment of international forces to 
supplement its own nascent national security forces, 
and 
the 
North 
Atlantic 
Treaty 
Organization 
(NATO), which took over international stability op-
erations for the entire country on October 5, 2006, 
must show continued commitment to these oper-
ations in order to assist Afghanistan in defeating the 
growing insurgency in rural areas of Afghanistan. 
(3) The current United States counter-narcotics 
strategy for Afghanistan has not produced signifi-
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