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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1670
To prohibit United States military assistance for Egypt and to express the 
sense of Congress that the amount of military assistance that would 
have been provided for Egypt for a fiscal year should be provided in 
the form of economic support fund assistance. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 14, 2005
Mr. WEINER (for himself, Mr. CROWLEY, and Mr. BLUMENAUER) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International 
Relations 
A BILL 
To prohibit United States military assistance for Egypt and 
to express the sense of Congress that the amount of 
military assistance that would have been provided for 
Egypt for a fiscal year should be provided in the form 
of economic support fund assistance.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This 
Act 
may 
be 
cited 
as 
the 
‘‘Egyptian 
Counterterrorism and Political Reform Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following:
(1) According to the Middle East Media Re-
search Institute, two weeks before the September 11, 
2001, attacks, the Egyptian Government daily news-
paper Al-Akhbar published a column that stated: 
‘‘The Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, must 
be destroyed because of following the idiotic Amer-
ican policy that goes from disgrace to disgrace in the 
swamp of bias and blind fanaticism.’’. 
(2) Since forging a ‘‘cold peace’’ with Israel in 
1978, the Government of Egypt has placed severe 
trade restrictions on Israeli goods and Egyptian 
Government officials have allowed anti-Semitic arti-
cles and cartoons to flood the semi-official Egyptian 
press. 
(3) In violation of the 1979 peace agreement 
between Egypt and Israel, Egypt continues to pro-
mote a boycott of Israeli products. 
(4) The Israeli Defense Forces have repeatedly 
found arms smuggling tunnels between Egypt and 
the Gaza Strip. More than 40 tunnels were discov-
ered in 2003. Some of these tunnels originate in 
Egyptian army and police outposts. 
(5) Despite facing no major regional external 
threat, Egypt has used military assistance from the 
United States to purchase combat aircraft, advanced
missile systems, tanks, and naval vessels that under-
mine Israel’s security. 
(6) The Coptic Christian minority of between 6 
and 10 million in Egypt is victimized regularly, and 
remains without protection. The Government of 
Egypt has never taken responsibility for the arrest 
and torture of more than 1,200 Copts in late 1998 
in the wake of sectarian violence. 
(7) Egypt regularly tortures its citizens. Ac-
cording to the Egyptian Organization for Human 
Rights approximately 13,000 to 16,000 people are 
detained without charge on suspicion of security or 
political offenses in Egypt each year. Amnesty Inter-
national published a report in 2003 stating that ‘‘ev-
eryone taken into detention in Egypt is at risk of 
torture’’. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON UNITED STATES MILITARY AS-
SISTANCE FOR EGYPT. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, for fiscal year 2006 and subsequent fiscal 
years, United States military assistance may not be pro-
vided for Egypt. 
(b) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of subsection (a) for a fiscal year if the President
determines and certifies to Congress that it is in the na-
tional security interests of the United States to do so. 
SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the amount of United States military assist-
ance that would have been provided for Egypt for a 
fiscal year but for the application of section 3(a) 
should be provided for Egypt for such fiscal year in 
the form of economic support fund assistance under 
chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 and further that such assistance should be 
in addition to economic support fund assistance al-
ready proposed to be provided for Egypt for such 
fiscal year; 
(2) funds for economic support fund assistance 
for Egypt should not be used by the armed forces 
of Egypt; 
(3) 30 days prior to the initial obligation of 
funds for economic support fund assistance for 
Egypt for a fiscal year, the President should certify 
to Congress that procedures have been established to 
ensure that the Comptroller General will have access 
to appropriate United States financial information in 
order to review the uses of such funds; and
(4) the agreement among the United States, 
Egypt, and Israel to decrease the overall amount of 
United States foreign assistance for both countries 
should continue. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITION. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘United States military assist-
ance’’ means—
(1) assistance for nonproliferation, anti-ter-
rorism, demining and related programs and activi-
ties, including assistance under chapter 8 of part II 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (relating to 
anti-terrorism assistance) and assistance under 
chapter 9 of part II of such Act, section 504 of the 
FREEDOM Support Act, section 23 of the Arms 
Export Control Act, or the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 for demining activities, the clearance of 
unexploded ordnance, the destruction of small arms, 
and related activities; 
(2) assistance under section 541 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (relating to international 
military education and training); and 
(3) assistance under section 23 of the Arms Ex-
port Control Act (relating to the ‘‘Foreign Military 
Finance’’ program).
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