I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2977 
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 
JULY 10, 2007 
Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
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: 
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(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 
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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 2008 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 
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