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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2574 
To implement the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 5, 2007 
Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for himself, Mr. WOLF, Mr. MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. 
LIPINSKI, Mr. ROSS, Mr. CASTLE, Mr. MOORE
of Kansas, Mr. 
CULBERSON, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. SALAZAR, 
Mr. DENT, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. EHLERS, Mr. ISRAEL, Mrs. EMERSON, 
Mr. SHULER, Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. 
BOSWELL, Mr. FORTUN˜O, Mr. LINCOLN DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. GER-
LACH, Mr. MATHESON, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. HILL, Mr. HOBSON, Mr. 
BOUCHER, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. WU, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. 
PETERSON of Minnesota, Mr. KUHL of New York, Mr. MAHONEY of 
Florida, Mr. REICHERT, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. REGULA, Mrs. 
BOYDA of Kansas, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. TIBERI, 
Mr. UPTON, Mr. WAMP, Mr. WHITFIELD, and Mr. WICKER) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Financial 
Services, Judiciary, Budget, and Select Intelligence (Permanent Select), 
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 
A BILL 
To implement the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. 
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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Iraq Study Group Rec-
ommendations Implementation Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) On March 15, 2006, the Iraq Study Group 
was created at the request of a bipartisan group of 
members of Congress. 
(2) The United States Institute of Peace was 
designated as the facilitating organization for the 
Iraq Study Group with the support of the Center for 
the Study of the Presidency, the Center for Stra-
tegic and International Studies, and the James A. 
Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice Univer-
sity. 
(3) The Iraq Study Group was composed of a 
bipartisan group of senior individuals who have had 
distinguished careers in public service. The Group 
was co-chaired by former Secretary of State James 
A. Baker, III and former chairman of the House 
Foreign Affairs Committee Lee H. Hamilton, and 
the other members were former Secretary of State 
Lawrence S. Eagleburger; Vernon E. Jordan, Jr, the 
Senior Managing Director of Lazard, Freres and 
Company; former Attorney General Edwin Meese 
III; former Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra 
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Day O’Connor; former White House Chief of Staff 
Leon E. Panetta; former Secretary of Defense Wil-
liam J. Perry; United States Senator Charles S. 
Robb; and United States Senator Alan K. Simpson. 
(4) On June 15, 2006, President George W. 
Bush signed into law the Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on 
Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 (Public Law 
109–234), which provided $1,000,000 to the United 
States Institute of Peace for activities in support of 
the Iraq Study Group. 
(5) The Iraq Study Group consulted nearly 200 
leading officials and experts, including the senior 
members of the Government of Iraq, the United 
States Government, and key coalition partners and 
received advice from more than 50 distinguished 
scholars and experts from a variety of fields who 
conducted working groups in the areas of economy 
and reconstruction, military and security, political 
development, and the strategic environment in Iraq 
and the Middle East. 
(6) While the Iraq Study Group recommended 
shifting the primary mission of United States mili-
tary forces in Iraq from combat to training, and 
while the Iraq Study Group described actions and 
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conditions that could allow for a redeployment of 
troops not necessary for force protection out of Iraq 
by the first quarter of 2008, the Iraq Study Group 
did not set a fixed timetable for withdrawal and said 
it could support a short-term redeployment of 
United States combat forces, complemented by com-
prehensive political, economic, and diplomatic ef-
forts, to stabilize Baghdad or to speed up the mis-
sion of training and equipping Iraqis if the United 
States commander in Iraq determines that such 
steps would be effective. 
(7) The report of the Iraq Study Group in-
cludes a letter from the co-chairs of the Iraq Study 
Group, James A. Baker, III and Lee H. Hamilton, 
which states, ‘‘Our political leaders must build a bi-
partisan approach to bring a responsible conclusion 
to what is now a lengthy and costly war. Our coun-
try deserves a debate that prizes substance over 
rhetoric, and a policy that is adequately funded and 
sustainable. The President and Congress must work 
together. Our leaders must be candid and forthright 
with the American people in order to win their sup-
port.’’ 
(8) The Republicans and Democrats who com-
prised the Iraq Study Group reached compromise 
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