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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3134 
To prohibit the use of funds for training and equipping the Iraqi Security 
Forces. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 23, 2007 
Ms. WATERS (for herself, Ms. LEE, and Ms. WOOLSEY) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 
in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
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 Representa-
tives 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’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR TRAINING 
AND 
EQUIPPING 
THE 
IRAQI 
SECURITY 
FORCES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) Over the past 4 years, the United States 
has invested more than $19,000,000,000 in the or-
ganization, training, and equipping of 346,500 per-
sonnel 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 gen-
erating a sizeable national security force, the Iraqi 
Security Forces have not developed as fast as Coali-
tion countries had planned and, as a result, the 
Iraqi Security Forces are not yet ready to take re-
sponsibility for Iraq’s security. 
(5) As the number of personnel of the Iraqi Se-
curity Forces trained and equipped has increased, 
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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 fac-
tions 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 wheth-
er 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. 
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(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 Con-
gress 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 pro-
vided 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 there-
by stop directly contributing to increasing strife in 
Iraq. 
(c) PROHIBITION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, no funds available to the Depart-
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ment 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 trans-
fer of arms is specifically authorized by an Act 
of Congress enacted after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Paragraph (1) takes ef-
fect beginning 30 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
(d) IRAQI SECURITY FORCES DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘Iraqi Security Forces’’— 
(1) means all security and military personnel of 
the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Inte-
rior, including the Iraqi Army, Special Forces, Navy, 
Air Force, national and local police, and border se-
curity units; and 
(2) includes any Iraqi militia, insurgent forces, 
or local forces. 
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