Bipartisan group introduces redeployment plan bill in Senate

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Bipartisan group introduces redeployment plan bill in Senate
By Klaus Marre
October 05, 2007


A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation late Thursday that would require the Bush administration to send a report on its Iraq redeployment plans to Congress and continuously update the information.

The bill is the companion to a measure passed earlier this week in the House with broad bipartisan support. That measure, championed by Reps. John Tanner (D-Tenn.), Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) and Phil English (R-Pa.), sailed through the House with a vote of 377-46.

The Senate bill is sponsored by Sens. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), George Voinovich (R-Ohio), Jim Webb (D-Va.) and Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.).

Salazar called the measure an “important first step” that would help “find a new way forward in Iraq.”

The bill calls on the Department of Defense to deliver a report to Congress on the status of redeployment plans 60 days after the legislation’s enactment and every 90 days after that.

“Conducting oversight of the government, the administration and the war is not only our responsibility — it is our duty,” Voinovich said. “This bill allows us to fulfill that duty.”

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