House Report 108-312 - MAKING EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEFENSE AND FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2004, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

[House Report 108-312]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

108th Congress Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1st Session 108-312

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MAKING EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEFENSE AND FOR THE
RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
SEPTEMBER 30, 2004, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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October 14, 2003.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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Mr. Young of Florida, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted
the following

R E P O R T

together with

DISSENTING, AND ADDITIONAL VIEWS

[To accompany H.R. 3289]

The Committee on Appropriations submits the following
report in explanation of the accompanying bill making emergency
supplemental appropriations for defense and for the
reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill Summary

The bill recommended by the Committee includes
$86,856,029,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations for
fiscal year 2004. This includes $65,270,629,000 for defense
activities and $21,585,400,000 for reconstruction and
international assistance, principally for Iraq and Afghanistan.
The bill also includes other international assistance, such as
the United States' share of the assessment for the United
Nations' peacekeeping mission in Liberia, as well as funding to
repair storm damage caused by Hurricane Isabel.

TITLE I--NATIONAL SECURITY

CHAPTER 1

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY

In the supplemental budget request, the President requested
$65,147,554,000 for programs and activities funded through
defense appropriations acts. These funds are for additional
military personnel costs, military health care support,
increased operational tempo costs, procurement of equipment,
increased maintenance, and support for classified activities.
According to budget justification materials submitted with the
request, this total includes $51,200,000,000 for Operation
Iraqi Freedom (OIF); $10,300,000,000 for Operation Enduring
Freedom (OEF); $2,200,000,000 for Operation Noble Eagle (ONE);
and $1,400,000,000 to reimburse coalition countries for
logistical and military support provided to the United States
military in connection with military operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The Committee recommends total new appropriations of
$64,702,854,000. This includes $64,289,554,000 for ongoing
military operations, as well as an additional $413,300,000 to
provide for repairs to military facilities resulting from
recent natural disasters. The Committee notes that funding
requested in this chapter for the Coalition Provisional
Authority has instead been provided in title II of the
Committee bill.
The following table summarizes, by appropriations account
or general provision, the Committee's recommendations compared
to the President's request.

[Dollars in thousands]
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Change from
Request Recommendation request
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Military Personnel:
Military Personnel, Army................................. 12,858,870 12,188,870 -670,000
Military Personnel, Navy................................. 816,100 816,100 0
Military Personnel, Marine Corps......................... 753,190 753,190 0
Military Personnel, Air Force............................ 3,384,700 3,384,700 0
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Total Military Personnel............................... 17,812,860 17,142,860 -670,000
==================================================
Operation and Maintenance:
O&M, Army................................................ 24,190,464 24,355,664 165,200
O&M, Navy................................................ 2,106,258 1,934,058 -172,200
O&M, Marine Corps........................................ 1,198,981 1,198,981 0
O&M, Air Force........................................... 5,948,368 5,598,368 -350,000
O&M, Defense-Wide........................................ 4,618,452 4,485,452 -133,000
O&M, Marine Corps Reserve................................ 16,000 16,000 0
O&M, Air Force Reserve................................... 53,000 53,000 0
O&M, Air National Guard.................................. 214,000 214,000 0
Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster & Civic Aid.............. 35,500 35,500 0
Iraq Freedom Fund........................................ 1,988,600 1,988,600 0
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Total Operation and Maintenance........................ 40,369,623 39,879,623 -490,000
==================================================
Procurement:
Missile Procurement, Army................................ 6,200 0 -6,200
Procurement of WTCV, Army................................ 46,000 101,600 55,600
Other Procurement, Army.................................. 930,687 1,250,287 319,600
Aircraft Procurement, Navy............................... 128,600 158,600 30,000
Other Procurement, Navy.................................. 76,357 76,357 0
Procurement, Marine Corps................................ 123,397 123,397 0
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force.......................... 40,972 53,972 13,000
Missile Procurement, Air Force........................... 20,450 20,450 0
Other Procurement, Air Force............................. 3,441,006 3,418,006 -23,000
Procurement, Defense-Wide................................ 435,635 418,635 -17,000
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Total Procurement...................................... 5,249,304 5,621,304 372,000
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Research, Development, Test and Evaluation:
RDT&E, Navy.............................................. 34,000 34,000 0
RDT&E, Air Force......................................... 39,070 39,070 0
RDT&E, Defense-Wide...................................... 265,817 195,817 -70,000
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Total Research, Development, Test and Evaluation....... 338,887 268,887 -70,000
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Revolving and Management Funds:
Defense Working Capital Funds............................ 600,000 600,000 0
National Defense Sealift Fund............................ 24,000 24,000 0
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Total Revolving and Management Funds................... 624,000 624,000 0
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Other Department of Defense Programs:
Defense Health Program................................... 658,380 658,380 0
Drug Interdiction & Counter-Drug Activities, Defense..... 73,000 73,000 0
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Total Other Department of Defense Programs............. 731,380 731,380 0
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Related Agencies: Intelligence Community Management Account.. 21,500 21,500 0
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Total Related Agencies................................. 21,500 21,500 0
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General Provisions: Section 1109--Storm Damage............... 0 413,300 413,300
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Grand Total............................................ 65,147,554 64,702,854 -440,700
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Recovery From Natural Disasters

The Committee bill includes a general provision that
provides $413,300,000 in funding for Operation and Maintenance
and Procurement accounts, only for the military services to
accomplish recovery and repairs made necessary by recent
natural disasters including Hurricane Isabel. The Committee has
provided funding in this general provision for recovery and
repair requirements at affected Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and
Air Force bases in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of
Columbia, Virginia, and North Carolina. These funds are
allocated as follows:

Operation and Maintenance, Army......................... $73,600,000
Operation and Maintenance, Navy......................... 126,400,000
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps................. 9,200,000
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force.................... 201,900,000
Other Procurement, Air Force............................ 2,200,000

Equipment Shortages

The Committee notes the recent efforts the Department of
Defense has made to address equipment shortages experienced by
American soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Unfortunately, many individuals and units in the active and
reserve force continue to suffer from shortages in equipment
that if provided would enhance their survivability and enable
them to better complete their assigned missions. For instance,
the Committee has learned that some active duty soldiers and
reservists are spending as much as $650 out of pocket to buy
Interceptor Body Armor vests and small arms protective insert
plates to replace the Vietnam era flak vests issued when they
arrive in Iraq. Also, the capability of currently fielded
portable radio jammers does not provide an effective defense
against remotely detonated explosives being used increasingly
against American soldiers. With the continued rotation of
active forces and the anticipatedactivation of National Guard
Enhanced Separate Brigades to sustain present operating levels, these
problems could become even more acute.
The Committee finds it wholly unacceptable for American
soldiers to be deployed to the Iraq or Afghanistan theaters
with anything but the best equipment. It must be the Secretary
of Defense's highest priority to eliminate shortages that, if
not addressed, could cost soldiers their lives. As such, the
Committee recommends significant increases in this bill to
purchase protective body armor, improved portable radio
frequency jammers, spare parts, and other critical items.
Moreover, the Committee directs the Department and, in
particular, the Army to fully fund requirements identified
under the Soldier Enhancement Program, the Centralized Funding
and Fielding activity, and other accounts designed to
expeditiously field new equipment to soldiers. Of special
interest, the Committee directs the Department to use funds
approved in this measure to increase the availability of modern
hydration systems to soldiers in the Iraq Theater.
The Secretary of Defense is directed to submit quarterly
update reports to the congressional defense committees,
starting December 31, 2003, that identify significant soldier
equipment, weapon system, or spare parts shortages in the Iraq
and Afghanistan theaters of operations for all major active and
reserve component units. These updates also should present the
solutions and timetables for procuring and distributing
equipment and parts to address any identified shortages.

Assessment of Attacks on U.S. and Coalition Forces

The Committee believes that the security of U.S. and
coalition forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and the
success of the reconstruction efforts in both countries depend
on a better understanding of the individuals or groups who are
engaging in attacks on our forces. The Committee directs that
within 60 days of enactment of this act, the Director of
Central Intelligence shall submit a classified report to the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence, and the congressional defense
committees, providing the intelligence community's assessment
based on the best available intelligence of what individuals,
groups, or organizations are involved in such attacks on U.S.
armed forces, coalition forces, and United Nations personnel in
Iraq and Afghanistan. This report should also provide a
judgment on how these individuals or groups are being
organized, led, and financed.

Fiscal Year 2004 Appropriations Reporting Requirements

The Committee recommendation for supplemental funding is
based on the best estimates available. The supplemental budget
request was submitted by the President prior to the beginning
of fiscal year 2004, and is intended to fully fund known and
urgent requirements that cannot reasonably be met through the
use of existing funds. By promptly considering this request,
the Committee seeks to ensure critical support for our military
forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, as well as
stabilizing funding for critical maintenance, readiness
training, and base operations support at home stations.
The Committee expects that as the year progresses the
Department of Defense and the military departments will be able
to provide actual fiscal execution information, and better,
more refined projections of expected costs. Accordingly, the
Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit to the
congressional defense committees, no later than January 31,
April 30, and July 31, 2004, a comprehensive financial analysis
and update for fiscal year 2004. This report will detail both
actual and projected obligation of appropriations provided in
this Act and the Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
2004.

Classified Programs

Recommended adjustments to classified programs are
addressed in a classified annex accompanying this report.

MILITARY PERSONNEL

The Committee recommends a total of $17,142,860,000 for the
Military Personnel accounts, a decrease of $670,000,000 below
the President's request. Funds are provided for the incremental
costs of pay and allowances of the active duty and Reserve
components for personnel deployed overseas in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and
Operation Noble Eagle. Funds are also provided for costs to
cover Guard and Reserve mobilization, and personnel related
costs for additional military personnel maintained on active
duty above the normal strength levels and affected by military
stop loss programs.
The Committee's recommendation transfers funds from
Military Personnel, Army to Operation and Maintenance, Army to
support contracting for civilian security guards to replace
Reserve component soldiers that are performing such security
duty for Army installations. The Army has advised the Committee
that this action would allow the Army to have equal protection
at their installations, while permitting the demobilization of
approximately 7,000 to 10,000 reserve component soldiers. The
adjustment to the Military Personnel accounts is shown below:

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

The Committee recommends $39,879,623,000 for the Operation
and Maintenance accounts, $490,000,000 below the amount
requested by the President. Funds are provided for personnel
support such as temporary duty allowances and specialized
clothing and equipment. Incremental military operations support
funding provides for incremental flying hours, ship steaming
days, ground operations, special airlift, spare parts,
logistics support and fuel. Funding also provides for
incremental requirements in communications, base operations
support, and morale welfare and recreation support. Adjustments
to the Operation and Maintenance accounts are shown below:

The Committee has provided additional funding over the
request for Army unit level maintenance (commonly referred to
as 10/20 maintenance), Army second destination transportation
support for depot maintenance, and in support for theater-wide
communications. In addition, the Committee has increased
funding for Army units to purchase body armor Special Armor
Plate Insert (SAPI) and to contract for the clearing of
unexploded ordnance, two critical force protection items, and
strongly encourages the Army to complete these requirements as
soon as possible. The Committee's recommendations for Navy and
Air Force operation support/OPTEMPO, are below the budget
request as offsets to reduce risk in Army force protection and
unit readiness. Finally, as discussed earlier in this report,
the Committee transfers funding from Military Personnel, Army
to Operation and Maintenance, Army to support contracting for
civilian security guards to replace reserve component soldiers
that are performing such security duty.

ATARS

The supplemental budget request included $22,200,000 for
ATARS repairs and upgrades. The Committee recommendation
includes no funding for ATARS. Supporting documentation
inadequately addressed the requirement, providing the Committee
with no clear understanding for the basis of the request.

PROCUREMENT

The Committee recommends a total of $5,621,304,000 for
various procurement appropriations. The following table
provides a summary of the recommendation:

[In thousands of dollars]
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Change from
Request Recommendation request
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Missile Procurement, Army.................................... 6,200 0 -6,200
Multiple Launch Rocket System............................ 6,200 0 -6,200
Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army..... 46,000 101,600 +55,600
Paladin.................................................. 2,400 0 -2,400
Rapid Equip Force........................................ 6,000 6,000 0
Rapid Fielding Initiative................................ 26,200 26,200 0
Enhanced Separate Brigades............................... 11,400 11,400 0
APS-5 Replenishment...................................... 0 58,000 +58,000
Other Procurement, Army...................................... 930,687 1,250,287 +319,600
Logistics Support Equipment.............................. 30,500 30,500 0
C2 Equipment............................................. 42,200 42,200 0
Radio Frequency Identification Tags...................... 3,400 3,400 0
Technical Collection (Guardrail)......................... 8,000 8,000 0
Enhanced Separate Brigades............................... 122,500 122,500 0
Up-Armored HMMWVs........................................ 177,200 177,200 0
Rapid Equip Force........................................ 47,100 47,100 0
Rapid Fielding Initiative................................ 76,600 76,600 0
Base Camp Housing Units.................................. 344,687 344,687 0
Mobile Search Devices.................................... 12,600 12,600 0
Basic Language Translation Service....................... 2,000 2,000 0
Packbots................................................. 5,000 5,000 0
Joint Tactical Terminals................................. 41,100 41,100 0
Joint Communications Support Element..................... 7,500 7,500 0
Classified............................................... 10,300 10,300 0
APS-5 Replenishment...................................... 0 190,600 +190,600
Theater Stabilized Communications........................ 0 83,000 +83,000
Portable Radio Jammers................................... 0 46,000 +46,000
Aircraft Procurement, Navy................................... 128,600 158,600 +30,000
E-2C Outer Wing Panels................................... 1,500 1,500 0
Aircraft Spares.......................................... 59,100 59,100 0
EA-6B Outer Wing Panels.................................. 55,000 70,000 +15,000
EA-6B Wing Center Section................................ 0 15,000 +15,000
F-18 Equipment........................................... 13,000 13,000 0
Other Procurement, Navy...................................... 76,357 76,357 0
C2 Equipment............................................. 5,800 5,800 0
OPN Spares............................................... 27,200 27,200 0
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Equipment.................... 24,957 24,957 0
Medical Support Equipment--Fleet Hospitals............... 13,200 13,200 0
Global Broadcast Service (Shipboard)..................... 4,500 4,500 0
Classified Program....................................... 700 700 0
Procurement, Marine Corps.................................... 123,397 123,397 0
M88A2 Recovery Vehicle................................... 8,300 8,300 0
MK48 Light Armored Vehicle (LVS) Mod..................... 13,100 13,100 0
Light Armored Vehicle.................................... 23,200 23,200 0
AAV Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Upgrade... 78,797 78,797 0
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force.............................. 40,972 53,972 +13,000
War Consumables Recap.................................... 35,702 35,702 0
Technical Collection (RC-135 and U2)..................... 0 13,000 +13,000
Aircraft Common Support Equipment........................ 5,270 5,270 0
Missile Procurement, Air Force............................... 20,450 20,450 0
Predator (Hellfire Missiles)............................. 4,850 4,850 0
Classified Programs...................................... 15,600 15,600 0
Other Procurement, Air Force................................. 3,441,006 3,418,006 -23,000
Theater Deployable Communications........................ 38,500 38,500 0
Other Logistics Equipment................................ 68,700 68,700 0
Medical/Dental Equipment Losses.......................... 13,665 13,665 0
CPA Counter Intelligence Support......................... 3,810 3,810 0
Replace Theater Communications........................... 85,000 85,000 0
Aircraft Refueling Vehicles.............................. 25,000 25,000 0
Support Equipment........................................ 20,306 20,306 0
All-purpose Remote Transport System...................... 1,500 1,500 0
Technical Collection (RC-135 and U2)..................... 23,000 0 -23,000
Red Horse Reconstitution................................. 25,900 25,900 0
Diego Garcia Vehicles.................................... 14,625 14,625 0
Classified Programs...................................... 3,121,000 3,121,000 0
Procurement, Defense-Wide.................................... 435,635 418,635 -17,000
MC-130P Quick Engine Change Kits (SOCOM)................. 13,800 13,800 0
MH-53 Gearbox (SOCOM).................................... 7,700 7,700 0
Critical C4I Equipment (SOCOM)........................... 36,600 36,600 0
SOF Soldier Systems (SOCOM).............................. 23,800 23,800 0
SOF Ammunition (SOCOM)................................... 23,900 23,900 0
SOF Intelligence Systems (SOCOM)......................... 13,100 13,100 0
Psychological operations (PSYOP) Equipment (SOCOM)....... 14,800 14,800 0
Target Tracking and Locating Devices (SOCOM)............. 2,700 2,700 0
Inflatable Antennas...................................... 6,500 6,500 0
CENTRIX.................................................. 17,700 17,700 0
Information Assurance.................................... 16,200 16,200 0
Worldwide Base Stations.................................. 6,000 6,000 0
NSC Date Replication (DISA).............................. 3,900 3,900 0
Iraq Communications Backbone (DISA)...................... 6,100 6,100 0
CENTCOM Global C2 System (GCCS) Joint Hardware (DISA).... 1,500 1,500 0
Improved Imagery Capability (NIMA)....................... 21,600 21,600 0
Decontamination Equipment................................ 8,000 8,000 0
Collective Protection.................................... 17,535 17,535 0
Classified Programs...................................... 194,200 177,200 -17,000
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Total, Procurement..................................... 5,249,304 5,621,304 +372,000
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PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES, ARMY

Army Prepositioned Stocks

The Committee recommends an increase of $248,600,000 above
the supplemental request for the purpose of replenishing Army
prepositioned stocks, specifically material and equipment from
APS-5 which was lost orwashed-out during the conduct of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. Of this amount, $58,000,000 is provided in
Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army, and
$190,600,000 is provided in Other Procurement, Army.

OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY

Theater Stabilized Communications Equipment

The Committee is aware that the Army has an unfunded
requirement to replace organic tactical communications
equipment with equivalent, commercially available equipment to
provide for theater communications requirements. Accordingly,
the Committee recommends an increase of $155,000,000 above the
supplemental request for Theater Stabilized Communications. Of
this amount, $72,000,000 is provided in Operation and
Maintenance, Army, and $83,000,000 is provided in Other
Procurement, Army.

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY

EA-6B Repair Requirements

The Committee recommends an increase of $30,000,000 for EA-
6B repair requirements. The Committee understands the EA-6B
aircraft has significantly increased its operational tempo in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As a result, the aircraft
is experiencing increased fatigue cracking in the outer wing
panels and the wing center section. Additional funds to replace
the wing panels and accelerate replacement of the wing center
section are required to preclude aircraft grounding and flight
restrictions.

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

Technical Collection

The Committee recommends $13,000,000 for technical
collection capabilities. The request erroneously included these
funds in the Other Procurement, Air Force appropriation. Of
this amount, $8,000,000 is provided for improvements to the U-2
and $5,000,000 is provided for tracking capabilities for the
RC-135.
The Committee directs that none of the funds provided for
the U-2 program may be obligated or expended until the Air
Force submits the January 15, 2004 report on the U-2 as
requested by Congress in the report (House Report 108-283)
which accompanies the Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
2004.

OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

Technical Collection

The Committee recommendation for ``Technical Collection''
is found in the Aircraft Procurement, Air Force appropriation.

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION

The Committee recommends a total of $268,887,000 for
various Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
appropriations. The following table provides a summary of the
recommendation:

REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS

DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS

The Committee recommends $600,000,000 for the Defense
Working Capital Funds to cover unforeseen fuel price increases,
the amount requested by the President.

NATIONAL DEFENSE SEALIFT FUND

The Committee recommends $24,000,000 for the National
Defense Sealift Fund, the amount requested by the President.

OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS

DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM

The Committee recommends $658,380,000 for Defense Health
Program operation and maintenance costs, the amount requested
by the President.

DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE

The Committee recommends $73,000,000 for Drug Interdiction
and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense, the amount requested by
the President. The Committee strongly supports Department of
Defense participation in attacking the Afghan drug problem,
which generates funds for terrorists and extremists not only in
Afghanistan but also throughout the region. The Committee is
concerned, however, that plans to properly utilize these funds
are still being developed and that justification material
presented to the Congress lacks specificity. The Committee
therefore directs that none of the funds provided in this
account be obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense
provides the congressional defense committees with a report
which at a minimum outlines the goals and objectives of this
program; the extent to which the Department will partner with
other DoD entities, other Federal Agencies, and foreign
military and law enforcement agencies; an accounting of the
appropriations to which these funds will be transferred; and a
detailed analysis of the purposes for which these funds are to
be used.

RELATED AGENCIES

INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT

The Committee recommends $21,500,000 for the Intelligence
Community Management Account, the amount requested by the
President.

GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

Section 1101 of the Committee bill amends a new general
provision, proposed in the supplemental request, which provides
the Secretary of Defense with $3,000,000,000 of transfer
authority for funds provided in this chapter for the Department
of Defense.
Section 1102 of the Committee bill includes a new general
provision, proposed in the supplemental request, which provides
that funds appropriated in this Act for intelligence activities
are deemed to be specifically authorized by the Congress.
Section 1103 of the Committee bill includes a new general
provision, proposed in the supplemental request, which
continues existing authorities, which authorizes the payment of
per diem for travel of family members of military personnel who
are ill or injured as a result of service on active duty, and
also authorizes the Department to provide civilian clothing for
service members to wear during their hospital stay.
Section 1104 of the Committee bill amends a new general
provision, proposed in the supplemental request, which
continues the increased monthly rates of Imminent Danger Pay
and Family Separation Allowances through September 30, 2004.
Section 1105 of the Committee bill amends a new general
provision, proposed in the supplemental request, which allows
available appropriations in the ``Defense Emergency Response
Fund'' to be charged to any current appropriations account of
the Department of Defense for the same purpose.
Section 1106 of the Committee bill amends a new general
provision, proposed in the supplemental request, which allows
the Department to use operation and maintenance funds made
available in this Act to provide supplies, services,
transportation, and other logistical support to coalition
forces supporting operations in Iraq.
Section 1107 of the Committee bill amends a new general
provision, proposed in the supplemental request, which allows
the Department to use not to exceed $100,000,000 of the funds
made available in this Act under ``Operation and Maintenance,
Defense-Wide'' for assistance to the new militaries of Iraq and
Afghanistan, and provides that the Secretary of Defense shall
notify the congressional defense committees not less than 15
days before providing such assistance.
Section 1108 of the Committee bill includes a new general
provision which limits the use of procurement and research,
development, test and evaluation funds.
Section 1109 of the Committee bill includes a new general
provision which appropriates $413,300,000 to various
appropriations accounts for repairs resulting from natural
disasters, as discussed earlier in this report.
Section 1110 of the Committee bill includes a new general
provision which allows the Department of Defense to use not to
exceed $180,000,000 of the funds made available in this Act for
operation and maintenance for the Commander's Emergency
Response Program in Iraq, and to establish a similar program
for use in Afghanistan.
Section 1111 of the Committee bill includes a new general
provision which directs the Secretary of Defense to submit,
within thirty days of enactment of this Act, a report
describing an Analysis of Alternatives for replacing the
capabilities of the existing Air Force KC-135 fleet.

CHAPTER 2

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

United States Coast Guard

OPERATING EXPENSES

The Committee recommends an additional $23,183,000 for
``Operating Expenses'' to repair damages the Coast Guard
incurred during Hurricane Isabel. The entire amount is
designated as a contingent emergency appropriation.

CHAPTER 3

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Military Construction, Army

The Committee recommends $185,100,000 for Military
Construction, Army, instead of $119,900,000 as requested by the
President. The recommendation includes $119,900,000, as
requested, to finance various military construction projects in
support of U.S. troops in Iraq. These projects are as
follows:''

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Location/facility Project description Cost
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Iraq: Baghdad International Airport Helicopter Pads and $3,300,000
Aviation Taxiway.
Iraq: Baghdad International Airport Entry Control Points. 4,500,000
Iraq: West Baghdad International Power Plant and 18,000,000
Airport. Electrical
Distribution.
Iraq: Balad Airfield............... Theater-wide Postal 7,000,000
Distribution
Facility.
Iraq: Balad Airfield............... Power Plant and 16,000,000
Electrical
Distribution.
Iraq: Balad........................ Base Camp Water 9,800,000
Treatment Plant.
Iraq: Balad........................ Base Camp Wastewater 6,000,000
Treatment Plant.
Iraq: Baghdad--Victory Base........ Power Plant.......... 7,600,000
Iraq: Baghdad--Radwaniya Palace Sensitive 6,000,000
Complex. Compartmented
Information Facility.
Iraq: Baghdad--Radwaniya Palace Joint Operations 3,500,000
Complex. Center.
Iraq: Baghdad--Radwaniya Palace Training Facility.... 2,200,000
Complex.
Iraq: Taji Military Complex........ Power Plant and 16,500,000
Electrical
Distribution.
Iraq: Tikrit-Camp Speicher......... Power Plant and 15,500,000
Electrical
Distribution.
Worldwide Various.................. Planning and Design.. 4,000,000
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Total........................ ..................... 119,900,000
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The recommendation also includes $65,200,000, not requested
by the President, to repair facilities damaged by Hurricane
Isabel at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Projects included in the
recommendation are as follows:

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Location/facility Project description Cost
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Virginia: Fort Monroe.............. Seawall and Pier $26,400,000
Repair/Improvements.
Virginia: Fort Monroe.............. Road/Revetment Repair/ 3,900,000
Improvements.
Virginia: Fort Monroe.............. Utilities Repair..... 8,500,000
Virginia: Fort Monroe.............. Unspecified Minor 23,000,000
Construction.
Worldwide Various.................. Planning and Design.. 3,400,000
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Total........................ ..................... 65,200,000
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Military Construction, Navy

The Committee recommends $45,530,000 for Military
Construction, Navy. These funds, not requested by the
President, are for facilities damaged beyond repair as a result
of Hurricane Isabel. The recommendation includes $40,920,000 to
replace the central chilled water plant at the United States
Naval Academy, Maryland, and $4,610,000 to replace Building
3104, Lucas Hall, at Quantico, Virginia.

Military Construction, Air Force

The Committee recommends $292,550,000 for Military
Construction, Air Force, as requested by the President. This
funding provides resources for various construction projects in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring
Freedom, as follows:

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Location/facility Project description Cost
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Delaware: Dover Air Force Base..... Airfreight Terminal.. $56,000,000
Afghanistan: Bagram Air Base....... Aircraft Runway 48,000,000
Repair.
Diego Garcia: Diego Garcia......... Communications Remote 3,450,000
Switch Facility.
Iraq: Balad Air Base............... Aircraft Parking Ramp 18,000,000
Italy: Camp Darby.................. Munitions Maintenance 5,000,000
Storage and Wash Pad.
Qatar: Al Udeid Air Base........... Expand Tactical/ 20,000,000
Strategic Airlift
Ramps.
Qatar: Al Udeid Air Base........... Refueler Ramp and 40,000,000
Hydrant System.
United Arab Emirates: Al Dhafra Air Aircraft Parking 47,000,000
Base. Apron and Hydrant
Fuel System.
United Arab Emirates: Al Dhafra Air Temporary Cantonment 15,300,000
Base. Area.
Worldwide Classified............... Classified Project... 17,500,000
Worldwide Various.................. Planning and Design.. 22,300,000
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Total........................ ..................... 292,550,000
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Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Army

The Committee recommends $8,151,000 for Family Housing
Operation and Maintenance, Army. Though not requested by the
President, the Committee provides these funds to repair family
housing units damages by Hurricane Isabel at Fort Monroe and
Fort Lee, Virginia.

Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps

The Committee recommends $6,280,000 for Family Housing
Operation and Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps. Though not
requested by the President, the Committee provides these funds
to repair family housing units damaged by Hurricane Isabel at
various locations in Virginia and North Carolina.

Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Air Force

The Committee recommends $6,981,000 for Family Housing
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force. Though not requested by
the President, the Committee provides these funds to repair
family housing units damaged by Hurricane Isabel at Langley Air
Force Base, Virginia.

GENERAL PROVISION--THIS CHAPTER

Section 1301 authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use
operation and maintenance funds for unforeseen military
construction requirements in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
or the Global War on Terrorism. This language was provided to
streamline the process for approving operation and maintenance
funds for emerging construction requirements.

TITLE II--IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL
ASSISTANCE

CHAPTER 1

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Legal Activities

General Legal Activities

The Committee recommends $15,000,000 for ``Salaries and
Expenses, General Legal Activities,'' for additional Civil
Division expenses related to the administration of the
September 11th Victims Compensation Program.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCY

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Administration of Foreign Affairs

Diplomatic and Consular Programs

(INCLUDING RESCISSION)

The Committee recommends $156,300,000 for costs related to
increased diplomatic and border security, and to opening a
mission in Iraq. The recommendation includes $109,500,000 for
requirements related to the provision of consular services;
$11,000,000 for increased security measures in Afghanistan; and
$35,800,000 for costs associated with the reestablishment of a
diplomatic mission in Iraq. The recommendation rescinds
$35,800,000 provided under Public Law 108-11.

Embassy Security, Construction, and Maintenance

The Committee recommends $43,900,000 for the costs of
establishing a temporary embassy annex compound in Kabul,
Afghanistan, to support embassy surge staffing requirements
associated with the acceleration of assistance activities.

Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

The Committee recommends $50,000,000 under this heading for
anticipated costs of terrorism rewards. The Committee
recommendation includes language allowing funds under this
account to be transferred to, and merged with, the Diplomatic
and Consular Programs account to maintain funding levels for
the fiscal year 2004 Border Security program.

International Organizations

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES

The Committee recommends $245,000,000 for assessed costs of
United Nations peacekeeping in Liberia.

Related Agency

Broadcasting Board of Governors

INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OPERATIONS

The Committee recommends $40,000,000 to expand broadcasting
efforts to Iraq, including the initiation of Middle East
Television Network broadcasting to Iraq.

GENERAL PROVISION--THIS CHAPTER

The Committee recommendation includes language waiving
provisions of existing legislation that require authorizations
to be in place prior to the expenditure of any appropriated
funds.

CHAPTER 2

BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

Funds Appropriated to the President

United States Agency for International Development

Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for International
Development

The Committee recommends $40,000,000 for ``Operating
Expenses of the United States Agency for International
Development'', as requested by the President. The Committee has
included language reserving these funds for support of relief
and reconstruction in Afghanistan, including up to $13,000,000
for interim facilities required by the United States Agency for
International Development in an expanded Embassy compound or
elsewhere in Kabul. It is the Committee's intention that
Embassy facilities and vehicles funded by USAID be used
primarily by USAID personnel, and to be available for other
agencies only with the prior written concurrence of the USAID
mission director in Kabul and, when feasible, on a reimbursable
basis.
Should U.S. military air transport remain scarce or
unavailable to support reconstruction in Afghanistan, and to
the extent required by security conditions in the field, a
portion of this appropriation may be used for dedicated
contract air service within Afghanistan and access neighboring
countries. The Committee expects the Department of State
Coordinator for Afghan Assistance and USAID to consult with it
prior to obligating funds for this purpose.
The Committee provides for operating expenses of USAID in
Iraq elsewhere in this Chapter.

Other Bilateral Economic Assistance

Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

The Committee recommends $18,649,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2005, for the ``Iraq Relief and
Reconstruction Fund'' (the Fund). This figure represents a
reduction of $1,655,000,000 below the request and an increase
of $16,174,000,000 above the level provided in the fiscal year
2003 Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act when
this account was created. The supplemental request proposed an
appropriation of $20,304,000,000 to remain available until
expended.
The Committee recommended bill language provides
allocations, as requested, for functional areas, such as health
care, although some allocation categories have been modified
for clarity. For example, the separate categories of public
works and water resources have been combined into one category
named ``water resources and sanitation.'' The Committee has not
included requested language that allows unlimited funding
reallocations or language that allows transfers to be made to
any federal government activity. Instead, the Committee has
included language allowing any allocation category to be
reduced by up to 10 percent or increased by up to 20 percent.
Such transfers, if necessary, would be made subject to the
standard notification procedures of the Committees on
Appropriations. The Committee has included language, not
proposed in the request, that provides for an annual spending
plan for reconstruction programs for these allocations,
including project-by-project detail. The plan must specify
which United States agency (and relevant partners if
applicable) is responsible for implementation of the projects.
This plan is required to be submitted to the Committees on
Appropriations not later than January 1, 2004, and is to be
updated every 180 days thereafter.
The Committee has reinstated bill language, currently in
the fiscal year 2003 Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund but
not included in the request, that specifies agencies that may
receive apportionment from the Fund. Consistent with previous
language, the Committee has again listed the Department of
Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the
Department of State, the Department of Treasury and the United
States Agency for International Development. The Committee
recommends adding the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in
Iraq to this list. The Committee has included bill language
providing that up to 1 percent of the total appropriated for
the Fund may be transferred to ``Operating Expenses of the
Coalition Provisional Authority'' as well as bill language
providing not less than $35,000,000 for the administrative
expenses of the Department of State Bureau of International
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and the United States
Agency for International Development. The Committee has
included new language that the Coalition Provisional Authority
shall work, in conjunction with relevant Iraqi officials, to
ensure that a new Iraqi constitution preserves full rights to
religious freedom.
The reconstruction of Iraq is among the most important
issues affecting United States foreign policy and security. The
creation of a free, democratic, and economically prosperous
Iraq is important to U.S. security, to winning the war on
terrorism, and it is essential to stability and peace in the
Middle East.
Having won its military objectives in Iraq, the United
States is faced with what may be an even more daunting
challenge. Reconstructing an Iraq that has suffered from
decades of tyranny, cruelty, mismanagement, and under-
investment is a massive undertaking. The deplorable condition
of Iraq's basic infrastructure and the scope of reconstruction
requirements have only fully come to light since the triumph of
United States and United Kingdom Armed Forces. Holding free
elections and empowering locally elected officials, providing
dependable power, potable water, and access to health care, and
creating a vibrant private sector--all present significant
change and transformation of Iraqi society.
The Committee strongly supports the efforts of the
Administration and the CPA to reconstruct Iraq. The programs
supported by the funding recommended in the Iraq Relief and
Reconstruction Fund will make a substantial difference in the
lives of the Iraqi people. Basic services, such as electricity,
clean water, sewage treatment and disposal are urgently needed
to give Iraqis hope for a better future. The creation of
professional civilian police forces, border security forces,
and a new Iraqi National Army is critically important to
reducing violence, maintaining security and reducing reliance
on American military personnel. As CENTCOM Commander General
John Abizaid testified before the Committee on September 24,
2003, regarding the current request for reconstruction:

There is no strictly military solution to the
problems we face * * * It requires that we move
together on the political front, the economic front, on
the reconstruction front in a manner that is
synchronized and coordinated. If we don't do that, I do
not believe we can be successful. So you can pay the
military to stay there, but you are only paying us to
stay forever.

The Committee recommendation of $18,649,000,000 represents
a bold and balanced response to an urgent situation. The
Committee assigns highest priority to security, and basic
infrastructure such as electric power, water resources and
sanitation, energy production and distribution, and health
care. The Committee has not recommended funding programs that
are not executable, are lower priority, or will likely be
supported by other international donors and organizations such
as the World Bank. The Committee is also concerned that
sufficient attention should be given to the follow-on,
recurring costs that will be incurred in future years as a
result of programs funded under this Act.
The Committee recommends $3,243,000,000 for security and
law enforcement, $50,000,000 less than the amount requested.
Included in the recommendation is $950,000,000 for recruiting,
training and equipping police forces in Iraq and providing a
police training center with international trainers to improve
professionalism and policing skills. The Committee
recommendation provides the foundation for a modern civilian
police force that respects the rule of law and human rights.
$217,000,000 is provided to support border enforcement and
facilities protection services. Similarly, the recommendation
includes $2,076,000,000 for training, equipping, deploying and
sustaining the new Iraqi Army and Civil Defense Corps. The
Iraqi Army is being rebuilt to a force structure of 40,000
personnel in 9 brigades (27 battalions) by August 2004. The
Committee has not included$50,000,000 requested for buildings,
equipment, and vehicles in support of Iraq's traffic police.
The Committee recommends $1,318,000,000 for Justice, Public
Safety and Civil Society Infrastructure, $525,000,000 less than
requested for programs making up this category.
The Committee recommendation supports the creation of a
professional justice system and judiciary, and it supports
redress of the crimes perpetrated against the Iraqi people by
Saddam Hussein and his regime. The recommendation provides
$100,000,000 for investigations into crimes against humanity,
such as the mass killings of innocent Iraqi civilians. The
Committee also has provided $100,000,000 to support Iraqis who
help Coalition forces fight terrorism and criminals through
creation of a witness protection program. The Committee
recommends $599,000,000 for public safety facilities, fire
services, mine action, civil defense services, public safety
facilities, and public safety training--a level that is
$175,000,000 less than requested for this array of programs.
The Committee supports these programs but does not believe the
request can be fully executed by 2005. The Committee provides
$100,000,000 for the National Security Communications Network,
one of many networks requested by the CPA, which is $50,000,000
less than requested.
The Committee recommends $209,000,000 for prison and
detention facilities, a reduction of $300,000,000 from the
amount requested. The Committee recommendation provides
$99,000,000 for reconstruction and modernization of 26 adult
and juvenile detention and prison facilities, which should
increase capacity to 19,700 beds. The Committee also has
included $100,000,000 for a new prison, approximately the
amount needed to build a medium security prison in the United
States. The Committee notes that about half the cost of prison
construction is attributable to labor, and the cost of manpower
in Iraq is significantly below the prevailing rates in the
United States. Accordingly, the Committee does not approve the
$400,000,000 requested to build two prisons at $50,000 per bed
as proposed by the CPA.
The Committee recommends $5,560,000,000 to repair,
rehabilitate and procure electric generation and distribution
infrastructure in Iraq. The recommendation is $115,000,000 less
than the amount requested. The Committee notes that United
States Agency for International Development, working in support
of the CPA, already has made significant, intensive efforts to
repair electric power production and transmission capability.
Nevertheless, Iraq's electric generating capacity is around
3,600 megawatts, still below pre-conflict levels. The Committee
recommendation should enable Iraq to increase electric power
production to 7,000 megawatts by 2005. Among other investments
in this sector, the Committee recommendation provides for: (1)
rehabilitation of existing power stations and provision of
spare parts; (2) installation of new gas turbine power
stations, and (3) construction of new thermal power stations.
The Committee has not recommended $25,000,000 which the request
describes as necessary for ``institution strengthening'' for
providing consultants, developing a master plan for continued
development, and rehabilitating buildings. This request
duplicates a number of other similar requests included in the
overall submission.
The Committee recommends $2,100,000,000, the same as
requested, for rebuilding Iraq's oil infrastructure and
procurement of emergency stocks. CPA's strategy for Iraq's
economic viability and Iraq's ability to finance its own
government and governmental programs, including the various
security forces mentioned earlier in this section, are
dependent on the petroleum industry's recovery and growth. The
recommendation provides for continued investment in Iraq's oil
infrastructure and oil production and refinement capacity. It
builds upon progress that has been made since April 2003.
Included is $900,000,000, as requested, for procurement and
distribution of refined products such as kerosene, used for
heating, and Liquefied Petroleum Gas used by many Iraqis for
cooking. These funds will enable the CPA to provide these
products and help sustain the population through the upcoming
winter until in-country refining capacity and stocks recover.
The Committee recommends $4,332,000,000 for water resources
and sanitation, $253,000,000 below the request. Included in the
recommendation is $2,830,000,000, the amount requested, to
increase access to potable water across urban and rural areas
in Iraq. $30,000,000 is recommended to reduce water losses by
repairing water distribution networks, which should reduce
water loss from 60 percent to 40 percent. $697,000,000, as
requested, is included for increasing access to sewage services
for Iraq's population. Current waste water treatment across
Iraq is estimated to cover only 6 percent of the population.
The treatment of polluted wastewater also is a health issue;
these improvements are needed to combat disease and stem Iraq's
high child mortality rate. Therecommended level should enable
almost one million Iraqis to gain access to wastewater treatment
services.
Also included in the recommendation is $775,000,000 for
water resource projects, such as irrigation projects, pumping
stations, dam repair and rehabilitation, and flushing of
polluted channels in Basra.
The Committee does not recommend $153,000,000 requested for
improving solid waste management programs, including the
procurement of 40 trash trucks at $50,000 each. Solid waste
disposal and management are important issues. However, the
Committee notes that there is no shortage of vehicles in Iraq
for hauling garbage, and the creation of new landfills and
recycling programs/plants is not a problem that must proceed in
this first year of reconstruction.
The Committee recommendation does not provide $100,000,000
for environmental restoration projects. The Committee believes
these marsh restoration projects have great merit both
environmentally and politically, but the $100,000,000 request
is likely a small part of the total cost of restoring and
significantly restructuring the water flows in these areas.
Further, these projects are among those most likely to be
funded by other international donors.
The Committee recommendation provides $500,000,000 for
transportation and communications projects, $335,000,000 below
the supplemental request. The Committee recommendation provides
$45,000,000 to complete the modernization of the Port of Um
Qasir, and assigns priority to investments needed for aviation
safety at Basra International, Baghdad International, and other
airports in Iraq. The Committee supports reopening of Basra
International Airport on a priority basis.
The Committee questions a number of projects proposed in
this category of the request, such as the need to build parking
lots and ``cosmetic improvements'' at airports. The Committee
has not provided $4,000,000 requested for a nationwide
telephone numbering scheme, $9,000,000 for postal information
architecture and zip codes and $10,000,000 to modernize the
business practices of the Iraqi television and radio industry.
The Committee questions whether the U.S. government--versus the
private sector--must fund the numerous telecommunications
projects and information technology improvements requested.
The Committee recommends $370,000,000 for roads, bridges
and construction, $100,000,000 below the level requested. The
recommendation includes $130,000,000 for public buildings
supporting Iraqi Ministries, minor construction and
refurbishment projects. $240,000,000 is recommended for repair
and modernization of roads and bridges, including railroad
bridges. The Committee recommendation does not include the
$100,000,000 requested by the CPA to build seven housing
communities, totaling 3,528 housing units, a place of worship
and other community facilities.
The Committee recommends $793,000,000 for health care
programs, $57,000,000 below the supplemental request. The
Committee recommendation provides $493,000,000, $100,000,000
more than requested, to refurbish and modernize medical
clinics, primary health care services, and hospitals throughout
Iraq. The Committee recommendation will allow the
rehabilitation of all 240 hospitals, 5 regional and maternal
and pediatric referral centers, and 1,000 of the nation's 1,200
primary health care clinics. The Committee recommendation
provides $300,000,000 as requested to repair and procure
medical equipment for Iraq's hospitals and health care clinics.
The Committee recommendation does not provide $150,000,000
to initiate a new $500,000,000 to $700,000,000 children's
hospital in Basra. The Committee recommendation does not
provide an additional $7,000,000 to facilitate partnerships
between American and Iraqi health care organizations and
centers. The Committee strongly supports such partnerships and
believes that they can be undertaken when security permits
without this additional federal funding.
The Committee recommends $153,000,000 for the private
sector development function, $200,000,000 less than requested.
The Committee recommendation supports on-the-job training
programs, and computer literacy training, vocational training
and English language training. In connection with this request,
the Committee recommends that the CPA examine the successful
computer literacy program that the Kingdom of Jordan has
developed, including the successful ``NetCorps'' program, which
brings the Internet and computer training to rural Jordanian
communities.
The Committee has not provided $200,000,000 to create an
American-Iraqi Enterprise Fund. The Committee believes that it
would be premature to establish a fund at this time and notes
that the conditions that promoted the unique success of the
Polish-American Enterprise Fund do not exist in Iraq. The
Committee recommends, to avoid duplication, any future
enterprise fund in Iraq should be coordinated, if not overseen,
by the Department of State's Middle East Partnership Initiative
(which is considering an enterprise fund for the Middle East
and North Africa).
The Committee recommends $280,000,000 for education,
refugees, human rights, democracy, and governance programs. The
recommended funding level is $20,000,000 below the request. The
Committee recommendation provides $95,000,000 for migration and
refugee assistance, $30,000,000 for resolving property
ownership disputes, and $30,000,000 for helping Iraq create a
modern banking system. The recommendation provides $15,000,000
for: (1) research and documentation on atrocities conducted by
Saddam Hussein; (2) funding to strengthen local capacity on
exhumations and family assistance, and (3) support of the Human
Rights Ministry. Finally, $10,000,000 is recommended to support
women's programs, $10,000,000 for civic education and youth
programs, and $90,000,000 for education. The recommendation
does not provide $90,000,000 requested to provide Public
Information Centers in Iraq's 266 municipalities, and
$20,000,000 in catch-up business training, a four-week course
at $10,000 per pupil. The Committee believes that effective
business training can be provided at much lower cost, such as a
number of successful USAID programs operated in Southeastern
Europe.
The Committee believes that restoration of the agricultural
sector is absolutely essential for economic recovery in Iraq.
Increased domestic Iraqi food production, processing, and
marketing would greatly improve employment and self-
sufficiency, and would decrease reliance on international food
aid and commercial importation of commodities. Therefore, the
Committee supports increased efforts through the Coalition
Provisional Authority in support of training and outreach
efforts to benefit the Iraqi domestic agricultural sector.
With respect to the bill language in the Fund regarding
religious freedom, the Committee expects that the President
will report to the appropriate Committees of the Congress, on
efforts by the CPA and relevant Iraqi officials to ensure that
the Iraqi constitution preserves religious freedom.

Operating Expenses of the Coalition Provisional Authority

The Committee recommends $858,000,000 for ``Operating
Expenses of the Coalition Provisional Authority'' under this
new heading, instead of providing the same amount for
administrative costs of the Coalition Provisional Authority
(CPA) in Iraq, within the total amount under the heading
``Operation and Maintenance, Army'' as requested in the
Supplemental request.
The Committee takes note of the outstanding job that
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer and his staff have performed on
behalf of both the American and Iraqi people. Ambassador
Bremer, the CPA employees and the men and women from various
federal agencies supporting the CPA and Iraq's reconstruction
have labored under the most difficult of circumstances.
The CPA currently oversees the reconstruction of Iraq,
especially the non-military programs described in the Iraq
Relief and Reconstruction Fund section of this report, from
building waste water treatment systems to renovating health
care centers to training law enforcement officials to providing
computer training for Iraqi youth. The CPA is empowered with
managing the largest entire amount of U.S. foreign assistance
provided to the rest of the world. The CPA developed the
$20,304,000,000 Iraq assistance request currently before the
Committee, and it may well administer much of the amount that
is appropriated in this Act.
The Committee recommendation acknowledges CPA's leadership
and role. The Committee applauds the CPA for recently
establishing a presence in Washington DC, and expects to be
kept updated on the progress ofreconstruction efforts, roles
and missions of supporting agencies, and implementation of programs
funded by this Act.
However, the Committee notes that during the past six
months, it has been difficult for the Congress and the
Appropriations Committees to get current and specific
information about reconstruction activities in Iraq, with the
exception of information from the United States Agency for
International Development. The Committee has continued to ask
the CPA and Administration detailed questions about the
$20,304,000,000 request; many have gone unanswered.
The Committee notes that the transparency is crucial for
ensuring efficient, accountable reconstruction activities in
Iraq. To this effect, this recommendation provides for the
first time a direct operating appropriation for the CPA, and,
under the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund, the organization
is given the authority to receive direct apportionment of
program/project funds.
The Committee recommendation does not alter the reporting
relationship of Ambassador Bremer to the President through the
Secretary of Defense. However, it does further transparency by
clarifying the operational cost of the United States'
reconstruction effort in Iraq as part of U.S. foreign
assistance, and the scope of the non-military reconstruction
efforts. It acknowledges that the American people have a right
to know the cost of maintaining a 3,700-person activity. It
also should improve the flow of information to Congress and,
thus, Congressional oversight of foreign assistance.
Since the CPA is less than a year old and it is possible
that the organization could require additional operational
resources during this year, the Committee also has included
bill language in the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund that
provides authority, if needed, to transfer up to 1 percent, or
an additional $186,490,000 from the Fund for CPA's operating
expenses.

Economic Support Fund

The Committee recommends $872,000,000 for the ``Economic
Support Fund.'' The recommendation is $450,000,000 above the
request, primarily for reconstruction in Afghanistan. The
recommended increase is fully offset by proposed reductions in
the request for Iraq reconstruction, and, thus, does not result
in a net increase above the overall request. These funds would
remain available for obligation until December 31, 2004.
The recommendation reserves $672,000,000 for accelerated
assistance for Afghanistan instead of $422,000,000 as
requested. The Committee notes the increasing terrorist
activity against the Government of Afghanistan, international
Coalition forces, and private non-governmental organizations
providing relief and reconstruction assistance within
Afghanistan, and concludes that the pace of reconstruction, as
well as that of security assistance provided elsewhere in this
Chapter, must respond to the deteriorating security conditions,
especially in the southern and eastern provinces of
Afghanistan.
After considering reports from several field reviews in
Afghanistan by Committee members and professional staff, the
Committee fully supports most of the urgent programs included
in the budget justification for Afghanistan civil
reconstruction, including roads, education, health, power
generation/private sector development, and provincial
reconstruction teams. The State Department Coordinator of
Assistance to Afghanistan and the Administrator of USAID are
requested to provide the Committee not laterthan December 5,
2003, a fiscal year 2004 strategic and financial plan, including
projected quarterly obligations by sector and major project (in excess
of $250,000), for all reconstruction and security activities in
Afghanistan undertaken with funds provided by this Act and prior
Appropriations acts.
The Committee recommends $191,000,000 for major and
provincial roads, an endeavor that is critical to both economic
development and security in Afghanistan. The Committee commends
those engaged in the challenging project to reconstruct and
pave the major Kabul-Kandahar road by the end of 2003,
recognizes the dire security threat from neo-Taliban forces
along its route, and urges United States Armed Forces in
Afghanistan to increase surveillance of the construction areas
and support for the private and Afghan national police security
forces protecting the Kandahar road. The additional funding
will sustain the momentum of the Kabul-Kandahar project, by
financing secondary and tertiary road development, primarily in
the previously neglected southern and central regions, through
the Afghan-led National Emergency Employment Program and UNOPS,
and, with other international donors, by expanding primary road
construction from Kandahar toward Herat.
The Committee recommendation provides an additional
$95,000,000 for schools and education in Afghanistan,
$55,000,000 above the request. The Committee has promoted
Afghan education, especially for girls, for many years, even
during the period of Soviet and Taliban control. The Ministry
of Education is doing a better job of coordinating the numerous
foreign donor projects and developing a strategy that can
maximize use of future funding. The additional funding will
support more extensive teacher training and special efforts to
accelerate learning and jump-start schooling opportunities for
the 10- to 30-year-old Afghan whose education was interrupted
or prevented by 23 years of war.
The Committee recommends $95,000,000 for private sector
development and power generation, $50,000,000 above the
request. The Committee recommendation supports market centers-
industrial parks, land titling, natural resources assessment
and power generation projects. The Committee recommendation
does not include $10,000,000 for a venture capital fund. The
Committee recommendation provides $65,000,000 to repair,
rehabilitate and procure electric generation and distribution
infrastructure in Afghanistan. In addition to the power
requirements of Kabul already requested, the Committee has
provided additional funds to rehabilitate and increase power
generation from the Kajaki Dam facility that is essential to
successful reconstruction in the politically sensitive Kandahar
and Helmand provinces. Also, the Coordinator should consider
installing mini-hydro or more reliable thermal generators in
regional towns adjacent to the provincial reconstruction team
locations.
The Committee recommends an additional $70,000,000 for
support to the Government of Afghanistan (GoA), $33,000,000
above the request. Demonstrating to the Afghan people that
their central government is capable of providing security and
minimal services to them is key to the establishment of a
stable Afghanistan that is able to resist terrorist incursions.
To accomplish this, the Government must collect sufficient
revenues and pay salaries to its military and civilian
officials. Of the recommended $70,000,000, not less than
$25,000,000 will meet key GoA infrastructure needs, especially
telecommunications between Kabul and the provinces. The
Ministry of Finance will use not less than $10,000,000 to
improve customs collections at Afghanistan's 11 official border
posts and remitting of customs to the ministry on a timely
basis. An indeterminate amount will be needed to augment other
donor contributions to an international trust fund to pay
government salaries until economic growth increases government
revenue sufficiently to meet salary costs. If official payrolls
are missed, the anticipated 2004 elections will be threatened.
The Committee recommends $69,000,000 for elections and
improved governance in Afghanistan, $12,000,000 above the
request. As no recent census is available for Afghanistan,
registration of voters prior to the summer, 2004, elections
called for by the 2001 Bonn Accords will be difficult and
costly. Public education of voters and the promotion of
powerful, unarmed civil voices require outside financial
support in 2004. In governance, the Committee recommends that
activities be undertaken to promote private investment and
trade capacity building.
In order to limit the number of costly United States
expatriate advisors in Kabul, the Committee has included bill
language limiting the amount available for additional technical
expert positions and the number of senior advisors paid from
funds made available by this Act or by prior Appropriations
acts. This provision does not apply to the dozens of U.S.
officials required to design and manage a massive Afghanistan
assistance program, the actual number of which is presently
insufficient due toEmbassy allocation of scarce housing and
office space to other purposes. The Committee urges the Department of
State and USAID to continue to resolve this situation, and keep it
fully informed of progress toward deploying an adequately staffed
Mission in Kabul.
The Committee recommendation provides $50,000,000, as
requested, for projects directly involving requirements
identified by provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) in eight
to twelve provinces. As requested earlier by the Committee,
Congress was notified in September of the intent to obligate an
initial $10,000,000 for the PRTs. Although several of the PRTs
are commanded by Coalition forces, such as the United Kingdom
and New Zealand, each is expected to include USAID and State
officials who will have a major voice in allocating U.S.
assistance funds for small projects that will directly benefit
local populations who are not helped by current reconstruction
efforts. The PRT concept is based on expansion of security
throughout Afghanistan, but each is also prepared to assist
local oversight of assistance managed by the USAID Mission in
Kabul, complement DoD humanitarian assistance, and support
expansion of central Government of Afghanistan services. The
Committee notes that successful implementation of the
innovative PRT concept is contingent on timely transportation
and security support by Kabul-based civilian and military
authorities.
The Committee recommends an additional $49,000,000 for
health services in Afghanistan, $21,000,000 above the request.
These funds will support the construction of more than 90
health clinics, enabling more than 3 million additional rural
Afghans gain access to a basic health delivery system. If a
permissive security situation is extended throughout all of
Afghanistan during 2004, the additional health and road funds
will accelerate achievement of the objective of bringing all
Afghans within 4 hours' travel of a health clinic.
The Committee recommendation provides an initial
$30,000,000 for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration
(DDR) projects, $30,000,000 below the request. The Committee
notes that Japan has already provided full funding for the
initial pilot projects in Northern Afghanistan that will help
determine the feasibility of DDR projects prior to the training
and deployment of a multi-ethnic Afghan National Army that is
firmly under civilian Afghan control. The Committee believes
that Japan and other donors will make additional contributions
to DDR projects if the pilot effort is a success and is
replicable in other regions.
The Committee also recommends that $23,000,000, not
included in the request, be provided for water projects in
Afghanistan. Because of the essential role of irrigation in
agriculture, and the lack of potable water in many urban areas
and small towns, the Committee requests USAID to report not
later than January 15, 2004 on the feasibility of expanding
rural and urban water projects in Afghanistan.
The Committee takes note of the outstanding jobs that
Ambassador William B. Taylor and Major General Karl Eikenberry,
their staffs and their colleagues in Afghanistan have performed
on behalf of both the American and Afghan people. As
coordinators of civilian and security assistance for
Afghanistan, both officials and the men and women of USAID, the
Departments of Defense and State and other federal agencies
supporting the Embassy in Kabul and Afghanistan's
reconstruction have labored under the most difficult of
circumstances. The Committee acknowledges the important role of
non-governmental organizations operating in Afghanistan.
As the cooperation of the Government of Pakistan is vital
to United States and Coalition efforts to build a stable
Afghanistan, the Committee has agreed to language proposed by
the President to allow up to $200,000,000 from ``Economic
Support Fund'' to be made available for the subsidy cost of
modifying direct loans and guarantees previously issued for
Pakistan. The recommendation includes the $200,000,000, subject
to a determination by the President that the Government of
Pakistan is fully cooperating with the United States in the
global war on terrorism.

International Disaster and Famine Assistance

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

The Committee recommends $100,000,000 for International
Disaster and Famine Assistance, especially for Sudan and
Liberia, instead of $100,000,000 for a new ``Emergency Fund for
Complex Foreign Crises'' as requested by the President. Thus,
this recommendation does not result in a net increase above the
request.
As other funds are available to respond to natural
disasters abroad, the Committee recommendation limits the
circumstances under which these funds may be obligated to those
where the President determines that theproposed United States
response to a complex foreign crisis is in the national interest and
essential to efforts to reduce international terrorism. The Committee
anticipates that these funds may be required for assistance to Sudan
and Liberia.
The Committee has included a provision authorizing the
transfer of up to one percent of certain other funds to this
account. All proposed obligations made available under this
heading are made subject to the regular notification procedures
of the Committees on Appropriations.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement

The Committee recommends $170,000,000 for ``International
Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement'', $50,000,000 more than
requested for accelerated assistance for Afghanistan. The
recommended increase is offset by proposed reductions in the
request for Iraq reconstruction, and, thus, does not result in
a net increase above the overall request. These funds would
remain available for obligation until December 31, 2004.
The Committee is gravely concerned about the increasing
terrorist activity against the Government of Afghanistan and
private non-governmental organizations providing relief and
reconstruction assistance within Afghanistan. The capacity of
Afghan security forces to protect their own government and
international reconstruction efforts must be expanded as
rapidly as feasible, and the increased funding responds to that
urgent requirement.
The Committee also notes reports of the pervasive
dependence of regional economies in Afghanistan on opium
cultivation and narcotics trafficking. The Committee notes the
leadership role of Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy in the
police training, counter-narcotics and judicial reform sectors,
respectively, and encourages each of these Coalition members to
accelerate its assistance efforts in Afghanistan.
In order to respond to this rapidly evolving situation, the
Committee is providing $160,000,000 to accelerate the training
and equipment of the Afghan National Police and Border Police
and to increase counter-narcotics law enforcement capacity. In
addition, $10,000,000 is provided for the training of
prosecutors, court officers and the Afghan judiciary. The
Committee intends that all assistance to Afghanistan be
conducted on a basis of non-discrimination among its ethnic
groups and include special emphasis on the rights of women and
minorities.

Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining, and Related Programs

The Committee recommends $35,000,000 for
``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related
Programs''. This level is the same as the request, and would
support anti-terrorism training programs and equipment needs in
Afghanistan, to continue the work of disarming the staggering
number of mines throughout the country, and to provide in-
country support for the protection of Afghan President Karzai.

MILITARY ASSISTANCE

Funds Appropriated to the President

Foreign Military Financing Program

The Committee recommends $297,000,000 for ``Foreign
Military Financing Program'', $75,000,000 more than requested
for accelerated security assistance on a non-repayable basis
for Afghanistan. The recommended increase is offset by proposed
reductions in the request for Iraq reconstruction, and, thus,
does not result in a net increase above the overall request.
These funds would remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2004.
As mentioned earlier in this Report, the Committee is
gravely concerned about the increasing terrorist activity
against the Government of Afghanistan and the international
Coalition. The rapid training and deployment of an ethnically
balanced, professional national army for Afghanistan is
essential to the success of Coalition efforts to promote a
stable and peaceful Afghanistan.
The Committee encourages the President, the Secretary of
State and the Secretary of Defense to continue to remind the
Government of Afghanistan that United States military
assistance is provided to build a new Afghanistan army that is
professional, multi-ethnic, and loyal to the civilian
leadership in the central government. Failure of the Government
of Afghanistan to continue moving rapidly toward this common
objective should not be rewarded with continuing military
assistance by any agency of the United States Government to
armed militias or army units that do not share these
objectives.
To this end, the Committee requests the Secretary of
Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to
provide it with periodic reports on the progress of the new
Afghan army. The reports may include such matters as the
Secretaries may determine, but include an evaluation of
professional development, ethnic and regional balance,
including data on retention rates by ethnic and regional
origin, coordination with Coalition provincial reconstruction
teams, and responsiveness to central civilian leadership of the
Government of Afghanistan. The initial report should also fully
identify the major prime and major sub-contractors
participating in the foreign military financing and similar
programs in Afghanistan in fiscal years 2003 and 2004, describe
the contractual arrangements with each, including whether or
not they were made on a fully competitive basis, and, if not,
the reasons for a limited competition or sole source award; and
the actual and proposed obligations for each. For the purposes
of this report, a ``major'' contract is one in excess of
$250,000. The initial report should also detail and evaluate
training and support for the new Afghan army that has been or
is anticipated to be provided by international Coalition
members. Reports should be provided to the Committees on
Appropriations and foreign affairs through the Office of
Management and Budget not later than December 5, 2003, March 5,
2004, and July 9, 2004.

Peacekeeping Operations

The Committee recommends $50,000,000 for ``Peacekeeping
Operations''. This level is the same as the request, and would
support multilateral peacekeeping needs in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

The task before the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan
is formidable, and amounts to laying the groundwork for entire
governments. The Committee remains mindful that the President
must have flexibility in order to address the often rapidly
changing situations in these countries. However, the
authorities requested by the President to move money among
accounts are nearly without limit. The Committee has not
approved several provisions, and modified several others, in
order to increase transparency and accountability of the use of
funds for the reconstruction and stabilization of Iraq and
Afghanistan.
For instance, the Committee recommendation does not include
a general provision requested by the President that would have
allowed transfers among international assistance programs in
the supplemental request in an amount not to exceed
$200,000,000. Existing provisions of law under the Foreign
Assistance Act and annual acts making appropriations for
foreign operations, export financing, and related programs
already provide sufficient authority to transfer funds.
The Committee recognizes that debt incurred under the
Hussein regime presents a potential challenge to the country's
development. However, this supplemental appropriation request
is intended to meet emergency needs, and the Committee is of
the opinion that paying foreign debtors out of United States
funds is not among those needs. The Committee includes a new
general provision, section 2201, that prohibits the use of
funds appropriated in this Act, or in the 2003 Iraq
Supplemental Appropriations Act (P.L. 108-11), to be used to
pay for any debt entered into by the Iraqi government before
the defeat and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The provision
pertains to all public and private lenders including
international financial institutions. The Committee strongly
opposes the use of appropriations to repay any credit extended
to the repressive regime of Saddam Hussein. Nothing in this
provision, however, should be construed as discouraging the
Departments of State and Treasury from working with lenders in
reducing and restructuring Iraq's debt burden.
The Committee has been concerned for some time with the
lack of transparency with which several contracts have been let
for Iraq. In its fiscal year 2004 Foreign Operations, Export
Financing and Related Programs bill, the House of
Representatives included a provision requiring full and open
competition in Iraq reconstruction contracts.
It is in the best interests of most involved, including the
U.S. business sector and the Iraqi people, to use open and full
competition for all but a very limited number of contracts. For
situations in which ensuring such competition might be
inappropriate--such as in cases of emergency--the Committee
believes that existing federal regulations allow for adequate
flexibility.
Therefore, the Committee includes language in sections 2202
and 2203 to limit the use of non-competitive contracts in the
``Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund'' in this Act and from
funds under the same heading in Public Law 108-11. This
language preserves the prerogative of the President to waive
the requirement for full and open competition in certain
circumstances, as outlined in applicable federal procurement
regulations. The provisions require that the executive branch
provide Congress and the public with notification, with some
allowance for classified material, when this prerogative is
exercised, and with an explanation for its use.
In section 2204, the Committee recommends language to
extend to September 30, 2005, authorities provided in section
1503 of Public Law 108-11 to suspend relevant provisions of the
Iraq Sanctions Act and to make inapplicable to Iraq certain
provisions of law that restrict assistance to countries that
support terrorism. The President requested that section 1503 be
made permanent. Additionally, the Committee amends the section
to make Committee intent clear on the export of military
equipment. In section 2205, the Committee amends Section 1504
of Public Law 108-11 to allow the export of small arms to Iraq.
This was addressed by the Administration in its request for
amending section 1503.
The Committee has included language in section 2206 that
increases the cumulative value of military equipment that the
Department of Defense may provide to Afghanistan from
$300,000,000 to $450,000,000.
Other general provisions that the Committee includes are of
a more technical nature. For instance, the Committee
recommendation includes a provision (section 2210) as requested
by the President that would allow the appropriations requested
in this chapter to be made available without specific
authorization.
The Committee also recommends language in section 2211 that
allows the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to operate
in Iraq notwithstanding any other provision of law. The
Committee supports OPIC programs in Iraq, and therefore the
Committee has provided language to waive existing requirements
that the President enter into agreements with a host country
government before opening and operating insurance and guaranty
programs. However, the Committee does not expect that OPIC's
authority will be exercised to waive other existing statutory
requirements including longstanding Congressional mandates;
therefore, the Committee has made the exercise of such
authority subject to the regular notification procedures of the
Committees on Appropriations.

TITLE III--GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT

Section 3001 limits the availability of funds provided in
this Act to the current fiscal year, unless otherwise provided
in the Act.
Section 3002 states that none of the funds in this or any
other Act may be used for any defense or reconstruction
activities in Iraq or Afghanistan coordinated by any officer of
the United States Government whose office is not subject to
appointment by the President by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate.
Section 3003 concerns Impact Aid eligibility for certain
students.
Section 3004 states that none of the funds in this Act may
be provided to any unit of the security forces of a foreign
country participating with coalition forces in Afghanistan or
Iraq if the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense has
credible evidence that such unit has committed gross violations
of human rights, unless the appropriate Secretary determines
and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the
government of such country is taking effective measures to
bring the responsible members of the security forces to
justice.
Section 3005 would prohibit the use of funding in this or
any other appropriations Act to execute any program that would
remove Mexican citizens or nationals by land from the United
States by returning them to a location other than the United
States port of entry closest to the location where they were
apprehended, last imprisoned, or acquitted. The Secretary may
waive this provision if compliance is determined to be
infeasible and notification is provided to the Committees on
Appropriations and the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives and the Senate.
Section 3006 would prohibit the use of funding in this or
any other appropriations Act for the issuance of immigration
Form I-20A by the San Antonio Office of Detention and Removal
of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the
Department of Homeland Security.

Changes in the Application of Existing Law

Pursuant to clause 3(f)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the
House of Representatives, the following statements are
submitted describing the effect of provisions in the
accompanying bill that directly or indirectly change the
application of existing law.
The bill includes appropriations that are not authorized by
law and as such may be construed as legislative in nature.
The bill includes emergency appropriation designations that
may be construed as legislative in nature.
Language is included that restricts the availability of the
funds to the current fiscal year unless otherwise provided.
Language has been included for Department of Defense--
Military in ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'' which provides
that $80,000,000 may be transferred to the Department of
Homeland Security for Coast Guard operations.
Language has been included for Department of Defense--
Military in ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' which
provides funds for the CINC Initiative Fund; and provides funds
for payments to reimburse key cooperating nations for
logistical and military support in connection with the global
war on terrorism.
Language has been included for Department of Defense--
Military in ``Iraq Freedom Fund'' which provides funds for
transfer to other appropriations, and requires certain
notification and reporting requirements of the Secretary of
Defense.
Language has been included for Department of Defense--
Military in ``Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities,
Defense'' which provides funds for such activities related to
the drug problem in the Afghanistan region.
Language has been included for Department of Defense--
Military in ``Intelligence Community Management Account'' which
provides that $3,000,000 may be transferred to the Department
of Energy, and $15,500,000 may be transferred to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1101 which provides the Secretary of
Defense with additional transfer authority for funds in this
Act.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1102 which provides authority to obligate
funds for intelligence activities pursuant to section 504 of
the National Security Act of 1954.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1103 which continues certain wartime
personnel benefits for travel and transportation allowances for
family members.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1104 which continues the monthly rate
increases for Imminent Danger Pay and Family Separation
Allowances through September 30, 2004.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1105 which allows the balance of funds in
the ``Defense Emergency Response Fund'' to be charged to any
current appropriations account of the Department of Defense.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1106 which provides that funds available
for operation and maintenance may be used to provide a variety
of services and support for coalition forces in Iraq.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1107 which provides that not to exceed
$100,000,000 in funds under ``Operation and Maintenance,
Defense-Wide'' may be used for assistance for the new
militaries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1108 which limits the use of procurement
and research, development, test and evaluation funds.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1109 providing additional appropriations to
repair damages at military installations.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1110 which provides that not to exceed
$180,000,000 in funds made available in this Act for operation
and maintenance for the Commander's Emergency Response Program
in Iraq, and to establish a similar program for use in
Afghanistan.
Language is included that enables operations and
maintenance funds to be used for emerging construction
requirements if the construction is necessary to support
Operation Iraqi Freedom or the Global War on Terrorism.
Language is included waiving prior authorization
requirements for the expenditure of funds by the Department of
State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Under ``Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for
International Development'', $40,000,000 is made available for
direct support of operations in Afghanistan and is to remain
available until September 30, 2005.
Under ``Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund'',
$18,649,000,000 is made available until September 30, 2005 for
necessary expenses to carry out the purposes of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, for security, relief, rehabilitation
and reconstruction in Iraq. The amounts are allocated as
follows: $3,243,000,000 for security and law enforcement;
$1,318,000,000 for justice, public safety infrastructure, and
civil society; $5,560,000,000 for the electric sector;
$2,100,000,000 for oil infrastructure; $4,332,000,000 for water
resources and sanitation; $500,000,000 for transportation and
telecommunications; $370,000,000 for roads, bridges, and
construction; $793,000,000 for health care; $153,000,000 for
private sector development; and $280,000,000 for education,
refugees, human rights, democracy, and governance. Language is
included that allows the President to reallocate up to 10
percent of any of the preceding allocations, except that the
total for the allocation receiving such funds may not be
increased by more than 20 percent. Additionally, language is
included that designates 10% of funds apportioned to USAID made
available for subcontracts should be reserved for small
businesses. The bill requires an annual spending plan for
reconstruction programs under the preceding allocations,
including project-by-project detail, by the President not later
than January 1, 2004, and is to be updated and submitted every
180 days thereafter. Language is included specifying that funds
appropriated under this heading shall be apportioned only to
the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, the Department of
State, the Department of Health and Human Services, the
Department of Treasury, the Department of Defense, and the
United States Agency for International Development. Provides
not less than $35,000,000 for administrative expenses of the
Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement Affairs and the United States Agency for
International Development for support of the reconstruction
activities in Iraq, and that up to 1 percent of the amount
appropriated for the Fund may be transferred to ``Operating
Expenses of the Coalition Provisional Authority''.
Contributions of funds for the purposes provided from any
person, foreign government, or international organization, may
be credited to the Fund and used for such purposes, and the
Committees on Appropriations must be notified quarterly of any
collections pursuant to the previous proviso. Additionally, the
CPA shall work, in conjunction with relevant Iraqi officials,
to ensure that a new Iraqi constitution preserves full rights
to religious freedom.
Under ``Operating Expenses of the Coalition Provisional
Authority'', $858,000,000 is made available until September 30,
2005.
Under ``Economic Support Fund'', $872,000,000 is made
available until December 31, 2004. Of this amount, not less
than $672,000,000 is available for Afghanistan, not to exceed
$30,000,000 may be used for activities related to disarmament,
demobilization, and reintegration of militia combatants, not to
exceed $2,000,000 may be used to provide additional policy
experts in Afghan ministries and not more than five senior
advisors to the United States Ambassador may be deployed in
Afghanistan, and not less than $17,250,000 is available only
for security requirements that directly support United States
and Coalition personnel who are implementing assistance
programs in Afghanistan. Additionally, not to exceed
$200,000,000 is made available for modifying direct loans and
guarantees for Pakistan only after the President makes a
determination that the Government of Pakistan is fully
cooperating with the United States in the global war on
terrorism.
Under ``International Disaster and Famine Assistance'',
$100,000,000 is made available to respond to or prevent
unforeseen complex foreign crises, especially in Sudan and
Liberia, and not to exceed 1 percent of other funds in the
Chapter may be transferred to this account. These funds are
provided only pursuant to a national interest determination by
the President; these funds may not be available to respond to
natural disasters, and funds made available are subject to
notification.
Section 2201 prohibits funds in this Act from being used to
forgive debts owed by the Government of Iraq.
Section 2202 requires that no funds in the ``Iraq Relief
and Reconstruction Fund'' may be used to enter into any
contract unless it is entered into in accordance with title III
of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act.
Language is included allowing a waiver of this prohibition, but
certain reporting requirements must be followed.
Section 2203 requires certain public disclosure
requirements for any noncompetitive contracting using funds
available for Iraq or for the ``Iraq Relief and Reconstruction
Fund''.
Section 2204 extends the date of applicability of section
1503 of Public Law 108-11 from September 30, 2004 to September
30, 2005 and clarifies Committee intent.
Section 2205 amends section 1504 of Public Law 108-11 by
permitting the import of small arms into Iraq for Iraqi
government and private security forces.
Section 2206 amends the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of
2002 by increasing the cumulative value of military equipment
that the Department of Defense may provide to Afghanistan from
$300,000,000 to $450,000,000.
Section 2207 requires certain reports by the Coalition
Provisional Authority.
Section 2208 deems the Coalition Provisional Authority in
Iraq to include any successor United States Government entity
with the same or substantially the same authorities and
responsibilities as the Coalition Provisional Authority in
Iraq.
Section 2209 allows that assistance under chapter 2 of
title 1 may be provided for Iraq and Afghanistan
notwithstanding any other provision of law not contained in
this Act that restricts assistance to foreign countries and
section 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Section 2210 allows funds appropriated in the bill to be
obligated in the absence of a prior authorization of
appropriations.
Section 2211 allows that notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
is authorized to undertake programs in Iraq, but such authority
is subject to notification.
Section 2212 includes certain reporting requirements on
military operations and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Section 2213 requires the review of contracts by the
Comptroller General in excess of $1,000,000 using funds
appropriated by this Act for foreign assistance.
Language is included stating that none of the funds in this
or any other Act may be used for any defense or reconstruction
activities in Iraq or Afghanistan coordinated by any officer of
the United States Government whose office is not subject to
appointment by the President and with the advice and consent of
the Senate.
Language is included concerning Impact Aid eligibility for
certain students.
Language is included prohibiting the use of any
appropriations funding to remove Mexican citizens or nationals
by land from the United States by returning them to a location
other than the United States port of entry closest to the
location where they were apprehended, last imprisoned, or
acquitted. It also provides waiver authority to the Secretary
of Homeland Security.
Language is included prohibiting the use of any
appropriations to fund the issuance of immigration Form I-20A
by the San Antonio Office of Detention and Removal of the
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department
of Homeland Security.

Appropriations Not Authorized by Law

Pursuant to clause 3(f)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the
House of Representatives, the following table lists the
appropriations in the accompanying bill which are not
authorized by law:

[In thousands of dollars]
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Appropriations
Agency/program Last year of Authorization in last year of Appropriations in
authorization level authorization this bill
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Department of Defense--Military:
Military Personnel, Army............... 2003 (1) 26,855,017 12,188,870
Military Personnel, Navy............... 2003 (1) 21,927,628 816,100
Military Personnel, Marine Corps....... 2003 (1) 8,501,087 753,190
Military Personnel, Air Force.......... 2003 (1) 21,981,277 3,384,700
Operation and Maintenance, Army........ 2003 23,922,251 23,992,082 24,355,664
Operation and Maintenance, Navy........ 2003 29,264,939 29,331,526 1,934,058
Transfer to Dept. of Homeland ............. ............... 0 (80,000)
Security..........................
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps 2003 3,559,636 3,585,759 1,198,981
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force... 2003 27,419,488 27,339,533 5,598,368
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide 2003 14,145,310 14,707,506 4,485,452
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps 2003 189,532 187,532 16,000
Reserve...............................
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force 2003 2,160,604 2,163,104 53,000
Reserve...............................
Operation and Maintenance, Air National 2003 4,104,810 4,117,585 214,000
Guard.................................
Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and 2003 58,400 58,400 35,500
Civic Aid.............................
Iraq Freedom Fund...................... 2003 0 0 1,988,600
Procurement of Weapons & Tracked Combat 2003 2,276,751 2,266,508 101,600
Vehicles, Army........................
Other Procurement, Army................ 2003 5,857,814 5,874,674 1,250,287
Aircraft Procurement, Navy............. 2003 8,979,275 8,812,855 158,600
Other Procurement, Navy................ 2003 4,494,754 4,612,910 76,357
Procurement, Marine Corps.............. 2003 1,355,491 1,388,583 123,397
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force........ 2003 12,676,505 13,137,255 53,972
Missile Procurement, Air Force......... 2003 3,504,139 3,174,739 20,450
Other Procurement, Air Force........... 2003 10,846,048 10,672,712 3,418,006
Procurement, Defense-Wide.............. 2003 3,691,604 3,414,455 418,635
Research, Development, Test and 2003 13,244,164 13,946,085 34,000
Evaluation, Navy......................
Research, Development, Test and 2003 18,337,078 18,822,569 39,070
Evaluation, Air Force.................
Research, Development, Test and 2003 17,659,099 17,524,596 195,817
Evaluation, Defense-Wide..............
Defense Working Capital Funds.......... 2003 387,156 1,784,956 600,000
National Defense Sealift Fund.......... 2003 934,129 942,629 24,000
Defense Health Program................. 2003 14,468,994 14,843,542 658,380
Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug 2003 859,907 881,907 73,000
Activities, Defense...................
Intelligence Community Management 2003 163,479 163,479 21,500
Account...............................
Transfer to Dept of Energy......... ............. ............... 0 (3,000)
Transfer to Dept of Justice........ (34,100) (15,500)
Sec. 1101 Transfer Authority........... 2003 (2,500,000) (2,500,000) (3,000,000)
Sec. 1109 Storm Damage................. 2003 0 0 413,300
Military Construction, Army............ 2003 1,685,710 1,685,710 185,100
Military Construction, Navy............ 2003 1,353,228 1,353,228 45,530
Family Housing Operations and 2003 1,106,007 1,106,007 8,151
Maintenance, Army.....................
Military Construction, Air Force....... 2003 1,233,147 1,233,147 292,550
Family Housing Operation and 2003 861,788 861,788 6,280
Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps....
Family Housing Operation and 2003 864,850 864,850 6,981
Maintenance, Air Force................
Department of Justice: General Legal 2003 659,181 605,368 15,000
Activities............................
Department of State: Administration of 2003 5,133,390 5,098,804 214,000
Foreign Affairs.......................
International Organizations........ 2003 1,617,359 1,529,702 245,000
Broadcasting Board of Governors........ 2003 644,486 533,841 40,000
Operating expenses of the United States 1987 387,000,000 340,600,000 40,000,000
Agency for International Development..
Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.... 0 0 0 18,649,000,000
Operating expenses of the Coalition 0 0 0 858,000,000
Provisional Authority.................
Economic Support Fund...................... 1987 3,800,000,000 3,555,000,000 872,000,000
International Disaster and Famine 1987 25,000,000 70,000,000 100,000,000
Assistance................................
International Narcotics Control and Law 1994 171,500,000 100,000,000 170,000,000
Enforcement...............................
Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, demining 0 0 0 35,000,000
and related programs......................
Foreign Military Financing Program......... 2003 4,107,000,000 6,104,632,000 297,000,000
Peacekeeping operations.................... 1999 83,000,000 76,500,000 50,000,000
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\1\ The FY 2003 National Defense Authorization Act authorizes $93,829,525,000 for military personnel.

Transfer of Funds

Pursuant to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the
House of Representatives, the following is submitted describing
the transfer of funds provided in the accompanying bill.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'' which provides
for the transfer of$80,000,000 to the Department of Homeland
Security for Coast Guard operations.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in the ``Iraq Freedom Fund'' which provides for the
transfer of funds out of and into this account.
Under ``Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund'', up to 1
percent may be transferred to and merged with ``Operating
Expenses of the Coalition Provisional Authority.''
Under ``International Disaster and Famine Assistance'',
language has been included that provides that up to one percent
of funds under other headings in this chapter may be
transferred and merged with funds under this heading.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in ``Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities,
Defense'' which transfers funds to other appropriations
accounts of the Department of Defense.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in ``Intelligence Community Management Account'' which
provides for the transfer of $3,000,000 to the Department of
Energy and $15,500,000 to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Language has been included in Department of Defense--
Military in section 1101 which provides the Department with
transfer authority for funds in this Act.
Language is included which allows the transfer of funds
within the Department of State, from ``Emergencies in the
Diplomatic and Consular Service'' to ``Diplomatic and Consular
Programs''.

Rescissions

Clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of
Representatives requires a report on rescissions in the
accompanying bill.

[In thousands of dollars]

Department of State:
Diplomatic and Consular Programs.................... $35,800

Comparison With the Budget Resolution

Clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of
Representatives requires an explanation of compliance with
section 308(a)(1)(A) of the Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as
amended, which requires that the report accompanying a bill
providing new budget authority contain a statement detailing
how that authority compares with the reports submitted under
section 302 of the Act for the most recently agreed to
concurrent resolution on the budget for the applicable fiscal
year.
Appropriations in this bill are designated emergency and
therefore will not be measured against the section 302
allocations.

Five-Year Outlay Projections

In compliance with section 308(a)(1)(B) of the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
(Public Law 93-344), as amended, the following table contains
five-year projections associated with the budget authority
provided in the accompanying bill:

Millions
Budget Authority........................................ 86,856
Outlays:
2004................................................ 36,599
2005................................................ 33,334
2006................................................ 11,639
2007................................................ 2,970
2008 and beyond..................................... 1,830

Assistance to State and Local Governments

In accordance with section 308(a)(1)(C) of the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
(Public Law 93-344), as amended, the financial assistance to
State and local governments is as follows:

Millions
Budget Authority........................................ - - -
Fiscal Year 2004 outlays resulting therefrom............ - - -

Constitutional Authority

Clause 3(d)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of
Representatives states that:

Each report of a committee on a bill or joint
resolution of a public character, shall include a
statement citing the specific powers granted to the
Congress in the Constitution to enact the law proposed
by the bill or joint resolution.

The Committee on Appropriations bases its authority to
report this legislation from Clause 7 of Section 9 of Article I
of the Constitution of the United States of America which
states:

No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in
consequence of Appropriations made by law * * *

Appropriations contained in this Act are made pursuant to
this specific power granted by the Constitution.

Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives

Pursuant to clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII of the Rules of the
House of Representatives, the following is a statement of
general performance goals and objectives for which this measure
authorizes funding:
The Committee on Appropriations considers program
performance, including a program's success in developing and
attaining outcome-related goals and objectives, in developing
funding recommendations.

Compliance With Clause 3 of Rule XIII (Ramseyer Rule)

In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of
the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by
the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law
proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new
matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is
proposed is shown in roman):

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SECTION 1313 OF THE EMERGENCY WARTIME SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT,
2003

(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Sec. 1313. As of October 31, 2003, all unobligated balances
of funds remaining in the ``Defense Emergency Response Fund''
shall be transferred to, and merged with, the ``Iraq Freedom
Fund'', and shall be available for the same purposes, and under
the same terms and conditions, as funds appropriated to the
``Iraq Freedom Fund'' in this chapter.

* * * * * * *

EMERGENCY WARTIME SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2003

(Public Law 108-11)

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TITLE I--WAR-RELATED APPROPRIATIONS

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CHAPTER 5

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GENERAL PROVISIONS, THIS CHAPTER

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Sec. 1503. The President may suspend the application of any
provision of the Iraq Sanctions Act of 1990: Provided, That
nothing in this section shall affect the applicability of the
Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-
484), except that such Act shall not apply to humanitarian
assistance and supplies: Provided further, That the President
may make inapplicable with respect to Iraq section 620A of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or any other provision of law
that applies to countries that have supported terrorism:
Provided further, That military [equipment] equipment,
including equipment, as defined by title XVI, section
1608(1)(A) of Public Law 102-484, shall not be exported under
the authority of this section: Provided further, That section
307 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall not apply with
respect to programs of international organizations for Iraq:
Provided further, That provisions of law that direct the United
States Government to vote against or oppose loans or other uses
of funds, including for financial or technical assistance, in
international financial institutions for Iraq shall not be
construed as applying to Iraq: Provided further, That the
President shall submit a notification 5 days prior to
exercising any of the authorities described in this section to
the Committee on Appropriations of each House of the Congress,
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the
Committee on International Relations of the House of
Representatives: Provided further, That not more than 60 days
after enactment of this Act and every 90 days thereafter the
President shall submit a report to the Committee on
Appropriations of each House of the Congress, the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on
International Relations of the House of Representatives
containing a summary of all licenses approved for export to
Iraq of any item on the Commerce Control List contained in the
Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR Part 774, Supplement
1, including identification of end users of such items:
Provided further, That the authorities contained in this
section shall expire on September 30, [2004] 2005, or on the
date of enactment of a subsequent Act authorizing assistance
for Iraq and that specifically amends, repeals or otherwise
makes inapplicable the authorities of this section, whichever
occurs first.
Sec. 1504. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
President may authorize the export to Iraq of any nonlethal
military equipment [controlled] or small arms controlled under
the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations on the United
States Munitions List established pursuant to section 38 of the
Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778), if the President
determines and notifies within 5 days prior to export the
Committee on Appropriations of each House of the Congress, the
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee
on International Relations of the House of Representatives that
the export of such nonlethal military equipment is in the
national interest of the United States: Provided, That the
limitation regarding nonlethal military equipment shall not
apply to military equipment designated by the Secretary of
State for use by a reconstituted (or interim) Iraqi military or
police force: Provided further, That the authorities contained
in this section shall expire on September 30, 2004, or on the
date of enactment of a subsequent Act authorizing assistance
for Iraq and that specifically amends, repeals or otherwise
makes inapplicable the authorities of this section, whichever
occurs first.

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SECTION 202 OF THE AFGHANISTAN FREEDOM SUPPORT ACT OF 2002

SEC. 202. AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE.

(a) * * *
(b) Amount of Assistance.--The aggregate value (as defined in
section 644(m) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961) of
assistance provided under subsection (a) may not exceed
[$300,000,000] $450,000,000, except that such limitation shall
be increased by any amounts appropriated pursuant to the
authorization of appropriations in section 204(b)(1) and shall
not count toward any limitation contained in section 506 of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2318).
Full Committee Votes

Pursuant to the provisions of clause 3(b) of rule XIII of
the House of Representatives, the results of each rollcall vote
on an amendment or on the motion to report, together with the
names of those voting for and those voting against, are printed
below:

ROLLCALL NO. 1

Date: October 9, 2003.
Measure: Emergency Supplemental for Defense and for the
Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan Appropriations Bill, FY
2004.
Motion by: Mr. Obey.
Description of motion: To offset the cost of the bill by
increasing the top marginal tax rate, provide $40,000,000 for
medical and dental screening for reservists called to active
duty, provide $60,000,000 to extend transitional health care
benefits for reservists, provide $50,000,000 to increase
support for Reserve and National Guard family assistance
centers, permanently eliminate the subsistence fee for members
hospitalized for wounds received while in combat or training,
provide $65,000,000 for telephone and internet service for
members deployed to a combat zone, provide $50,000,000 for
government-paid travel under rest and recuperation leave
program for members serving one year or more in-theatre,
provide $40,500,000 for essential goods and services for
troops, establish military campaign medals to recognize service
in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom,
provide $50,000,000 to enhance transition assistance for
disabled servicemembers returning to civilian life, provide
$3,126,000,000 for reconstituting the military forces, provide
$1,000,000,000 to increase Army manpower end-strength level,
require a report on military operations and reconstruction
efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, provide $179,000,000 for
Military Construction, Army, reduce funding for the Iraq Relief
and Reconstruction Fund by $4,618,000,000, require a GAO report
on noncompetitive contracting, require congressional
notification regarding contracts in excess of $5,000,000
relating to activities in Iraq, require the head of an
executive agency entering into a contract relating to
activities in Iraq to develop a plan for minimizing the costs
to the Federal Government through the use of Iraqi firms,
define the legal status of Coalition Provisional Authority for
Iraq, and establish a $7,000,000,000 Iraq Reconstruction Trust
Fund.
Results: Rejected 25 yeas to 36 nays.
Members Voting Yea Members Voting Nay
Mr. Berry Mr. Aderholt
Mr. Bishop Mr. Bonilla
Mr. Boyd Mr. Cramer
Mr. Clyburn Mr. Crenshaw
Ms. DeLauro Mr. Culberson
Mr. Edwards Mr. Cunningham
Mr. Farr Mr. Dicks
Mr. Fattah Mr. Doolittle
Mr. Hinchey Mrs. Emerson
Mr. Hoyer Mr. Frelinghuysen
Mr. Jackson Mr. Goode
Ms. Kaptur Ms. Granger
Mr. Kennedy Mr. Hobson
Ms. Kilpatrick Mr. Kingston
Mrs. Lowey Mr. Kirk
Mr. Moran Mr. Knollenberg
Mr. Obey Mr. Kolbe
Mr. Olver Mr. LaHood
Mr. Pastor Mr. Latham
Mr. Price Mr. Lewis
Mr. Rothman Mr. Mollohan
Ms. Roybal-Allard Mr. Murtha
Mr. Sabo Mr. Nethercutt
Mr. Serrano Mrs. Northup
Mr. Visclosky Mr. Peterson
Mr. Regula
Mr. Rogers
Mr. Sherwood
Mr. Simpson
Mr. Tiahrt
Mr. Walsh
Mr. Wamp
Dr. Weldon
Mr. Wicker
Mr. Wolf
Mr. Young
Full Committee Votes

ROLLCALL NO. 2

Date: October 9, 2003.
Measure: Emergency Supplemental for Defense and for the
Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan Appropriations Bill, FY
2004.
Motion by: Mr. Obey.
Description of motion: To appropriate $14,000,000,000 to
the Department of Defense for Aircraft Procurement, Air Force.
Results: Rejected 28 yeas to 33 nays.
Members Voting Yea Members Voting Nay
Mr. Berry Mr. Bonilla
Mr. Bishop Mr. Crenshaw
Mr. Boyd Mr. Culberson
Mr. Clyburn Mr. Cunningham
Mr. Cramer Mr. Doolittle
Ms. DeLauro Mrs. Emerson
Mr. Dicks Mr. Frelinghuysen
Mr. Edwards Mr. Goode
Mr. Farr Ms. Granger
Mr. Fattah Mr. Hobson
Mr. Hinchey Mr. Istook
Mr. Hoyer Mr. Kingston
Mr. Jackson Mr. Kirk
Ms. Kaptur Mr. Knollenberg
Mr. Kennedy Mr. Kolbe
Ms. Kilpatrick Mr. LaHood
Mrs. Lowey Mr. Latham
Mr. Mollohan Mr. Lewis
Mr. Moran Mr. Murtha
Mr. Obey Mr. Nethercutt
Mr. Olver Mrs. Northup
Mr. Pastor Mr. Peterson
Mr. Price Mr. Regula
Mr. Rothman Mr. Sherwood
Ms. Roybal-Allard Mr. Simpson
Mr. Sabo Mr. Sweeney
Mr. Serrano Mr. Tiahrt
Mr. Visclosky Mr. Walsh
Mr. Wamp
Dr. Weldon
Mr. Wicker
Mr. Wolf
Mr. Young
Full Committee Votes

ROLLCALL NO. 3

Date: October 9, 2003.
Measure: Emergency Supplemental for Defense and for the
Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan Appropriations Bill, FY
2004.
Motion by: Mr. Hinchey.
Description of motion: To modify section 2203(a)(3) of the
bill regarding applicability of public disclosure requirements
for noncompetitive contracting for the reconstruction of
infrastructure in Iraq.
Results: Rejected 29 yeas to 33 nays.
Member Voting Yea Members Voting Nay
Mr. Berry Mr. Aderholt
Mr. Bishop Mr. Bonilla
Mr. Boyd Mr. Crenshaw
Mr. Clyburn Mr. Culberson
Mr. Cramer Mr. Cunningham
Ms. DeLauro Mr. Doolittle
Mr. Dicks Ms. Emerson
Mr. Edwards Mr. Frelinghuysen
Mr. Farr Mr. Goode
Mr. Fattah Ms. Granger
Mr. Hinchey Mr. Hobson
Mr. Hoyer Mr. Istook
Mr. Jackson Mr. Kingston
Ms. Kaptur Mr. Kirk
Mr. Kennedy Mr. Knollenberg
Ms. Kilpatrick Mr. Kolbe
Mrs. Lowey Mr. LaHood
Mr. Mollohan Mr. Latham
Mr. Moran Mr. Lewis
Mr. Murtha Mr. Nethercutt
Mr. Obey Mrs. Northup
Mr. Olver Mr. Peterson
Mr. Pastor Mr. Regula
Mr. Price Mr. Sherwood
Mr. Rothman Mr. Simpson
Ms. Roybal-Allard Mr. Sweeney
Mr. Sabo Mr. Tiahrt
Mr. Serrano Mr. Walsh
Mr. Visclosky Mr. Wamp
Dr. Weldon
Mr. Wicker
Mr. Wolf
Mr. Young

Full Committee Votes

ROLLCALL NO. 4

Date: October 9, 2003.
Measure: Emergency Supplemental for Defense and for the
Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan Appropriations Bill, FY
2004.
Motion by: Mr. Regula.
Description of motion: To report the bill, to authorize the
chairman to seek a rule on such terms and conditions as he may
deem appropriate, and to authorize the Chairman to move that
the House disagree to the amendments of the Senate and agree to
the conference requested by the Senate on the bill.
Results: Adopted 47 yeas to 14 nays.
Members Voting Yea Members Voting Nay
Mr. Aderholt Mr. Berry
Mr. Bishop Mr. Clyburn
Mr. Bonilla Ms. DeLauro
Mr. Boyd Mr. Farr
Mr. Cramer Mr. Fattah
Mr. Crenshaw Mr. Hinchey
Mr. Culberson Mr. Jackson
Mr. Cunningham Ms. Kaptur
Mr. Dicks Ms. Kilpatrick
Mr. Doolittle Mr. Moran
Mr. Edwards Mr. Obey
Mrs. Emerson Mr. Olver
Mr. Frelinghuysen Mr. Pastor
Mr. Goode Mr. Serrano
Ms. Granger
Mr. Hobson
Mr. Hoyer
Mr. Istook
Mr. Kennedy
Mr. Kingston
Mr. Kirk
Mr. Knollenberg
Mr. Kolbe
Mr. LaHood
Mr. Latham
Mr. Lewis
Mrs. Lowey
Mr. Mollohan
Mr. Murtha
Mr. Nethercutt
Mrs. Northup
Mr. Peterson
Mr. Price
Mr. Regula
Mr. Rothman
Ms. Roybal-Allard
Mr. Sabo
Mr. Sherwood
Mr. Simpson
Mr. Sweeney
Mr. Tiahrt
Mr. Visclosky
Mr. Wamp
Dr. Weldon
Mr. Wicker
Mr. Wolf
Mr. Young

DISSENTING VIEWS OF DAVID OBEY

The $86.9 billion Supplemental Appropriation reported by
the Committee is a marked improvement over the package
requested by the President. It provides the Pentagon with no
flexibility in terms of procuring two types of equipment that
are of critical importance to the ability of our troops to
accomplish their mission and return home safely. The first is
Kevlar flak jacket inserts otherwise known as body armor. The
second is portable jammers to block the radio signals used to
detonate the remote controlled bombs that have been repeatedly
used to kill and wound our troops. For reasons that the
committee has yet to determine, the current civilian leaders in
the Pentagon failed to provide adequate supplies of these two
types of equipment prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and
further failed to purchase such equipment even after it became
apparent in June that the shortages were costing American
lives.
The Committee bill also eliminates some of the more
egregious items in the administration's proposed Iraq
``reconstruction'' package such as the two $50,000 a bed
prisons, the trash trucks and the business training courses
that appeared to cost more per pupil than the M.B.A. program at
Harvard.
But there are several questions that Members of Congress
should ask themselves before they vote to send this package to
the President for final approval.
1. Does it do as much as it should to support our troops
and allow them to return home safely?
2. Does it do as much as it should to restore the readiness
of the U.S. military to respond to future crises in the Middle
East or other parts of the world?
3. Does it provide Iraq with the right kind of assistance
so that Iraqis can assume control of their own government,
economy and security as quickly as possible allowing our troops
to leave the country at the earliest possible date?
4. Does the package provide for reasonable levels of
assistance that not only meet the most important needs of the
people of Iraq but also are balanced in terms of our own budget
situation and in terms of what we are able to do with respect
to the pressing needs of communities and people here at home?
5. Does the package place a fair share of the burden for
rebuilding Iraq on the shoulders of the American taxpayers?
6. Should the package be financed by adding its cost to the
public debt as both the administration and the Committee are
proposing?
7. Has the administration finally settled on an underlying
policy that offers a reasonable chance for the sacrifices being
demanded of our troops, their families and taxpayer to be met
with success?
If any Member feels the answer to all of the above
questions is yes, then he or she should vote in favor of the
package that has been reported by Committee. If on the other
hand he or she feels that the answer to one or more of these
questions is no, there is an obligation to work toward
improving the package and oppose its moving forward until the
improvements are in place. There is no question about the
desire and determination of members of both parties in this
Congress to move quickly toward adoption of a package that
provides the funds needed by our military and supports Iraqi
reconstruction at a level that will allow our troops to return
home at the earliest possible date. But if Members fear
challenging critically flawed provisions, they will fail in
their responsibilities to both the troops and the taxpayer.
These are my thoughts on each of the above questions.
1. With respect to the first question, the Committee
proposal fails to do a number of extremely important things
needed to support and protect our troops.

Clean Water

Probably the most important of these is the failure to
provide needed water purification equipment to supply U.S.
troops with clean water. The administration requested this
equipment for only one of the nine major U.S. bases in Iraq.
Since most of Iraq is without adequate sewage treatment
facilities, most of the water available throughout the country
needs a significant level of purification before it is potable.
The President's request contains only $15 million for such
purposes leaving approximately 80% of the troops in Iraq
without clean water.
This is both inhumane and stupid. Soldiers suffering from
dysentery cannot perform their duties. Reports indicate
numerous instances where entire units have been stricken with
dysentery. There is nothing that the Congress can do to
alleviate many of the dangerous and uncomfortable conditions
with which our troops must contend on a daily basis in Iraq. It
would be unforgivable if we failed to address one that could be
easily and inexpensively resolved.

Pre Department Health and Dental Screening

A second issue that should be addressed is the cost to
reservists being activated for duty in Iraq of pre deployment
medical and dental screening. Currently such screening is the
financial responsibility of the individual reservists. Not only
should the cost of such screening be paid by the Pentagon on
the basis of simple fairness, it also should be covered for
purposes of ensuring the success of the mission. The heavy use
of Reserve and National Guard troops in Iraq means that many
older soldiers are being placed in a very difficult and
physically demanding environment. Sending individuals into that
environment without the physical capacity to cope with such
conditions puts both the soldier and the mission at risk.
It strains the expensive and scarce resources we have for
providing medical assistance in the field and forces medical
evacuation of troops unable to meet the difficult challenges
posed by extreme heat, dust, poor water, lack of sleep and high
levels of stress.

Extending Post Deployment Health Coverage to Six Months

An additional issue with respect to Reserve and Guard units
is the length of health care coverage following their
deployments. Currently, that coverage lasts for only 60 days.
The harsh and unusual conditions faced by the troops in Iraq
make it highly probable that many of the important side effects
of their deployment will not appear in the first two months
following their deployment. Coverage should be extended to a
full six months.

Providing Prepaid Phone Cards

Most members are aware that many of the soldiers stationed
in Iraq have had to pay exorbitant telephone bills when they
have had the rare opportunity to phone home. This supplemental
can and should insure that there are adequate numbers of
prepaid phone cards to allow U.S. soldiers to call home when
they have the opportunity. The Committee bill does not do that.

Covering R&R Transportation Costs

While we are finally able to allow some troops to return
home for a short period of rest and relaxation during their
twelve month deployment, we are not covering the cost of the
travel beyond the point of their arrival into the United
States. That too is something that this package could and
should cover but does not.
2. The Committee bill fails to take common sense steps to
repair damaged equipment and leaves our nation's military at an
unacceptably low state of readiness. The Services estimate that
the invasion and occupation of Iraq has already placed a very
heavy toll on the equipment that was deployed for those
missions. The total cost of reconditioning all of the equipment
used so far in Iraq exceeds $20 billion.
While the massive size of the reconditioning efforts
required makes it impossible to restore all or even most of the
equipment used in Iraq in the current fiscal year, it is
remarkable that the administration has requested far less than
could be used for reconditioning between now and October 1,
2004. Unfortunately, the Committee also failed to provide the
funds needed to get reconditioning efforts up to full speed.
The result of that specific budget decision is that
thousands of pieces of valuable equipment such as M1 tanks and
Bradley fighting vehicles, equipment that might be needed
sooner rather than later, will sit in unusable condition
throughout this year and well into the next. The capacity of
our military to sustain itself in theperformance of this
mission will be placed at risk and our ability to respond to crises
outside of Iraq will be placed in serious jeopardy.
3. While the Committee wisely pared back some of the more
outlandish projects proposed by the Coalition Provisional
Authority, the bill it is sending to the House does little to
alter the underlying approach to reconstruction envisaged by
the CPA. That approach relies on huge contracts with large
multinational corporations to provide high tech and capital-
intensive construction, training and services to Iraq requiring
the importation of heavy equipment, highly paid consultants and
the payment of corporate overhead and profits.
The consequence of this approach is that the American
taxpayer will pay more than he or she should; the amount of
construction or reconstruction that can be preformed within
available funds will be significantly less than might otherwise
be accomplished; the development of Iraqi businesses and
institutions to deal with such problems will be negligible and
the number of Iraqis who will be employed will be far less than
could be productively used if less capital-intensive and lower
tech approaches were followed. In short, we will be paying more
for fewer results and particularly fewer results with respect
to employment and other economic changes necessary to bring
about greater political stability.
Perhaps the best example of how this approach is bilking
the taxpayer while inhibiting reconstruction is a recent
attempt to restore a concrete factory in Northern Iraq. After
U.S. engineers had estimated that it would cost $15 million to
bring the factory up to Western standards, Major General David
Patraeus, Commander of the 101st Airborne Division gave the
contract to local Iraqis who were able to get the cement plant
running for just $80,000. In the process, General Patraeus
stimulated the growth of Iraqi businesses and the ability of
the country to cope with its own problems through finding its
own solutions.
4. Despite the $1.7 billion cut from the Administration's
request, the Committee provides $18.6 billion for Iraq
reconstruction and thereby effectively more than doubles U.S.
foreign aid. The package is not balanced either in terms of
what we spend in other troubled portions of the world or what
we are spending to solve problems here at home.
The amount of money that the administration proposes to
spend in the coming year for reconstruction of Iraq is so
massive that it is difficult to place it in perspective.
While some in the administration have evoked the Marshall
Plan as a precedent, the request would have us spend ten times
as much on a per person basis in Iraq in the coming year as we
spent per year in Europe after World War II even after
adjusting for inflation.
The proposal would have us provide more than twice as much
assistance to Iraq, a country with a per capita income nearly
four times that of the world's poorestnations, than we provide
to all the rest of the world. This is in spite of the fact that if all
of Iraq's 23.5 million people were desperately poor they would still
constitute less than 1% of such persons on a global basis.
But the lack of proportionality with the Iraq request is
also true with respect to the amounts that would be provided
for infrastructure and training in Iraq compared to similar
types of investments that the administration is unwilling to
make here at home. The $3.7 billion requested for sewer and
water projects in Iraq for instance compares to only slightly
more than that amount in the federal budget for all of the
communities and jurisdictions in the United States, a country
with about 12 times the population.
5. The Committee bill forces the U.S. taxpayer to cover
costs for Iraq through direct grants even though Iraq has more
than $7 trillion in proven and probable oil reserves and is in
a strong position to repay the sums needed for its own
reconstruction. The bill does nothing to internationalize the
burden and encourage other nations to make a contribution.
All of the $18.6 billion in assistance provided Iraq is
provided as a direct grant with no obligation to repay. While
many approaches to providing loans to Iraq are complicated by
the estimated $100 billion to $200 billion in outstanding debts
that Iraq may owe to foreign creditors, it is possible for the
World Bank to lend money to Iraq for reconstruction in the
context of a debt restructuring agreement. By virtue of that
agreement, the World Bank would have first claim on Iraqi oil
earnings.
Current creditors to Iraq would have a stake in such an
agreement because the World Bank would provide the resources
needed to generate the oil revenues necessary for the repayment
of long-term debt. The unilateral financing of Iraqi
reconstruction not only places much of the burden for Iraq's
reconstruction on U.S. taxpayers rather than Iraqis, but also
provides a disincentive to Iraq creditors to give the World
Bank or other international lending institutions the
preeminence in debt restructuring that would be necessary to
generate new lending.
An additional advantage of channeling reconstruction aid
through international lending institutions is that it increases
the scrutiny over the funding of specific projects and helps to
insulate the process from the prospect of cronyism that may
develop when all contracts are controlled by one government
dominated by one political party.
6. All of the spending that will result from this $86.9
billion appropriation will be added to the Public Debt. Our
children and grandchildren will have to pay that interest every
year until they find the funds to pay off those loans.
Based on projections by the Congressional Budget Office,
interest payments on U.S. treasuries over the next several
years are likely to average about 5%. That means that on a
permanent basis we will be spending over $4 billion a year just
to cover the interest payments that this supplemental will
require us and future generations to make. To put that in
perspective, it is more than we currently spend each year for
research on Alzheimer's disease, autism, breast cancer, ovarian
cancer, prostate cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Lou
Gerhig's disease, multiple sclerosis and all forms of kidney
disease combined.
We could quite easily prevent this huge cost from being
passed on to the next generation by simply returning the top
income tax bracket to the level it was when George W. Bush was
inaugurated. High income Americans would still get tax breaks
as large or larger than those provided to any other income
group, but they would not get the mega breaks promised in the
tax measures signed into law the last several years. In total,
this proposal would generate more than $125 billion in
additional revenue between now and calendar year 2011. That
would not only cover the cost of this supplemental, but also at
least a portion of future Iraq-related military and
reconstruction costs.
Some will undoubtedly argue that high-income persons have a
right to rely on these rate cuts since they have already been
enacted. But it can also be argued that many guard and reserve
members had no reason to expect that their lives and careers
would have been totally disrupted by the lengthy deployments
that our efforts in Iraq now require. It is important to
recognize that this effort is imposing consequences beyond what
was initially expected and that people in all income groups
should share those consequences.
7. Even if one concludes that this supplemental adequately
supports our troops; does all that is necessary to recondition
equipment necessary for military readiness; provides the right
reconstruction assistance in the right manner; is balanced and
proportionate in the assistance it provides to Iraq relative to
spending here at home and in other needy countries; does not
place too much burden on American taxpayers and that the
package should be financed by adding to the public debt, there
is one additional consideration that thoughtful legislators
should weigh before they commit themselves to support this
package. The Administration is still incapable or unwilling to
articulate a coherent and workable underlying strategy to
accomplish our mission and bring our troops home. Since the
power of the purse remains the only effective means that the
Congress has to ensure for the American people that such a
strategy exists and that it has a reasonable chance for
success, support for these funds prior to evidence of such a
strategy would be an abdication of responsibility.
During each of the four hearings held before the
Appropriations subcommittees before reporting this $87 billion
package, administration witnesses repeatedly stated that they
could not comment on a time frame for a transition of decision
making authorities to Iraqi leaders, that they had no idea how
many troops would be required beyond next September, that they
could not guess as to whatcontributions in terms of military
assistance or cash would be forth coming from other nations, that they
had no idea how much additional Iraqi reconstruction money would be
requested for fiscal year 2005 or subsequent years, or how the Iraqi
deployment might affect other long term priorities within the defense
budget.
It is clear that if the Congress had more energetically
exercised its Constitutional responsibilities prior to the
invasion of Iraq it could have forced the administration to
make more thoughtful and sober assessments of the costs as well
as the benefits of the proposed policy and could have brought
into the open the fact that there was essentially no realistic
planning for the post invasion phase of the deployment. If the
Congress allows the current package to move forward without
more answers than it has now, it is giving up the only
mechanism the American people have for determining whether the
current planning is superior to that which brought us to the
place we now find ourselves and whether or not more realistic
plans should be formulated before additional assistance is
taken from the Treasury.

OUTLINE OF THE OBEY SUBSTITUTE

A substitute to the Committee package was offered during
the markup. The substitute would have done the following:
1. Reduced total reconstruction grant funds by $4.6 billion
and added $4.6 billion for a series of military needs:
$600 million for various quality of life measures
for our troops including water purification; pre-deployment
health and dental screening; extension of guard and reserve
health benefits from 60 days to 6 months after deployment;
prepaid phone cards; R&R transportation costs and a number of
other items.
$3 billion for reconditioning of equipment damaged
in Iraq. This is on top of the $4 billion already in the bill
for equipment reconditioning. It is the full amount requested
by the services and the maximum reconditioning we could
accomplish over the next twelve months.
$1 billion to lift the 480,000 cap on Army
personnel and permit the Army to recruit 20,000 troops or
approximately one additional division to reduce the strain that
currently exists on both the regular army and reserve and guard
units.
The $4.6 billion reduction in reconstruction could be
accomplished by reducing reliance on large multinational
corporate contractors and encouraging the use of local labor
and be deferring funds for a portion of the large scale
projects where no construction plan currently exists and the
ability of the CPA to obligate funds prior to the end of the
currently fiscal year is highly doubtful.
2. Divide the remaining $14 billion in reconstruction funds
into two parts. Seven billion dollars would be provided to the
CPA for high priority items contained in the request. The other
$7 billion would be transferred to a Trust Fund at the World
Bank. World Bank access to those funds would be conditioned on
contributions from other nations of at least $3.5 billion. The
resulting $10.5 billion fund would be used as security for the
sale of an additional $42 billion in World Bank bonds. These
bonds would be used for Iraq reconstruction. A recent United
Nations, World Bank assessment of Iraqi infrastructure,
education, health, private sector and security needs identified
$54 billion in requirements over the next three years. The
proposed World Bank trust fund could meet the vast majority of
those needs without further contributions from the United
States.
3. Finally, the proposed substitute was fully paid for by
returning the tax rate for individuals in the top federal
income tax bracket (generally people with incomes in excess of
$350,000) to the 39.6% level that existed in January 2001.
These individuals would continue to benefit from the rate
reductions on income at lower levels and would in fact still
receive tax breaks as large or larger than taxpayers at any
other income level.
Dave Obey.

ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF CONGRESSMAN JOHN P. MURTHA

The architects of the Iraq war badly miscalculated the
security, economic, and political challenges the United States
would face following the end of major conflict. These
miscalculations have resulted in a heavy price being paid by
our troops, their families, and the American taxpayer. Let me
give you some examples:
I've visited hundreds of our troops in several
military hospitals and talked to the families of those who died
in Iraq. For example, recently I visited a young Marine at
Walter Reed Army Hospital. He had lost his eye, left hand, and
two fingers from his right hand in an explosion in Iraq as he
was disarming unexploded bomblets. His left leg ultimately
required amputation at the kneecap. Every day we see our
casualties mount and our financial costs grow. The price that
young Marine paid and we as a Nation are paying is indeed a
heavy price, yet the architects of this deployment have paid no
price.
During a recent trip to Iraq, I learned of severe
shortages in critical equipment. These included a shortage of
over 44,000 sets of body armor with life-saving Kevlar inserts,
radio frequency jammers that prevent the remote detonation of
bombs, and Kevlar blankets for HMMWVs that provide additional
protection against injury by mine fragments. Our troops also
reported that they were in desperate need of up-armored HMMWVs.
And one-third of the Bradley armored personnel carriers
possessed by the Army division patrolling the ``Sunni
Triangle'' were deadlined because there were no spare tracks.
There have been serious miscalculations in the
post-war planning with regard to sustaining the troops. Forty-
eight percent of our combat Army troops are currently deployed.
One-quarter of our Guard and Reserves are currently activated
and have been ordered to extend their deployments in Iraq from
six months to one year. Yet, following Operation Desert Storm,
our allies contributed $51 billion of the total $60 billion
price tag for that war. The architects of the current
deployment estimated the United States would receive some $55
billion in contributions. To date we've received only about
$1.5 billion; the shortfall leaves virtually the entire cost to
the United States.
The degree of resistance to the current occupation
also surprised the architects. They said we would be greeted
with ``open arms''. They said we would be able to draw down the
forces quickly once conflict ended. They did not foresee the
continuing need for the 130,000 troops that we have stationed
in Iraq today and did not anticipate that mines and rocket-
propelled grenade attacks would require Bradley fighting
vehicles to escort every convoy running from Kuwait to Iraq.
Secretary Rumsfeld recently said, ``I don't think
people really fully understood how devastating that regime was
to the infrastructure of that country, how fragile the electric
system is, how poorly the water is being managed.'' The
architects of the post-war plan should have placed greater
emphasis on obtaining such vital information. They should have
known.
Four months now from the `official' end of major
conflict, there is about 60 percent unemployment in Iraq,
compared to 40 percent prior to the war. Areas of Iraq have
one-third less electricity, and the oil production is only one-
quarter of what it was prior to the war. Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the war,
completely miscalculated the degree to which oil revenues would
finance the reconstruction of Iraq when he told Congress in
March 2003, ``We are dealing with a country that can really
finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.''
The architects should have known.
President George H.W. Bush said in A World Transformed,
``Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into the
occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not
changing objectives in midstream, engaging in mission creep,
and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs
* * * Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had not been
able to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We
would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule
Iraq.''
General John Abizaid, Commander of CENTCOM, told me during
one of my visits to the Middle East prior to the war,
``Indications are that the military problem will not be as
tough as the aftermath.''
Former Secretary of the Army Thomas White was right on the
mark when he said, ``Clearly the view that the war to liberate
Iraq would instantly produce a pro-United States citizenry,
ready for economic and political rebirth, ignored the harsh
realities on the ground.''
If we hope to receive meaningful international support, if
we hope to quickly energize Iraq, and if we hope to
``Iraqatize'' the civil and private sectors there, the
Administration must hold accountable the people who were
responsible for these gross miscalculations. In the meantime,
the United States, the Iraqi people, and the international
community must work to undue the damage done by the architects'
miscalculations and quickly stabilize Iraq. Otherwise, we could
face a long and more costly guerrilla war--a heavy price for
our soldiers and their families to pay.
John P. Murtha.