110th Congress / House / 1st session / Vote 624
- Question: On Passage
- Bill: H R 2956
- Vote description: Responsible Redeployment From Iraq Act
- Vote type: Yea-and-Nay (Help)
- Result: Passed, 223-201, with 8 not voting.
- Date/time: July 12, 2007, 6:13 p.m.
- Republican majority opinion: No (Help)
- Democrat majority opinion: Yes (Help)
Key Vote Analysis
This bill would require the president to begin reducing the number of U.S. troops serving in Iraq 120 days after its enactment and would require most troops to be withdrawn by April 1, 2008.
The bill also states that the 2002 congressional authorization for the Iraq war only authorized the president use force to confront an Iraqi government that threatened the United States. The measure says that the new Iraqi government is not a threat and that it "now be responsible for Iraq's future course."
Language in the bill requires the president to submit a "comprehensive strategy" for Iraq to certain congressional committees by January 1, 2008 and requires him to update that strategy again in July, 2008 and every 90 days thereafter.
The bill passed the House on July 12 by a vote of 223 to 201.
President Bush has promised to veto any bill that sets a deadline for troop withdrawal.
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