House Resolution on Iraq

Resolved, That the House of Representatives--

(1) honors all those Americans who have taken an active part in the Global War on Terror, whether as first responders protecting the homeland, as servicemembers overseas, as diplomats and intelligence officers, or in other roles;

(2) honors the sacrifices of the United States Armed Forces and of partners in the Coalition, and of the Iraqis and Afghans who fight alongside them, especially those who have fallen or been wounded in the struggle, and honors as well the sacrifices of their families and of others who risk their lives to help defend freedom;

(3) declares that it is not in the national security interest of the United States to set an arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment of United States Armed Forces from Iraq;

(4) declares that the United States is committed to the completion of the mission to create a sovereign, free, secure, and united Iraq;

(5) congratulates Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and the Iraqi people on the courage they have shown by participating, in increasing millions, in the elections of 2005 and on the formation of the first government under Iraq's new constitution;

(6) calls upon the nations of the world to promote global peace and security by standing with the United States and other Coalition partners to support the efforts of the Iraqi and Afghan people to live in freedom; and

(7) declares that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the noble struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.

H RES 861 YEA-AND-NAY 16-Jun-2006 11:17 AM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary

	Yeas	Nays	PRES	NV
Republican	214	3	2	12
Democratic	42	149	3	7
Independent		1
TOTALS	256	153	5	19

---- YEAS 256 ---

Barrow Bean Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Boren Boswell Boucher Cardoza Chandler Cooper Costa Costello Cramer

Cuellar Davis (TN) Edwards Etheridge Gordon Green, Gene Herseth Higgins Holden Kind Larsen (WA) Lipinski Lynch

Marshall Matheson McIntyre Melanchon Moore (KS) Peterson (MN) Ross Salazar Smith (WA) Snyder Spratt Taylor (MS) Thompson (MS)

---- NAYS 153 ---

Duncan

Leach

Paul Sanders

---- ANSWERED “PRESENT” 5 ---

Boyd Jones (NC)

McCotter Miller (NC)

Sherman

---- NOT VOTING 19 ---

Bachus Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Burton (IN) Cannon Carter Cleaver

Dingell Evans Gutierrez Johnson, Sam Kilpatrick (MI) Lewis (CA) Nussle

Reichert Sensenbrenner Sessions Waxman Wilson (NM)