Mike Levin: “The Senator is correct. On the report section, there is a change from 30 days to 90 days, which I will not spend time…”

“The Senator is correct. On the report section, there is a change from 30 days to 90 days, which I will not spend time on. I think it is a fairly technical change, that there is not a particular difference or problem. After that first report, whether it is 30 days or 90 days--30 days in our version, 90 days in Senator Warner's version--every 3 months thereafter, until all U.S. combat brigades have been redeployed from Iraq, the President shall submit to Congress an unclassified report on U.S. policy and military operations in Iraq. In our version we say: Each report shall include the following: What the Warner version adds is ``to the extent practicable, unclassified information.'' And by the way, it is clear that there is classified information that cannot be in a report, and we don't suggest to the contrary. We just want an unclassified report to the extent you can have an unclassified report on each of the following items: . . . The current military mission and the diplomatic, political, economic, and military measures, if any, that are being or have been undertaken to successfully complete that mission. So far, no difference on that one. Efforts to convince Iraq's main communities to make the compromises necessary for a broad-based and sustainable political settlement. That is what I referred to before.…”