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handle is hein.crs/crsmthaaatz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS21867 Updated October 10, 2007 CRS Report for Congress U.S. Embassy in Iraq Susan B. Epstein Specialist in Foreign Policy and Trade Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Summary Concerns about the U.S. Embassy in Iraq have surfaced regarding the potential rising cost, delay in opening, quality of construction, and reported assertions of trafficking-like labor practices by First Kuwaiti General Trade and Contracting Company, the primary builder of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. On October 4, 2007, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Representative Tom Lantos, sent questions to Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte, regarding concerns about the embassy construction defects, possible increasing costs, and delays. Construction costs for the U.S. Embassy in Iraq have been met through supplemental appropriations. Embassy operations also have been met primarily through supplemental appropriations, with some embassy operation funding provided by the regular appropriation process. This year, the Bush Administration's FY2008 budget request includes $65 million for base funding for operations in Iraq. In addition, the Administration requested $823.9 million for mission operations in an FY2007 supplemental request and another $1.9 million for mission operations in an FY2008 emergency request. On May 24, 2007, Congress passed a compromise supplemental appropriation (H.R. 2206), which the President signed into law (P.L. 110-28) on May 25. The enacted law included $750 million for State Department operations in Iraq. As recently as September 2007, the Department of State claimed that the $592 million from a previous emergency supplemental appropriation (H.R. 1268/P.L. 109- 13), signed into law on May 11, 2005, was all that was needed for construction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. In addition, administration officials claimed that completion of the embassy was still expected soon. This report will be updated as information becomes available. Background From July 17, 1979, when Saddam Hussein first came to power in Iraq, until just prior to the beginning of Operation Desert Storm in January 1991, the United States had full diplomatic relations with Saddam Hussein's government. On January 12, 1991, four days before Operation Desert Storm, the United States closed its embassy doors in Congressional Research Service w The Library of Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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