War profiteering must be stopped, and those who have engaged in it need to answer for their actions.
Stop war profiteering and hold those who engaged in it accountable.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Congress.gov shows H.R.400 status as Passed House, with latest action in the Senate calendar on October 17, 2007, not enacted.
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The bill would prohibit overseas U.S. mission contract profiteering and fraud, with fines, prison terms, forfeiture, and extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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The House passed S.386, Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, 367-59; Pingree (ME), Democratic, voted Yea.
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Public Law 111-21 strengthened fraud enforcement, expanded major fraud against government provisions, funded investigations, and clarified False Claims Act liability.
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H.R.4650 was introduced and referred to House committees; Congress.gov lists its status as Introduced, with no enactment.
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The bill would shift Iraq/Afghanistan diplomatic security to government personnel and allow congressional examination of contractors' accounting practices.
Assessments
Pingree did not fully deliver the specific promise to stop war profiteering or enact war-profiteering-specific criminal accountability. The clearest matching measures, including the War Profiteering Prevention Act and the later Stop Outsourcing Security Act, did not become law. However, during her first House term she voted for the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, which became law and strengthened federal fraud enforcement and False Claims Act liability. That materially advanced broader accountability for government fraud, but it was not specifically focused on war profiteering, so the promise merits partial same-term credit rather than full delivery.