(19. September) The first bill expresses a sense of the House of Representatives that it supports the intention of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq to hold a referendum on independence. A successful referendum, according to the congressman’s initiative, would be honored by the United States, which would recognize Kurdistan as “an independent and sovereign country.”

Rohrabacher also introduced legislation to enable Kurdistan to sell its crude oil more freely and to send arms to its regional government, thereby bypassing Baghdad’s bureaucracy.