WASHINGTON -- Congress sent President Bush a ban on harsh treatment of foreign terrorism suspects in U.S. custody and directed him to send lawmakers quarterly reports on Iraq as it completed a voluminous bill Wednesday that rebuffed some of his war policies.
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"It puts in law the policy of America on these issues," Sen. John Warner, R-Va., and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said. "It also provides what I regard as a fair set of standards for our men and women in uniform."
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The ban was part of a broader package of provisions that seek to standardize interrogation techniques and heal a U.S. image besmirched by the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq and allegations of prisoner abuse at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The detainee issue was the most controversial provision in a measure that expressed a desire by Congress to increase its oversight of the war in Iraq and the campaign against terrorism.
In another such attempt, the measure includes language directing the president to submit quarterly reports to Congress on U.S. policy and military operations in Iraq.
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