U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey gives a press conference, with Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, attended by Baghdad’s Iraqi, pan-Arab and Western media press corps on Wednesday, February 13, 2008. At the end of the conference, Ambassador Crocker congratulated Iraq’s Council of Representatives for passing three important pieces of legislation: The 2008 budget, an amnesty law and a provincial powers law. “A lot of challenges face Iraq and will continue to face us all in support of Iraq. But the work of the Council of Representatives today . . . . deserves the congratulations from all of us,” Crocker said.