Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) handed out a schedule of proposed floor votes on Iraq-related bills to a standing-room-only meeting in his office Thursday, then rounded up copies so that none could leave the room.

“We can’t have bits and pieces leaking out,” Larson said, according to one attendee.

After the meeting, several members heeded his call for secrecy. Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) told one reporter: “I don’t have anything for you.” Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) said, “I can’t tell you anything.”

Nevertheless, some details emerged. The calendar lays out a plan for a series of Iraq votes through the month of October, possibly more than one a week.

It starts with two fairly non-controversial bills, which would ban “war profiteering” and rein in private contractors in Iraq, to be passed on the fast-track suspension calendar early next week.

Those would be followed by a vote on the withdrawal bill authored by Reps. John Tanner (D-Tenn.) and Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii). The bill calls for President Bush to report regularly on his administration’s plans for withdrawal from Iraq. Tanner said he expects his bill to come up “next week.”

Then would come a bill, yet to be written, ordering the administration to undertake a “diplomatic surge.”

Abercrombie explained how he and Tanner had made progress on the bill.

“People who previously had concerns, I think we’re going to have their approval,” he said.

The bill has sown divisions within the Democratic caucus, however, which again showed up in the meeting.

Abercrombie reportedly told Woolsey that if she didn’t like the measure, she should “vote against the goddamned bill.”

Republicans, on the other hand, seem ready to vote for it. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) indicated Thursday it would have his blessing.

“I would expect that, if a bill on the floor looks like the bill that came out of the committee, I would expect all of us to be for it,” Boehner told reporters.

Larson stressed to the group that he is not planning one big bill for a vote on Iraq. He also indicated that he was not speaking for leadership, but collecting recommendations to bring to Pelosi and other leaders.

Attendees at the meeting, in the order they arrived, were Woolsey, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), Tauscher, Rep. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.), Larson, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), Tanner, Waters and Rep. David Price (D-N.C.).

One aide dubbed the series of war votes for the coming month “Iraq-tober.” But the aide also noted that one might ask what happened to “Iraq-tember” and “Iraq-July.”

The “war profiteering” and contracting measures are considered slam-dunk votes. Woolsey has predicted in the past that Abercrombie-Tanner will pass with Republican votes, but without the Out of Iraq Caucus. The “diplomatic surge” measure is still being written, but is expected to borrow heavily from a bill by Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) that was based on the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group.

The founders of the Out of Iraq Caucus — Lee, Waters and Woolsey — have measures that are also to be considered for Larson’s calendar. But their list was not submitted prior to the meeting.

Thursday morning’s meeting in Larson’s Longworth office represented the first time all three Out of Iraq founders, who have dubbed themselves the “triad,” joined in the discussion of Larson’s ad hoc committee on Iraq strategy. They had complained to Pelosi earlier in the week that they had not been included.

The three have their own differences. Woolsey has consistently stated that Iraq legislation should include specific dates for withdrawal. But Waters and Lee said they would agree to more centrist bills getting floor votes if they could guarantee votes for their own legislation.