[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 60 (Thursday, April 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2407-S2408]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1133. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 1191, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account 
as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in 
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:


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       Beginning on page 30, strike line 15 and all that follows 
     through page 34, line 11, and insert the following: ``any 
     such sanctions or facilitate the release of funds or assets 
     to Iran pursuant to an agreement described in subsection (a).
       ``(4) Limitation on actions during presidential 
     consideration of a joint resolution of disapproval.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as 
     provided in paragraph (6), if a joint resolution of 
     disapproval described in subsection (c)(2)(B) passes the 
     Congress, the President may not waive, suspend, reduce, 
     provide relief from, or otherwise limit the application of 
     statutory sanctions with respect to Iran under any provision 
     of law or refrain from applying any such sanctions or 
     facilitate the release of funds or assets to Iran pursuant to 
     an agreement described in subsection (a) for a period of 12 
     calendar days following the date of passage of the joint 
     resolution of disapproval.
       ``(5) Limitation on actions during congressional 
     reconsideration of a joint resolution of disapproval.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as 
     provided in paragraph (6), if a joint resolution of 
     disapproval described in subsection (c)(2)(B) passes the 
     Congress, and the President vetoes such joint resolution, the 
     President may not waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief 
     from, or otherwise limit the application of statutory 
     sanctions with respect to Iran under any provision of law or 
     refrain from applying any such sanctions or facilitate the 
     release of funds or assets to Iran pursuant to an agreement 
     described in subsection (a) for a period of 10 calendar days 
     following the date of the President's veto.
       ``(6) Exception.--The prohibitions under paragraphs (3) 
     through (5) do not apply to any new deferral, waiver, or 
     other suspension of statutory sanctions pursuant to the Joint 
     Plan of Action if that deferral, waiver, or other suspension 
     is made--
       ``(A) consistent with the law in effect on the date of the 
     enactment of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015; 
     and
       ``(B) not later than 45 calendar days before the 
     transmission by the President of an agreement, assessment 
     report, and certification under subsection (a).
       ``(c) Effect of Congressional Action With Respect to 
     Nuclear Agreements With Iran.--
       ``(1) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of Congress 
     that--
       ``(A) the sanctions regime imposed on Iran by Congress is 
     primarily responsible for bringing Iran to the table to 
     negotiate on its nuclear program;
       ``(B) these negotiations are a critically important matter 
     of national security and foreign policy for the United States 
     and its closest allies;
       ``(C) this section does not require a vote by Congress for 
     the agreement to commence;
       ``(D) this section provides for congressional review, 
     including, as appropriate, for approval, disapproval, or no 
     action on statutory sanctions relief under an agreement; and
       ``(E) even though the agreement may commence, because the 
     sanctions regime was imposed by Congress and only Congress 
     can permanently modify or eliminate that regime, it is 
     critically important that Congress have the opportunity, in 
     an orderly and deliberative manner, to consider and, as 
     appropriate, take action affecting the statutory sanctions 
     regime imposed by Congress.
       ``(2) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, action involving any measure of statutory sanctions 
     relief by the United States pursuant to an agreement subject 
     to subsection (a) or the Joint Plan of Action--
       ``(A) may be taken, consistent with existing statutory 
     requirements for such action, if, during the period for 
     review provided in subsection (b), the Congress adopts, and 
     there is enacted, a joint resolution stating in substance 
     that the Congress does favor the agreement;
       ``(B) may not be taken if, during the period for review 
     provided in subsection (b), the Congress adopts, and there is 
     enacted, a joint resolution stating in substance that the 
     Congress does not favor the agreement; or
       ``(C) may be taken, consistent with existing statutory 
     requirements for such action, if, following the period for 
     review provided in subsection (b), there is not enacted any 
     such joint resolution.
       ``(3) Definition.--For the purposes of this subsection, the 
     phrase ``action involving any measure of statutory sanctions 
     relief by the United States'' shall include waiver, 
     suspension, reduction, or other effort to provide relief 
     from, or otherwise limit the application of statutory 
     sanctions with respect to, Iran or to facilitate the release 
     of funds or assets to Iran under
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