[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 29, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2540]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 1194. Mr. RISCH (for himself and Mr. Rubio) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1179 proposed by Mr. Corker 
(for himself and Mr. Cardin) to the amendment SA 1140 proposed by Mr. 
Corker (for himself and Mr. Cardin) 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:

       On page 1, line 3, of the amendment, insert after ``, and 
     annexes'' the following: ``, and a certification that the 
     Government of Iran has released to the United States--
       (i) Saeed Abedini of Idaho, who has been detained in Iran 
     on charges related to his religious beliefs since September 
     2012;
       (ii) Amir Hekmati of Michigan, who has been imprisoned in 
     Iran on false espionage charges since August 2011;
       (iii) Jason Rezaian of California, who, as an Iranian 
     government credentialed reporter for the Washington Post, has 
     been unjustly held in Iran on vague charges since July 2014; 
     and
       (iv) Robert Levinson of Florida, who was abducted on Kish 
     Island in March 2007;
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  SA 1195. Ms. AYOTTE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her 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:

       On page 28, strike line 1 and insert the following:
       ``(h) Sense of Congress on Intercontinental Ballistic 
     Missile Program.--
       ``(1) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       ``(A) The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to advance its 
     intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program.
       ``(B) On February 2, 2015, the Islamic Republic of Iran 
     successfully launched its Safir long-range missile system to 
     send a satellite into orbit.
       ``(C) In 2013, the National Air and Space Intelligence 
     Center concluded that Iran could use space launch technology 
     as a `test bed' for ICBM technology development, stating, 
     `Iran could develop and test an ICBM capable of reaching the 
     United States by 2015. Since 2008, Iran has conducted 
     multiple successful launches of the two-stage Safir space 
     launch vehicle (SLV) and has also revealed the larger two-
     stage Simorgh SLV, which could serve as a test bed for 
     developing ICBM technologies.'.
       ``(D) On January 29, 2014, the Director of National 
     Intelligence, James Clapper, testified, `We judge that Iran 
     would choose a ballistic missile as its preferred method of 
     delivering nuclear weapons. . .'.
       ``(E) Iran continues to violate United Nations Security 
     Council resolution 1929 (2010) by developing ICBM 
     capabilities that could deliver a nuclear weapon.
       ``(2) Sense of congress.--Congress--
       ``(A) remains concerned about the threat posed by Iran's 
     ballistic missile development program to the security of the 
     United States and its allies; and
       ``(B) calls on the President to urge the Government of Iran 
     to comply with United Nations Security Council resolution 
     1929 regarding their intercontinental ballistic missile 
     program.
       ``(i) Definitions.--In this section:

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