[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3840-S3841]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1787. Mr. SESSIONS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to 
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1242. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON IRAN NEGOTIATIONS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) President Obama has routinely spoken about a hard line 
     when dealing with Iran on the subject of their nuclear 
     program and related sanctions.
       (2) March 5, 2012, in remarks after meeting with Benjamin 
     Netanyahu, President Obama stated: ``. . . I reserve all 
     options, and my policy here is not going to be one of 
     containment. My policy is prevention of Iran obtaining 
     nuclear weapons. And as I indicated yesterday in my speech, 
     when I say all options are at the table, I mean it.''
       (3) On September 25, 2012, in a speech to the United 
     Nations General Assembly, President Obama stated: ``Make no 
     mistake: A nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be 
     contained. . .the United States will do what we must to 
     prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.''
       (4) On April 2, 2015, in an address in the Rose Garden, 
     President Obama stated that ``Iran has also agreed to the 
     most robust and intrusive inspections and transparency 
     regime'' and, ``This deal was not based on trust. It's based 
     on unprecedented verification.''
       (5) Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has 
     routinely spoken out openly against the United States and any 
     sanctions against Iran's nuclear program and related 
     sanctions.
       (6) April 9, 2015, in response to the nuclear agreement, 
     Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: ``Iran's government and security 
     forces wouldn't permit outside inspections of the country's 
     military sites, which are officially nonnuclear but where 
     United Nations investigators suspect Tehran conducted tests 
     related to atomic weapons development.''
       (7) On May 20, 2015, in a graduation speech at the Imam 
     Hussein Military University in Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 
     ruled out ``allowing international inspectors to interview 
     Iranian nuclear scientists as part of any potential deal on 
     its nuclear program'', and reiterated that the country 
     ``would not allow the inspection of military sites''.

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       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that no 
     negotiations should be allowed to continue with respect to a 
     nuclear agreement with Iran that does not include robust 
     inspections and proper verification of all Iran's nuclear 
     programs, military installations, and access to scientists 
     and their respective progress.
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