[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3939-S3940]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1891. 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, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, 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 Barack Obama and administration officials 
     have routinely spoken about taking a hard line when dealing 
     with Iran on the subject of their nuclear program and related 
     sanctions.
       (2) 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.''
       (3) 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 declared, ``This deal was not based on trust. 
     It's based on unprecedented verification.''
       (4) On April 2, 2015, in an interview with Andrea Mitchell 
     of NBC, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Secretary of State John 
     Kerry when asked, ``Mr. Secretary, President Obama said if 
     Iran cheats, we will know it. How can you be so sure? They've 
     cheated before''; stated, ``Well, we have extraordinary, 
     extensive verification measures that have not been applied 
     before. We will have state-of-the-art television cameras 
     within centrifuge production facilities. We will have cradle-
     to-grave tracking of uranium--uranium from the mine to the 
     mill to the yellowcake to gas to the centrifuge to out and 
     where it goes in spent fuel. So we have--that is an amazing 
     amount--and we have a new dispute process which will allow us 
     to be able to finalize access where we need it.''
       (5) April 8, 2015, on the ``PBS NewsHour,'' Secretary Kerry 
     said that in any final agreement, Iran would also have to 
     resolve outstanding questions with the International Atomic 
     Energy Agency over suspected military dimensions of the 
     nuclear program. ``It will be part of a final agreement,'' he 
     said. ``It has to be.''
       (6) Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has 
     routinely spoken out openly against the United States and any 
     sanctions against Iran's nuclear program.

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       (7) On April 9, 2015, the Wall Street Journal, in response 
     to the nuclear deal, reported, ``The 75-year-old cleric also 
     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.''
       (8) 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 ``regarding 
     inspections, we have said that we will not let foreigners 
     inspect any military center''.
       (9) The stated positions of the United States requiring 
     ``robust and intrusive'' inspections of Iran's nuclear sites 
     and any other sites where nuclear activities may be carried 
     out or may have been conducted previously is essential to any 
     effective agreement that would provide relief from sanctions.
       (10) The public statements of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and 
     other top Iranian leaders suggest they may refuse to grant 
     such inspections as are required to ensure the nuclear 
     agreement is complied with.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the Government of Iran's stated opposition to 
     inspections represents decisive questions and suggest a 
     verifiable agreement may be unachievable; and
       (2) no nuclear agreement with Iran that does not include 
     robust inspections and proper verification of all Iran's 
     nuclear programs and related military installations and 
     access to nuclear supporting scientists should be accepted.
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