[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3372]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2541. Mr. DONNELLY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. 
McCain) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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. 1226. REVIEW OF REINSTATEMENT OF UNITED STATES SANCTIONS 
                   IMPOSED WITH RESPECT TO IRAN AND WAIVED 
                   PURSUANT TO JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION.

       (a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United 
     States shall conduct a review of the reinstatement by the 
     United States of sanctions imposed with respect to Iran that 
     were waived pursuant to the terms of the Joint Comprehensive 
     Plan of Action.
       (b) Elements.--The review required by subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:
       (1) A description and evaluation of the United States 
     interagency processes involved in planning for and 
     implementing the reinstatement of the sanctions described in 
     subsection (a), from 2017 through 2019.
       (2) An analysis of the effect of personnel and resource 
     shortfalls at the Department of the Treasury and the 
     Department of State on the implementation of the 
     reinstatement of such sanctions.
       (3) An analysis of the anticipated compliance and 
     enforcement challenges resulting from unilaterally 
     reinstating sanctions with respect to Iran.
       (c) Interim Briefing.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 
     shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees an 
     interim briefing on the review required by subsection (a).
       (d) Final Report.--Not later than 270 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 
     submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
     that includes the results of the review required by 
     subsection (a).
       (e) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
     Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the 
     Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (2) Joint comprehensive plan of action.--The term ``Joint 
     Comprehensive Plan of Action'' means the Joint Comprehensive 
     Plan of Action signed at Vienna on July 14, 2015, by Iran and 
     by France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the People's 
     Republic of China, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 
     and all implementing materials and agreements related to the 
     Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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