[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 106 (Monday, June 24, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4468-S4469]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 870. Mr. COTTON (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Isakson, Mr. 
Jones, Mr. Cornyn, and Ms. Rosen) submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill S. 
1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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. EXPANSION OF AVAILABILITY OF FINANCIAL ASSETS OF 
                   IRAN TO VICTIMS OF TERRORISM.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) On October 23, 1983, terrorists sponsored by the 
     Government of Iran bombed the United States Marine barracks 
     in Beirut, Lebanon. The terrorists killed 241 servicemen and 
     injured scores more.
       (2) Those servicemen were killed or injured while on a 
     peacekeeping mission.
       (3) Terrorism sponsored by the Government of Iran threatens 
     the national security of the United States.
       (4) The United States has a vital interest in ensuring that 
     members of the Armed Forces killed or injured by such 
     terrorism, and the family members of such members, are able 
     to seek justice.
       (b) Amendments.--Section 502 of the Iran Threat Reduction 
     and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 (22 U.S.C. 8772) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``in the United 
     States'' and inserting ``by or'';
       (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, or an asset that 
     would be blocked if the asset were located in the United 
     States,'' after ``unblocked)''; and
       (C) in the flush text at the end--
       (i) by inserting after ``in aid of execution'' the 
     following: ``, or to an order directing that the asset be 
     brought to the State in which the court is located and 
     subsequently to execution or attachment in aid of 
     execution,''; and
       (ii) by inserting ``, without regard to concerns relating 
     to international comity'' after ``resources for such an 
     act''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) by striking ``that are identified'' and inserting the 
     following: ``that are--
       ``(1) identified'';
       (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
     and''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(2) identified in and the subject of proceedings in the 
     United States District Court

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     for the Southern District of New York in Peterson et al. v. 
     Islamic Republic of Iran et al., Case No. 13 Civ. 9195 
     (LAP).''.
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