[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5116-S5117]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3365. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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 F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1067. LIMITATION ON CIVIL ACTIONS AFFECTED BY UNITED 
                   STATES SANCTIONS.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 111 of title 28, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``Sec. 1660. Limitation on civil actions affected by United 
       States sanctions

       ``(a) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any provision of law, no 
     person (other than the United States or a person acting on 
     behalf of the United States) may bring a civil action in 
     Federal court to enforce any foreign judgment arising from a 
     claim where--
       ``(1) the underlying conduct or circumstances giving rise 
     to the claim resulted from actions to comply with United 
     States sanctions impeding the performance of a contract; or
       ``(2) the court issuing the judgment asserted jurisdiction 
     based, in whole or in part, on the imposition of United 
     States sanctions or export controls (or any foreign law 
     enacted in response to the imposition of United States 
     sanctions or export controls).
       ``(b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be 
     construed to limit--
       ``(1) the authority of the President, any delegate of the 
     President (including the Office of Foreign Assets Control of 
     the Department of the Treasury), or any other officer or 
     official of the United States to bring any action or exercise 
     any responsibility under any applicable State or Federal law; 
     or
       ``(2) any right, remedy, or cause of action available to a 
     victim of international terrorism, torture, extrajudicial 
     killing, aircraft sabotage, or hostage taking, who is, or was 
     at the time of the victim's injury, a national of the United 
     States, a member of the United States Armed Forces, an 
     employee of the United States Government, or an individual 
     performing a contract awarded by the United States Government 
     acting within the scope of the individual's employment, or a 
     family member of any such victim, under any applicable State 
     or Federal law, including--
       ``(A) chapter 97 of this title;
       ``(B) chapter 113B of title 18; and
       ``(C) the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act 
     of 2012 (22 U.S.C. 8701 et seq.) and any other laws providing 
     for the application of sanctions with respect to Iran or 
     Syria;
       ``(3) any right, remedy, or cause of action available to 
     any party arising under or relating to the party's 
     contractual rights (other than an action to enforce a foreign 
     judgment described in subsection (a)) where the parties 
     agreed to resolve all disputes by litigation in a State or 
     Federal court within the United States or by arbitration 
     within the United States; or
       ``(4) any other right, remedy, or cause of action available 
     to any party arising under State or Federal law (other than 
     an action to enforce a foreign judgment described in 
     subsection (a)) where the underlying conduct or circumstances 
     giving rise to the claim resulted from the imposition of 
     United States sanctions or export controls.

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       ``(c) United States Sanctions Defined.--In this section, 
     the term `United States sanctions' means any prohibition, 
     restriction, or condition on transactions involving any 
     property in which any foreign country or national thereof has 
     any interest that is imposed by the United States to address 
     threats to the national security, foreign policy, or economy 
     of the United States pursuant to--
       ``(1) section 203 of the International Emergency Economic 
     Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702); or
       ``(2) any other provision of law, including any provision 
     of law relating to export controls.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for such 
     chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to 
     section 1659 the following new item:

``1660. Limitation on civil actions affected by United States 
              sanctions.''.
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