[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15396-15397]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


    NO SANCTIONS RELIEF FOR IRAN WITHOUT PAYMENT TO U.S. VICTIMS OF 
                               TERRORISM

  (Mr. PAULSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAULSEN. Madam Speaker, when economic sanctions were lifted on 
Libya a decade ago, the United States secured an agreement that the 
Qadhafi

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regime compensate victims of terror attacks, such as the bombing of Pan 
Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
  Today Iran, a state sponsor of terror, owes more than $43 billion in 
damages to victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism from over 80 
different court-ordered decisions. Not 1 cent has been paid by Iran. 
And, yet, the President is moving forward to lift economic sanctions, 
giving Iran a $100 billion windfall without compensating terrorist 
victims.
  Madam Speaker, we should make sure that American victims of Iranian 
terror receive their judgments before any economic sanctions are 
lifted. We need to pass the Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism 
Act to ensure that Iran will not see any sanctions relief until it 
first pays the money they owe to the families of Americans killed by 
Iranian-sponsored terrorism.

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