S.Amdt. 1139

SA 1139. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 1191, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account
as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:

On page 9, between lines 2 and 3, insert the following:
``(7) Limitation on actions based on detention of united
states citizens.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the President may not waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief
from, or otherwise limit the application of statutory
sanctions with respect to Iran under any provision of law or
refrain from applying any such sanctions pursuant to an
agreement described in subsection (a) until the Government of
Iran releases to the United States the following United
States citizens:

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``(A) Saeed Abedini of Idaho, who has been detained in Iran
on charges related to his religious beliefs since September
2012.
``(B) Amir Hekmati of Michigan, who has been imprisoned in
Iran on false espionage charges since August 2011.
``(C) Jason Rezaian of California, who, as an Iranian
government credentialed reporter for the Washington Post, has
been unjustly held in Iran on vague charges since July 2014.
``(D) Robert Levinson of Florida, who was abducted on Kish
Island in March 2007.
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