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AMENDMENT NO.llll Calendar No.lll


Purpose: To protect the security of the State of Israel and
the United States by providing for congressional review
of nuclear agreements with Iran.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES113th Cong., 2d Sess.
S. 462
To enhance the strategic partnership between the United
States and Israel.
Referred to the Committee on llllllllll and
ordered to be printed
Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed
AMENDMENTS intended to be proposed by Mr. CORKER
Viz:
On page 4, between lines 6 and 7, insert the fol- 1
lowing: 2
SEC. 4. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF NUCLEAR AGREE- 3
MENTS WITH IRAN. 4
(a) CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF NUCLEAR AGREE- 5
MENTS WITH RESPECT TO IRAN. 6
(1) IN GENERAL.Beginning on the date of the 7
enactment of this Act, the President, within three 8
days of the conclusion of any agreement between the 9
United States, any other party, and the Islamic Re- 10
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public of Iran related to Irans nuclear program, 1
shall submit such agreement to Congress. 2
(2) PROCEDURES FOR REVIEW. 3
(A) IN GENERAL.During the 15-day pe- 4
riod beginning on the date on which the Presi- 5
dent submits an agreement under paragraph 6
(1), the Committees on Foreign Relations of the 7
Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 8
of the House of Representatives shall review 9
any such agreement and may hold hearings or 10
briefings, as appropriate. 11
(B) EXPEDITED PROCEDURES FOR A 12
JOINT RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL. 13
(i) IN GENERAL.During the 15-day 14
period beginning on the day after the pe- 15
riod for review provided for in subpara- 16
graph (A), a joint resolution of disapproval 17
may be introduced in the House of Rep- 18
resentatives by the Speaker, the minority 19
leader, or their respective designee, or in 20
the Senate by the majority leader, the mi- 21
nority leader, or their respective designee, 22
and may not be amended. 23
(ii) REFERRAL.A joint resolution of 24
disapproval introduced under clause (i) in 25
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the Senate shall be referred to the Com- 1
mittee on Foreign Relations and a joint 2
resolution of disapproval introduced under 3
clause (i) in the House of Representatives 4
shall be referred to the Committee on For- 5
eign Affairs. 6
(iii) COMMITTEE DISCHARGE AND 7
FLOOR CONSIDERATION.The provisions 8
of subsections (c) through (f) of section 9
152 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 10
2192) (relating to committee discharge and 11
floor consideration of certain resolutions in 12
the House of Representatives and the Sen- 13
ate) apply to a joint resolution of dis- 14
approval under this subsection to the same 15
extent that such subsections apply to joint 16
resolutions under such section 152, except 17
that 18
(I) subsection (c)(1) shall be ap- 19
plied and administered by substituting 20
10 days for 30 days; and 21
(II) subsection (f)(1)(A)(i) shall 22
be applied and administered by sub- 23
stituting Committee on Foreign Re- 24
lations for Committee on Finance. 25
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(iv) RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REP- 1
RESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE.This 2
subsection is enacted by Congress 3
(I) as an exercise of the rule- 4
making power of the Senate and the 5
House of Representatives, respec- 6
tively, and as such is deemed a part 7
of the rules of each House, respec- 8
tively, but applicable only with respect 9
to the procedure to be followed in that 10
House in the case of a joint resolu- 11
tion, and it supersedes other rules 12
only to the extent that it is incon- 13
sistent with such rules; and 14
(II) with full recognition of the 15
constitutional right of either House to 16
change the rules (so far as relating to 17
the procedure of that House) at any 18
time, in the same manner and to the 19
same extent as in the case of any 20
other rule of that House. 21
(v) JOINT RESOLUTION OF DIS- 22
APPROVAL DEFINED.In this subsection, 23
the term joint resolution of disapproval 24
means only a joint resolution of the 2 25
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Houses of Congress, the sole matter after 1
the resolving clause of which is as follows: 2
That Congress disapproves of the agree- 3
ment between the United States and the 4
Islamic Republic of Iran submitted by the 5
President to Congress under section 4(a) 6
of the United States-Israel Strategic Part- 7
nership Act of 2014 on llll., with 8
the blank space being filled with the appro- 9
priate date. 10
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.Nothing in this sec- 11
tion or any action taken pursuant to this section shall be 12
construed as approval of any sanctions relief in connection 13
with any agreement with respect to Irans nuclear pro- 14
gram. 15

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