Congress: 119 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: neutral
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Sponsor: Baumgartner, Michael (R-Washington)
The bill requires the President to report every six months for six years on: the $6 billion in Iranian government funds transferred to Qatar since August 2023, including detailed transaction records and whether funds were used for non-humanitarian purposes or defense spending; and all cases of Iranian hostage-taking or wrongful detention of US nationals in the past decade, identifying foreign persons involved and certifying whether sanctions under the Robert Levinson Act have been imposed or providing justification for any waivers. It also expresses Congress's sense that the US should use its authority to deny visas to Iranian diplomats at the UN if they pose a security threat.
VoteLog classifies this as neutral because the bill focuses on Iran's hostage-taking of US nationals and sanctions enforcement rather than Israeli-Palestinian conflict issues. The bill's substantive content concerns Iran policy and US national security accountability; it does not directly address Gaza, settlements, US military aid to Israel, or other core Israel-Palestine questions.