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CALLING ON THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAN TO FULFILL THEIR

PROMISES OF ASSISTANCE IN THIS CASE OF ROBERT

LEVINSON, THE LONGEST HELD UNITED STATES HOSTAGE

IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY; RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE

OF THE UNITED STATES-ISRAEL ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP

AND ENCOURAGING NEW AREAS OF COOPERATION; GLOBAL

DEVELOPMENT LAB ACT OF 2015, AND ENHANCING OVERSEAS TRAVELER VETTING ACT

MARKUP

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. Res. 148, H. Res. 551, H.R. 3924 and H.R. 4403

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Serial No. 114–144

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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS 

EDWARD R. ROYCE, California, Chairman 

CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey 

ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida 

DANA ROHRABACHER, California 

STEVE CHABOT, Ohio 

JOE WILSON, South Carolina 

MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas 

TED POE, Texas 

MATT SALMON, Arizona 

DARRELL E. ISSA, California 

TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania 

JEFF DUNCAN, South Carolina 

MO BROOKS, Alabama 

PAUL COOK, California 

RANDY K. WEBER SR., Texas 

SCOTT PERRY, Pennsylvania 

RON DESANTIS, Florida 

MARK MEADOWS, North Carolina 

TED S. YOHO, Florida 

CURT CLAWSON, Florida 

SCOTT DESJARLAIS, Tennessee 

REID J. RIBBLE, Wisconsin 

DAVID A. TROTT, Michigan 

LEE M. ZELDIN, New York 

DANIEL DONOVAN, New York 

ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York 

BRAD SHERMAN, California 

GREGORY W. MEEKS, New York 

ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey 

GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia 

THEODORE E. DEUTCH, Florida 

BRIAN HIGGINS, New York 

KAREN BASS, California 

WILLIAM KEATING, Massachusetts 

DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island 

ALAN GRAYSON, Florida 

AMI BERA, California 

ALAN S. LOWENTHAL, California 

GRACE MENG, New York 

LOIS FRANKEL, Florida 

TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii 

JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas 

ROBIN L. KELLY, Illinois 

BRENDAN F. BOYLE, Pennsylvania

AMY PORTER, Chief of Staff THOMAS SHEEHY, Staff Director

JASON STEINBAUM, Democratic Staff Director 

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C O N T E N T S 

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MARKUP ON 

H. Res. 148, Calling on the government of Iran to fulfill their promises 

of assistance in this case of Robert Levinson, the longest held United 

States hostage in our Nation’s history ............................................................... 2

Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H. Res. 148 offered by the 

Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Representative in Congress from the 

State of Florida, and the Honorable Theodore E. Deutch, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida ..................................................... 6

H. Res. 551, Recognizing the importance of the United States-Israel economic 

relationship and encouraging new areas of cooperation ................................... 11

H.R. 3924, To establish in the United States Agency for International Development an entity to be known as the United States Global Development 

Lab, and for other purposes ................................................................................ 17

Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H. Res. 148 offered by the 

Honorable Joaquin Castro, a Representative in Congress from the State 

of Texas ............................................................................................................. 25

H.R. 4403, To authorize the development of open-source software based on 

certain systems of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State to facilitate the vetting of travelers against terrorist 

watchlists and law enforcement databases, enhance border management, 

and improve targeting and analysis, and for other purposes ........................... 34

LETTERS, STATEMENTS, ETC., SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD 

APPENDIX 

Markup notice .......................................................................................................... 46

Markup minutes ...................................................................................................... 47

Markup summary .................................................................................................... 49

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CALLING ON THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAN TO FULFILL 

THEIR PROMISES OF ASSISTANCE IN THIS CASE OF ROBERT LEVINSON, THE LONGEST HELD UNITED STATES HOSTAGE IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY; RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UNITED STATES-ISRAEL ECONOMIC 

RELATIONSHIP AND ENCOURAGING NEW AREAS OF COOPERATION; GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT LAB ACT OF 2015, 

AND ENHANCING OVERSEAS TRAVELER VETTING ACT 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

Washington, DC. 

The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:04 a.m., in room 

2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Edward Royce (chairman of the committee) presiding. 

Chairman ROYCE. All right, House Resolution 148. So the committee will come to order. Pursuant to notice, we meet today to 

mark up four bipartisan measures, and without objection, all members may have 5 days to submit statements for the record and extraneous material on any of today’s business. 

As all members were notified yesterday, we intend to consider today’s measures en bloc and so without objection the following items 

previously provided to the Members of the House will be considered 

en bloc and are considered as read. 

First, House Resolution 148, calling on the Government of Iran 

to fulfill their promises of assistance in the case of Robert 

Levinson. Ros-Lehtinen Amendment 31 in the nature of a substitute offered on behalf of herself and on behalf of Mr. Deutch, 

which is the text adopted by the Subcommittee on the Middle East 

and North Africa on February 11th. 

And then we have House Resolution 551, recognizing the importance of the United States-Israel economic relationship. 

Also, H.R. 3924, the Global Development Lab Act, along with the 

Castro Amendment 218 in the nature of a substitute. 

And lastly, we have H.R. 4403, the Enhancing Overseas Traveler 

Vetting Act. 

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Chairman ROYCE. And after recognizing myself and the ranking 

member, Mr. Engel, I will be pleased to recognize any member 

seeking recognition to speak on these measures. 

Let us start with House Resolution 148, calling on the Government of Iran to fulfill their promises of assistance. This is in the 

case of Robert Levinson. And I want to thank Chairman RosLehtinen for quickly marking this and I thank Mr. Deutch for his 

steadfast dedication to Mr. Levinson’s cause. 

This calls on Iran to assist in the case of Bob Levinson. Last 

month four U.S. hostages held by Iran were released as part of a 

prisoner swap. Absent from the celebration was the family of Bob 

Levinson. The father of seven remains the longest held U.S. hostage in history and with many unanswered questions about his location and current well being, we must continue to press the administration to do more. 

In testimony before this committee, Mr. Levinson’s son highlighted the importance of our maintaining a public focus on his father’s case. He argued that while one hearing might generate some 

press, we need continued action to keep his father’s fate at the forefront and frankly, it is hard to remember a time when Iran didn’t 

have U.S. citizens in its prisons. As Bob’s son testified, ‘‘No family 

should ever have to go through what we all are going through.’’ So 

we will continue to work to bring Mr. Levinson and other American 

hostages home. 

Then we have House Resolution 551, recognizing the importance 

of the United States-Israel economic relationship, Mr. Ted Lieu’s 

bill. And this emphasizes the strong history of that economic cooperation and encourages us to build on our shared entrepreneurial 

spirit and drive to collaborate in a range of areas from energy to 

water in terms of offsetting drought to agriculture to medicine and 

to neurotechnology. 

Despite Israel’s security threats remaining severe, Tel Aviv, once 

a target of suicide bombers and Scud missiles, is now a bustling 

city of dotcoms and biotechs and mobile companies. We can learn 

much from each other such as to how Israel treats and reuses 70 

percent of its wastewater for agriculture. As a Member from the 

drought-stricken State of California, I certainly see great promise 

in a partnership with Israel that explores ways to conserve water 

and to desalinate water. And I want to thank Representative Lieu 

for introducing this resolution that has strong bipartisan support. 

I am proud to be an original co-sponsor, along with Ranking Member Engel, of Ted Lieu’s legislation. 

H.R. 4403, Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting Act, I acknowledge Mr. Heard for his work on this. The Homeland Security Committee’s Bipartisan Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign 

Fighter Travel highlighted the lack of any comprehensive global 

database of foreign fighter identities. The task force found that the 

U.S. and other countries instead rely on a patchwork system for exchanging extremist identities and that this weak arrangement, as 

they call it, increases the odds that foreign fighters will be able to 

cross borders undetected. 

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ment databases. It permits the open-source software to be shared 

with foreign governments and multi-lateral organizations like 

INTERPOL. So I thank Homeland Security Chairman McCaul for 

his leadership as well on this bill. 

H.R. 3924, the Global Development Lab Act of 2015. This is the 

last bill we consider. Extreme poverty breeds insecurity. It undermines the economic security and health interests of the United 

States. Yet, for too long, we have relied upon approaches that yield 

mediocre results. The Lab represents a new approach to development. It embraces science and technology. It rewards innovation. It 

utilizes partnerships and it opens the door for new ideas from unexpected places. It utilizes a pay-for-success model in which a development challenge is identified. Proposals are submitted and financing is made available after success has been demonstrated. So 

I thank Representative Castro for introducing this important bipartisan measure. 

And I now recognize the ranking member for his remarks. 

Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Chairman, thank you for calling this markup. I 

would note that in the last few weeks the President has signed a 

number of measures into law that this committee advanced and 

that is a real great reflection of the way we work across the aisle 

to get real results. That should always be our focus, and I am glad 

we are going to advance these four measures in that vein and keep 

the committee’s work chugging along. 

Let me start with Mr. Deutch’s resolution. Americans breathed 

a collective sigh of relief when five of our fellow citizens were released by Iran earlier this year. But when it comes to American 

citizens being wrongly held, there are obviously no partial victories. 

So the fact that at least two more Americans are still missing or 

detained in Iran means that we need to stay laser-focused on getting these people home. 

One of those missing is retired FBI agent Robert Levinson and 

we have mentioned him a great many times with all the hearings 

we have done on Iran. He disappeared in Iran in 2007 and it has 

been 5 years since his family has received any evidence that he is 

still alive. As in so many cases, we have heard a lot of promises 

from the Iranian Government that they will assist in locating Mr. 

Levinson. And again, as in so many cases, the Iranians have failed 

to follow through. This is a slap in the face to our diplomatic efforts 

with Iran and it is a cruel affront to the Levinson family who have 

already dealt with so much pain and heartbreak. This resolution 

calls on Iran’s leaders to live up to their word and help us find Mr. 

Levinson. 

I want to thank Mr. Deutch for offering this measure and for his 

hard work on trying to bring Mr. Levinson home. Mr. Levinson is 

a constituent of his and he has been a tireless champion in trying 

to get him back. I wholeheartedly support this resolution and I 

thank Mr. Deutch for his good work. 

I also support the measure sponsored by Mr. Lieu and Mr. Poe 

which recognizes the importance of the economic ties between the 

United States and our ally, Israel. We often look at Israel through 

a security prism, but our bond with Israel, of course, is much more 

dynamic than that. We have had a free trade agreement with 

Israel for more than three decades. In that time, trade between our 

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countries has increased tenfold. Our economic ties have been good 

for both countries, creating jobs and driving growth. Over the 

years, the United States and Israel have established a number of 

institutions to help strengthen these ties even further: The U.S.-

Israel binational Science Foundation, and the Industrial Research 

and Development Foundation, the Agricultural Research and Development Fund. 

This resolution calls for even greater cooperation in energy, 

water, agriculture, medicine, neurotechnology, and cyber security. 

It encourages the administration to hold regular, expanded, economic dialogues and to push for more private/public partnerships. 

I am happy to co-sponsor this measure and I again thank Mr. Poe 

and Mr. Lieu for bringing it forward. 

Next, let me commend Mr. Castro for his hard work on the Global Development Lab Act which will strengthen one of our best tools 

for promoting new innovations in global development efforts. A development lab was established within USAID to help develop and 

deploy poverty-reduction technologies more widely and at a lower 

cost. The Lab works with NGOs, corporations, and universities to 

bring in the best ideas to stay on the cutting edge of development. 

It is also expanding USAID’s impact through a public/private dollar-for-dollar matching program that allows us to scale these innovations up without expanding USAID’s budget. 

We are seeing real results. In 2014, the Lab invested in 362 new 

solutions that touched nearly 14 million people around the world. 

For example, the Lab funded an initiative to produce more food 

where fresh water is hard to come by. The securing water for food 

grant challenge led to a system that makes seawater or brackish 

water usable for drinking or agriculture. It consumes so little energy that the cost to use it is low, even in areas off the power grid. 

This is what we mean when we talk about innovation. 

This bill would build on the Lab’s success by creating new authorities for the Lab to expand and manage its partnerships. It will 

give the Lab greater flexibility for hiring experts on a project-byproject basis and it will allow the Lab to award small, targeted 

grants that have proven so effective in supporting healthcare providers. 

I commend Mr. Castro for his hard work on this very good bill. 

It makes a good initiative better and I am pleased to support it. 

And lastly, I am pleased that we are taking up the Enhancing 

Overseas Traveler Vetting Act. One of the best ways to crack down 

on violent extremism is to catch terrorists trying to cross borders—

not just our borders, but borders around the world. The bill would 

allow the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to develop open-source software to vet travelers crossing borders and sound the alarm if a terrorist is trying to sneak through. 

That software could then be shared with allies, partners, and multilateral organizations like the European Union. Existing safeguards would ensure that the software is developed in collaboration 

with our intelligence community and that it only gets into the right 

hands. This is an innovative way to help ensure that terrorists 

don’t slip through the cracks and I am happy to support it. 

Again, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back. 

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Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Engel. We go to Mr. Smith of 

New Jersey. 

Mr. SMITH. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. First of all, I 

would like to thank you, Chairman Royce, and Ranking Member 

Eliot Engel, for marking up these four bipartisan bills and especially for marking up H. Res. 148 and I want to thank again Ted 

Deutch for authoring this resolution which keeps the spotlight and 

the pressure on both the administration and Iran to resolve the 

case of missing American Robert Levinson. Robert Levinson is now, 

as you pointed out, the longest held hostage in American history. 

His daughter and son-in-law used to live in my district in Monmouth County, along with his six other children, numerous grandchildren, as well as his wife, Christine. They all desperately await 

word of his whereabouts. 

Mr. Levinson, as we all know, is a retired FBI agent, who disappeared on a business trip to Iran in 2007. His captors last released photos and video of him back in 2011. Mr. Levinson is elderly, suffers from diabetes, and appeared sickly in the last photos in 

which he was seen. He has been captive for almost 9 years and 

needs to be immediately returned to his broken-hearted family. I 

urge my colleagues to show their continued commitment to bringing Mr. Levinson home by unanimously supporting this resolution. 

And I ask unanimous consent that my comments on each of the 

other bills pending before the committee be made a part of the 

record. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Mr. Castro of Texas. 

Mr. CASTRO. Thank you, Chairman, and thank you for bringing 

my bill, H.R. 3924, for markup today. I want to say thank you, first 

of all, to my co-sponsor, Representative McCaul of Austin. Thank 

you and your staff for all of your hard work as well as the staff 

of the committee. I know there is a lot of work that goes into preparing these bills and most of all, thank you to USAID for developing the Global Development Lab and now working to improve it. 

It essentially democratizes problem solving and crowdsources ideas 

and applications to combat poverty and our greatest poverty challenges throughout the world, whether it is access to clean water, 

access to electricity, immunizations, birth defects, any of those gray 

challenges that are faced by many countries throughout the world. 

This makes sure that there is a competition of ideas and applications to solve these problems. And so I am very proud of the work 

that USAID has done and very proud also that this is a bipartisan 

bill. 

Thank you, Chairman. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Castro. Mr. McCaul of Texas. 

Mr. MCCAUL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also want to thank 

my colleagues from Texas, Mr. Castro, for his leadership and the 

staff for working so hard on this. It is important legislation. It is 

bipartisan. The Global Development Lab will harness the U.S. entrepreneurial spirit to create cost effective, sustainable solutions to 

global poverty. 

As we have seen time and time again, creating opportunity in 

impoverished countries is a powerful catalyst for our foreign policy 

abroad and as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, I know that this legislation will help us fight terrorism by 

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providing the most vulnerable with the means to create a better future for themselves and their loved ones, rather than falling victim 

to the false narrative of extremists who prey on the impoverished 

and who fill these vacuums and turn them into safe havens for terrorists. 

So again, I want to thank Mr. Castro for his hard work and ask 

that the committee support passage of this bill. 

Chairman ROYCE. Mr. Deutch of Florida. 

Mr. DEUTCH. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, I would like to 

thank you and the ranking member for holding this markup. I 

want to thank Mr. Lieu and Mr. Poe for their important reaffirmation of the many ways that the United States and Israel both benefit from expanded economic cooperation. I want to commend Mr. 

Castro and Mr. McCaul for the Global Development Lab Act and 

the innovation developed by that Lab which will be enhanced and 

expanded. And I am proud to support the Enhancing Overseas 

Traveler Vetting Act. 

I want to especially thank my friend, Chairman Emeritus RosLehtinen, for introducing the Levinson resolution with me for the 

past several years, along with our Florida colleagues, Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz and Congressman Diaz-Balart. And I 

thank the many members of this committee who have co-sponsored 

this resolution for their continued support and to the chairman and 

ranking member and Mr. Smith and others who have spoken powerfully this morning about Bob. Many of you have heard me speak 

of my constituent, Bob Levinson, many times over the past 6 years. 

Today, I will be brief. The recent return of our American citizens 

from Iran brought renewed focus to Bob’s case. And while we celebrated the joyous reunion of the Americans who had been held hostage who were returned home, unfortunately, we do not—and the 

Levinson family has yet to feel that same joy. 

Two weeks ago, the Middle East Subcommittee held a markup of 

the resolution where we were joined by Bob’s wife, Christine, and 

his eldest son, Dan. By passing this resolution today and sending 

it to the floor of the House, we have the opportunity to remind 

Christine, Dan, and Bob’s six other children that we won’t forget 

about Bob. 

Mr. Chairman, 9 years is too long. It is too many anniversaries. 

It is too many birthdays, weddings, the births of grandchildren for 

Bob to miss. Bob must come home now. This message is resonating 

from Washington around the country and to the community that I 

proudly represent in South Florida. On Saturday, March 5, Bob’s 

own community in South Florida will come together for a rally in 

support of the Levinson family to send a united resolute message 

that Bob must come home. And to those around the country watching this at home today, I encourage them to Tweet using the 

#WhatAboutBob to keep Bob’s name and his story front and center. 

And by passing this resolution, Mr. Chairman, we as Members of 

the United States Congress reaffirm that we will never stop fighting until Bob is home with his family. 

I appreciate the support and I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate 

that, Mr. Ted Deutch. We now go to Mr. Steve Chabot of Ohio. 

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Mr. CHABOT. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will be brief because 

my colleagues have already spoken much better than I could about 

this. I want to commend both Mr. Deutch and Ms. Ros-Lehtinen for 

their unrelenting determination to do everything within their 

power to assist the Levinson family and to try to get Bob home. I 

mean to think 9 days would be a long time, 9 weeks, 9 months. It 

has been 9 years and it is incomprehensible how hard this must 

have been on him and on his family. I know the administration has 

repeatedly called for the safe return of Mr. Levinson, but this 

should always be at the forefront of any talks, when we ever talk 

with Iran, this should be discussed, whatever it is. And I would encourage that to occur. 

And I would also like to rise in support of H. Res. 551, the resolution with respect to U.S.-Israeli economic relations. They are obviously one of our strongest—if not our strongest—allies on this 

globe and ensuring a comprehensive and sustainable alliance and 

increasing trade ties, economic dialogue, this is all for the better, 

will improve the relationship between our two nations which is one 

of the most critical relationships that we have. 

So I want to thank all our colleagues involved in both of these 

and I would like to yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Do any of our Democrat colleagues seek recognition at this point? 

We will go to Mr. Mark Meadows of North Carolina. 

Mr. MEADOWS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for your 

leadership and I would gladly yield the balance of my time to the 

gentleman from Texas, Mr. McCaul. 

Chairman ROYCE. Mr. McCaul is recognized. 

Mr. MCCAUL. I thank Mr. Meadows for yielding time, Mr. Chairman. Ranking Member, I want to thank you for collaborating with 

my Committee on Homeland Security on H.R. 4403, Enhancing 

Overseas Traveler Vetting Act. It is a bipartisan bill, passed unanimous out of my committee. It implements an important recommendation of the Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel. The bipartisan panel found that many of our 

foreign partners lack crucial tripwires to detect extremists when 

they are moving across borders. Without adequate screening and 

watchlist systems, these countries are letting jihadists slip through 

their fingers. This puts America and our allies at risk. We cannot 

allow foreign fighters to crisscross the globe undetected. This legislation will help our most vulnerable partners put in place vetting 

systems quickly, rather than taking years to develop their own. We 

must shut down the jihadi superhighway to and from terrorist safe 

havens overseas and this bill that we are considering will help do 

exactly that. 

I commend also Representative Heard who is on the task force 

for writing this legislation and I urge my colleagues here on the 

Foreign Affairs Committee to support it. With that, I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Mike McCaul. Do any other 

members seek recognition? Hearing none, the question occurs on 

the items considered en bloc. 

All those in favor, say aye? 

No, for those opposed? 

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In the opinion of the Chair the ayes have it and the measures 

considered en bloc are agreed to. Without objection, the measures 

considered en bloc are ordered favorably reported as amended. And 

staff is directed to make any technical and conforming changes. 

Also without objection, the Chair is authorized to seek House 

consideration of those measures under suspension of the rules. And 

that concludes our business for today. I want to thank Ranking 

Member Eliot Engel and all of our committee members for their 

contributions and their assistance to today’s markup. The committee stands adjourned. 

[Whereupon, at 10:27 a.m., the committee was adjourned.] 

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