Iran Human Rights and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act

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46 cosponsors · 17 D, 29 R

3 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

House Introduced Jan 9, 2018
House Passed Apr 26, 2018 410–2

This bill directs the President to identify and impose sanctions against senior members of the government of Iran and other persons who are responsible for or complicit in committing serious human rights violations, or engaging in censorship, the diversion of goods intended for the people of Iran, or public corruption.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jan 9, 2018

Iran Human Rights and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act

The President shall identify and impose U.S. entry and financial sanctions against persons who are responsible for or complicit in the politically-motivated intimidation, detention, or trial of: (1) U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens in Iran; or (2) Iranians, Iranian residents, or persons of Iranian origin outside of Iran. The President shall impose U.S. entry sanctions against specified family members of identified persons.

The Department of State shall submit to Congress a strategy to prevent elements of the Iranian regime from engaging in hostage-taking or the prolonged arbitrary detention of U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens.

Member	Party at vote	Seat	Position
Don Young	R	AK-AL	Yea
Bradley Byrne	R	AL-1	Yea
Martha Roby	R	AL-2	Yea
Mike Rogers	R	AL-3	Yea
Robert Aderholt	R	AL-4	Yea
Mo Brooks	R	AL-5	Yea
Gary Palmer	R	AL-6	Yea
Terri Sewell	D	AL-7	Not Voting
Rick Crawford	R	AR-1	Yea
J. Hill	R	AR-2	Yea
Steve Womack	R	AR-3	Yea
Bruce Westerman	R	AR-4	Yea
Tom O’Halleran	D	AZ-1	Yea
Martha McSally	R	AZ-2	Yea
Raúl Grijalva	D	AZ-3	Yea
Paul Gosar	R	AZ-4	Yea
Andy Biggs	R	AZ-5	Yea
David Schweikert	R	AZ-6	Yea
Ruben Gallego	D	AZ-7	Yea
Kyrsten Sinema	D	AZ-9	Yea
Doug LaMalfa	R	CA-1	Yea
Jeff Denham	R	CA-10	Yea
Mark DeSaulnier	D	CA-11	Yea
Nancy Pelosi	D	CA-12	Yea
Barbara Lee	D	CA-13	Yea
Jackie Speier	D	CA-14	Yea
Eric Swalwell	D	CA-15	Yea
Jim Costa	D	CA-16	Yea
Ro Khanna	D	CA-17	Yea
Anna Eshoo	D	CA-18	Yea
Zoe Lofgren	D	CA-19	Not Voting
Jared Huffman	D	CA-2	Yea
Jimmy Panetta	D	CA-20	Yea
David Valadao	R	CA-21	Yea
Devin Nunes	R	CA-22	Yea
Kevin McCarthy	R	CA-23	Yea
Salud Carbajal	D	CA-24	Yea
Steve Knight	R	CA-25	Yea
Julia Brownley	D	CA-26	Yea
Judy Chu	D	CA-27	Yea
Adam Schiff	D	CA-28	Yea
Tony Cárdenas	D	CA-29	Yea
John Garamendi	D	CA-3	Yea
Brad Sherman	D	CA-30	Yea
Pete Aguilar	D	CA-31	Yea
Grace Napolitano	D	CA-32	Yea
Ted Lieu	D	CA-33	Yea
Jimmy Gomez	D	CA-34	Yea
Norma Torres	D	CA-35	Yea
Raul Ruiz	D	CA-36	Yea
Karen Bass	D	CA-37	Yea
Linda Sánchez	D	CA-38	Yea
Ed Royce	R	CA-39	Yea
Tom McClintock	R	CA-4	Yea
Lucille Roybal-Allard	D	CA-40	Yea
Mark Takano	D	CA-41	Yea
Ken Calvert	R	CA-42	Yea
Maxine Waters	D	CA-43	Yea
Nanette Barragán	D	CA-44	Yea
Mimi Walters	R	CA-45	Yea
J. Correa	D	CA-46	Yea
Alan Lowenthal	D	CA-47	Yea
Dana Rohrabacher	R	CA-48	Yea
Darrell Issa	R	CA-49	Yea
Mike Thompson	D	CA-5	Yea
Duncan Hunter	R	CA-50	Yea
Juan Vargas	D	CA-51	Yea
Scott Peters	D	CA-52	Yea
Susan Davis	D	CA-53	Yea
Doris Matsui	D	CA-6	Yea
Ami Bera	D	CA-7	Yea
Paul Cook	R	CA-8	Yea
Jerry McNerney	D	CA-9	Yea
Diana DeGette	D	CO-1	Yea
Jared Polis	D	CO-2	Yea
Scott Tipton	R	CO-3	Yea
Ken Buck	R	CO-4	Yea
Doug Lamborn	R	CO-5	Yea
Mike Coffman	R	CO-6	Yea
Ed Perlmutter	D	CO-7	Yea
John Larson	D	CT-1	Yea
Joe Courtney	D	CT-2	Yea
Rosa DeLauro	D	CT-3	Yea
Jim Himes	D	CT-4	Yea
Elizabeth Esty	D	CT-5	Yea
Lisa Blunt Rochester	D	DE-AL	Yea
Matt Gaetz	R	FL-1	Yea
Val Demings	D	FL-10	Yea
Daniel Webster	R	FL-11	Yea
Gus Bilirakis	R	FL-12	Yea
Charlie Crist	D	FL-13	Yea
Kathy Castor	D	FL-14	Yea
Dennis Ross	R	FL-15	Yea
Vern Buchanan	R	FL-16	Yea
Thomas Rooney	R	FL-17	Yea
Brian Mast	R	FL-18	Yea
Francis Rooney	R	FL-19	Yea
Neal Dunn	R	FL-2	Yea
Alcee Hastings	D	FL-20	Yea
Lois Frankel	D	FL-21	Yea
Ted Deutch	D	FL-22	Yea
Debbie Wasserman Schultz	D	FL-23	Yea
Frederica Wilson	D	FL-24	Not Voting
Mario Diaz-Balart	R	FL-25	Yea
Carlos Curbelo	R	FL-26	Yea
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	R	FL-27	Yea
Ted Yoho	R	FL-3	Yea
John Rutherford	R	FL-4	Yea
Al Lawson	D	FL-5	Yea
Ron DeSantis	R	FL-6	Yea
Stephanie Murphy	D	FL-7	Yea
Bill Posey	R	FL-8	Yea
Darren Soto	D	FL-9	Yea
Buddy Carter	R	GA-1	Yea
Jody Hice	R	GA-10	Yea
Barry Loudermilk	R	GA-11	Yea
Rick Allen	R	GA-12	Yea
David Scott	D	GA-13	Yea
Tom Graves	R	GA-14	Yea
Sanford Bishop	D	GA-2	Yea
A. Ferguson	R	GA-3	Yea
Hank Johnson	D	GA-4	Yea
John Lewis	D	GA-5	Not Voting
Karen Handel	R	GA-6	Yea
Rob Woodall	R	GA-7	Yea
Austin Scott	R	GA-8	Yea
Doug Collins	R	GA-9	Yea
Colleen Hanabusa	D	HI-1	Yea
Tulsi Gabbard	D	HI-2	Not Voting
Rod Blum	R	IA-1	Yea
David Loebsack	D	IA-2	Yea
David Young	R	IA-3	Yea
Steve King	R	IA-4	Yea
Raúl Labrador	R	ID-1	Not Voting
Mike Simpson	R	ID-2	Yea
Bobby Rush	D	IL-1	Yea
Brad Schneider	D	IL-10	Yea
Bill Foster	D	IL-11	Yea
Mike Bost	R	IL-12	Yea
Rodney Davis	R	IL-13	Yea
Randy Hultgren	R	IL-14	Yea
John Shimkus	R	IL-15	Yea
Adam Kinzinger	R	IL-16	Yea
Cheri Bustos	D	IL-17	Yea
Darin LaHood	R	IL-18	Yea
Robin Kelly	D	IL-2	Yea
Daniel Lipinski	D	IL-3	Yea
Luis Gutiérrez	D	IL-4	Yea
Mike Quigley	D	IL-5	Yea
Peter Roskam	R	IL-6	Yea
Danny Davis	D	IL-7	Yea
Raja Krishnamoorthi	D	IL-8	Yea
Jan Schakowsky	D	IL-9	Yea
Peter Visclosky	D	IN-1	Yea
Jackie Walorski	R	IN-2	Yea
Jim Banks	R	IN-3	Yea
Todd Rokita	R	IN-4	Yea
Susan Brooks	R	IN-5	Yea
Luke Messer	R	IN-6	Yea
André Carson	D	IN-7	Yea
Larry Bucshon	R	IN-8	Yea
Trey Hollingsworth	R	IN-9	Yea
Roger Marshall	R	KS-1	Yea
Lynn Jenkins	R	KS-2	Yea
Kevin Yoder	R	KS-3	Yea
Ron Estes	R	KS-4	Yea
James Comer	R	KY-1	Yea
Brett Guthrie	R	KY-2	Yea
John Yarmuth	D	KY-3	Yea
Thomas Massie	R	KY-4	Nay
Hal Rogers	R	KY-5	Yea
Andy Barr	R	KY-6	Yea
Steve Scalise	R	LA-1	Yea
Cedric Richmond	D	LA-2	Yea
Clay Higgins	R	LA-3	Yea
Mike Johnson	R	LA-4	Yea
Ralph Abraham	R	LA-5	Yea
Garret Graves	R	LA-6	Yea
Richard Neal	D	MA-1	Yea
Jim McGovern	D	MA-2	Yea
Niki Tsongas	D	MA-3	Yea
Joseph Kennedy	D	MA-4	Yea
Katherine Clark	D	MA-5	Yea
Seth Moulton	D	MA-6	Yea
Michael Capuano	D	MA-7	Yea
Stephen Lynch	D	MA-8	Yea
William Keating	D	MA-9	Yea
Andy Harris	R	MD-1	Yea
C. Ruppersberger	D	MD-2	Yea
John Sarbanes	D	MD-3	Yea
Anthony Brown	D	MD-4	Yea
Steny Hoyer	D	MD-5	Yea
John Delaney	D	MD-6	Yea
Elijah Cummings	D	MD-7	Yea
Jamie Raskin	D	MD-8	Yea
Chellie Pingree	D	ME-1	Yea
Bruce Poliquin	R	ME-2	Yea
Jack Bergman	R	MI-1	Yea
Paul Mitchell	R	MI-10	Yea
Dave Trott	R	MI-11	Yea
Debbie Dingell	D	MI-12	Yea
Brenda Lawrence	D	MI-14	Yea
Bill Huizenga	R	MI-2	Yea
Justin Amash	R	MI-3	Nay
John Moolenaar	R	MI-4	Yea
Daniel Kildee	D	MI-5	Yea
Fred Upton	R	MI-6	Yea
Tim Walberg	R	MI-7	Yea
Mike Bishop	R	MI-8	Yea
Sander Levin	D	MI-9	Yea
Timothy Walz	D	MN-1	Yea
Jason Lewis	R	MN-2	Yea
Erik Paulsen	R	MN-3	Yea
Betty McCollum	D	MN-4	Yea
Keith Ellison	D	MN-5	Yea
Tom Emmer	R	MN-6	Yea
Collin Peterson	D	MN-7	Yea
Richard Nolan	D	MN-8	Yea
Wm. Clay	D	MO-1	Yea
Ann Wagner	R	MO-2	Yea
Blaine Luetkemeyer	R	MO-3	Yea
Vicky Hartzler	R	MO-4	Yea
Emanuel Cleaver	D	MO-5	Yea
Sam Graves	R	MO-6	Yea
Billy Long	R	MO-7	Yea
Jason Smith	R	MO-8	Yea
Trent Kelly	R	MS-1	Yea
Bennie Thompson	D	MS-2	Yea
Gregg Harper	R	MS-3	Yea
Steven Palazzo	R	MS-4	Yea
Greg Gianforte	R	MT-AL	Yea
G.K. Butterfield	D	NC-1	Yea
Patrick McHenry	R	NC-10	Yea
Mark Meadows	R	NC-11	Yea
Alma Adams	D	NC-12	Yea
Ted Budd	R	NC-13	Yea
George Holding	R	NC-2	Yea
Walter Jones	R	NC-3	Yea
David Price	D	NC-4	Yea
Virginia Foxx	R	NC-5	Yea
Mark Walker	R	NC-6	Yea
David Rouzer	R	NC-7	Yea
Richard Hudson	R	NC-8	Yea
Robert Pittenger	R	NC-9	Yea
Kevin Cramer	R	ND-AL	Yea
Jeff Fortenberry	R	NE-1	Not Voting
Don Bacon	R	NE-2	Yea
Adrian Smith	R	NE-3	Yea
Carol Shea-Porter	D	NH-1	Yea
Ann Kuster	D	NH-2	Not Voting
Donald Norcross	D	NJ-1	Yea
Donald Payne	D	NJ-10	Yea
Rodney Frelinghuysen	R	NJ-11	Yea
Bonnie Watson Coleman	D	NJ-12	Yea
Frank LoBiondo	R	NJ-2	Yea
Tom MacArthur	R	NJ-3	Yea
Chris Smith	R	NJ-4	Yea
Josh Gottheimer	D	NJ-5	Yea
Frank Pallone	D	NJ-6	Yea
Leonard Lance	R	NJ-7	Yea
Albio Sires	D	NJ-8	Not Voting
Bill Pascrell	D	NJ-9	Yea
Michelle Lujan Grisham	D	NM-1	Yea
Steve Pearce	R	NM-2	Yea
Ben Luján	D	NM-3	Yea
Dina Titus	D	NV-1	Yea
Mark Amodei	R	NV-2	Yea
Jacky Rosen	D	NV-3	Yea
Ruben Kihuen	D	NV-4	Yea
Lee Zeldin	R	NY-1	Yea
Jerrold Nadler	D	NY-10	Yea
Daniel Donovan	R	NY-11	Yea
Carolyn Maloney	D	NY-12	Yea
Adriano Espaillat	D	NY-13	Yea
Joe Crowley	D	NY-14	Yea
José Serrano	D	NY-15	Yea
Eliot Engel	D	NY-16	Yea
Nita Lowey	D	NY-17	Yea
Sean Maloney	D	NY-18	Yea
John Faso	R	NY-19	Yea
Pete King	R	NY-2	Yea
Paul Tonko	D	NY-20	Yea
Elise Stefanik	R	NY-21	Yea
Claudia Tenney	R	NY-22	Yea
Tom Reed	R	NY-23	Yea
John Katko	R	NY-24	Yea
Brian Higgins	D	NY-26	Yea
Chris Collins	R	NY-27	Yea
Thomas Suozzi	D	NY-3	Yea
Kathleen Rice	D	NY-4	Yea
Gregory Meeks	D	NY-5	Yea
Grace Meng	D	NY-6	Yea
Nydia Velázquez	D	NY-7	Yea
Hakeem Jeffries	D	NY-8	Yea
Yvette Clarke	D	NY-9	Yea
Steve Chabot	R	OH-1	Yea
Michael Turner	R	OH-10	Yea
Marcia Fudge	D	OH-11	Yea
Tim Ryan	D	OH-13	Yea
David Joyce	R	OH-14	Yea
Steve Stivers	R	OH-15	Yea
James Renacci	R	OH-16	Yea
Brad Wenstrup	R	OH-2	Yea
Joyce Beatty	D	OH-3	Yea
Jim Jordan	R	OH-4	Yea
Robert Latta	R	OH-5	Yea
Bill Johnson	R	OH-6	Yea
Bob Gibbs	R	OH-7	Yea
Warren Davidson	R	OH-8	Yea
Marcy Kaptur	D	OH-9	Yea
Markwayne Mullin	R	OK-2	Yea
Frank Lucas	R	OK-3	Yea
Tom Cole	R	OK-4	Yea
Steve Russell	R	OK-5	Yea
Suzanne Bonamici	D	OR-1	Yea
Greg Walden	R	OR-2	Yea
Earl Blumenauer	D	OR-3	Yea
Peter DeFazio	D	OR-4	Yea
Kurt Schrader	D	OR-5	Yea
Robert Brady	D	PA-1	Yea
Tom Marino	R	PA-10	Yea
Lou Barletta	R	PA-11	Yea
Keith Rothfus	R	PA-12	Yea
Brendan Boyle	D	PA-13	Yea
Michael Doyle	D	PA-14	Yea
Charles Dent	R	PA-15	Yea
Lloyd Smucker	R	PA-16	Yea
Matt Cartwright	D	PA-17	Yea
Conor Lamb	D	PA-18	Yea
Dwight Evans	D	PA-2	Yea
Mike Kelly	R	PA-3	Yea
Scott Perry	R	PA-4	Yea
Glenn Thompson	R	PA-5	Yea
Ryan Costello	R	PA-6	Yea
Patrick Meehan	R	PA-7	Yea
Brian Fitzpatrick	R	PA-8	Yea
Bill Shuster	R	PA-9	Yea
David Cicilline	D	RI-1	Yea
Jim Langevin	D	RI-2	Yea
Mark Sanford	R	SC-1	Yea
Joe Wilson	R	SC-2	Yea
Jeff Duncan	R	SC-3	Yea
Trey Gowdy	R	SC-4	Not Voting
Ralph Norman	R	SC-5	Yea
Jim Clyburn	D	SC-6	Yea
Tom Rice	R	SC-7	Yea
Kristi Noem	R	SD-AL	Not Voting
Phil Roe	R	TN-1	Yea
Jimmy Duncan	R	TN-2	Yea
Chuck Fleischmann	R	TN-3	Yea
Scott DesJarlais	R	TN-4	Yea
Jim Cooper	D	TN-5	Yea
Diane Black	R	TN-6	Not Voting
Marsha Blackburn	R	TN-7	Not Voting
David Kustoff	R	TN-8	Not Voting
Steve Cohen	D	TN-9	Yea
Louie Gohmert	R	TX-1	Yea
Michael McCaul	R	TX-10	Yea
K. Conaway	R	TX-11	Yea
Kay Granger	R	TX-12	Yea
Mac Thornberry	R	TX-13	Yea
Randy Weber	R	TX-14	Yea
Vicente Gonzalez	D	TX-15	Yea
Beto O’Rourke	D	TX-16	Yea
Bill Flores	R	TX-17	Yea
Sheila Jackson Lee	D	TX-18	Yea
Jodey Arrington	R	TX-19	Yea
Ted Poe	R	TX-2	Yea
Joaquin Castro	D	TX-20	Yea
Lamar Smith	R	TX-21	Yea
Pete Olson	R	TX-22	Yea
Will Hurd	R	TX-23	Yea
Kenny Marchant	R	TX-24	Yea
Roger Williams	R	TX-25	Yea
Michael Burgess	R	TX-26	Yea
Henry Cuellar	D	TX-28	Yea
Gene Green	D	TX-29	Yea
Sam Johnson	R	TX-3	Yea
Eddie Johnson	D	TX-30	Yea
John Carter	R	TX-31	Yea
Pete Sessions	R	TX-32	Yea
Marc Veasey	D	TX-33	Yea
Filemon Vela	D	TX-34	Yea
Lloyd Doggett	D	TX-35	Yea
Brian Babin	R	TX-36	Not Voting
John Ratcliffe	R	TX-4	Yea
Jeb Hensarling	R	TX-5	Yea
Joe Barton	R	TX-6	Yea
John Culberson	R	TX-7	Yea
Kevin Brady	R	TX-8	Yea
Al Green	D	TX-9	Yea
Rob Bishop	R	UT-1	Yea
Chris Stewart	R	UT-2	Yea
John Curtis	R	UT-3	Yea
Mia Love	R	UT-4	Yea
Robert Wittman	R	VA-1	Yea
Barbara Comstock	R	VA-10	Not Voting
Gerald Connolly	D	VA-11	Yea
Scott Taylor	R	VA-2	Yea
Bobby Scott	D	VA-3	Yea
A. McEachin	D	VA-4	Yea
Thomas Garrett	R	VA-5	Yea
Bob Goodlatte	R	VA-6	Yea
Dave Brat	R	VA-7	Yea
Donald Beyer	D	VA-8	Yea
H. Griffith	R	VA-9	Yea
Peter Welch	D	VT-AL	Yea
Suzan DelBene	D	WA-1	Yea
Denny Heck	D	WA-10	Yea
Rick Larsen	D	WA-2	Yea
Jaime Herrera Beutler	R	WA-3	Yea
Dan Newhouse	R	WA-4	Yea
Cathy McMorris Rodgers	R	WA-5	Yea
Derek Kilmer	D	WA-6	Yea
Pramila Jayapal	D	WA-7	Yea
David Reichert	R	WA-8	Yea
Adam Smith	D	WA-9	Yea
Mark Pocan	D	WI-2	Yea
Ron Kind	D	WI-3	Yea
Gwen Moore	D	WI-4	Yea
F. Sensenbrenner	R	WI-5	Yea
Glenn Grothman	R	WI-6	Yea
Sean Duffy	R	WI-7	Yea
Mike Gallagher	R	WI-8	Yea
David McKinley	R	WV-1	Yea
Alexander Mooney	R	WV-2	Yea
Evan Jenkins	R	WV-3	Yea
Liz Cheney	R	WY-AL	Yea

Iran Human Rights and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act

Votes to become law

Final vote · House · Apr 26, 2018