Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title XXXV add the following: SEC. __. RECOURSE FOR NON-U.S. SEAMEN. Section 57103 of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``(g) Restriction.--(1) Notwithstanding section 30104, a claim for damages or expenses relating to personal injury, illness, or death of a seaman who is a citizen of a foreign nation, arising during or from the engagement of the seaman by or for a passenger vessel duly registered under the laws of a foreign nation or a vessel identified as obsolete under subsection (a) or acquired under chapter 563, may not be brought under the laws of the United States if-- ``(A) such seaman was not a legal permanent resident of the United States at the time the claim arose; ``(B) the injury, illness, or death arose outside the territorial waters of the United States; and ``(C) the seaman or the seaman's personal representative has or had a right to seek compensation for the injury, illness, or death in, or under the laws of-- ``(i) the nation in which the vessel was registered at the time the claim arose; or ``(ii) the nation in which the seaman maintained citizenship or residency at the time the claim arose.…”