Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee held an Executive Business Meeting to consider the AVAA. The bill was presented to the Committee and in keeping with normal Committee practice, held over for a second reading at the next executive business meeting ...
2141 Rayburn House Office Building 10:00 a.m. By Direction of the Chairman Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Witnesses Ms. Jill E. Steinberg National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction U.S. Department of Justice The Honorable Paul ...
Today, the United States Senate, in one of its first acts of the 114th Congress, passed the Amy and Vicky Child Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act of 2015 on a vote of 98-0. Here are the floor speeches which were ...
Thank you Senator Grassley. I just wanted to add my thanks and congratulations to Senator Hatch for his leadership on this strong and necessary bi-partisan bill as Senator Feinstein has laid out. It’s essential to ensure that the victims of ...
Thanks very much Mister Chairman and Senator Hatch and cosponsors. In looking at this bill, it really is a very significant bill and that is because the Supreme Court in Paroline v. United States held that each possessor of child ...
Mr. Chairman, thank you for putting the Amy and Vicky Act on the agenda and for bringing it up today. I re-introduced this bill last week with 35 bipartisan co-sponsors, including seven on each side of this committee. That is ...
Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, today I am introducing legislation to help victims of child pornography, one of society’s most heinous crimes. I am joined by 34 Senators on both sides of the aisle. I hope that this legislation will soon ...
Senator Hatch: I am today introducing legislation to help victims of child pornography receive the restitution that Congress has already said they deserve. The Supreme Court said last year that the current restitution statute, enacted more than 20 years ago, ...
Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (D-PA-17), along with co-leads Rep. Tom Marino (PA-10), Rep. Suzanne DelBene (WA-01), and Rep. David Reichert (WA-08), re-introduced the bipartisan Amy and Vicky Child Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act of 2015, with the support of ...
From the Congressional Record Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, today I will introduce legislation that will help victims of one of the most vicious crimes and one of the most evil crimes in our society: child pornography. When Congress enacted the ...