Comey will brief members of the House Intelligence Committee to answer questions about russias influence in the 2016 president ial election. Well have live coverage monday morning at 10 00 eastern on cspan 3. Back in the house judiciary committee, prosecutors of crimes against children testified on the federal policy that helps and hurts their efforts. A warning that some of the testimony is graphic in nature and may not be sitabe suitable younger viewers. The committee will come to order. The subskmity of Homeland Security and investigations. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on combatting crimes against children. And i will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the gentleman from michigan and the chairman of the full committee if hes able to make it and we will begin our questioning. So i want to thank each of you for being here today. Todays hearing address is one of the most difficult to contemplate. The societys most vulnerable, which would be our
Comey will brief members of the House Intelligence Committee to answer questions about russias influence in the 2016 president ial election. Well have live coverage monday morning at 10 00 eastern on cspan 3. Back in the house judiciary committee, prosecutors of crimes against children testified on the federal policy that helps and hurts their efforts. A warning that some of the testimony is graphic in nature and may not be sitabe suitable younger viewers. The committee will come to order. The subskmity of Homeland Security and investigations. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on combatting crimes against children. And i will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the gentleman from michigan and the chairman of the full committee if hes able to make it and we will begin our questioning. So i want to thank each of you for being here today. Todays hearing address is one of the most difficult to contemplate. The societys most vulnerable, which would be our
That originate online. This is just under two hours. And may not be sitabe suitable younger viewers. The committee will come to order, subcommittee on crime, terrorism and investigations. We will have a hearing on crimes against children. I will recognize myself and then the gentleman from michigan. I want to thank each of you for being here today. Todays hearing address the most difficult issues for people of good conscience to contemplate. The exploitation of societys most innocent and vulnerable, our children. Public safety is the preeminent function of government and this function protecting those who cannot fully protect themselves is most important. Today begins our process of permanent laws of exploitation of children and evaluate the effectiveness of these laws and Work Together across every proverbial aisle that exist to make sure our laws are as tough and possible. Amended where needed, strengt n strengthened where needed. I want to thank our witness force being here today mo
That originate online. This is just under two hours. And may not be sitabe suitable younger viewers. The committee will come to order, subcommittee on crime, terrorism and investigations. We will have a hearing on crimes against children. I will recognize myself and then the gentleman from michigan. I want to thank each of you for being here today. Todays hearing address the most difficult issues for people of good conscience to contemplate. The exploitation of societys most innocent and vulnerable, our children. Public safety is the preeminent function of government and this function protecting those who cannot fully protect themselves is most important. Today begins our process of permanent laws of exploitation of children and evaluate the effectiveness of these laws and Work Together across every proverbial aisle that exist to make sure our laws are as tough and possible. Amended where needed, strengt n strengthened where needed. I want to thank our witness force being here today mo
Lab now because of trafficking, something we didnt talk about in 2006 when this bill was passed, we have more issues making sure we protect our most valuable resource so thank you for what you do to make life better. Thank you, i yield back. Chair will recognize mister lieu. Thank you, mister chair. I think the witnesses for the work that you do. Active duty in the air force, i worked on cases as a prosecutor, coauthored a number of bills, sex offenders, very important issue to me. I do have a sense that it may take a long time a victim of a sex offense to come forward including children with victims of sex offenses so i asked the panel is that true and if it is, why does that happen . Thank you so much, mister lieu. It is true and if you look at the clergy or Catholic Church abuse cases we have good statistics on that. There have been as many as 10,000 victims who have come forward in those cases but many of those victims came forward after we 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, even 40 yea