And girls that emphasizes how pressing and pervasive this problem is on our campuses. I am attending an initiative in connecticut to try to raise awareness about it and i would like your commitment that you will work with me and others on this committee on this issue. I look forward to working with you on that important issue in the statistics are alarming. 20 of all young women are either assaulted or an attempt of an Sexual Assault. Usually this happens and there freshmen are early part of their sophomore years. We have used those statistics in the work of the task force of the president has put together to deal with that issue and we look forward to working with you and other members of congress and trying to come up with meaningful ways that we can deal with an issue that has too often been if not ignored not given the attention it deserves. Just so no one thinks that this issue nearly involves rhetoric. There is a legal basis for legal action and federal title ix in protecting wom
Let me just say on the issue of trafficking i welcome your comments on that score. I have proposed a resolution, bipartisan resolution with my colleague rob portman who is not a member of this committee basically saying that there should be more vigorous enforcement of these laws particularly around the time of the super bowl because the trafficking on web sites like back page. Com and tends to increase during this time so i welcome your comments. And let me just add briefly, to take senator leahys comments, i want to thank you and the department of justice for really over these past years viewing these legal issues on their merits, on their legal merits putting politics aside. The Justice Department went through a dark area in my view under the Previous Administration when politics far too often became part of the analysis and i want to thank the career, Justice Department employees who worked so hard and long under you to make sure that the rule of law is berserk. Let me turn to a pa
There are countless more like her, thousands of new mine victims each year show the other tragic side of the story. I mentioned on the floor here the other day about the bosnia conflict. Talking to a young teenager, young teenaged girl in the hospital. She had been sent away by her parents to a safe place during that war. The war ended, the army left the field. She could come home, she is running down the road, calling out to her parents and steps on a land mine and loses both her legs. She wasnt a combatant. The war wasnt even going on anymore. It was supposed to be safe. She became a victim. So many of these victims. Now, americans by and large also condemn the use of these land mines, but they expect more than they are getting from their government, and so do i. So should every member of congress. Its been 20 years since president bill clinton at the United Nations called for the elimination of antipersonal land mines. They cheered him when he did. Two years later in 1996, he said q
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 414. The nays are four. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the conference report is agreed to, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid pon the table. The house will be in order. I would ask members to take your conversations off the floor. For what purpose does the gentleman from missouri seek recognition . Thank you, madam speaker. I ask unanimous consent to remove myself from h. R. 3717. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Clay thank you. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Woodall by direction of the committee on rules, i call up House Resolution 585 and ask for its immediate consideration. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 108, House Resolution 585, resolved, that at any time after the adoption of this resolution the speaker may, p
Quorum call mr. Coons mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware is recognized. Mr. Coons i ask unanimous consent that the proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Coons mr. President , i come to the floor this afternoon because this week, the senate has a chance to take another crucial step away from the political cliffs and manufactured crises of previous years and to get back to the regular order, to get back to the considered, measured, orderly process on this floor that for so long was characteristic of this body, in past considered the greatest deliberative body on earth, but in recent years, it has ground to a halt. It is critical that we return to regular order and that we return to the steady consideration of appropriation bills in a way that will move not just the senate, this congress, but this country forward. Id like to thank the chair and ranking members of the appropriation committee, sen