legislation for schools to teach children about sexual victimization. from 6, 7 and 8 i was sexually abused and raped at the hands of a neighbor up the street from me. my best friend s uncle who lived in the home. did i go home and tell? no, i didn t. i kept it a secret, threatened that he would come get me. he knew where i lived. erin has written a book about her experience called an unimaginable act, overcoming and preventing child abuse through erin s law and she s here live. great to have you here. i found your book really inspiring and also depressing frankly. you were sexually abused by two men. in the aftermath you were labeled an emotionally disturbed child, you were anorexic in college and you didn t tell anyone until you were out of graduate school, right? correct.
this law. eight states have passed erin s law, including your home state of illinois. it has been introduced and is pending in 18 more states, including new york here. tell me about the reaction and the pushback that you ve gotten as you ve traveled. i have gotten positive and unpositive reaction to this. some say this is needed. others say how are schools going to afford this. there are ways around this where it will cost schools nothing. you have school social workers and psychologists that teach kids bully intervention. the programs are there. we just need to allow the time to get people to realize we need to teach kids how to speak up and be safe. with 18 states now introducing it and 8 that have passed this, we have more than half the country on board. i hope this morning the president is listening because he could speed up this mission a lot faster. what would you like to see done. could something be done on a national level and what are the chances that would happen? you wer
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house will only be in session seven days this month. just eight days next month. speaker boehner reportedly even joked that the house shouldn t even stay in session in december. could this do-nothing congress have an impact on next year s midterms? i want to bring in matt bennett, senior vice president and co-founder of third way. rick tyler is a republican strategist and former newt gingrich spokesman. good morning, gentlemen. good morning. good morning. so poll after poll shows frankly congressional aproouchl is in the toilet, single digits. only 47 bills have been signed into law this year. second year in a row that it s the least productive congress. matt, how do lawmakers go home and explain that to their constituents? boy, it is really tough. i wouldn t want to be one of them having to do that. there really is no way to explain this to constituents. the fact they re only going to work 15 days between now and the end of the year when we have these enormous problems in fron
the house passed a budget. it didn t include obama care. they didn t take it up. that s a pretty big asterisk that didn t include obama care. what you re trying to say is it defunded a law that passed three years ago. this has been a debate that is already over. even republicans in congress are saying they re not going to fight this battle again because they lost so badly. matt bennett, rick tyler, thank you, gentlemen. thank you, chris. great conversation. coming up, a woman shares her childhood secrets as she launches a one-woman campaign to protect children against sexual assault and she is changing laws one state at a time. we ll have her story coming up. what would you do? [ woman ] i d be a writer. [ man ] i d be a baker. [ woman ] i wanna be a pie maker. [ man ] i wanna be a pilot. [ woman ] i d be an architect. what if i told you someone could pay you and what if that person were you? when you think about it, isn t that what retirement should be, paying ourselves