Certainly not to keep people in the business of sex trafficking. That injustice is why we introduced our legislation. Its called stop enabling sex traffickers act or sesta. I introduced it with senators blumenthal, mccain, mccaskill, cornyn, heitkamp and others. Senators thune and nelson took this bill through the Commerce Committee late last year. By the way, we had a spirited debate in that committee and ended up coming out of the committee with a unanimous vote. Why . Because after hearing from the victims, after hearing from the experts on both sides, senators said, whoa, this doesnt make any sense, and its our responsibility as senators to change this law. It provides justice for victims of online sex trafficking because theyll have the opportunity to sue. Hold these websites accountable, that knowingly facilitate crimes. It also helps in terms of prosecutions because the state prosecutor is now the a. G. s, the local prosecutors at the state level will be able to have access now
Putting lotion in her hand and having him touch her genitals. She admits she did not go to the police said she was afraid, humiliate this was after all William Morris agencys biggest client and the biggest celebrity in the world under withering cross examination defense attorney mcgonagle questioned her timeline which was garbled at time accused of being a drogues lower back in the 90s and she denied that. She her relationship with dos bee was consensual she denied that. A trial 13 years in the making. As if to add to the already surreal nature of this case, the man to Many Americans for years as americas dad arrived in court accompanied by his tv daughter actress key in a knight pull yum. She offered no opinion on the guilt or innocence of the defendant except to say true family friendship integrity is how people show up and support when things arent looking so great. When they arent shining. Cosby charged with drugging and sexually groping Andrea Constand at his cheltenham home in ja
For mercy, grace and for giveness. We come recognizing your greatness and your power, understanding today that from heaven you oversee all that we do. We come thanking you for the Many Blessings that you have bestowed upon this nation in years past, for divine protection, provisions and the power that you have bestowed upon us we are grateful. And today we make these requests. We pray for the members of this great body, that you grant to them safety divine wisdom and knowledge as they make decisions which affect both history and every american citizen. We pray that you give to them a love for both you and this nation that is unwavering and unsurpassed. We also pray for your protection over the men and women who serve in our nations military all around the world and above everything, we pray today for a real, true revival of righteousness in america. And we make this prayer in the name that is above every name and to which every knee shall bow and every turn confessed, the name of jesus
Manual only says that sensitive but unclassified data cant be emailed outside the i. R. S. Network. But it says nothing about an outright prohibition. In other words its bad practice, but its not prohibited. And it clearly didnt stop lois lerner from lurning the tshfrom returning the confidence of the American People. As i said at the offset, congress has a responsibility to protect taxpayers, just avoiding a repeat of past failures cannot be our ambition. So lets put commonsense safeguards if place, shine the light of the transparency on the i. R. S. And provide greater accountability to the American People. The i. R. S. Email Transparency Act does just that. Mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from wisconsin reserve. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Lewis mr. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Lewis i rise in support of house bill 1152, the i.
Will vote on sometime next week. I also predict, mr. President , that this is the last farm bill that wont be driven by the new realities of people who want their food needs met in new ways. Those food needs are going to be greater, but were going to be less concerned, i would expect, five years from now about farm surpluses and what happens if we grow too much than we are about how we meet the growing food needs of the world, partly because of the population, partly because people once they get better food just want better food. Once you have the variety of food, once you have the experience of better food, nobody wants to go back to the food that they used to have. And were going to see that driving this debate over more over the next few years than we have up until now. Agriculture in many states, including my state of missouri, the number one industry in the state, 16 of our work force is directly involved in agriculture. It continues in state after state. You and i have both heard