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
That they suffer on our campuses the Justice Department is using all the tools we can. We have an agreement with the university of montana where that problem was not being adequately addressed. We worked out we put in place a consent agreement. Are talkingsities to the university of montana to see what they have put in place. It is often that this kind of thing will expand and cover more college campuses. Guest thank you for your testimony today. Thank you. Senator graham. Good morning. People on both sides are asking you to do some very worthy things. This is a great area for you to be involved in. Ella me sequestration affects your ability to do what you are tasked with today. Be ablemply would not to do the kinds of things that the American People expect of us. In the 4000 fewer people Justice Department than we did in january of 2011 as a result of sequestration or the expectation of sequestration that forced me to put into place a hiring freeze. We have fewer investigators, fewer
Wanted to get the gun in the District Of Columbia for and against have been forbidden until the Supreme Court decided in the District Of Columbia versus how that a handgun ban was unconstitutional because the Second Amendment according to Justice Scalias majority opinion, it surely elevates above all other interest the right of lawabiding responsible citizens to use arms in defense of heart and home. So you would think it would have been straightforward in 20113 years later for you to distort and firing guns. Tell us why you wanted one and tell us what happened. I wrote this book out of reaction to what had happened this year as the guncontrol laws have spread through the country. Obama has pushed these laws. I had just done a gun myself. Mario it took me four months and four under and 35 in government fees to get a gun the so can legally take of my home, and our sense to just walk into a gun store, do a background check, and walk out. We have gun crime rising. Rape and Sexual Assault
From new york, there are nadler, seek recognition . Mr. Nadler mr. Speaker, i call up h. R. 6448, the invest to protect america act of 2022, and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. The speaker pro tempore clorptd title the clerk will report the title of the bill. Caller h. R. The clerk h. R. 6448, a bill to direct the director of the office of Community Oriented policing services of the department of justice to carry out a Grant Program to provide assistance to Police Departments with fewer than 200 Law Enforcement officers, and for other purposes. All points of order against the speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 1377, an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of rules Committee Print 11765 is adopted, and the bill, as amended, is considered as read. The bill, as amended, shall be debatable for 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on the judiciary or their respective desi