It's a lucrative business at the expense of our kids' privacy, safety, and health. We don't have to take it.

Like we do in the real world, we need to protect our kids in the virtual world.

This is an epidemic. It is a mental health crisis, particularly for young teenaged girls.

We're going to approach this from consumer protection.

The online exploitation of children is an urgent, growing threat.

protecting children online also means combating human trafficking, and Senator Feinstein and I have passed legislation in that area

This was the 67th mass shooting in America so far this year. Sixty-seven. More than one a day.

We have more to do. We've lost 5,200 Americans to gunfire already this year, and we're only halfway through February.

We have more to do. We've lost 5,200 Americans to gunfire already this year, and we're only halfway through February.

Like we do in the real world, we need to protect our kids in the virtual world.

These social media platforms ought to be required to make these platforms safer by default.

I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 13 Ex.] YEAS--59 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin…

I announce that the Senator from Pennyslvania (Mr. Casey) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 11 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper…

I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 14 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper…

I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 15 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper…

I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 395 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives…

The online exploitation of children is an urgent, growing threat.

Like we do in the real world, we need to protect our kids in the virtual world.

These social media platforms ought to be required to make these platforms safer by default.

The EARN IT Act, which we are debating here, would change that ball game.

Now is the time to build on last year's momentum and disrupt the cycle of harm by passing privacy and safety-by-design legislation.

I think the urgency of this issue is going to help propel us past some of these obstacles.

Senator Grassley and I have legislation to strengthen Federal protections against sexual abuse of children.

This is an epidemic. It is a mental health crisis, particularly for young teenaged girls.

It's now time for us to act.