Political Quotes

“And rise in opposition to this bill. Mr. Speaker, this bill restructures section 2251 of title 18 of the United States Code as apparently requested by the unit at the Department of Justice that enforces the laws against child pornography. H.R. 1761 is intended to address limitations in the prosecution of cases pursuant to section 2251, as identified by the Department. While we all agree that no child pornography offense should go unpunished, we cannot overlook the consequences of mandatory minimum sentencing. Section 2251(a) prohibits the use of a child to produce child pornography and related conduct, including overseas production and advertising child pornography. Pursuant to this bill, two new offenses would be added to this section to prohibit the production of child pornography and the transmission of live depictions of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, such as live-streaming abuse online. This measure would also modify the existing offense that prohibits having a minor assist in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing or transmitting child pornography. As amended, this offense would prohibit having a minor assist in sexually explicit conduct that violates each of the three newly enumerated production offenses, except the transportation of a minor for use in child pornography production.…”