On the recordApril 5, 2022
the Senator asks: ``Why now?'' Why act now? It is because it is a crisis now, because there are 85 million images of children being exploited on the internet now, because child exploitation is exploding in this country now. Today, the Senator lays bare on this floor the bait and switch that he and his colleagues have employed. They say: Oh, Judge Jackson--it is not her fault. You should act on the law to change the law. But when we come to change the law and do what this Congress did in 2003, to do it now in 2022--a measure that Senator Durbin supported in 2003--he says: Oh, no, no, we don't need to act now. Why do it now? It is rushed. It is too hurried. Let's do it later. Let's think about it longer. Then we hear recited again the bizarre claims that somehow child pornography is a conspiracy theory. This is something that Senate Democrats, including the chairman, have repeated over and over and over, led by the White House--the idea that child exploitation is a conspiracy theory. I would just invite you to look any parent in America in the eye and tell them that the exploitation of children is a conspiracy theory--or any law enforcement agent or any prosecutor or anyone who is working on the exploitation, to combat the exploitation of children in this country. No. It is a crisis, and it is real. The fact that the Senate hasn't acted until now is, I think, shameful for the Senate. But why wait another day? Now, I look forward, if the Senator is serious.…
