Political Quotes

“I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The demand for child pornography harms children because it drives production, which involves severe child sexual abuse and exploitation. (2) The harms caused by child pornography begin, but do not end, with child sex assault because child pornography is a permanent record of that abuse and trafficking in those images compounds the harm to the child. (3) In Paroline v. United States (2014), the Supreme Court recognized that ``every viewing of child pornography is a repetition of the victim's abuse''. (4) The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children has stated that for victims of child pornography, ``the sexual abuse of the child, the memorialization of that abuse which becomes child pornography, and its subsequent distribution and viewing become psychologically intertwined and each compound the harm suffered by the child-victim''. (5) Victims suffer continuing and grievous harm as a result of knowing that a large, indeterminate number of individuals have viewed and will in the future view images of their childhood sexual abuse.…”