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Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/protecting-children-online
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Full Committee Hearing
Date: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
Protecting Children Online
Hearings
FULL COMMITTEE
Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis
Type:Full Committee Hearing
Date: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
Time: 10:00am
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building Room G50
Presiding: Chair Durbin more »
Women's Congressional Policy Institute Weekly Legislative Update: Reproductive Health, Recruiting Families Using Data Act, the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act
This week: A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from restricting funding for pregnancy centers; Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, the House is scheduled to consider H.R. 6918, the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act; the House is scheduled to consider H.R. 6914, the Pregnant Students’ Rights Act; the House is scheduled to consider H.R. 3058, the Recruiting Families Using Data Act. This week, the Senate and House may consider a laddered continuing resolution (CR) (as-yet-unnumbered) to extend most FY2023 spending bills to two dates in March. more »
Jo Freeman Reviews The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy
Jo Freeman Reviews: "As history, the book documents the CIA’s shift from pursuing Communists during the Cold War, who sold secrets to the Russians, to jihadists who wanted to destroy America. It wasn’t a quick shift, which is one reason CIA leaders didn’t see 9/11 coming. As early as 1993, signs said al-Qaeda was planning to fly planes into strategic buildings in the US – even the CIA itself. The men didn’t take seriously a prediction proposed by women. Over time, that changed. Indeed it was women who confirmed that Osama bin Ladin was holed up in a compound in Pakistan – by reading the laundry hanging outside to dry... The Sisterhood is a fascinating book, especially to those of us who started it knowing little about the CIA." more »
Justice Department Publishes Model Legislation to Help States Reduce Gun Violence and Improve Gun Safety
"First, the Department published model legislation to help states craft appropriate requirements for securing firearms kept in residences and vehicles and to ensure that those firearms do not fall into the hands of children, teens, and prohibited persons. Second, the Department published model legislation to help states craft appropriate requirements for the prompt reporting of lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement. The resources for states announced today follow model legislation on extreme risk protection orders first published by the Justice Department in June 2021. Wednesday, December 13, 2023" more »