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Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight of the Smithsonian: Radical Revisionism at the National Museum of American...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
MILLER, MARY E. "Okay, thank you. Continuing on, well, obviously there's explicit video to prove that you welcome children to an exhibit that features sexually explicit material. I cannot even imagine why you would do"
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Children and the Internet: Legal Considerations in Restricting Access to Content
Reports · Mar 14, 2022
Throughout the internet’s history, the medium’s effect on children has been a recurring topic of interest to legislators and the public. In the internet’s early days, much attention focused on...
Testimony MILLER, MARY E.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight o...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026
"Okay, thank you. Continuing on, well, obviously there's explicit video to prove that you welcome children to an exhibit that features sexually explicit material. I cannot even imagine why you would do"
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Supreme Court Upholds State AgeVerification Requirement for Certain Websites
Posts · Aug 28, 2025
In 2004, the Supreme Court held that a federal law enacted to protect minors from sexually explicit online content was likely unconstitutional because it unduly burdened adults’ ability to share...
Testimony BICE, STEPHANIE I.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight o...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026
"It's a yes or no answer. Sexually explicit material should never be near youth content. The answer should be"
Testimony MILLER, MARY E.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight o...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026
"we know this is a deliberate agenda. Most recently, the museum has decided to fill its exhibits with sexually explicit content by displaying drag queens and nude women on magazine covers. It even featured a diary in which a little girl writes, and I quote, I pray to God every night for my penis to"
Testimony MILLER, MARY E.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight o...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026
"Nobody. Yesterday, Dr. Hart, or Director Harttig, you testified before a separate committee in the House and were questioned about sexually explicit material on display at the museum in a former exhibit titled Girlhood is Complicated. Twice, you told members of Congress that the exhibit was never designed for children, yet in a video you published online when the exhibit first opened, you explicitly say, and I"
Testimony MILLER, MARY E.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight o...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026
"Okay, that's not answering my question. You actually welcomed children to an exhibit with sexually explicit material. And so, can you tell us what a crotch harness"
Testimony ALLEN, RICK W.
“Examining the Policies and Priorities of the NLRB”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"ruling that it is unfair labor practice for an employer to require employees to attend a meeting during which the employer expresses its views on unionization. The stereo cycle of Lynn Alestomer's decision made it harder for employers to discipline employees who use racist, sexist, or sexually explicit language at work. Finally, the Biden-Harris board waged an aggressive campaign to classify more Americans as employees under the National Labor Relations Act. They did so in an effort to increase..."
Testimony KNOTT, BRAD
“Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"And that doesn't even begin to touch what members of the left want to put before children in school, as young as kindergarten. I mean, it's just sexually explicit material. Even in my home state of North Carolina, they are going to the bat to defend their right to put this type of material in front of"
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"NCMEC, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, received a total of 139 cyber tips involving financially motivated sextortion. 2021, 139 tips. In the first six months of this year alone, excuse me, they've already received 23,000 of these tips plus. Offenders often operated in coordinated criminal networks overseas, targeting teenagers in the United States, and we'll hear specific cases about that. They coerced them into sending a sexually explicit image and then threatened to..."
Testimony SPEAKER_12
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"Today, every child exploitation case involves the criminal use of cellular phones and computers. Offenders use these tools to stockpile massive quantities of sexually explicit videos and images of children, frequently targeting prepubescent"
Testimony SPEAKER_12
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"Similarly, law enforcement agencies have reported an alarming increase in sextortion cases, children being coerced into sending sexually explicit images online, like James that we just heard"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"This trend has led to the most egregious exploitation that NCMEC has ever seen. Violent online offenders work in groups, targeting and manipulating vulnerable children, some as young as 12 years old, on popular online platforms and gaming sites to create and share sexually explicit content, to cut themselves, carving offenders' names into their bodies, to harm, to kill animals, to physically or sexually abuse other children, including their younger siblings, and even to commit"
Testimony ONDER, ROBERT F.
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"No, I think sometimes we have to make distinctions here. Would you consider, in your opinion, is keeping pornography and other sexually explicit material away from children? Is that censorship? I would think so. And in your opinion, is a presidential administration cutting funding to rogue programs to promote transgender ideology when Congress never expressed that intent? never expressed that intent. Is that"
Hearing Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriters, and performers in the digital age.
senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee · Dec 9, 2025 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "NCMEC, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, received a total of 139 cyber tips involving financially motivated sextortion. 2021, 139 tips. In the first six months of this year alone, excuse me, they've already received 23,000 of these tips plus. Offenders often operated in coordinated criminal networks overseas, targeting teenagers in the United States, and we'll hear specific cases about that. They coerced them into sending a sexually explicit image and then threatened to release it unless money's paid. For too many families, this crime ends in tragedy. NCMEC has identified..."
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Title IX and Sexual Harassment: Education Department Proposes New Regulations
Posts · Mar 4, 2019
This past November, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend current regulations that implement Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX)....
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Supreme Court Considers Sex Discrimination Claims by Gay and Transgender Workers
Posts · Oct 11, 2019
On October 8, 2019, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda, Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. (Harris Homes) v. EEOC, a...
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The Twenty-First Amendment and the End of Prohibition, Part 5: State Power over Alcohol and Individual Rights
Posts · Oct 31, 2023
This Legal Sidebar is the fifth in a six-part series that discusses the Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution. The Twenty-First Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the...
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Artificial Intelligence Prompts Renewed Consideration of a Federal Right of Publicity
Posts · Jan 29, 2024
Recent uses of artificial intelligence (AI) to create realistic images, videos, replicas, or voice simulations of real people have prompted some Members of Congress to call for federal legislation to...
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Education Department Updates Title IX Regulations: Responding to Sex Discrimination and Harassment at School
Posts · Jul 16, 2024
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) prohibits sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal financial assistance. In updated regulations, the Department of...
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Social Media: Regulatory, Legal, and Policy Considerations for the 119th Congress
Resources · Feb 11, 2025
Social media platforms enable users to create and share content and interact with other users’ content. A diverse set of platforms disseminate information to billions of people, and are used by most...
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The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Federal Law Prohibiting the Nonconsensual Publication of Intimate Images
Posts · May 20, 2025
On April 28, 2025, Congress passed S. 146, the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a bill that criminalizes the nonconsensual publication of intimate images, including “digital forgeries” (i.e., deepfakes), in certain...
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Title IX and Sexual Harassment: Private Rights of Action, Administrative Enforcement, and Proposed Regulations
Reports · Apr 12, 2019
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) provides an avenue of legal relief for victims of sexual abuse and harassment at educational institutions. It bars discrimination “on the basis...
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Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Federal Sex Offenses: An Overview
Reports · Mar 2, 2012
Sex offenses are usually state crimes. Federal law, however, outlaws sex offenses when they occur on federal lands or in federal prisons, when they involve interstate or foreign travel, or when they...
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Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Federal Sex Offenses: An Abridged Overview
Reports · Mar 2, 2012
Sex offenses are usually state crimes. Federal law, however, outlaws sex offenses when they occur on federal lands or in federal prisons, when they involve interstate or foreign travel, or when they...
Hearing “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the NLRB”
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
ALLEN, RICK W. "ruling that it is unfair labor practice for an employer to require employees to attend a meeting during which the employer expresses its views on unionization. The stereo cycle of Lynn Alestomer's decision made it harder for employers to discipline employees who use racist, sexist, or sexually explicit language at work. Finally, the Biden-Harris board waged an aggressive campaign to classify more Americans as employees under the National Labor Relations Act. They did so in an effort to increase the number of potential union members in the hopes of funneling additional millions of dollars to..."
Hearing “Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
KNOTT, BRAD "And that doesn't even begin to touch what members of the left want to put before children in school, as young as kindergarten. I mean, it's just sexually explicit material. Even in my home state of North Carolina, they are going to the bat to defend their right to put this type of material in front of"
Hearing “The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript
ONDER, ROBERT F. "No, I think sometimes we have to make distinctions here. Would you consider, in your opinion, is keeping pornography and other sexually explicit material away from children? Is that censorship? I would think so. And in your opinion, is a presidential administration cutting funding to rogue programs to promote transgender ideology when Congress never expressed that intent? never expressed that intent. Is that"
Hearing H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents Opt-in Protection Act"; H.R. 8747, "K-12 AI Literacy and Readiness Act of...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
TAKANO, MARK "it's to undermine Title IX's protections. Last Congress, they voted to overturn regulations that explicitly clarified Title IX's protections on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, sex characteristics, sex"
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University Liability Under Title IX for Off-Campus Sexual Harassment
Posts · Jan 12, 2024
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) requires schools that receive federal funding to respond to the sexual harassment or assault of students by fellow students in certain...
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Status of Education Department’s Title IX Regulations
Posts · Mar 24, 2025
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) prohibits sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal financial assistance. The Department of Education (ED) enforces the law...
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Education Department Proposes New Title IX Regulations: Responding to Sex Discrimination and Harassment at School
Posts · Aug 10, 2022
The Department of Education (ED) recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend its current regulations that implement Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (Title IX)....
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"it's to undermine Title IX's protections. Last Congress, they voted to overturn regulations that explicitly clarified Title IX's protections on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, sex characteristics, sex"