{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://wagner.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/wagner-bipartisan-coalition-reintroduce-legislation-stop-online-child", "Wagner, Bipartisan Coalition Reintroduce Legislation to Stop Online Child Exploitation", "2023-11-06", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "House", "MO", "Ann Wagner", "W000812", "wagner.house.gov", "wagner", "https://wagner.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Representatives Ann Wagner (R-MO-02), Lucy McBath (D-GA-07), Barry Moore (R-AL-02), Glenn Ivey (D-MD-04), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-02), and Sylvia Garcia (D-TX-29) reintroduced the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) Child Exploitation Act. This bipartisan legislation addresses the troubling prevalence of online child exploitation in communities across the nation.\n\n\u201cCongress must take action to address the child exploitation crisis happening in the United States. I am proud to support the END Child Exploitation Act, provisions that are included in my Child Online Safety Modernization Act and EARN IT Act. These efforts are vital to ensuring law enforcement has the ability to properly and comprehensively investigate these horrible crimes and rescue children from abuse,\u201d said Wagner.\n\n\u201cOnline risks are a dangerous and evolving threat to our children, and we must do more as lawmakers to protect them,\u201d said McBath. \u201cI am honored to lead this legislation to provide parents and law enforcement the necessary tools to stop child abuse and exploitation. I thank my colleagues for their support as we take an important step to keep kids safe, hold perpetrators accountable, and protect families in Georgia and across the United States.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs technology has advanced, so has the online threat to our children,\u201d said Moore. \u201cI am proud to co-lead legislation to ensure law enforcement, parents, and guardians have the tools they need to catch criminals and keep kids safe online. I am grateful to my colleagues for joining this bipartisan effort to protect children and families.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs a former prosecutor, I know all too well the difficulties of making a case when evidence has been lost. Extending the time frame for tech companies to keep the records and images compiled by online predators will be an important step in helping hold exploiters of children accountable. I commend our bipartisan leaders in the House for pursuing this legislation,\u201d said Ivey.\n\n\u201cProtecting our children in an increasingly online world must be a top priority for lawmakers, which is why I am proud to join my colleagues in introducing the END Child Exploitation Act,\u201d said Van Drew. \u201cThis is a critical first step to ensuring that law enforcement and parents have access to every resource possible to safeguard our children and guarantee perpetrators are held accountable.\u201d\n\n\u201cEnsuring the safety of children is one of my top priorities. I'm proud to reintroduce the bipartisan Eliminate Network Distribution (END) Child Exploitation Act, which aims to implement necessary precautions to prevent and respond to online child exploitation,\u201d said Garcia. \u201cIt is imperative to use the full extent of the law to hold accountable those who exploit children or violate laws related to child sexual abuse.\u201d\n\nThis legislation is endorsed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), the Fraternal Order of Police, PACT, and the END Online Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children Coalition.\n\n\u201cLaw enforcement is inundated with CyberTipline reports and is habitually under-resourced when pursuing these cases,\u201d said Samantha Cadet, Director of Federal Affairs, Appropriations, and National Coalitions for RAINN. \u201c90 days is too short of a timeframe for law enforcement to collect the evidence needed from these reports and to investigate dangerous perpetrators who possess and distribute child sexual abuse materials (CSAM). Extending the retention period to 1 year is the first step forward in ensuring that law enforcement is effectively able to investigate these crimes and bring offenders to justice.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://wagner.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/wagner-bipartisan-coalition-reintroduce-legislation-stop-online-child"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.20493895560503, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}