{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hassan.senate.gov/news/press-releases/blackburn-colleagues-bill-to-end-child-exploitation-unanimously-passes-senate", "Blackburn, Colleagues\u2019 Bill To End Child Exploitation Unanimously Passes Senate", "2022-12-21", "2022", "2022-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "NH", "Margaret Wood Hassan", "H001076", "www.hassan.senate.gov", "hassan", "https://www.hassan.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), along with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), as well as Representatives Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio-16), Annie Kuster (N.H.-02), Guy Reschenthaler (Pa.-14), and Lucy McBath (Ga.-06) celebrated the Senate\u2019s passage of the END Child Exploitation Act. This legislation doubles the mandatory time period for preserving information about child sexual abuse images that technology companies report to the CyberTipline of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Additionally, technology companies may retain the contents of the online sexual exploitation of children for longer than 180 days if necessary to prevent further exploitation.\n\n\u201cChildren are increasingly living their lives behind screens, and the jarring reality is this leaves more innocent kids at risk of online exploitation,\u201d said Senator Blackburn. \u201cThe bill is a significant step forward in our efforts to protect our children online because it allows law enforcement to collect evidence needed to hunt down online predators. I am pleased this legislation has unanimously passed the Senate, and I encourage the House to promptly take up this critical legislation so that it can get to the President\u2019s desk.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve stood up for trafficking victims since I was Nevada\u2019s Attorney General, and I know how difficult investigations into online child abuse can be,\u201d said Senator Cortez Masto. \u201cThis bill is going to make it easier for our law enforcement agencies to hold perpetrators of child exploitation accountable, and I urge the House to pass it swiftly. I\u2019ll keep doing everything I can to protect children from trafficking and abuse.\u201d\n\n\u201cProtecting our children from abusers must be a top priority, and part of that work includes ensuring that law enforcement has access to the evidence that they need to crack down on perpetrators,\u201d said Senator Hassan. \u201cThis bipartisan legislation is an important step toward strengthening our efforts to end child exploitation, and I will keep pushing to get it signed into law.\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "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://www.hassan.senate.gov/news/press-releases/blackburn-colleagues-bill-to-end-child-exploitation-unanimously-passes-senate"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7889610026031733, "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"}