chair sensenbrenner: ok. so you do not do any type of the counseling that is needed by anyone who is a victim of a sexual assault? you turned that over someone else? ms. pyati: we do. our center offers holistic purposes, so we have both social workers and lawyers on our stuff staff, so we would definitely offer that kind of counsel to somebody who came to us. chair sensenbrenner: so you are proactive in seeking out and offering those types of services . the victims and the victims' families have to come to you rather than you go to them. ms. pyati: we conduct outreach to be sure individuals know we are there. where our offices are. what kind of services we provide. to make sure folks know they can come to us. the majority of folks who seek our services have heard of us from word-of-mouth as well as our outreach efforts. chair sensenbrenner: thank you very much. the gentlewoman from california. ms. locklin. rep. locklin: thank you, mr. chairman. a couple of observations. you know, i think it is a mistake to us

chair sensenbrenner: without objection that will be included , as well. rep. cicilline: thank you. hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the united states have adopted community trust policies. these communities report that such policies, far from increasing crime, actually reduce it. recent comprehensive studies have supported these claims statistically, showing that community trust jurisdictions are the mostly safer than their -- are demonstrably safer than

sensenbrenner 0 will join us on in-depth tomorrow discussing his work and take your phone calls. >> welcome dave barry and carl hiaasen. >> what was your name again. >> carl hiaasen couldn't be here but i'm in his place. >> thank you for coming, thank you to jamie. [applause] what we thought we would do in the few minutes we have left is we are going to briefly talk about our newspaper careers but first we think the festival for fitting 1,000,0001/2 people into this room with an incredible crowd. >> national park service estimate in this room. i would never see a crowd this big. most amazing incredible crowd. huge crowd. so we are going to tell you about our newspaper careers and then talk about florida or whatever. i started the newspaper business in 1921, worked for a newspaper in pennsylvania called the daily local news in westchester, pennsylvania. a local paper. on the front page, woman beats off would be rapists. that is the kind of paper we were. i was a general assignment reporter. i wrote obituaries and covered fires and a lot of municipal meetings. i went from there to the associa

jim sensenbrenner. >> i think this is going to upset the apple cart here. >> absolutely. this is no doubt the largest challenge that president trump and his team, rex tillerson, general mattis have had to fails. of course as jason pointed out the reason that will they want to get the thad missile defense system in there now is because, you know, the next administration will likely be a lot less hospitable to the u.s. north correa is the most unstable nuclear power. the only country they care about is china. the trump administration has to deal with the fact that over the past eight years the former president, obama didn't do anything to strengthen america's hand against china. and we'll see how well he is able to deal with that. >> bret: as you look at a map of that region you see all of the countries that are directly involved in one way or another, right there. you have south korea, japan, china is concerned about north korea possibly falling apart and all of these people flowing across the border into china. >> right, i the mean china's interest in protecting north kor

on october 25 of 2005, then judiciary committee chairman sensenbrenner and representative goodlatte along with house judiciary ranking member mr. conyers introduced the private property protection act which would deny states or localities that abuse eminent domain all development funds for a period of two years. this bill was reported out on october 27 by a vote of 27-3. the bill went on to pass the house with 365 votes. it passed the house by a simple voice vote. the naacp and aarp have said the takings that result from the supreme court's decision will disproportionately affect and harm the economically disadvantaged and racial and ethnic minorities and the elderly. representatives of religious organizations have stated that houses of worship and other religious institutions are nonprofit and almost universally tax exempt. these characteristics render their property sing did you larly vulnerable to being taken by the rationale approved by the supreme court. the federation has stated farmers and ranchers own and lease significant amounts of land on which they depend for their livelihoods

sensenbrenner for this act and the good accompl h accomplished by this act and improving this system to be more efficient and more just. sex offenders will often go to great lengths to get close to children, gain their trust and take advantage of their naivete. that is why it is important organizations that serve children and meant to provide children with mentors be sure their volunteers and employees do not have a history of predatory behavior. i commend the work of bishop and shipp for the work to give them quick information for fbi databases in background investigations. we have a distinguished panel of witnesses here today to discuss this difficult subject, people who dedicated their careers to protecting children and are familiar with these challenges and ending them. i look forward to hearing about the problems being encountered and preventing and investigating these crimes and what congress and the states can do to help further combat them. congress has passed a number of bills to address the crisis of child exploitation in the united states. we must keep up with this ever ev

maybe we should start with the sensenbrenner bill. let's go on to some other stuff. again.one, here we go it does not change. is a regular, she is always here. she would be out of a job if we fixed this problem. sheriff, the kind of rotate the sheriff's, they say what you say. judge, thank you for the efficacy for the immigrant community. we are not here to solve a problem, we are here to say that immigrants are truck drivers, murderers, rapists and gang members. it does not change. that should not surprise us since we have a president who said all mexicans are murderers, rapists and drug dealers. complygentleman will with the rules in referring to the president. >> i will call him donald trump, that is ok? >> no, it is what you said. the gentleman will not cast aspersions on the president. >> we have a president of the united states that said that mexicans are murderers, rapists and drug dealers. but let's move on. it doesn't really surprise me the conversation we're having. it is not looking for a solution, it is looking for a demonization of a community of people

sensenbrenner 0 will join us on in-depth tomorrow discussing his work and take your phone calls. >> welcome dave barry and carl hiaasen.