trent franks was the prior sponsor last congress. we got a majority vote in the house and this time it will come up and i -- i believe next week, it will pass. because people are waking up. the culture of denial is being replaced with culture of enlightenment and abortion is violence against children and in injure yous to moms. >> thank you for your passion. we're happy to be fighting with you. hopefully you make your vote. now we'll take the two panels we had combined for this afternoon and -- two panels we had this afternoon and combine them into one. i would like to invite our panelists. ryan anderson is the will yaj e. simon fellow in religion and free society here at the heritage foundation. kerri kupec is from alliance defending freedom. chuck donovan is president of charlotte lozier and heritage alum. and sarah torre is policy analyst here at heritage foundation. we would like to have each give ab introductory comment. we'll go with sarah, chuck kerri and ryan. any members you have for the panel, can you ask afterwards. >> i'l

trent franks was the prior sponsor last congress. we got a majority vote in the house and this time it will come up and i -- i believe next week, it will pass. because people are waking up. the culture of denial is being replaced with culture of enlightenment and abortion is violence against children and in injure yous to moms. >> thank you for your passion. we're happy to be fighting with you. hopefully you make your vote. now we'll take the two panels we had combined for this afternoon and -- two panels we had this afternoon and combine them into one. i would like to invite our panelists. ryan anderson is the will yaj e. simon fellow in religion and free society here at the heritage foundation. kerri kupec is from alliance defending freedom. chuck donovan is president of charlotte lozier and heritage alum. and sarah torre is policy analyst here at heritage foundation. we would like to have each give ab introductory comment. we'll go with sarah, chuck, kerri and ryan. any members you have for the panel, can you ask afterwards. >> i'

martha: i just want to play a little bid of sound on represent -- bit of sound from representative trent franks oh sorry, it's a full screen quote. here we go. he says: martha: he's referring to the fact that in this bill there were exemptions after 20 weeks for those who were victims of rape or incest. can you shed a little bit of light on how you and other republican congresswomen felt and some men as well, what your problem was with this bill? >> well, i think there was a variety of opinions throughout the conference on some of the hang-ups we had with the legislative texas of bill. and we'll continue to work -- text of this bill. at the end of the day, we couldn't reach consensus on what the text could say, so it was more important we have a bill that focused on today as a day that we want to protect life and continue to work on that legislation so that when we bring it to the floor, we can have a success. martha: all right. so you see this bill continuing but the language with regard to rape and incest, you know, what would you be satisfied with on that? >> well, i think that we have some

trent franks was a proud sponsor last congress and a guided a majority vote in the house and this time habel, then i believe next week it will pass. people are waking up. the culture of denial is being replaced with the culture of enlightenment that abortion is violence against children and injurious to mothers. thank you so much. [applause] >> congressman thank you so much and thank you for your passion. it means a lot and we are happy to be working with you so thank you. hopefully you make your vote. okay well now we are going to take the two panels that we had combined for this afternoon and combine them into one. so i would like like to monitor panels up now. ryan anderson is the william simon fellow at the heritage foundation. kerri kupec is illegal to medications director at alliance for defending freedom. chuck donovan is the president of the charlotte lucier institute and the heritage alum and sarah torre is an analyst at the heritage foundation. what we would like to do is we would like to have folks i'll give an introductory comment and we will go with sarah and then chalk an

marino, along with the congressional caucus on foster youth co-chairs, jim mcdermott, trent franks, jim langevin and diane black, all served as original co-sponsors of h.r. 469 and have demonstrated leadership by both making significant change in the child welfare system and bringing attention to the horrendous intersection between sex trafficking and our child welfare system. between 2008 and 201040% of sex trafficking cases involving exploitation of children. tragically many of these children are forgotten without the appropriate services to ensure their safety. this highlights the failure of our system to prevent them from becoming victims. more than 200,000 youth in our country are at risk for trafficking per year. in my hometown los angeles, the probation department reports that 61% of identifyified trafficking victims are foster youth. it's noteworthy that this statistic comes from the probation department and not the child welfare department. this legislation hopes to correct that. we want to make sure that child welfare agencies, in addition to juvenile justice, begin to documen

he doesn't leave stunts or public trent franks, and dohring press corps, or, for that matter, many are doing gop colleagues. mr. coburn didn't do legacy, which is why this rather humble oklahomans will have one. he leads a more informed electorate and a better republican party, two groups that benefited inversely from is focused on first principles and adhering to the constitution limiting government and protecting individual liberty. he became most known for forcing congress in particular his own his own caucus, to reconcile its actions against those principles. his long-term efforts to decode the federal government's luminous reports on waste and fraud, demands for more transparency, were likewise and at giving voters the tools they needed to hold members true to these principles. the real key to mr. coburn's success was a skill too little value in washington today, hard work. he was an accountant and then an obstetrician before coming to d.c., and never lost that was that he needed to earn his paycheck. he read every word of every report his staff gave him and sent it back with typo