20 Republicans, the usual suspects, vote nay on the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victim Protection Act in the house today.
A summary of the bill from The Safe House Project:
“The Frederick Douglass TVPRA bill reauthorizes and enhances successful programs, strengthens laws, and adds accountability. The bill enhances successful programs like the grants to assist in the recognition of child trafficking by adding prevention of online grooming and trafficking of children through accessible, age-appropriate, trauma-informed approaches and scalable programs that use proven and tested best practices. It also strengthens laws to prevent, identify, and report child sex and labor trafficking. It further ensures that survivor employment and education programs offer wrap-around social services, case management, life skills training, and assistance with obtaining employment and higher education. Likewise, it strengthens Federal government accountability for survivor -informed policy through a ten-year extension of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking and ensures competition in program to end modern slavery grant awards. The bill also includes new critical provisions, described below.
Domestic Provisions:
• Public-private sector accountability in counter-trafficking efforts at U.S. federal government preferred places of accommodation (hotel and lodging).
• $35 million for Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Trafficking.International Provisions:
• International prevention efforts to include accessible, age-appropriate, and trauma-informed approaches for USAID beneficiaries and encourages further integration of counter- trafficking efforts across the development portfolio.
• Tier standards to clarify language on the special rule for countries on the Tier 2 Watch List; simplify and prioritize reporting to Congress for Tier 2 Watch List countries of concern for the following year; and change Special Watch List to Tier 2 Watch List.“
Who would vote against this bill?
— Karen 🇺🇸🌊❤🧶❄🐑🐄🍒🚜🌽 (@karenknitssocks) July 27, 2022
the usual suspects?
— Honest_Lee#2020 (@HonestLee20201) July 27, 2022
Just a handful of years ago, it would have been a huge deal for a sitting politician that is actively being investigated for sex-related and possible trafficking crimes, to openly vote against a bill like this.
It's scary how numb we've become.— K Blanchard (@Ope_Whoopsie) July 27, 2022
Yup
What Republicans do. pic.twitter.com/E1RJ5iwqyq
— Paul Dunfee (@lvhothead2483) July 27, 2022
Is this any way to run a democracy?
Thank Jebus enough of them voted yea for it to pass.
gop = uneducated
The usual GQP losers.
I guess Mattie did a good job of either lobbying or blackmail. I hear he plays Gary Puckett and the Union Gap’s ‘Young Girl’ on loop. Hey whatthefuck? How else can those old ugly dudes use up their Viagra scripts with chicklettes? Our tax dollars at work…that’s how.
Ah,,the,Republican geniuses,,Gosar,,Gaetz, Boebery.
I get why Gaetz,voted for it. This is his dating pool. First and Norbert are just too stupid. But the rest?
Just proves Rs hate women. Or need to.pay pimps so they can finally lose their virginity.
I understand why they voted against this bill. It’s an attack on free enterprise.