Mitt Romney Vs. Jeb Bush. Who Will Be On The Republican Ticket In 2016?
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(Bloomberg) -- House Speaker John Boehner concedes the new Republican-led U.S. Congress has had a couple of stumbles as opposition within the party forced the indefinite postponement this week of House border-security legislation.
We want to get off to a fast start this year, Boehner of Ohio said Tuesday, explaining that Republicans who control the House and Senate are seeking to assure Americans were here to listen to their priorities.
Instead, dissent within the party has complicated leaders plans to pass legislation on the House floor. In addition to the border-security vote, House Republican leaders had to pull an anti-abortion measure amid opposition, while their plan to block President Barack Obamas immigration actions in a Department of Homeland Security financing bill drew no votes from moderates.
Governing is tough in this business, said Tom Davis, a former Republican House member from Virginia.
In the sessions opening moments on Jan. 6, Boehner himself was a target of Republican opposition, with 24 of his Republican colleagues voting for someone else to be speaker. He won re-election, though with support from fewer than half of the 434 House members, as some were absent and no Democrats voted for him.
Thomas Mann, a congressional analyst at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said Republican leaders began the new session with mostly symbolic legislation that had no chance of becoming law during Obamas presidency. Their mistake, he said, has been failing to first secure enough support among party members about what these bills should contain.
Its a challenge of having bigger and more diverse caucuses, added Spencer Abraham, a Republican former U.S. senator from Michigan and former U.S. energy secretary.
Republicans control 246 House seats, their largest majority in 70 years. That includes members from more moderate areas of the country along with hard-line Republicans, representing a broader range of viewpoints for leaders to deal with, Abraham said.
Some of the hard-line members objected to the $10 billion border security bill on grounds it didnt go far enough. Last week, Republican leaders scrapped a House vote to ban abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy because a group of centrist members, including women lawmakers, said an exception for rape victims was too limited.
Two weeks ago, 26 House Republicans, mostly moderates, almost helped defeat an amendment to their partys Homeland Security funding bill that would end aid to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The measure passed and went to the Senate where Democrats, newly in the minority, said they will block it.
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TIME Politics Congress Republican House Takes Aim at Human Trafficking Again Updated: Jan. 27, 2015 5:53 PM House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, left, and Majority Whip Steve Scalise conduct a news conference after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol, Jan. 27, 2015. Tom WilliamsCQ-Roll Call/Getty Images The House passed a dozen bills that combat the issue of human trafficking, particularly child sex trafficking
Several bills passed the House of Representatives this week to combat human trafficking worldwide. Between Monday and Tuesday, a total of 12 bipartisan bills attacking the issue from all anglesfrom the demand for sex trafficking to the welfare systems response to victimspassed the Republican-controlled House.
Many of the bills that passed Tuesday had passed the House during the 113th Congress, but didnt get voted on in the Senate. Republicans are hopeful that will change this time around.
Though last year many of these same bills got stuck in the Senate, for the sake of all those affected by human trafficking, Im hopeful that these bills will be passed through the Senate, sent to the Presidents desk, and finally become law, said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
A total of 13 bills focused on trafficking passed the House last session and one, the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act, was signed into law last September. The bills were lauded by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle as important steps toward ending the practice, seen across the globe as a modern form of slavery.
Bills on the issue of human trafficking have also been introduced in the Senate, including a bill from Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) called the Combat Human Trafficking Act, aimed at those who engage in sex acts with victims of trafficking. The bill, introduced Jan. 8, would also ramp up law enforcement efforts to investigate and prosecute buyers and increase victim services. In a statement to TIME, Sen. Portman called human trafficking the human rights cause of our time.
I am hopeful that legislation to strengthen law enforcement efforts to investigate and prosecute all who commit sex trafficking crimes will soon become law,said Portman.
On Tuesday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) spoke on the Senate floor urging action on a bill he and several Senators introduced in January called the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015. Yes, human trafficking is happening right in our own backyard, and more than 80% of sex trafficking victims in America are U.S. citizens, Cornyn said, noting that big sporting events like the Super Bowl can be hotbeds for sex trafficking.
Human trafficking is estimated to be a multinational, multibillion-dollar industry and one of the most lucrative international criminal practices. The Department of Homeland Security estimates over 20 million men, women, and children are victims of trafficking. An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American children are at risk of becoming child sex trafficking victims every year, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The bills before Congress address whats arguably the most maligned form of traffickingchild sex trafficking and they go pretty far, too. One bill, the Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act, calls on states to provide welfare services including counseling to keep child victims from having to enter the criminal justice system. Another bill, International Megans Law, would require the U.S. to communicate about when and where convicted child sex offenders are traveling internationally. One bill would make it a crime to knowingly sell advertising that offers certain commercial sex acts, in an effort to stop websites like backpage.com.
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