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Week Ending November 16, 2007

H.R.4120 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for more effective prosecution of cases involving child pornography, and for other purposes.

The transfer of child paragraph through interstate commerce is the authorizing factor of this bill that expands jurisdiction to address the growing problem.

The bill finds that 83% of child pornography possessors had images of children younger than age 12, 39% had images younger than age 6 and 19% had images younger that age 3.

Sponsor:  Rep. Nancy Boyda (KS-2^nd)

Vote: To be considered

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost

Earmark Certification:   Not applicable to this bill.

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Congress makes the following findings:

(1) Child pornography is estimated to be a multibillion dollar industry of global proportions, facilitated by the growth of the Internet.

(2) Recent data has shown that 83 percent of child pornography possessors had images of children younger than 12 years old, 39 percent had images of children younger than 6 years old, and 19 percent had images of children younger than 3 years old.

(3) Child pornography is a permanent record of a child's abuse and the distribution of child pornography images revictimizes the child each time the image is viewed.

(4) Child pornography is readily available through virtually every Internet technology, including Web sites, email, instant messaging, Internet Relay Chat, newsgroups, bulletin boards, and peer-to-peer.

(5) The technological ease, lack of expense, and anonymity in obtaining and distributing child pornography over the Internet has resulted in an explosion in the multijurisdictional distribution of child pornography.

(6) The Internet is well recognized as a method of distributing goods and services across State lines.

(7) The transmission of child pornography using the Internet constitutes transportation in interstate commerce.

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