Report and recommendations on problems of evacuation of citizens and aliens from military areas

Preliminary report and recommendations on problems of evacuation of citizens and aliens from military areas

Report and recommendations on problems of evacuation of citizens and aliens from military areas

Preliminary report and recommendations on problems of evacuation of citizens and aliens from military areas

H.R. 2335, June 8 1993, Committee on Education and Labor Bill

To amend certain education laws to provide for service-learning and to strengthen the skills of teachers and improve instruction in service-learning, and for other purposes

REPLY MEMORANDUM OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

INTRODUCTION 1 ARGUMENT 5 PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ATTEMPTED DEFENSES FAIL 5 A. President Trump Cannot Reasonably Deny Responsibility For Inciting The Insurrection 5 B. The Senate Has Jurisdiction To Try This Impeachment . 10 C. The First Amendment Provides No Defense to Conviction and Disqualification 19 D. President Trump Has Received From Congress All The Process He Was Due 23 E. The Senate Is Not Limited To The Standards Of Criminal Law . 26 F. The Article Does Not Charge Multiple Instances Of Impeachable Conduct 2

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Tranmitting Report of the Investigation of the Acts of Gevernor Young, Ex Officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Utah Territory

Historical document of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding Governor Young and Indian affairs of the Utah Territory

Indian Depredations in Utah: Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory, Preview for an Appropriation to Pay for Indian Depredations and Expenses Inenrred in Supressing Indian Hostilities

Historical government document of the Legislative Assembly about Indian depredations in the Utah territory

Combating Modern Slavery: Reauthorization of Anti-Trafficking Programs

This is an incredible and an unusual kind of hearing because of the promise of freedom of the 13th amendment, a promise written from the suffering of all of those who have been held in bondage. Sadly, involuntary servitude lives on in this country long after Emancipation Day. Freedom can only be advanced through sustained determination. The Civil Rights Movement could only occur after the change of peonage and exploitation had been broken in the late 1940’s by the NAACP and, as well, the FBI and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Section all working together. The same type of collaboration is happening today with nonprofit groups and the Government working together to confront trafficking for modern slavery. Here in Congress we must work to ensure that they have the tools they need to fulfill the living promise of the 13th amendment, and that essentially is what this hearing is about today. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act was a groundbreaking, bipartisan effort to update our involuntary servitude statutes and to create victim protections. I thank for this cooperation the Ranking Member of the Judiciary, Lamar Smith. It is a bipartisan bill, recently introduced with both Chairman Tom Lantos’ and Congress Member Chris Smith’s reauthorizing the statute. The principal features include immigration avenues to protect victims and their families from retaliation and to ensure that children are protected, assistance to U.S. citizens who fall prey to modern slavery or who are caught up by pimps or other types of criminal social activity, more flexibility in the ability to employ seroperators and others who retaliate against escapees. The measure does not, however, create a general Federal antipimping statute or import the Mann Act into the trafficking and slavery statutes, as some have advocated. It is proper to seek compassionate responses for persons in prostitution, but we do not need to conflate prostitution and slavery or change settled bipartisan definitions of the TVPA and international law to accomplish this worthy goal. The bill is named after the British parliamentarian William Wilberforce, who fought so hard to end the Transatlantic slave trade 200 years ago. There is a university named in his honor. I am proud that we are following in his footsteps to stand against slavery and exploitation in the modern era, and I express, again, amazement that it is so prominent and is a subject matter of such notoriety that we need to meet this afternoon on it. I am now pleased to introduce Lamar Smith, the Ranking Member of the Judiciary, for his comments

The 9/11 Reform Act: Examining the Implementation of the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center

The 9/11 Commission correctly pointed out that before September 11, 2001, no U.S. Government agency systemically analyzed terrorists’ travel strategies. The 9/11 Commission also believed if the Federal Government had done so, we could have discovered how terrorist predecessors to al-Qa’ida exploited the weaknesses in our border security. As a result, and based on the Commission’s recommendation, the Committee on Homeland Security, along with the Committee on International Relations, pushed for the terrorist travel provisions in the 9/11 Reform Act. Through the Act, Congress directed the Departments of Justice, State and Homeland Security to address the problem of terrorist travel, including human smuggling and trafficking, in a comprehensive way. The result was the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center. We look forward to hearing about the effectiveness of the Center today, as well as challenges to this interagency effort

Combating Human Trafficking: Achieving Zero Tolerance

The Subcommittee will today hear testimony concerning the continuing problem of human trafficking. The U.S. Government, as we all know, now estimates that some 600,000 to 800,000 women, children and men are bought and sold across international borders each year and exploited through forced labor or commercial sex exploitation. Potentially millions more are trafficked internally within the borders of their countries. Eighty percent of the victims are women and girls. An estimated 14,500 to 17,500 foreign citizens are trafficked into the U.S. each and every year. As Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights in the late 1990s, I led an effort to end the scourge of trafficking, and it is probably better called slavery, by sponsoring the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), P.L. 106–386, which was signed into law in December 2000. In 2003, I sponsored a reauthorization of that act which also became law. These two pieces of legislation created a comprehensive framework for combatting trafficking in persons abroad, as well as the trafficking of foreign nationals into the United States. As a result, our Government has been a leader in addressing this human rights violation and encouraging other governments to do the same. When I held the first hearing on trafficking, back in 1999, only a handful of countries had laws explicitly prohibiting the practice of human trafficking. Individuals who engaged in this exploitation did so without fear of legal repercussions. Victims of trafficking were treated as criminals and illegal immigrants—governments did not offer them assistance to escape the slavery-like conditions in which they were trapped, and few NGOs were equipped to offer survivors of trafficking the restorative care to heal physically, mentally and spiritually from the trauma they experienced. Little was being done to prevent others from being exploited in this same way

American Colonization Society [To Accompany bill S. No. 4]

Report seeking remuneration to support recaptured Liberian emigrants.The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the American Colonization Society, praying remuneration for the support of certain Africans recaptured from the slaver "Pons" by the United States ship "Yorktown.