How People Voted
 |
 |
15% For, 85% Against
Take Action
  |
Alert Your Friends and Colleagues |
  |
Write Your Representative in Congress |
| Save & Share | |
 |
del.icio.us |
 |
Digg |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
Yahoo! |
H.R. 4136, The Enhancing the Effective Prosecution of Child Pornography Act of 2007
- This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
Comparing revision saved on November 16, 2007, 18:33:13 (webmaster), with revision saved on January 11, 2008, 01:36:07 (webmaster):
H.R. 4136 would amend title 18 of the United States Code to clarify the scope of the child pornography laws.
== Detailed Summary ==
<summary>
Enhancing the Effective Prosecution of Child Pornography Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) include child pornography activities and the production of such pornography for importation into the United States as predicate crimes for money laundering prosecutions; and (2) define "possess" with respect to crimes of child sexual exploitation and child pornography to include accessing by computer visual depictions of child pornography with the intent to view.
</summary>
<!--Leave in the 'summary' tags if you want the latest summary from the Congressional Research Service automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. -->
== Status of the Legislation ==
<status>
Latest Major Action: 11/15/2007: Passed/agreed12/3/2007: Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rulesSenate and pass the bill, as amended AgreedRead twice and referred to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 416 - 0 (Roll no. 1121).Committee on the Judiciary.
</status>
<!-- Leave in the 'status' tags if you want the latest reported status from THOMAS automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. -->
== Points in Favor ==
(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should pass!)
<!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! -->
== Points Against ==
(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)
<!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! -->
Learn More
Visitor Comments 
Brent Woods
November 15, 2007, 1:20pm (report abuse)HR4136 is a bad bill because it states that simply knowingly accessing child pornography on the internet constitutes possession even if the content is not downloaded. This is outrageous. Anyone should be able to look at anything on the internet without fear of prosecution. This law would set a precedent for further laws restricting free access to use of the internet. Child pornography laws should prosecute only those who sell child pornography or who buy child pornography. Where there is no victim, there is no crime. No one should be prosecuted for simply looking at a picture. This is a travesty of justice and a violtion of individual rights.
Mrs. A
September 21, 2008, 5:06am (report abuse)Who in the world should have right to even look at it Mr. Woods??!!There is a victim. You are sick!
DEBBIE
October 3, 2008, 2:43pm (report abuse)They need to stop the source. Stop the pictures from being put on the internet.. My friends daughter and 4 other cheerleaders were sexually molested by a man it went to court they did nothing to him... how can you convict a hard working person because they thought they were on adult porn and the feds take your life away from you and try to put you away for 5 years when they can't prove that the pic was even a child just a possiblity it could be a child no positive identification. So I think the law should protect kids but it also should have the facts and prove it was a child before you convict someone who has never had any prior convictions no porn no cds no anything. Im so angry because it makes no sense..
RSS Feeds for This Bill
Keep yourself updated on user contributions and debates about this bill! (Learn more about RSS.)
From the Blog
The “Coburn Omnibus” - 36 Bills in One!
Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma didn’t come to Washington, D.C. to grow the government. A long time critic of federal spending and power, he has made prolific use of “holds” to prevent legislation he doesn’t like fr...