28 Republicans voted against the bipartisan Respect for Child Survivors Act, which addresses the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) mishandling of child sex abuse cases. This bill was proposed in response to the Larry Nassar investigation

The bipartisan, bicameral Respect for Child Survivors Act will reduce poorly conducted interviews during investigations of child abuse and sexual exploitation by requiring the FBI to use multidisciplinary teams of trained professionals. 

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• Mo Brooks and Barry Moore (Alabama)
• Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar (Arizona)
• Rick Crawford (Arkansas)
• Tom McClintock (California)
• Lauren Boebert (Colorado)
• Byron Donalds and John Rutherford (Florida)
• Andrew Clyde, Jody Hice, Austin Scott, and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia)
• James Comer and Thomas Massie (Kentucky)
• Clay Higgins (Louisiana)
• Matt Rosendale (Montana)
• Jeff Van Drew (New Jersey)
• Dan Bishop and Virginia Foxx (North Carolina)
• Scott Perry (Pennsylvania)
• Ralph Norman (South Carolina)
• Louie Gohmert, Ronny Jackson, Troy Nehls, Chip Roy, and Michael Cloud (Texas)
• Bob Good (Virginia)

Let’s legislate the ability to talk about important issues that you disagree with. Also, tag on ‘contending viewpoints’ to make it sound like a reasonable solution.

Oklahoma State Sen. George Burns (R-Pollard) has filed SB 20, a measure that would prevent public school history teachers from being required to talk about, “currently controversial issues of public policy or social affairs” in class.

Teachers could still include such issues in their lessons, but they would have to discuss various and contending viewpoints on the topics.

The measure would also prevent students from getting credit for lobbying for legislation, and prevent schools from using private dollars for both social studies courses and teacher training.

Tom Ferguson

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