Jaime voted with a strong majority of her Democrat and Republican colleagues last Friday morning to advance a responsible spending bill that protects salmon recovery, coastal fishermen and efforts to assist trafficking and domestic violence victims.
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Today, Jaime Herrera Beutler, along with her colleagues in The U.S. House of Representatives, passed a comprehensive package of five bills to combat sex trafficking. As a mother, an aunt, and Chair of the Congressional Women’s Caucus, Jaime has been active in raising awareness of trafficking in the United States– including Southwest Washington. Jaime hosted a briefing on May 2nd in Vancouver bringing together law enforcement, social workers, and non-profits to discuss the need for action by Cong...
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The term “human trafficking” may bring to mind the image of someone in Eastern Europe being tricked into reporting for a job as a maid, only to find herself trapped in the Red Light District of Mumbai; or destitute parents in the developing world selling their daughter. However, human trafficking isn’t just a problem in distant parts of the world. More than 100,000 girls are caught up in sex trafficking every year in the U.S. Boys are targeted, too, though the number is smaller. According to the...
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Jaime Herrera Beutler announced today that she is cosponsoring legislation to confront a rise in military sexual assaults by taking the evaluation and response for such incidents outside the military chain of command. The bipartisan Military Justice Improvement Act is a legislative response to an alarming 37% increase in sexual assaults within the armed services over the last two years. Despite efforts by military leadership to address this serious issue, the problem remains. A Defense Departmen...
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For more than 200 years, millions of men and women have become American heroes by bravely serving our nation in the armed forces. Yet the service of these individuals is formally marked only twice a year—Veterans Day and Memorial Day. As your representative in Congress, I continue fighting to ensure that the memories of those who died in service, as well as the veterans who made it home, receive the respect they deserve and the support they were promised during the rest of the year. Whether it i...
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler released the following statement after voting against a four year extension of three provisions of the Patriot Act.
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By U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler Sunday, March 27, 2011 I was not elected to Congress because of my foreign policy experience. During the recent election people wanted to know what I would do to deal with issues here at home: The economy, jobs and the rising federal debt. Those are the issues that I have spent my time focusing on during my first months in Congress. But we suddenly find that are in a new war in Libya and people ask what I think and how I will act, so here is my response. My bac...
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