Lending a Little HELP to the Senate’s Discussion

It happened so fast, coalition colleague Andrew Brown referred to it as a “fire drill.” Last Monday afternoon, our coalition was contacted by staff for the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (called the HELP Committee): they were going to be discussing a bill to reauthorize the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA),…

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Don’t Let the Senate Forget

To-Do List: Protect Families

Last month many of you reached out to your U.S. Senators while they were home for the August Recess and encouraged them to cosponsor the Parental Rights Amendment, S.J. Res. 48, led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Since they got back to Washington earlier this month, though, some of them seem to have forgotten all…

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