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The Miami Herald¶
Posted on Tue, Aug. 03, 2010¶
Debbie Wasserman Schultz helps launch sex offender probe¶
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South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz — who sponsored legislation to intensify and finance a nationwide child-pornography investigation targeting the 500 most dangerous sex offenders — praised the Justice Department’s implementation on Monday of the law passed by Congress in 2008.¶
Speaking at a press conference in Alexandria, Va., Wasserman Schultz praised the move, which comes with a progress report to Congress that indicates child pornography via the Internet is more widespread than previously known.¶
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\begin{array}{l} \text{“Just three years ago, we believed that child pornography was being traded over approximately 500,000 unique IP addresses in the U.S.”,” Wasserman Schultz said.} \ \text{“Thanks to this report, we now know that number is more than 20 times our original estimate.”} \ \end{array}¶
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Her bill — sponsored in the Senate by then-Sen. Joe Biden — authorized spending up to $1.05 billion over eight years to hire hundreds of federal and state investigators. Wasserman Schultz, the mother of three, took up the cause as part of her legislative priority of looking after the needs of young people.¶
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