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[00:00:00] Mr. President, it's time to give victims [00:00:02] and parents the right that every other [00:00:05] American has, which is to get into court [00:00:08] and to have their day in court and to [00:00:11] protect their children. This bill [00:00:13] doesn't touch encryption. It doesn't [00:00:15] vindic it doesn't destroy privacy [00:00:17] rights. It protects all of those things, [00:00:20] but above all, it protects children. It [00:00:22] protects our children online. And it is [00:00:24] long overdue. I'll just finish with [00:00:26] this. I wish I could persuade my [00:00:29] colleague, who I think will soon object, [00:00:30] to agree with us on this, but I I [00:00:33] certainly respect his view. The scandal [00:00:35] is not that one or two or 10 or 20 [00:00:37] senators would take a different point of [00:00:38] view. That's fine. The real scandal here [00:00:40] is this bill cannot get a vote on the [00:00:44] floor of this Senate. It passed [00:00:46] unanimously, not once, but twice out of [00:00:50] committee. Unanimously [00:00:52] out of the Judiciary Committee of the [00:00:54] United States. And now for years in a [00:00:56] row, it can't get so much as a vote on [00:01:00] the floor of the Senate. That's why [00:01:01] Senator Durban is here today. That's why [00:01:03] I'm here today. That is a scandal, Mr. [00:01:05] President. It is absolutely [00:01:07] indefensible. [00:01:09] I haven't heard a word of explanation, [00:01:10] but I know the reason. The reason is the [00:01:13] big tech companies are opposed to it. [00:01:14] And the reason for that is the big tech [00:01:16] companies would lose money. And they [00:01:18] will spend no amount of money. There'll [00:01:20] be no limit to what they will spend to [00:01:23] stop legislation they don't want from [00:01:24] moving on this floor. It's time this [00:01:26] body demonstrated its independence. It's [00:01:28] time this body demonstrated our loyalty [00:01:30] to the people who put us here, not the [00:01:32] loyalty to the corporations who write [00:01:34] the checks and call the shots and run [00:01:36] the TV ads and make their threats in [00:01:38] their campaign contributions. That's [00:01:40] enough of that. It doesn't say we the [00:01:42] corporations in our constitution. It [00:01:44] says we the people. And it's time for [00:01:46] the people to have their say. It's time [00:01:48] for this body to vindicate their rights. [00:01:50] It's time for us to vote on this bill.