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Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Mar 9, 2004
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Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) all Americans should keep the victims of child abuse and neglect in their thoughts and prayers; (2) all Americans should seek to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect and to give victimized children hope for the future; and (3) the faith community, nonprofit organizations, and volunteers across America should recommit themselves and mobilize their resources to assist abused and neglected children.
Declares that the Senate: (1) supports the goals and ideas of the Day of Hope which will be observed on April 7, 2004, as part of Child Abuse Prevention Month; and (2) commends the individuals working on behalf of abused and neglected children throughout the United States.
People & committees
Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] · R–CO
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Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2461)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S2461)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2461)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2461)
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1020)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1020)
Introduced in Senate
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