[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 9, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H5289-H5290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CALLING FOR THE RESIGNATION OF LABOR SECRETARY ALEXANDER ACOSTA

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, serial sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein has been 
arrested again. Federal prosecutors have charged him with running a sex 
trafficking ring where he paid to have sex with girls as young as 14 
years old.
  More than that, officials said Epstein's abuse happened between 2002 
and 2005, 3 years before he received a sweetheart deal to spend a mere 
18 months in prison and avoid Federal trial for sexual abuse of 36 
underaged girls.
  The prosecutor who made that deal is our current Secretary of Labor, 
Alexander Acosta.
  That is why I am calling for Secretary Acosta to resign. His actions 
in the Epstein case prove that he prefers to protect sex offenders over 
teenage abuse victims.
  He prefers to protect millionaire criminals over the common man, so 
how can we trust him to protect millions of American workers from 
corporate abuse when he clearly supports the abusers? We can't.
  That is why he needs to resign. Then, we can let the FBI conduct a 
thorough investigation of his actions to ensure that nothing like this 
ever happens again.

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