H.R.623 - Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act of 2007
To permit expungement of records of certain nonviolent criminal offenses. view all titles (2)
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- Short: Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act of 2007 as introduced.
- Official: To permit expungement of records of certain nonviolent criminal offenses. as introduced.
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U.S. Congress - H.R.623 Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act of 2007




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This bill must be supported and passed.
This bill must be supported and passed. Contact the members of the House Judiciary Committee and tell them that you want their support of this practical and realistic initiative to restore hope to thousands of families.
This bill should be past now that the Second chance act of 2007 was signed into law on April 9th. Does anyone know the current status? What needs to be done to get this bill going through the House and Senate. This bill was introduce before the Second chance act of 2007 but has not moved anywhere yet. Lets get this thing going..
Contact members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. If one of them is in your district, send them a fax or email. They will respond. THanks
This bill should pass, because it is supported by the majority of the American people. Why do we hold back our American citizens from living up to their God given potential, for their entire lives, because of a minor mistake or misjudgment? With the internet popularity almost all employers are doing background searches on every potential employee. The way the information is portrayed on a rap sheet, it is a wonder that anyone that has ever been arrested ever gets a job. In many states you cannot even expunge an accusation were one was found not guilty. This is absurd. What has our system come to when the ones with all the power are hurting those with none?
Call your representative. Or send a fax or email to the members of the House Judiciary committee. They need to know that people really are watching the progress on this bill. Right now it’s like being punished for life if you make a single mistake, or even if you are unfairly convicted of something. If people are permanently barred from getting a good job, or any job, then we lose millions of productive people from the workforce and tax rolls. Let your congressmen know that.
No cost to the taxpayers from this bill. In fact it will put more money into the local, state and national economies because people can go back to work.
I am All for this bill. My father is in the federal prision system, and has been for almost eleven years. He is now sixty-six years old, and it is time for hime to come home. Please let someone have a heart. They deserve a second chance.
This is such a necessary thing to get approved for those of us that has seen a good person make bad decisions especially becuase of drugs. Their are so many people that deserve the second chance especially if they have fufilled their punishment and changed their lives! My brother is such a smart guy that got addicted to drugs and began selling them for the habit. He is three years clean, fufilled all the felony sentencing..but he is hopeless he is living with one mistake every time he CANNOT get a job. Employers treat him like he is a murder/rapist yet he went to college, intellegent and the first person to lend his hand to a person in need. It makes me soo sad to know how depressed he gets about not being able to do anything without that haunting him. I can not see how we expect some of the ex felons to live productive lives when they can not get even close to the same chances for work. This is such a great bill and will have a positive effect on all of us!
I was a victim to Gov’t abuse. I called out a federal DA during a misdimenor case and accused him of misconduct. He made a threat to my attorny that if i don’t pled gulity that he will charge me without a whole lot of other things and make them felonies. I said lets go to court on what you put on the table as a misdimenor case. That there are two siads to every story and i can prove myself 100%. Well…He drops the case and refiles it as a felony two years later. Long story short.. I plead to a deal , in fear of losing my life and possible jail time. I ended up with a small fine and two yrs inactive probation. Seemed like nothing right? Well, i should of not done that! Its almost impossible to find work. I have a masters degree, and a BA in criminal justice..“kind’s funny” It makes me so mad that a federal employee like the DA in my case can do what he did…. I hope that the bill passes so that i can have my life back!
We have to rally to Washington, D.C if we want something done about this bill 623.Contact Charles Benninghoff of http://www.Rehabilitated.org. He is a known activist and together we can organize a rally to shake up those traitors in Congress.
If you’re convicted under State Laws you can get many Reliefs including expungement but if it’s federal it’s a lifetime punishment. Not Right.
This is a republic. The will of the people must prevail and not the one of our crooked,inhumane,oppressors in the State and federal Governments.
We waited for too long for redress. They don’t care. Let’s go to Washington.D.C. and raise some Hell withinm the laws.
Those skunks in Washinton.D.C. must be accountable of our redress of grievances.
Allisio Rex
Activist for Constitutional Right
Activist for States Secession
this bill has been reintroduced as H.R. 1529 on March 16, 2009 by Charles Rangel. Contact your congress representatives and urge them to cosponsor and vigorously support this bill!!
This bill must be passed. It is going to help a lot of people in the long run as well as the short term aspect. I am one of these that really need not want but need this bill to be passed. Plus it is going ot help out a lot of families.
Please folks, read the post ahead of yours. This bill should be removed from this site as it is DEAD. The new SIXTH version of this bill is H.R. 1529 which is also going to die if we don’t all pull together. Join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/support_of_hr1529/ for more information. We need you and we neeed you now.