This human trafficking hearing has exposed slavery and human trafficking and smuggling, and we have said one thing. You are all the same and we are going to get you.

You heard a man with a heart. You saw the best of what Congress is and can be.

this is the biggest threat to our children right here in the United States.

we want to turn that mess into a message.

I would propose for the committee to consider the allowance of funding to enhance collaborative training of health care professionals in our efforts to identify and intervene on behalf of these victims.

I could not agree with you more. I think part of the exercise here is to determine what can we at the Federal level do to help.

Let us touch somebody and say that you are valuable and I will not view you in any other way than the valuable person that you are.

I especially thank you for your presence here today.

I am proud to cosponsor my friend and colleague, Congressman Ted Poe--his one bill, the End Sex Slavery Act, and his second one, Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.

Thank you, Chairman McCaul, and I want to thank all of the Members here for their support of this issue.

We have an obligation to protect the most vulnerable in our society and assure that services provided are adequate, sufficient, and timely.

I want to first take this opportunity to commend the Houston Police Department.

I think the issue is accountability for that 140 billion investment that taxpayers make in our higher education.

Mr. Lambert, Doctor, you mentioned the role of community colleges.

The point, and you made it, is it is not just intervention. There is a follow up.

I agree with you. I think the involvement of the business community is essential.

How do you compensate for that reduction?

Is there a tipping point? There's a tipping point, I assume?