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Malaysia's unsubstantiated upgrade is particularly alarming because of its overt importance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

These recent media reports indicate that political appointees meddled in the compilation of this publication.

The TIP Report is key, key to addressing human rights violations.

China undeservedly received an upgrade from Tier 3, an egregious violator of human trafficking, to Tier 2 Watch List, despite their atrocious record on trafficking.

This bill will give the State Department's trafficking team the leverage necessary to allow it to advocate most effectively on behalf of the victims of trafficking.

We have found a strategy that works. Now is the time to build on successes, however, for the sake of the 21 million people--Free the Slaves puts that number at 27 million people--who are captives of modern-day slavery.

The U.S. rejects modern slavery and that responding to this crime wherever it exists is a priority for our country.

Eleven years ago this afternoon in fact, on a similarly rainy day in October, President Clinton recorded his radio address to be broadcast on the morning of October 28, 2000, the day that he signed that groundbreaking legislation into law…

I would like to take a step back, if I may, to recognize what you and your cosponsors of the original Trafficking Victims Protection Act achieved in bringing that initial skepticism that you perhaps mentioned to consensus.