Please know that you have an ally in me and my office and this subcommittee.

The current humanitarian situation is not acceptable. Humanitarian access through the Lachin corridor and other routes must be available now.

We don't take care of our own people. Our veterans still don't get what they need.

This child sex tourism has got to be stopped, and one way of doing is to say, you tell us where you're going.

President Aliyev says he is not organizing ethnic cleansing, but that is exactly what he is doing.

The answer is to have real borders. The answer is to have the rule of law.

The TVPA created a bold domestic and international anti-human trafficking strategy and established numerous, dozens and dozens of new programs to protect victims, prosecute traffickers, and to the extent possible, prevent human trafficking…

If we allow for whatever reasons, whatever security--border security, counternarcotics--for ethnic cleansing to take place and we look the other way, we send a global message of what our priorities are.

Over 20 years ago, the U.S. Congress approved and the President signed legislation, historic bipartisan legislation that I authored, known as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

Thank you for the work you do. Your unwavering commitment and leadership in combating human trafficking here in the United States and around the world is truly remarkable.

At the time too, many people thought when we said trafficking, including a number of U.S. attorneys that I talked to about what were they doing, they said, you're talking about weapons, right? You're talking about drugs, right? And I said…

The United States will not countenance any effort or action, short term or long term, to ethnically cleanse or commit other atrocities against the Armenian people of Nagorno-Karabakh.

When they say, I'm going to this country, X, Y, or Z, they have to tell us that.

The issue of fentanyl and its impact on our country is something that I believe we all take seriously.

We should be thinking about how we can grow that program as opposed to just trying to ignore it.

The fact is that there are not just enough rental homes being built, and part of that is because Federal lending programs, through HUD and the Federal Housing Administration, have not kept pace with the market.

I know one of the reasons they are still missing, because nobody took the time to make sure they took an accounting of where these children were.

American truckers deserve clarification, and that is what we are trying to do here.