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Bob Menendez
@bobmenendez· Democratic · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

I do not understand how Section 907 leads to a more peaceful resolution when they are in the verge of ethnically cleansing 120,000 Armenians in Karabakh.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

We cannot show favoritism in this issue to countries that we may have an allied relationship with because we're worried about upsetting a balance of trade or some other issue.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

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.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

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

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Bob Menendez
@bobmenendez· Democratic · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

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

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Bob Menendez
@bobmenendez· Democratic · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

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.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

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.

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Bob Menendez
@bobmenendez· Democratic · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

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

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Bob Menendez
@bobmenendez· Democratic · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

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.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

Addressing the root of this issue requires being willing to engage in tough, robust, and effective diplomacy and partnership with partners and allies bilaterally as well as in international forums.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

For three years, I tried to get a bill passed to stop organ harvesting. It was bipartisan.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

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

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

It passed 413 to 2. It's sitting over in the Senate now for six months and I can't get it out on the floor for a vote.

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Jeff Van Drew
@jeffvandrew· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

This is a problem for the United States of America.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

the outcomes are so much better when there's a faith-based component.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

International Megan's Law seeks to protect children from sex tourism by notifying destination countries when convicted pedophiles plan to travel.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Sep 13, 2023

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…

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