This is, in fact, human slavery. There is no other way to, I think, identify it.
We could use five FBI agents in Fort Berthold right now. We have 3,000 pending criminal cases in tribal court.
If we are just always going to rely on repairing a victim, you are going to miss the statute.
Because it would seem to me that if people knew that there was a path forward for coming out of the shadows, there would be less of this kin...
It is just so critically important that we get on top of this.
It is not just these victims. It is crime against every person in this country.
One of the things that we did in domestic violence is we began to prosecute cases without victim testimony.
I am trying to get at what is going to stop people from demanding these services or using the services of human beings who are trafficks.
I am a faithful user of the mail service.
And I am just trying to kind of get a handle around these numbers.
This is always the danger of average, right?
But you certainly can appreciate how dealing with this in a kind of broader context and designing new systems would create problems not only...
the regulatory burden is hurting our economy and Keystone XL pipeline is a clear case in point.
We don't spend one single taxpayer dollar but we get hundreds of millions in tax revenue and the State Department, as Chairman Upton said, b...
I want to know about other innovations.
We elect presidents to make decisions, and here we sit on the 5th anniversary on a project that will produce more energy for this country, i...
Look, it is not just about Canadian oil. I represent the State of North Dakota. We now produce almost a million barrels of oil a day, second...
if the United States doesn't take this oil and we don't build this needed infrastructure which States like mine need, it is going to China.