What I'm hoping to accomplish today is for everybody to focus not just on where we differ but focus on where we agree.

So Lamar, when you mentioned earlier that you said premiums go up, that's just not the case according to the Congressional Budget Office.

So, Lamar, when you mentioned earlier that you said premiums go up, that's just not the case, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

I hope that this isn't political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras and criticizing each other.

He has certainly not been able to change the culture in Washington. And that takes time. But that takes leadership.

President Obama has called human trafficking 'a debasement of our common humanity.'

Well, perhaps we can ask our State Attorney General to take a look at it, too.

Most of the social service agencies in our State, and I will bet in many other States, are really up against it now because----

Congratulations.

We are not going to tolerate sacrificing so many of our young people, particularly to these pimps.

Unfortunately, without the domestic component that we are advocating in this bipartisan legislation, the international effort does not reach its full potential.

It is high time that the State Department increases the visibility and the priority of this effort.

The pimps have all the power. Once the girls are under their control, it is very hard for them to escape.

Senator Franken and you both noted, correctly, along with the inspiration that Paul Wellstone gave us years ago.

We desperately need shelters to give the trafficking victims a place that is safe from the pimps.

Senators Durbin, Feingold, and I sent you a letter on Congo, Eastern Congo.

Despite the efforts of Congress and the executive branch, the scourge of human trafficking continues to plague our Nation and our world.

In the whole country right now, there are only about 70 shelter beds for sex-trafficking victims.