We have been a lap dog for nobody. We've been a lap dog for the people who drive cars and want to do them safely.
The pimps have all the power. Once the girls are under their control, it is very hard for them to escape.
It is high time that the State Department increases the visibility and the priority of this effort.
Senators Durbin, Feingold, and I sent you a letter on Congo, Eastern Congo.
S. 2925 will address another major issue that is part of this spiral of problems that the young people face, and that is, runaway children.
Are there ways to coordinate efforts here with other agencies that are involved in domestic violence to help these victims?
President Bush said, 'The trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.'
President Obama has called human trafficking 'a debasement of our common humanity.'
I was a part of helping get the Safe Harbor Act passed so that girls will no longer be sent to jail for having been commercially sexually ex...
The sexual exploitation of our children is a criminal problem; it is a social problem; it is a human rights problem.
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...
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.
Despite the efforts of Congress and the executive branch, the scourge of human trafficking continues to plague our Nation and our world.
