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This ambitious bill not only extends the legal authorities from the groundbreaking Trafficking Victims Protection Act that, as I recall, Mr. Smith authored 17 years ago, but it also contains important reforms to our foreign and domestic…
These facts should not be subject to manipulation for the sake of diplomatic or economic or political considerations.
And that is why combating human trafficking requires a global approach to identifying and apprehending the worst offenders in the world.
Assad's brutality--and his support from Russia and Iran and Hezbollah--has fueled a mass migration crisis and regional instability that, frankly, threatens our national security.
Under the bill, foreign companies and banks will have to choose. They will have to choose between doing business with the Assad regime or doing business with the United States.
I represent South Florida, beautiful Palm Beach, the home of Mar-a-Lago.
This trafficking is a global crisis that is hurting men, women, and children all over the world.
It is so important that we send such a clear message that we need to do everything we can in this country to contain the chaos and reduce the conditions causing this mass migration from Syria to take the wind out of the sails of the…
Syria is really one of the tests of our generation. And the tyrants of the world will take note of how we deal with this crisis.
We need to hear from the administration about how the ideas of safe zones that they are proposing will actually be implemented.
Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge a ``no'' vote on this misleading name, Working Families Flexibility Act. Quite simply, this is a bait-and-switch proposal. It awards employers flexibility, not the families who need it. It fails ordinary working…
Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Johnson for yielding, and I also want to thank Chairmen Shuster and Barletta and Ranking Members DeFazio and Johnson for their continued support. I have had the honor of working on this legislation with my friends…
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the topic of my Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…
Mr. Speaker, the women of the Democratic Women's Working Group are here today with other Members that we have invited to raise awareness about the offensive Marines United Facebook page and others like it. On these pages, male marines…
Very well said, Representative Lee. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Lee for her excellent service and advocacy. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield the floor to the gentlewoman from the State of Michigan (Mrs. Lawrence), my co-chair and our vice…
Mr. Speaker, I thank Representative Kuster for that forceful advocacy. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), one of our greatest fighters for human rights, for women's rights; the ranking member of the…
Mr. Speaker, I think we have made it clear that when a member of the military is unfairly abused, we are all abused, we are all dishonored. This is not a Democratic issue. This is not a Republican issue. This is an American issue. Mr…