If confirmed, will you commit to monitoring and acting on potential market manipulation for consumer-facing commodities like heating fuel and propane?

We need to stop separating the issue of sex and labor. Because a lot of the times when you talk about combating human trafficking, the focus is always sex.

And I do wonder maybe if you would go a little farther, do you think that there is more focus and maybe that leads to more exploitation on the ones that are exploited and criminalizing them rather than there being a penalty of those that…

I want to thank Chairwoman Bass for convening this hearing. And just express my gratitude to Ranking Member Smith for so passionately advocating on behalf of the world's most vulnerable people.

We do have to listen to survivors.

I think it is important even, you know, the international cases that we do read about in Bahrain or the Emirates or Saudi Arabia.

Trafficking is the outcome of every other system failing, right? It is the natural thing that happens because we are not protecting migrant workers, because we are not protecting refugees, because we are not protecting the most vulnerable…

So in the words of Reverend Warnock, some people don`t want some people to vote.

we have to also think about holistically what it means for us to have humane immigration systems.

Dan's Butter Bakery Cafe is a community-oriented, family run cafe that is finding innovative ways to support their employees with fair wages and paid family leave.

It has been disappointing, but that doesn't mean that we are going to back down from trying to get some kind of agreement.

You can’t have 20 percent of the economy be tech and then not having passed any privacy laws on the federal level, no changes to competition policy, which I’ve long been requesting.

We must have a federal privacy law and we are working on that in the Commerce Committee under Senator Cantwell`s leadership.

The fact that they weren’t doing anything, he claimed that they limited 96 percent of hate speech. His own researchers saying it was only 5 percent.

The whole idea is just to simply guarantee people the right to vote in a way that is safe.

Thank you for your good work.

I am so incredibly honored to be appointed to the Select Committee studying economic disparities and fairness in growth. I welcome my Republican colleagues. I am especially grateful to be taking a fresh look at how we build economic growth…

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