Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 6552, the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022. I thank the ranking member of our Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights, Representative Chris Smith, who I have worked closely with for many years to develop this bill. This joint effort has served as a daily reminder that collaboration in Congress is both imperative and far from finished when it comes to combating and eliminating human trafficking. This legislation is the overdue reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Act of 2000, which expired last September. To continue this essential fight to end global human trafficking, this measure must be passed by the House today so that more than 20 years of work is not undone. This bill is especially important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, when virtual K-12 education made it harder for teachers to identify and report human trafficking, prosecutions of traffickers were delayed as courts closed, and the demand for social services for survivors increased as many of them lost their jobs and homes.…”