07/17/2017
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"if such draconian cuts to the Department of State and USAID are allowed to proceed, then we will abdicate our position of principled partnership with African governments."
"cutting the USAID budget will inevitably harm African partners and hurt American interests."
"The State government--this is the Texas of the Texas miracle, one of the top 12 economies in the world... have literally been sending these sex trafficking victims, human trafficking victims, to jail ..."
"Thank you, Mr. Chair and Chairman Smith for your leadership on this over many years, in particular Chairman Smith, who really was the leading force in the House for many years on the trafficking issue..."