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On the recordSeptember 18, 2017
If we fail to do so, if we fail to close this gap and fill this legal black hole, we become complicit.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal warns that inaction on sex trafficking legislation implicates Congress in the problem.

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