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Richard Blumenthal: “If we fail to do so, if we fail to close this gap and fill this legal black hole, we become complicit.”

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

Editor's note · Context

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

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