Richard Blumenthal

I have sponsored legislation with my colleague, Senator Blunt, to--it is called the Veteran PEER Act, legislation that would establish peer specialists in patient-aligned care teams within VA medical centers to do this kind of outreach.

I was, indeed, the lead Democratic cosponsor on the Clay Hunt bill along with Senator John McCain on the Republican side and believe that it was a start, only a first step in this effort. Much more needs to be done.

Antitrust enforcement is extremely important for the free market to work, giving consumer choices, keeping prices down.

I think all of you, I hope all of you, would agree that restitution is often appropriate even where there is no precise or provable harm to consumers.

Market value decreases are a penalty not for the management that violated consumer trust, it falls on the shareholders.

I hope to fill that gap with legislation, I'm going to be introducing it this week, that would ensure that the FTC can investigate any data breach and exercise oversight and deter these kinds of breaches through negligent or careless…

I have just received, as a matter of fact, while the Chairman was asking his questions, a response to a letter that I wrote to Equifax asking a number of detailed questions regarding the data breach.

The sale of any car, any car, with an unrepaired safety recall is a threat to public safety.

I want to make sure that we are protecting consumers and holding companies accountable.

Congress has long empowered and directed the FTC to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive acts or practices, and unfair methods of competition.

No one in Congress (and I was a member of the House of Representatives at the time) intended the CDA to be used as a shield by human traffickers.

I believe the law also intended to exempt state criminal prosecutions, but many lower courts, unfortunately, have not agreed.

Your legislation is a crucial step forward in this campaign, and we are proud to support it.

It is time to deprive traffickers and those that profit from the illegal sale of people by eliminating the protections which are presently afforded by the Constitutional guarantees under Section 230.

Your legislation does not, as suggested by the bill's opponents, usher the end of the Internet.

Your legislation will help bring justice to victims and their families and protect vulnerable women and children.

I really believe that this law will raise the bar, will increase consciousness.

SESTA will not put an end to online child sex trafficking. No single solution can accomplish this.

Don't let sex trafficking or our children believe that we're going to allow people who traffic in sex with our kids hide in plain sight on the Internet.

Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises worldwide.

We're all here ready to help however we can to get a bill that gets the votes.

I know what I think, as an attorney general who served for 20 years, maybe I can ask you on behalf of attorneys general, at least on behalf of yourself, why you think it's important for attorneys general to continue in the role that they…

NCMEC applauds the introduction of SESTA by Senators Rob Portman and Richard Blumenthal.

Senate Bill 1693 recognizes and balances on one hand the Communications Decency Act success in promoting and propelling the Internet and its innovation, and on the other, the swift and lucrative migration of sex trafficking from the…

I take a back seat to no one, no one, in this Senate in the fight against sex trafficking.