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

It is time to open the courthouse doors to victims of sex trafficking who have been sold into slavery as a result of ads that right now can enjoy absolute immunity for sites that knowingly facilitate, support, or assist--knowingly…

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

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

I particularly want to thank our colleagues, nearly a third of the Senate, many members of this Committee, who have cosponsored this bill.

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.

If we fail to do so, if we fail to close this gap and fill this legal black hole, we become complicit.

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…

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

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.

Amending the 21-year-old Communications Decency Act is not a sin.

We commend your leadership on this issue.

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

It's time to say, 'No more.' Congress must stop allowing websites to promote and profit from sex trafficking.

It's time to clarify the Communications Decency Act so that we can prosecute those who would sell our children for sex.

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

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

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

We are here in large part because of three incredibly courageous young women.

We really owe them an investigation that's not only thorough and comprehensive, but also as prompt as possible.

Congress must fix it. That's why we're here.

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.

We cannot allow traffickers to conduct their operations on the Internet with impunity and your bill is an important step forward.

Disney rejects that view.