There is also a need to understand the issues of delivery, as Senator Isakson has correctly characterized them.

the intent of the program.

I think it is a hugely important topic that Senator Blumenthal and I care a lot about.

The 40-mile rule may be a cause.

So far, we have only had less than 50 people take advantage of that.

I do not believe that we should make excuses for the situation.

It is important to honor that lived experience.

We have laws that can be applied to the demand side. They simply have to be enforced.

Thanks, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for having this hearing on a very, very important topic. I am co-Chairman along with Senator Portman of Ohio of the Human Trafficking Caucus, which has done a fair amount of work in this area, aiming…

But since that story aired, Connecticut's Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal has written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder mentioning our report and asking him to take immediate federal action to investigate.

Longer term, the success of Afghanistan as a country is really dependent on the political factors and the social and economic factors that are hopefully supported and promoted by the American presence there as well.

I want to thank you for that effort, thank the U.S. Armed Forces for their increased focus and attention to that issue.

The first day that President Ghani took office in his inauguration speech, he talked about bringing in the Taliban, you know, that you have to be part of this peace process.

In the right way means other than Russoboronexport, the Russian export agency that has sold us so many--not us, but the Afghans--so many helicopters with our money.

Salvaged parts, inferior or even counterfeit parts certainly raise safety concerns. And often, those kind of parts involved in this practice of steering. And that's why I have been concerned for years about it and why I think the…

I think that one of the points that is most important for us and the American people to understand is how inextricably bound, as you've said... Afghanistan and Pakistan are in their futures, their pasts, and their fates come.

I am not satisfied because we have not got to it. So I mean, I think there is a lot more that can be done by both Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Taliban, quite frankly.

I want to join in thanking you for this series of very thoughtful hearings, which have been, I think, a great advantage to us in drawing a perspective for the rest of the congressional session and the tasks that we have ahead.

Would you agree that the primary source of those ingredients continues to be Pakistan, and that they have done less than they could and should to stop the flow of those bombmaking ingredients across the border?

Afghan women have made tremendous gains following the collapse of the Taliban regime.

I am very interested in the security issues, some of them raised by Senator Markey so far as automobiles are concerned.

If consumers know, number one, and number two, if they can make informed decisions among products that actually offer this kind of protection.

And notification is kind of a basic minimum common denominator of what all of us should favor.

And imposing the costs of a breach on the one responsible, the one who can do something about it, also seems pretty basic.

We are going to have to have a law on which to sue.