Madam Speaker, I would like to commend Chairmen McCaul, Engel, and my colleague Mr. Castro for bringing up this strong bipartisan bill. Human trafficking is an issue which is still alive and well today, unfortunately. It is modern-day…

the world is in a tectonic shift of world powers we have not seen since World War II, and we see China is the destabilizing factor.

I feel no country has done more to promote human rights in all the regions of the world than the United States.

But this is not a new issue. This is something that is--you know, we have looked at this and as I hear all the testimoneys, we look at our foreign policy, we can look back 20, 30, 40 years and those policies go to good governance…

A republic, if you can keep it.

Without some accountability and transparency, we do not know where that money is going.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, a country as ours, a constitutional republic, requires a citizenry that is well-educated and are responsible. I questioned a colleague of mine from New York about her policies…

It seems to me when you look at Webster and the definition of cover-up is an unusually concerted effort to keep an illegal or unethical act or situation from being made public.

It is his authority.

IG Linick did not meet what he was tasked to do.

the hypocrisy we are seeing here today is just unconscionable.