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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJuly 22, 2026
It’s unacceptable that hundreds of thousands of young girls are still forced into marriages they want no part of.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii
Source
durbin.senate.gov

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Addressing the need to end child marriage in the U.S.

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