Senator Franken and you both noted, correctly, along with the inspiration that Paul Wellstone gave us years ago.
Unfortunately, without the domestic component that we are advocating in this bipartisan legislation, the international effort does not reach...
Well, perhaps we can ask our State Attorney General to take a look at it, too.
President Bush said, 'The trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.'
President Obama has called human trafficking 'a debasement of our common humanity.'
In the whole country right now, there are only about 70 shelter beds for sex-trafficking victims.
Despite the efforts of Congress and the executive branch, the scourge of human trafficking continues to plague our Nation and our world.
Most of the social service agencies in our State, and I will bet in many other States, are really up against it now because----
We desperately need shelters to give the trafficking victims a place that is safe from the pimps.
I was a part of helping get the Safe Harbor Act passed so that girls will no longer be sent to jail for having been commercially sexually ex...
The pimps have all the power. Once the girls are under their control, it is very hard for them to escape.