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 exploited.

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.'

Most of the social service agencies in our State, and I will bet in many other States, are really up against it now because----

Senator Franken and you both noted, correctly, along with the inspiration that Paul Wellstone gave us years ago.

The pimps have all the power. Once the girls are under their control, it is very hard for them to escape.

We are not going to tolerate sacrificing so many of our young people, particularly to these pimps.

In the whole country right now, there are only about 70 shelter beds for sex-trafficking victims.

S. 2925 will address another major issue that is part of this spiral of problems that the young people face, and that is, runaway children.

Despite the efforts of Congress and the executive branch, the scourge of human trafficking continues to plague our Nation and our world.

It is high time that the State Department increases the visibility and the priority of this effort.

President Obama has called human trafficking 'a debasement of our common humanity.'

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Even Ben Ginsberg, a long-time lawyer for Republican conservative causes, has warned of the consequences of this ruling.

We have to break away from this model that we have for political campaigns which has created so much cynicism and so much distrust among the American voters.

Now a corporation can simply just budget corporate funds--they do not have to request anybody to contribute.