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On the recordMarch 10, 2015
I thank the Senator. Madam President, this is an amendment that is directed at attacking backpage.com, which stands on the principle that was well established in the Civil War--that we Americans have freedom and we should not be free to enslave other Americans. I think, as the largest provider of online slavery services, Lacey and Larkin should be put out of business. I think it is incumbent on us, in the underlying legislation--I would remind the Senator from Vermont that we would live up to the full spirit of this legislation to make sure that just because the Internet was invented, slavery should not be empowered by the Internet.
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