The Trafficking Victims Protection Act is designed so that the ratings are based solely on the circumstances on the ground and meeting the criteria of the statute.

I rise today to discuss the Korean War Veterans Memorial and the legislation I am introducing along with Senator Boozman. This legislation authorizes the addition of a ``Wall of Remembrance'' to the Korean War Veterans Memorial, without…

Please provide recommendations to strengthen the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000...

this year marks the 15th installment of the report, as well as the 15th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the TVPA.

This is a win-win-win situation if you just allow us to go forward.

I agree completely with Senator Markey in regard to the Clean Power Plan as being critically important to the health of our constituents.

man made climate change has evolved from a critical threat to an unavoidable reality. The reality of climate change has already shown its grim effects on our environment and our health. Today, I would like to speak about the impacts of…

first I want to thank Senator Boxer. It is a privilege to serve on the Environment and Public Works Committee with Senator Boxer, under her and Senator Inhofe's leadership. The bill we reported out, a 6-year bill, is a bill that deals with…

this week--tomorrow, to be precise--we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, which then-President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed into law on July 30, 1965. I take great pride in the Medicare and Medicaid…

I applaud the Senate passage of H.R. 876, the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility, NOTICE, Act. Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas introduced H.R. 876. Senator Enzi and I introduced an identical…

This committee, in its work on the State Department Authorization Act, moved in the direction to require the State Department to assess the status of human rights and anticorruption issues in every country in the world.

I know our committee is going to continue to be very aggressive.

We need to use that to our advantage. You know, you cannot control what Congress does.

We have led the creation of global standards and binding legal frameworks to prevent and combat graft.

There is a scheduled, not yet date-specific, fall meeting, at the ministerial level, with Egypt, and we are weighing in that human rights be part of that strategic dialogue.

We can do it. We have done it successfully; at times, when the administration did not want us to do it.

We are helping emerging democracies like Sri Lanka and Ukraine recover stolen assets.

I am particularly proud of the Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act that was passed by this committee and enacted into law in the last Congress.

We believe we need the flexibility to determine, in consultation with Congress, when financial and other sanctions will do more good than harm.

There is no required action by the administration to evaluate every human rights violator around the world, that is correct.

The United States has been the global leader in fighting modern-day slavery.

They enable us to impose costs on individuals responsible for certain human rights abuses.

We are the first country to criminalize bribery by our companies overseas.

We want to go after the cases where they can have the most impact, not only on the individual, but on the circumstances within a country and those who are fighting for human rights.

today I wish to speak about the ongoing civil war in South Sudan. July 9 marks the fourth anniversary of South Sudan's independence. This should be a day of celebration, but it is instead a day marred by violence and suffering. For the…