Political Quotes

“Madam President, I first want to thank my colleagues who are continuing to work on this very important issue of sex trafficking, Senator Grassley, the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Senator Leahy, the ranking member, who has long been working on this issue and has a very important bill of his own related to this, as well as Senator Cornyn. Senator Cornyn and I have worked together on the sex trafficking issue for the past year. We are cosponsors of each other's bills. We have worked in the past on other judiciary issues, including a successful bill on prescription drug take-backs, where we just recently were able to get the rules out and got to work on that very important issue. I thank him for his good work. We continue to work on the bill, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. We know there are some major issues that have come up, and we continue to look for a path forward on that issue. I do want to point out that sometimes in all of the disagreements, what gets lost is the good that needs to be done and why this bill is so important. It would support victims by taking fines and criminal assets from convicted human traffickers and directing them toward services and treatment to help these victims restore their lives.…”