Ann Wagner

It is hard for me to imagine why anyone thinks it is a good idea to negotiate anything, let alone peace, without women at the table.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte) for his leadership on this area of human trafficking, along with the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Bass), my good friend, for all of her support on this human trafficking issue. Mr…

It is high time for Congress to move this important bill across the finish line.

I am pleased that the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Act and the TARGET Act will improve America's fight against sex trafficking and forced labor both at home and worldwide.

Together, Mr. Chairman, we will strengthen the TIP program and help prevent trafficking, I believe, across the globe.

It is my pleasure. And I must say, since we do have time, that her being a champion of this in the last three Congresses that I have had the pleasure of working--and my constituents in Missouri's Second District have sent me--it is…

Together, we will strengthen the TIP program and hold countries accountable for enabling human trafficking.

In every single one of our communities, in every single one of our cul-de-sacs, the scourge of sex trafficking lives.

I have introduced the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, which will give trafficking victims a pathway to petition the courts to have their criminal records cleared for offenses that were a direct result of being trafficked.

I am grateful for this hearing and to have the opportunity to visit with the witnesses and just thank you all for working so tirelessly to complete the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Act.

The relief act will apply to noncriminal offenses and give the court the opportunity to vacate those offenses that really pertain specifically to them being victims of trafficking.

I thank the gentlewoman from Alabama for yielding, my good friend, Martha Roby, who has been such a leader on this issue. It has been my great privilege to be a sponsor of the Working Families Flexibility Act in the 113th Congress, in the…

It is my particular honor to offer an amendment that will ensure that countries on the TIP Report's Tier 2 Watch List take concrete actions to combat human trafficking.

I am not one who believes that we can legislate away society's ills, that education and awareness are absolutely critical.

It is patently clear that there can be no resolution with Assad in power, especially as he continues to prioritize a war against moderate groups seeking democracy over a war against ISIS.

the ways that it will help bring accountability to Washington while opening up the economy for Main Street back home.

China's theft of American intellectual property, their state control of major industries, and WTO accession have cost the American people.

I hardly agree with Dr. Atkinson that to defend free trade and American jobs we should not advocate U.S. protectionism but actively respond to Chinese protectionism.

The only conclusion there is to draw regarding the Wells Fargo scandal is that the CFPB was asleep at the wheel.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 209. ____________________

Iran is one of the United States' most severe security threats and the JCPOA--or, as we would call it, the Iran deal--has done little to mitigate dangerous conflict.

the Volcker Rule is not something that simply affects broker-dealers and traders, but it has an impact on U.S. companies, their employees, and individuals saving for retirement

If the financial crisis taught us anything, it was that relying on government regulators in Washington to identify and root out systemic risk will always end in failure.

the financial crisis nearly 10 years ago was born as a result of poor government housing policy that encouraged excessive risk-taking at taxpayer expense

When I took an oath of office for my seat in Congress, I swore to support and uphold the Constitution, alongside the rest of my fellow Members of Congress.