"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."
"It is high time for Congress to move this important bill across the finish line."
"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 Preventio..."
"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."
"Together, we will strengthen the TIP program and hold countries accountable for enabling human trafficking."
"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 resu..."
"In every single one of our communities, in every single one of our cul-de-sacs, the scourge of sex trafficking lives."
"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 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."
"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."