Roy Blunt: “in the next few days, we will begin to debate this important bill on sex trafficking. This is something that, for…”

“in the next few days, we will begin to debate this important bill on sex trafficking. This is something that, for whatever reason, the country turned its back on for too long. As the ways to communicate and the ways to offer so-called adult services grew, the government and law enforcement didn't have the new tools they needed to fight back. This is a bill that Senator Portman and others have worked so hard on, on this side of the building. We are actually taking up the House bill. The principal sponsor of the House bill is Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner, with whom I have worked closely and who has been a good friend of mine--she and her family--for a long time. When the House passed this bill overwhelmingly, Ann Wagner said that they ``sent a clear message to trafficking victims: you are not alone, and justice is no longer out of reach.'' It is hard to imagine a more lonely place, I would think, than someone who is being trafficked, some young woman, young child, boy or girl, who has fallen into the hands of traffickers and who, for drugs or whatever reason, has been sold into this or become dependent in a way that put them into this.…”