It is very troubling when I sit there as a business guy and say, well, how do we know if we are making great progress when we are not even really accurately measuring it.

I would be interested in hearing from each one of you the matrix of which we are going to be measuring it, the goals that we are going to do, and how we incentivize you to do that.

I look forward to hearing your testimony today on how we can start to really make progress.

Mr. Chairman, my amendment is simple and straightforward. It prohibits the use of funds for the payment of salaries to Presidential recess appointees until they're formally confirmed by the Senate. In 1863, a law was passed that barred…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

That is deplorable. Human rights violations, as we have heard testimony a number of times before this committee, the human rights violations continue to happen over and over again.

Today too much of Africa is really ruled by repressive and oppressive regimes that take those natural resources as an asset to leverage power and to stay in power and truly not to improve the lives of the people within their own country.

I want to say that every single one of those is an individual case and I want to encourage those to not look at budget cutbacks and anything else as an indictment on their work.

As most of us in this room know, this annual Trafficking in Persons Report is one of the best tools that we have in terms of identifying human trafficking.

Mr. Chairman, my amendment is a simple and straightforward amendment. It prohibits the use of funds for the payment of salaries to Presidential recess appointees until they are formally confirmed by the Senate. In 1863, a law was passed…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…