Chris Smith actually said...

But, again, as I said in my opening getting the Trafficking Victims Protection Act--a whole another issue but it is certainly a serious human rights abuse issue--we have always argued just get it right in the report and then part two, the sanctions regime, if there are any.

06/10/2015

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