Chris Smith actually said...

Let me just ask you, if you are concerned as I am, about conforming human rights designations to accommodate other political considerations.

Smith expresses concern over political influences affecting human rights designations.

10/26/2015

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Mark Lagon from Freedom House... claims that there is an utter absence of prosecutions for labor trafficking.

I think 15 years later we are really getting it right because every Embassy I go to, and there are many, I always ask who is doing TIP there...

I hope to hear a thorough explanation today of how this determination was made and by whom, but I fear that the damage has already been done...

Either the report and our efforts to correct these terrible crimes are meaningful or they become a political tool.