Chris Smith: “Mr. Speaker, the International Megan's Law is the culmination of over 3 years of extensive negotiations and research by…”

“Mr. Speaker, the International Megan's Law is the culmination of over 3 years of extensive negotiations and research by multiple parties. Mr. Payne and I are deeply grateful to all who have helped craft this legislation. I want to thank the majority leader, Steny Hoyer, for scheduling this legislation today and for his commitment to mitigating the crime, the heinous crime, of human trafficking. He and I have worked on that for years. And the International Megan's Law, which is a corollary to the trafficking work, has as its singular goal the protection of children from sex predators. Special thanks to Chairman Berman and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for their strong support for International Megan's Law, for helping to shepherd it through the committee, and for their staffs for being so helpful in terms of words and phrases, as well as important concepts in the bill.”