06/10/2015
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"Thank you for arranging for the committee to consider this legislation today, for your sponsorship of the bill itself."
"Mr. Chairman?"
"Though it is hard to believe now, the TVPA was met with a wall of skepticism and opposition."
"More than 20 years ago, the U.S. Congress approved and the president signed historic legislation that I had authored called the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000."