We cannot show favoritism in this issue to countries that we may have an allied relationship with because we're worried about upsetting a balance of trade or some other issue.

Over 20 years ago, the U.S. Congress approved and the President signed legislation, historic bipartisan legislation that I authored, known as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

The TVPA created a bold domestic and international anti-human trafficking strategy and established numerous, dozens and dozens of new programs to protect victims, prosecute traffickers, and to the extent possible, prevent human trafficking in the first place.

At the time too, many people thought when we said trafficking, including a number of U.S. attorneys that I talked to about what were they doing, they said, you're talking about weapons, right? You're talking about drugs, right? And I said, no, we're talking about human beings.

International Megan's Law seeks to protect children from sex tourism by notifying destination countries when convicted pedophiles plan to travel.

When they say, I'm going to this country, X, Y, or Z, they have to tell us that.

having that comfort that comes with it.

For three years, I tried to get a bill passed to stop organ harvesting. It was bipartisan.

It passed 413 to 2. It's sitting over in the Senate now for six months and I can't get it out on the floor for a vote.

the outcomes are so much better when there's a faith-based component.

Congressman Smith's the SECURE Act in particular will help find these kids that this administration has claimed on record that it's not their problem anymore despite these children being at great risk of sexual abuse and other forms of exploitation.