Robert Menendez actually said...

"What can we do from your experience, what can governments, and the private sector, and the public sector do to increase protections for potential trafficking victims during conflicts, which increasing..."

"the government is complicit in trafficking, and that makes it all the more--in my mind, one thing is to have a blind eye to what is happening in your country. The other thing is to be complicit in the..."

"a trade agreement should not have already raised these trafficking issues to countries that are on the TIP Report list."

"I do not want us to be duplicitous in the way in which we look at this"