Catherine Cortez Masto

I appreciate your comments with respect to the opioid epidemic, because in Nevada that is having an impact.

I look forward to working with this Subcommittee and stakeholders to ensure American scientists and American companies continue to be leaders in space.

The United States continues to be a pioneer in space activities, and our policies should support the continued innovation that has been the key to America's economic success.

We should also ensure that our space policies promote the inclusion of small businesses and protect our ability to conduct scientific and nonprofit activities as well as promoting for-profit activities in the new frontier.

The Outer Space Treaty states that the use of outer space, quote, should be carried on for the benefit of all peoples.

Thank you. That is very helpful. Thank you for the conversation. I have to leave to get to another committee hearing, but thank you so much. I appreciate the responses and the conversation this morning.

There were days when I would go over and visit with her, and there were times when she had to make a decision to be able to afford her prescription drugs or pay the energy bills.

Thank you for this conversation, and all of you today, I so appreciate what you do on behalf of our communities.

It had better be complied with and we had better have answers in two years on how many Native American students there are and what are the educational challenges of those students.

We are committed to working to get this over to the other side.

Without the hearing today, would we even know this updated data that has existed because, to my understanding, there is no transparency other than what you just told us?

I do not understand why our students in Indian Country deserve anything less than any other student in our States.

I am curious why is it taking so long for this to be updated, for the information to be transparent, for the verification to occur?

The procurement rules for U.S. Government contractors and subcontractors requiring disclosure and certification that companies do not engage in any trafficking-related activities are a great first step to rooting out bad actors in our…

The most recent State Department Trafficking in Persons report showed that labor trafficking prosecutions dropped to just 7 percent and labor trafficking convictions dropped to 2 percent of overall human trafficking cases in the United…

It was not mandatory, but because we came together as the Task Force, and this was a focus of everyone in the state, we shared the data.

In the state of Nevada, we had no sex trafficking crime.

We need to fund training, we need to promote it, but we don't talk about what the training should be

Not only did we work to pass State law to make sure that the hotline is located in many of our buildings

Because of your help and support, our Nevada Trucking Association has an incredible program to educate our truckers.

Thank you to the Polaris Project. You are instrumental in my state in helping us address this issue.

I'm from Nevada. I was a former Attorney General there for 8 years.

I commend the efforts of these organizations and their leaders.

As we'll hear from our witnesses today, greater knowledge, understanding, and awareness are essential for any forward movement in combatting this crime.

This week, Senator Klobuchar and I will introduce complementary bills that would create a lifeline--lifetime ban, I should say, for commercial driver's license holders convicted of a crime related to human trafficking.