This is a step the Senate has not taken in 20 years.

We will consider the appropriate course in the next few days.

It is not about questions of privilege.

Well, thank you. And all those would go toward you being able to rescue these kids, all of us being able to rescue our children.

These are not actions of a party acting in good faith.

Thank you, Senator Heitkamp, and thank you for your leadership on this.

For God's sake, she is only 16.

As Co-Chair of the Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking and, maybe more importantly, as someone who represents a State that has experienced some abhorrent sex-trafficking networks, and, maybe most importantly, as a father, this is an…

It is a problem that I believe Congress should pay more attention to.

This is a problem and this goes to our need to have a secure border, not just for immigration purposes, but for money, guns, drugs, and certainly for terrorism.

I think it is clear that we live in a dangerous world and it is something we have to be concerned about.