Your legislation will help bring justice to victims and their families and protect vulnerable women and children.

We agree that congressional action is necessary to put an end to this tragic exploitation of human beings.

This legislation will help. This Committee can act to stop criminal sex trafficking online.

It's a disgrace. And I believe history is going to judge us on how we respond to it.

This is, I think, the single best thing to do.

it is a tragedy that in the Presiding Officer's home State of Louisiana, in my State of Ohio, and around this country, girls and women, children and adults, are being trafficked online. Sex trafficking is really a stain on our country. We…

I think it is going to come back a lot to, as George Voinovich used to say, because he was quoted earlier by my colleague Senator Carper, I have to quote him, too, because he is from Ohio.

FAST-41 is a valuable tool.

This law says the Permitting Council at that moment steps in and says, 'No, you are not going to take your football and go home.'

Congress should appropriate funding for the Council at the President's request of $10 million.

The goal of this hearing is to determine how we can stretch that Federal dollar to get the most bang for the buck.

I hope two years from now I will be back here with you, Senator Portman, to have a hearing talking about the successes we have had with FAST-41.