Susan Wild

I, too, rise in support of H.R. 5856, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

Mr. Chairman? I'm sorry, may I request a roll call vote on this?

Nothing could be further from the truth.

These are clear violations of the Geneva Convention, the Convention on the Rights of Children, and fundamental international norms, laws, and principles.

It is truly unthinkable, and as a mother, I can barely stand learning what has been going on.

I rise in support of H.Res. 149.

I think this kind of hearing sheds light on where a lot of that foreign aid is going.

I feel incredibly strongly that combating the scourge of human trafficking particularly among children but all of human trafficking should never become a partisan issue.

When you get a coalition like that, maybe we in Congress should actually pay attention and come up with a comprehensive immigration reform plan.

I am not suggesting that we bring immigrants here to work and then we pay them substandard wages.

In my district anyway, we have a terrible crisis. As I often say, sometime in the early 1960's we stopped having the situation where one parent stayed home with the kids.

I would commend your attention, the New Dignity Act, which is a bipartisan bill, which actually would take care of some of the issues that we are talking about here today.

I believe I just heard one of the witnesses say that we now have corporate America aligned with progressives on this issue.

It is past time that the United States develop a strategy to combat these companies and develop a plan to lead on next generation telecom technologies.

I rise to strongly support Representative Manning's legislation, the 'Securing Global Telecommunications Act.'

There has been a lot of discussion for decades now about pharmaceutical prices generally, but recently the even more common subject of discussion is shortages of medications.

I also--and then I just want to switch gears to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, otherwise known as LIHEAP...

I worry that we lose many great candidates for public office who simply see this kind of thing on television.

When there is abuse of the independent contractor classification, it is actually to the detriment of American workers.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and welcome to all of you. I think it's appropriate that we have this hearing on the week, that National Missing Children's Day occurs this Thursday.

I really want to see those doors open to everybody as much as possible.

I would suggest that people's time could be used much more productively if they got involved in their children's schools, which is very much needed.

I feel as though your job, and the job of our educators has been made much harder than it should be.

Many of us on both sides of the aisle recognize that these industries need migrant workers.

I think that is a really important first step, and I am glad you brought that to our attention.