Al Green

But for intervention and somebody understanding that you were somebody, that you were a child of the same God...

I cannot think of a higher priority.

What are some of these masters making in Houston, Texas?

The visa issue that I mentioned earlier is a circumstance that is a great resource to help victims of human trafficking.

The Constitution of the United States of America protects anybody in this country. I want them protected.

We want every person who is being trafficked, every person who is being ensnarled, every person who is in involuntary servitude to get out and into the sunlight.

It is exceedingly important that the empirical evidence that has been shared by expert witnesses be made available to the public.

I do not call them 'johns.' I mean, John, you know, he was a good guy. He is from the Bible. Why do we call them 'johns'?

It is time to expose them, and they need to go to prison and they need to be exposed.

We have to change that so they call the police and then law enforcement works with the Feds and we make sure that they are not going to get deported for reporting a crime of human slavery.

But they are all victims of crime, and we have to recognize them.

I have seen the victims in Central America. I think in this latest raid, almost all of the people that were brought in yesterday were from Central America.

I take this personally. We have got to do something because these are my people.

People who traffic babies have got to go to jail, and they have got to stay there a while, a long time.

We should ask what happened to them and try to rescue them.

The financial system is stronger today, yet there are still some concerns that have to be addressed

Can you give some indication as to how Dodd-Frank has had a positive impact on the financial system with reference to its stability?

If we choose to, we can eliminate your existence, your very existence. You are a creature of Congress, you exist because Congress decided that you should be there?

We should be clear, Mr. Chairman, as to what this report is and what it is not. It is not a green light to designate actors in the industry as systemically important institutions.

Today's hearing is an opportunity to learn more about the Office of Financial Research's work last year as well as what we can expect from their 2014 agenda.

Are there policies that we should review such that this type of inequality does not continue to expand?

Life is an inescapable network of mutuality tied to a single garment of destiny.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You mentioned earlier, I believe it was Mr. Callahan, that we have 3 million children who are in child labor.

This was a truly bipartisan effort to making a nonpartisan goal to try to reach out to the Filipino people.

I was inspired by the unity of the effort when I was there.