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On the recordMarch 12, 2015
I thank the Senator from Illinois. His focus is exactly where we ought to be having our focus, which is how to take the profit out of this modern-day slavery and redirect it to help the victims, and that is what this bill does. It ends some of the impunity that some of these purveyors of human flesh--the rewards they are reaping--and plows it back in to help the victims. I know the SAVE Act has been a particular focus for the Senator from Illinois. Earlier I talked to Senator Feinstein, the Senator from California, about this issue. She is very concerned about how the Internet is becoming integrated as part of the business model of some of these perpetrators of this crime. I am also told--and the Senator from Illinois may be aware of this-- that veterans will participate.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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