Political Quotes

“Mr. President, Winston Churchill supposedly once said: The Americans always do the right thing after they exhaust every other possibility. And you might say the same thing about the Senate when it comes to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. This has been a long strange journey here to final passage, but here we are. And we have kept our focus all along on the victims--typically, a girl of 12 to 14 years old who has been sex trafficked and who has been treated as a common object and enslaved. This is a terrible, heinous crime, but one that most of us don't see because it operates outside of our vision and our experience. We are throwing a lifeline to these victims of human trafficking by providing them real resources to help them--to help first to rescue them and then to help them heal. This is a good day for the Senate because we are doing the right thing for people who have no voice. We are their voice, and we are going to get this done in a way that provides them some real help. I want to thank all of our colleagues here on a bipartisan basis. It was a rocky trip here. But we got here. That is what counts, because we are providing necessary and needed help for these victims of human trafficking. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the committee- reported substitute amendment, as amended, to S. 178 is agreed to. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”