Political Quotes

“I thank my friend and colleague of the Judiciary Committee for managing this bill, and I acknowledge the ranking member, Mr. Conyers, and our chairman, Mr. Goodlatte, for the expeditious way in which we have moved forward on some very crucial bills. I also thank both of my friends, my colleague, a former judge, Ted Poe from Texas and, as well, my colleague Carolyn Maloney from New York for their astute collaborative work which is so very important for really what we are trying to do here today. Let me lay the groundwork for all that has been done, and that is that we want to stamp out human slavery that has been an epidemic and a plague and a cancer on this country and certainly around the world. I am glad my friend mentioned the tragedy in Nigeria. Being in meetings on this issue today, it is obviously an epidemic and one that emphasizes a very special point, and that is young girls underage cannot consent to marriage, they cannot consent to be kidnapped or to be associated with someone that is going to do them harm on the basis that they are married. They are enslaved. They are being trafficked. They are being threatened unto their lives. Therefore, it is crucial for us to acknowledge what it is. Boko Haram is clearly a dastardly example of the tragic thugs that participate in human trafficking. They may be that group in Nigeria, but certainly we know that there are those here.…”