On the recordMay 23, 2016
Let me thank the gentleman from Texas for his persistence, his determination, and for this exciting commemoration of the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016. Let me thank the Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus and co-chair Jim Costa, along with Congressman Poe, Judge Poe, who famously has said, ``And that is just the way it is,'' and I see all of us seemingly adopting those words. So he has now put the English language in a form that we just can't help ourselves. So I thank Judge Poe so very much. I remember his beginning. I want to thank him for a year or 2 ago when he joined me and Chairman McCaul for a Committee on Homeland Security human trafficking hearing in Houston, Texas. I believe we have had other hearings since then because we know that Houston, Texas, Harris County, and in Texas has been called one of the center points of human trafficking, to our dismay. Many stories have come to our attention. I think it was about 2 years ago, Judge Poe, when they found a stash house out in the county. I actually went to that site where teams of-- when I say teams, tens upon tens of individuals, including children, were in that particular place. We had to shut down a cantina in and around the inner city that had been used for human trafficking in the city of Houston. {time} 2145 The one point that is very important that I will make--and I will comment on some other aspects that are in this bill--is that human trafficking is profitable.…
