Ted Poe: “Because when you build it, you monitor it, the safety, the security.”

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are in the midst of a situation in the United States, and throughout the world, where slavery has crept back into our environment and into our communities, and it is the slave trade of women and children for…

It is the final showdown scene, and while there are no swinging doors or clicking of spurs, eerie signs and sounds of silence or dust swirling behind me, I stand here today in the people's House to speak probably for the last time. If they…

Indefinitely might be a fair answer. Would you say that?

Thank you for chairing this committee for so many years. It has been a wonderful privilege to be here with you.