Ted Poe: “I thank the gentlewoman for her comments. As the gentlewoman knows and has been mentioned on the House floor, I think…”

“I thank the gentlewoman for her comments. As the gentlewoman knows and has been mentioned on the House floor, I think, by Mr. Weber, Houston, Texas, is a hub for child sex trafficking in the United States, and it is because of our location. We are using that, though, to change the dynamics of the city, working with our new mayor, Sylvester Turner, who was in the State legislature for a long time. Our new mayor has now come up with a protocol for the city of Houston to work to eliminate this scourge. I think it is a protocol that cities throughout the country will be able to use themselves to address the issue, admit the problem, and then deal with it on a multilayer basis, working with all the nonprofits and all the government agencies and different types of law enforcement. So I know that the gentlewoman is working with the mayor on this project. I want to congratulate you and the mayor for taking this issue and solving it so that Houston now will be an example of what to do in solving this scourge. I also thank you for being on the Victims' Rights Caucus. As you mentioned, it is bipartisan. Jim Costa and I started this in 2005. There are 80 members: 40 Republicans, 40 Democrats. Mr. Speaker, the Victims' Rights Caucus promotes victims of crime before Congress.”