Political Quotes

“we are debating a bill today that should be about an issue we can all agree on--eliminating human trafficking. This bill should be about protecting women's health and rights and about fighting back against the unacceptable presence of human slavery in our country. In other words, if anything should be bipartisan, this bill is it. I know many of us were hoping this bill--the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act--would be an example of Republicans and Democrats working together because surely we can agree these problems need to be addressed--and urgently--and that the gridlock and dysfunction we see far too often in Congress should have absolutely no place in this discussion. So I am appalled that on a bill intended to help women, Republicans actually have chosen to double down on their political fight against women's health. Republicans have tried to sneak in a provision that would hurt women and drag this bill into yet another partisan fight. They just can't seem to help themselves. The provision the Republicans are hoping to sneak in--again, on a human trafficking bill--would be a permanent extension of the so-called Hyde amendment. It would move beyond the status quo, which only applies to appropriated taxpayer money, and expand it into the new nontax- funding streams this bill would authorize.…”