[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 28, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H2493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING ACT

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, when the 
survivors of human trafficking are freed from their captors, they are 
often victimized again. This time they are abused by a system that does 
little to help them recover from years of rape and abuse.
  The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act would help change that. It 
would provide support and restitution to survivors, and it would 
clarify the law, helping to bring the demand side--the pimps, the sex 
traffickers, and the purchasers of women and girls--to justice.
  I have been proud to work with Congressman Ted Poe on very similar 
legislation that passed this body overwhelmingly, unanimously, in 
January; but to become law, the House must now take up the Senate 
version and pass it here in the House.
  I urge the leaders of the House to schedule a vote. Let's send a 
message: women and girls are not for sale in the United States of 
America. They cannot afford to wait any longer for this vital 
legislation.

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