WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks in today's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing entitled "Lost and Exploited: Confronting Child Trafficking and the Failure to Protect America's Most Vulnerable." In his opening remarks, Durbin spoke about the horrific abuses that exploited children face, from human trafficking to online sextortion, and he called on his Senate colleagues to immediately pass the STOP CSAM Act (https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senate-judiciary-committee-unanimously-advances-durbin-hawley-bill-to-help-protect-ki...