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, questioned witnesses 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." During his questioning, Durbin focused on how the federal government can intervene before children are brought into dangerous situations, including trafficking and sextortion.
Durbin began by asking Ms. Julia Einbond, CEO of Covenant House New Jersey, about her organization's view on his bipartisan legislation, the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking...