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Smith is the dean of New Jersey's congressional delegation and the longest-serving member of Congress in New Jersey's history. [1] He has focused much of his career on promoting human rights abroad, including authoring the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 and several follow-on laws.
On February 27, 2018, the FOSTA-SESTA package was passed in the House of Representatives with a vote of 388–25. [1] On March 21, 2018, the FOSTA-SESTA package bill passed the Senate with a vote of 97–2, with only senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul voting against it. [2] The bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump on April 11, 2018 ...
The 114th Congress quickly and vigorously took up the issue of human trafficking, generating twelve bills in the first couple weeks of the new session. [2] The JVTA incorporates provisions from ten of those twelve bills: H.R. 159 (Stop Exploitation of Trafficking Act of 2015), [3] H.R. 181 (Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015), [4] H.R. 246 (To improve the response to victims of ...
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Operation Bid Rig was a long-term investigation into political corruption in New Jersey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2014.
To shine a light on the trafficking happening daily across our country, Congress designated Jan. 11 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Human trafficking occurs in two fashions: sex ...
The key figure in a Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations involving Matt Gaetz told the House Ethics Committee that the former congressman had sex with her when she was ...
Human trafficking is the modern form of slavery, with illegal smuggling and trading of people, for forced labour or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power of a position of vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation.