WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) issued the following statement on the Senate’s bipartisan passage of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act by a vote of 99 to 0:

“Today, I voted in favor of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. Human trafficking is a serious and too-often invisible problem that affects the lives of tens of thousands of women and children. This legislation is a bipartisan effort to protect those individuals and to punish those who enslave them. More than 200 victims’ rights and law enforcement groups support this legislation, and have called it “the most comprehensive and thoughtful piece of anti-trafficking legislation currently pending.” For the victims of modern slavery who suffer such horrible abuse at the hands of human traffickers, the Senate could not afford to wait any longer to vote on the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. I am pleased the Senate was able to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to pass this important piece of legislation.”

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