Holly Burkhalter In The Hill: A Modest Proposal - Bill Fine-Tunes Nation's Anti-Trafficking Tools
January 2013
The movie “Lincoln” is the riveting drama of the president’s securing the crucial votes needed from the opposition party to pass the thirteenth amendment to the constitution that outlawed slavery. Stunningly, Lincoln rounded up impossible-to-get votes from die-hard opponents of freedom for African Americans, and he did so in 18 days.
Contrast that with the record of the 112th Congress, which broke all previous records of low numbers of bills enacted. Among the many initiatives left undone was passing the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. This legislation should have reauthorized the 2001 Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which expired in October 2011.
