ms. coppage, thank you for stepping forward.emely important position and will take a great deal of energy and time. we thank you for your willingness to serve our country. i also want to thank your family. this is not easy on family. we know that. we thank them for their willingness to share you with our country in carrying out one of our most important functions. senator corker is absolutely right. modern-day slavery, this is something that has to end. the number of people who are caught up in victims of trafficking, it is staggering. tens of millions. the profit to a legal entities by trafficking is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. we talking about a huge area of profit for criminal activities and incredible human rights violations in our time. it is modern-day slavery. and we need to continue to be in the forefront. i first got engaged in this under the helsinki commission. we made this a priority. we were successful in establishing trafficking commitment within. there is now a representative and parliamentary assembly