Transcript of hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act was a groundbreaking, bipartisan effort to update our involuntary servitude statutes and to create victim protections. It is a bipartisan bill, recently introduced with both Chairman Tom Lantos and Congress Member Chris Smith’s reauthorizing the statute. The principal features include immigration avenues to protect victims and their families from retaliation and to ensure that children are protected, assistance to U.S. citizens who fall prey to modern slavery or who are caught up by pomps or other types of criminal social activity, more flexibility in the ability to employ servitude statutes and other criminal laws against sex tourism operators and others who retaliate against escapees.