Morales,who founded a rehabilitation center in San Jose that has helped more than 3,000 trafficking victims, made an emotional appeal for governments to finance organizations like hers, urging remembrance she said, "for all victims who have died without a voice to speak for them."

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"If senators refuse to debate about a profound crisis affecting every single citizen, the nation must ask 'What do you fear?' ,'And whose voice do you speak and whose interest do you vote?" Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky disagreed, saying the bill will make soaring health care costs go even higher, and place a greater burden on average Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23