[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 21 (Wednesday, March 1, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H577-H578]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        INTERNATIONAL ABDUCTION

  (Mr. LAMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to talk about another of 
America's 10,000 children who have been abducted to foreign countries: 
David Richard Uhl.
  In April of 1998, at age 1, David Uhl was taken from his father, Dr. 
George Uhl, in his home in Maryland, to Munich, Germany. The United 
States courts ordered that David's clear best interest was to be in his 
father's custody and ordered his return.

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  However, the German courts have supported his mother's efforts to 
keep him from his father and have provided no visitation and have 
provided no timely ruling on Hague petitions. When George last traveled 
to Munich in February, a German judge would not order visitation or 
even tell him where his son was hidden. The lower German court rulings 
that grant David's mother German custody move through the German 
appeals court next week, and I am hopeful that George's son will soon 
be returned to him.
  Dr. Uhl and parents like him need our help. Mr. Speaker, we must show 
respect and concern for the most sacred of bonds, the bond of a parent 
and a child. When we look at a globe and we see boundaries, but when it 
comes to uniting families, we must know no boundaries. We must bring 
our children home.

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