[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 34 (Thursday, March 23, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H1287-H1288]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              PACT: PARENTS OF ABDUCTED CHILDREN TOGETHER

  (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 Lady Catherine 
Meyer, wife of the British Ambassador

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to the United States and mother of Constantin and Alexander, and the 
organization she has formed called PACT, Parents of Abducted Children 
Together.
  Constantin and Alexander left for a summer holiday with their father 
in Germany in 1994, and their father has kept them in Germany ever 
since. In the last 6 years, Lady Meyer has only seen her sons for a 
total of about 24 hours. Lady Meyer formed PACT to help American 
parents gain at least basic access rights to their children.
  Today I will join my colleague, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Chabot), 
in introducing a concurrent resolution urging signatories to uphold the 
Hague Convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction. 
This resolution was introduced today with over 90 original cosponsors, 
a powerful statement on the importance of this issue. The gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Chabot) and I may be the legs and the feet to move this 
legislation through the House, but Lady Meyer is truly its heart and 
soul.
  Mr. Speaker, children should be a nonpartisan issue, and I urge the 
House to pass this resolution and bring our children home.

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