[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 52 (Wednesday, May 1, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H1773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        BRING OUR CITIZENS HOME

  (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, well, here we are at the beginning of May 
2002. Ludwig Koonz was taken to Italy in 1994. Jeff Koonz, his father, 
won court cases prior to that giving him custody. Jeff continues to 
fight the fight to get his son returned, the U.S. citizen's son 
returned, to the United States of America.
  The mother who took the child, Ilona Staller is still doing her 
pornography. She still has her Web site up. She is still doing exotic 
sex shows all over the world, raising her son in that environment. We 
have not heard from our State Department. We do not know exactly what 
they are doing about this to fight to bring every U.S. citizen who is 
outside of this country and who wants to be here in the United States 
home, where they belong.
  All I can ask is that you consider, my colleagues, what you would do 
if it were your child. Would you sit by complacently, like we are 
doing; or would you be standing on the shores of our country demanding 
that every child taken out of our country be returned? Help us bring 
our children home.

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