[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 24, 2002)]
[House]
[Pages H6478-H6479]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     TOURING THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN

  (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, yesterday a group of staffers for Members 
who are part of the Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited 
children took part of a tour and briefing at the National Center for 
Missing and Exploited Children, and I want to thank them today for 
taking the time to see

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firsthand the amazing work that the National Center does.
  One of the things that I did after the abduction and murder of Laura 
Kate Smither was to go to the National Center to see the work that they 
do there, to meet with Ernie Allen, the President and CEO of the 
National Center. Seeing the Center and the people who work there proved 
absolutely inspiring to me and helped me to found that Congressional 
caucus that so many of our Members now participate in.
  I hope that the Members of your staff, those of you who hear me and 
all of us who visited the center yesterday, were just as inspired and 
will bring that inspiration back to your offices. There is so much that 
we can do together to prevent the abduction and exploitation of 
America's children, if we but take the first step.

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