[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 25, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H6562]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SUPPORT SECRET SERVICE CHILD PROTECTION ACT

  (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, I stand here today to tell you that the 
Secret Service does not just protect the President, they also protect 
missing kids. Nearly a decade ago, Congress authorized the U.S. Secret 
Service to participate in a multi-agency task force with the purpose of 
providing resources, expertise and other assistance to local law 
enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited 
Children in cases involving missing and exploited children.
  This began a strong partnership between the Secret Service and the 
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and resulted in the 
Secret Service providing critical forensic support, including polygraph 
examinations, handwriting examinations, fingerprint research and 
identification, age progressions and regressions and audio and video 
enhancements to the National Center and the law enforcement in numerous 
missing children's cases.
  However, there is a clear need to provide explicit statutory 
jurisdiction to the Secret Service to continue this forensic and 
investigative support upon request from local law enforcement, or 
NCMEC.
  I urge Members to support the Secret Service and NCMEC by 
cosponsoring the Secret Service Child Protection Act, H.R. 5389. Help 
the Secret Service continue their work on behalf of America's children.

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