[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 146 (Wednesday, November 13, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H8548]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              REMEMBER THE 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, I rise today to welcome our colleagues back 
and to remind everyone that while the media fervor of missing children 
has died down it does not mean that the cases have gone away.
  It is my hope that we will continue in this body to focus and work on 
the issue of missing and exploited children. There is much that is 
going to be done. It is going to be years before we will address all of 
the problems that face children, so it will not be accomplished during 
this session or even the next Congress as well.
  I would like to invite the new freshmen Members joining us to join 
the Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. Children 
from every walk of life and every circumstance imaginable, stranger 
abduction, parental abduction, international abduction, runaways, and 
children being exploited, all deserve the attention we can give them.
  Today as many of us return from the campaign trail where we have 
talked about our future and our children, I challenge my colleagues in 
Congress to move toward more proactive and helpful positions on missing 
kids, all missing kids.

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