[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4852]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTION TO LOCATE AND SECURE RETURN OF ZACHARY 
                                 BAUMEL

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, events are moving so fast that there is 
always a danger we will forget about our citizens who are missing in 
action. There is one such American citizen missing in action in the 
Middle East for the last 17 years.
  A large group of my colleagues across the political spectrum join me 
in introducing this resolution calling on the Department of State to 
locate and secure the return of this American citizen, Zachary Baumel. 
We are asking the State Department to contact all governments 
concerned, and we are asking the Department of State to take into 
account the actions of all governments with respect to this issue in 
extending economic and other aids to countries in the region.
  I ask all of my colleagues to cosponsor this legislation to bring 
this lost American, missing in action, back to his family.

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