[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7268]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        INTERNATIONAL ABDUCTION

  (Mr. LAMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in hopes that my colleagues 
will be moved by the stories that I tell and help bring our children 
home. Since February 16, I have been coming down to the floor and 
talking about American children who have been abducted to foreign 
countries, asking my colleagues, the media, and the American people to 
focus their attention on these kids, and the message is starting to get 
out.
  Mr. Speaker, just this Sunday, The Washington Post ran a two-page 
article on Joseph Cooke and his two children, Danny and Michelle. I 
spoke about Joseph and his children on April 5, and this article 
details their tragic story of abduction to Germany.
  Mr. Speaker, there are 10,000 American children out there whose 
stories are similar, 10,000 American children and their parents who 
experience the same kind of pain and devastation every day of their 
separation. These daily 1-minutes, events and the resolution I 
introduced along with the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Chabot) are just the 
tip of the iceberg. This Congress must take action to solve this 
problem and help reunite parents with their children.
  Mr. Speaker, we must bring our children home.

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