[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9279-9280]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    NATIONAL MISSING CHILDREN'S DAY

  (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 commend today as National 
Missing Children's Day. Mr. Speaker, you and I this morning attended a 
breakfast that was put on by the National Center for Missing and 
Exploited Children to commemorate all of the missing children across 
this country.
  I have been speaking on this floor since February 16 telling a 
different story about a child taken in this country, 10,000 children 
since then, with only 2 days that I missed. Today it is about children 
who have been returned and about the volunteers who have spent their 
time and their energy and their money in trying to get those children, 
who have either been sexually exploited or abducted, back home with

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their parents. We heard some unbelievably moving stories.
  The volunteers were honored, but more importantly, the law 
enforcement officers that we hardly ever commend adequately, because 
they put their lives on the line every day. They are out there with 
their incredible determination, their total dedication to getting child 
abductors and sex criminals off the street.
  One of the things that we can do, Mr. Speaker, is to picture them 
home, and with our program to put pictures of missing children on our 
envelopes. It works, because one in six children who are published like 
that are returned to their parents.
  Mr. Speaker, I encourage us all to join that challenge and picture 
our children home.

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