[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10737-10738]
[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 to talk about another of the 
10,000 American children who have been abducted to foreign countries.
  Miranda Budiman was abducted from Georgia by her father, Mr. Clements 
Iwan Budiman, on Halloween of 1998 when she was 4 years.
  Mr. Budiman and his wife, Tara, were separated prior to the abduction 
and Ms. Budiman had primary custody of Miranda.
  On October 29, 1998, Mr. Budiman had taken $10,000 cash advance from 
his

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credit card and bought two airplane tickets on Japanese Airlines. Mr. 
Budiman and Miranda left on a jet to Tokyo on November 2, 1999.
  There is currently a felony kidnapping out for Mr. Budiman. He was 
born in Indonesia and has family in Jakarta. But the whereabouts of he 
and Miranda remain unknown. Miranda's mother has not had any contact 
with her since the abduction.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to do everything possible to reunite parents and 
children like Miranda and Tara Budiman. We must continue to focus on 
this issue of abducted United States citizens and bring our children 
home.

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