[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13076]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                UNITED EFFORT TO BRING OUR CHILDREN HOME

  (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, the pictures of missing children like 
Elizabeth Smart and Michelle Van Dam have been all over the news 
lately, and that is a good thing; not that they are missing, but that 
people care enough to try to find them. As founder and chairman of the 
Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, I see this as a 
positive move; but I am still concerned.
  I am concerned about the sporadic coverage and the lack of coverage 
or discussion about all missing children, children from every walk of 
life in every circumstance imaginable. Whether it has been by stranger 
abduction, parental abduction, international abduction, or runaways, 
all deserve all of the attention that we can give them.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to challenge my colleagues here in the 
House of Representatives and in other branches of government and even 
the media to move toward more proactive and more helpful positions on 
missing kids, all missing kids, because that is the way we will bring 
our children home.

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