[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19766]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CHILD ABDUCTION PREVENTION

  (Mr. LAMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, the House passed H.R. 5422, the 
Child Abduction Prevention Act. As the founder of the Congressional 
Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, I would like to thank my 
colleagues for coming together to pass this important piece of 
legislation.
  The provisions of a bill that I introduced, the Secret Service Child 
Protection Act, were included in the bill. Many people do not know 
this, but the Secret Service does more than protect the President. They 
help find missing kids. I wanted to make sure that they are able to 
continue assisting investigators, and I worked hard to have the Secret 
Service bill included in this overarching bill. The Secret Service is a 
key player in the effort to reunite families and to protect children.
  The U.S. Secret Service provides resources, expertise, and other 
assistance to local law enforcement agencies and to the National Center 
for Missing and Exploited Children in cases involving missing and 
exploited children. However, even though the partnership is strong, 
there was a clear need to provide explicit statutory jurisdiction to 
the Secret Service to continue this forensic and investigative support 
upon request from local law enforcement or the National Center for 
Missing and Exploited Children. The bill that we passed on Monday will 
do just that.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues for working together so that we 
may hopefully help prevent further abduction and exploitation of 
children across America.

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