[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10548-10549]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 BRING KIDNAPPED AMERICAN 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, I have taken to this floor every day now 
this year to come here to remind the American citizens of Ludwig Koons, 
who was abducted from the United States of America in 1994. He is now, 
I think, 9 years old, and he is still a citizen of the United States 
who is illegally out of our country.
  I placed a phone call to our Secretary of State. A staff person 
called me back. I placed a phone call to the Ambassador to the United 
States from the Vatican. They have not even bothered to return my phone 
call. I have placed a phone call, many phone calls, I might add, to all 
of these people, including the Ambassador of Italy to the United 
States. I have talked with him, yet nothing yet seems to be moving.
  The issue is not about Ludwig Koons, it is about the 1,000 children 
who are taken out of our borders each year illegally. They are all 
citizens of this

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country and pledge allegiance to our flag.
  Where is our government? Why are we not turning to those children and 
doing anything, anything, necessary to return them to our land? Bring 
our children home.

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