[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11193-11194]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       NATIONAL MISSING KIDS DAY

  (Mr. FOLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOLEY. Madam Speaker, as cochairman, along with the gentleman 
from Alabama (Mr. Cramer) of the Congressional Missing and Exploited 
Childrens Caucus, I rise today in order to recognize National Missing 
Kids Day.
  The numbers are stunning. Every day over 2,000 children go missing. 
Even though many are returned home, there are still many who remain 
missing to this day. If not for the efforts of the National Center For 
Missing and Exploited Children, signed into law by President Reagan in 
1983, and thanks to the hard work of John and Reve Walsh, and many of 
our Nation's law enforcement and colleagues here in Congress, I am 
afraid many more parents would be mourning the loss of their children.
  Despite our success in recent years in tracking down our missing 
kids, much more needs to be done. Over the years, we have heard the 
names: Jessica Lunsford, Jetseta Gage, Sarah Michelle Lunde, Megan 
Kanka, Jacob Wetterling, and Adam Walsh, all of them beautiful children 
carrying with them some hopes and dreams of every young child in this 
country. All of these children taken away from their parents and killed 
by sex offenders.

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  There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders in this country, and 
150,000 of them are missing. Now we hear that Medicare may be giving 
them Viagra. How disgusting. How sad. How sick. We have to stop playing 
Russian roulette with our children.
  Last week, the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Cramer), my cochairman, 
and I, along with Senators Hatch and Biden, introduced the Sex Offender 
Registration Notification Act. I urge my colleagues in the House to 
work with the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner) in passing 
this important bill.

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