[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13845]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN

  (Mrs. BIGGERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BIGGERT. Mr. Speaker, today the House Energy and Commerce 
Committee will take up H.R. 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act of 
2006, sponsored by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fitzpatrick).
  As an original cosponsor of the measure, I urge my colleagues to give 
it their strongest support. As a mother and grandmother, like other 
parents, I am horrified by the statistics.
  Mr. Speaker, 20 percent of young people have been approached online 
with unwanted sexual advances. Naperville, Illinois, a city in my 
district that has twice been voted by Money magazine as the top city in 
the Nation to raise children, has witnessed two high-profile cases in 
the past 2 months. Thanks to the Naperville police and the Illinois 
State Police, the two crimes were uncovered before the predators met 
the children.
  In Michigan, one minor had traveled halfway around the world to meet 
a man in the West Bank town of Jericho that she met on the networking 
Web site MySpace.com.
  As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As 
parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to 
include strangers on the Internet.

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