[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3116]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     PROTECTING AMERICA'S CHILDREN

  (Mr. FOLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, let me first thank my colleagues on the 
Appropriations Committee for voting overwhelmingly to put the port deal 
on ice. We are not anti-Arab. We want disclosure. We want certainty of 
transactions. We want no secrecy on these particular deals.
  I also want to thank them for their courageous vote and excellent 
vote on H.R. 3132, the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction 
Act. Overwhelmingly passed by voice vote, that measure is on its way to 
the other Chamber to set up for the first time a national sex offender 
registry, getting background checks on foster care parents so we know 
if we are putting our kids with appropriate individuals, a national 
database requiring bracelet monitoring for sex offenders.
  We track library books better than we do sexual predators. It is time 
we get this right. This bill does that. It puts in law guarantees that 
will protect our kids. It is high time we passed this measure. I thank 
Senator Frist, John Walsh, among others, who have brought this to the 
forefront of the national conscience, and I urge we get that bill to 
the President's desk before we lose another child.

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