[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9719]
[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.)
  Mr. FOLEY. Madam Speaker, let me associate myself with the words of 
the gentleman from Virginia in strong support of our team leader, Coach 
Hastert, Speaker Hastert, a decent, honorable man who has led this 
Chamber in an incredibly fair and responsible manner. Shame on those 
false reports.
  Let me also alert our colleagues--today is National Missing Kids Day. 
Every day, 2,000 children go missing. Even though many are returned 
home safely, many are still unaccounted for. Sexual predators roam 
free, foisting their sickness on the most vulnerable. Despite our 
success in recent years of tracking down our missing kids, much more 
needs to be done.
  If you watched recent episodes of Dateline or America's Most Wanted, 
online predators have a pervasive and sickening impact on our children.
  There are over 5,000 registered sex offenders in this country, and 
150,000 of them go without any kind of checking in or any kind of 
tracking. We track library books better than our sexual predators. We 
have to stop playing Russian roulette with our children's lives.

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