[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12794]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    RECOVERING MISSING CHILDREN ACT

  (Mr. PAULSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, one out of four child abductions in the 
United States are not committed by a stranger, but instead are 
perpetrated by a relative.
  An inspector general's report has found that tax filings can help 
locate these missing children nearly half of the time because new 
addresses can be identified, but law enforcement can't access this 
critical information.
  We owe it to these children to give law enforcement the tools they 
need in order to find the more than 200,000 children that are kidnapped 
by family members every year here in the United States.
  That is why Congressman Courtney and I have introduced the bipartisan 
Recovering Missing Children Act, which will allow law enforcement, with 
a court order, to access tax filings that could aid in the search for 
abducted children.
  This legislation has been endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police, 
the National Association of Police Organizations, the Major County 
Sheriffs' Association, and the Sergeants Benevolent Association.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a zero-cost, commonsense way to cut red tape and 
help law enforcement bring these missing children home.

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