Tom Lantos: “events are moving so fast that there is always a danger we will forget about our citizens who are missing in action.…”

“events are moving so fast that there is always a danger we will forget about our citizens who are missing in action. There is one such American citizen missing in action in the Middle East for the last 17 years. A large group of my colleagues across the political spectrum join me in introducing this resolution calling on the Department of State to locate and secure the return of this American citizen, Zachary Baumel. We are asking the State Department to contact all governments concerned, and we are asking the Department of State to take into account the actions of all governments with respect to this issue in extending economic and other aids to countries in the region. I ask all of my colleagues to cosponsor this legislation to bring this lost American, missing in action, back to his family.”