Political Quotes

“I thank Mr. Pascrell for yielding time, and I thank my good friend and colleague Erik Paulsen for his great work in getting us to this point today where finally we are going to move this measure forward. It is almost 5 years to the day that Mr. Paulsen and I introduced this legislation, along with a number of others, in 2011, to deal with this really, just almost inexplicable anomaly in the law which basically says that one arm of the government--the IRS--can actually know the whereabouts of a missing child but can't share that information with another arm of government--namely, State and local law enforcement--which, in most cases, almost 100 percent of cases involving missing children, is the level of government that actually deals with the investigation and attempts to recover children. So you have a situation where you have got all these resources and efforts happening at the State and local level scurrying around, trying to find leads for abducted children, yet the government is sitting on information in terms of tax returns that were filed with the Social Security number of the child who is missing or the suspected abductor, and the two levels of government can't talk to each other. This legislation will break down that barrier and allow, again, timely information to be shared for the thousands of children, which we know from data that the missing children foundation and other law enforcement groups have been sharing with Congress over a number of years.…”