Wendy Sherman: “earlier today I was in contact with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They have informed me that…”

“earlier today I was in contact with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They have informed me that while they do not, cannot currently support this amendment, they gave me no indication that they opposed it, and a year ago they gave me a letter simply saying they do not support it. They are trying to evaluate their situation now in light of additional arguments I gave them. But the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fox) is absolutely right. We need more than one system. There is nothing in this national system that undermines the local system, and that is why those in California involved in informing children, involving parents that their children face a risk, the Kids Safe Organization and everyone else who got us the State hotline, prefers and strongly supports the idea of a national hotline. People all over America should be able to determine whether somebody applying to work in their child care center, which may be 10 miles, 20 miles from where that individual lives, has been convicted of a sexual predatory offense anywhere in the United States.”