Political Quotes

“I rise in support of S. 2073, the reauthorization of the Missing and Exploited Children and the Runaway and Homeless Youth Acts. This substitute includes H.R. 1818, the Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Act, which passed the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on which I serve. This bill also contains and incorporates a very important provision that I sponsored that provides the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children with funds to serve as the Nation's primary resource center for child protection. For more than 13 years, the National Center, a private nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1984, has been instrumental in locating and recovering missing children and preventing child abductions, molestations and sexual exploitations. The National Center is a vital resource for families and the approximately 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States in the search for missing children and the quest for child protection.”