Maxwell Frost: “Mr. Speaker, they understand that the AMBER system works. It has helped to recover 52 abducted children, five of them in…”

“Mr. Speaker, they understand that the AMBER system works. It has helped to recover 52 abducted children, five of them in the month of March alone; but it does not work where it does not exist, and the AMBER Alert Network Act will help set up a nationwide network of AMBER Alerts. It provides 10 times the resources to communities that the President has requested for next year. But the AMBER Alert bill will never become law as long as House Republican leaders are holding it hostage. Over the past 6 months, they have proven their willingness to do just that. As a result, Mr. Speaker, there is only one way to pass the AMBER Alert Network Act through this House, by defeating the previous question today. If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the rule to bring up S. 121, the Senate-passed stand-alone AMBER bill immediately after the House passes H.R. 1104, the Sensenbrenner bill. That way the AMBER bill can become law and we can immediately begin strengthening AMBER Alerts around the country to save abducted children.”