Political Quotes

“I will speak very briefly in support of the Reid amendment. I think the concerns he has raised here are very important ones and need to be addressed. I would actually add to the examples he used other situations which have occurred to constituents of mine in which following a divorce decree in this country, a spouse who maintains dual citizenship in some fashion goes to a country of his or her other citizenship with the child after there has been an agreement with regard to visitation. The American citizen spouse who remains in the United States then seeks to visit on the basis of that visitation agreement and finds, when visiting the foreign country, the child is not available, cannot be found, has disappeared, usually just to another city or another relative's home or something else, but basically because of the limited amount of time the visiting spouses have in the country, they no longer have the opportunity to see their children. This is not the case of an abduction per se, but it is relatively similar in terms of the implications. So I think the outlawing this amendment takes helps to address the most egregious form of this problem.”