David Cicilline: “I am disappointed with the Majority's decision to hold funding hostage and I hope that we are not forced to go through…”

Since the Goldman Act was enacted there has been a decline in the number of American children abducted overseas and that is a good news story.

The future economic prosperity of our state is directly dependent on our ability to get this right.

You can’t have a statewide school funding system that is fair to everyone — that’s equitable, that covers all costs of education, so that every student, no matter where they live, is treated the same, and every taxpayer treated the same —…

The Goldman Act empowered the State Department to seek the return of American children, yet, the department, in my opinion, has not used the full of range of tools as Congress has intended.