David Cicilline: “Thank you. I thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back.”

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

We must remember that child abduction is child abuse and it has devastating emotional, psychological, and even physical consequences for both abducted children and their families left behind.

Secretly, I was always hoping I would be surprised it would move really quickly, but as a practical matter, I knew that was not the case.

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.