David Cicilline: “These outrageous, unsustainable, and immoral costs are ruining lives.”

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.

This is a process that was created by Congress. There's a legal standard.

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.

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.