David Cicilline: “I support the $875 million for child survival and maternal health.”

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.

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.

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

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.