David Cicilline: “The Equality Act seeks to level the legal playing field so that all Americans have a chance to thrive.”

Congress certainly has the authority to do that and I think that's one of the key issues for this Committee and the Congress to consider.

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.

To export our responsibility or our privilege really of being this great humanitarian force in the world is a terrible message.

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.