David Cicilline: “What is at stake here is the security of our democracy, and that this was an attack on American democracy.”

What we’ve said to the General Assembly is you’re going to have to have a transition plan that takes that into account.

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.

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.