David Cicilline: “It is almost laughable to promise that to the American people if our own Justice Department is manipulated as it was…”

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.

You can’t have a statewide school funding system that is fair to everyone — that’s equitable, that covers all costs of education, so that every student, no matter where they live, is treated the same, and every taxpayer treated the same —…

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.