David Cicilline: “I think there is broad and maybe universal support on this Committee to do exactly what this bill attempts to do.”

The problem is we haven't committed to a mission. I have asked Secretary Blinken to define what he thinks the mission is.

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.

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.