David Cicilline: “To the extent that we are suggesting that it is, we are misleading the international community or misleading the people…”

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.

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.

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

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.