Political Quotes

“I opened my remarks tonight to say there are a lot of issues being considered. Let me in closing mention a great event we had today for a bill that will get a fair amount of attention--but not the attention it deserves--in affecting people's lives in a very direct way. It is called the Adam Walsh bill, named for a little boy, 6 years of age, who died 25 years ago today. The bill addresses an issue that has been highlighted a lot, most recently on television, that has to do with sexual predators which had been facilitated a lot by the Internet. This bill establishes two registries. One is for sexual predators. Right now there are about 500,000 we know of in this country; 100,000 we don't know where they are. It establishes a registry across the country, a national registry. In addition, it will develop a child abuse registry which builds on the recommendations and sponsorship initially of a wonderful nonprofit group that focuses on the tragedy associated with child abuse, but also more constructively and optimistically about what we need to do. That is called Childhelp, stationed in Arizona. Senator Kyl is very familiar with it.…”