Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I am so proud that the Senate Judiciary Committee has already passed the AMBER Alert bill on which Senator Feinstein and…”

“I am so proud that the Senate Judiciary Committee has already passed the AMBER Alert bill on which Senator Feinstein and I worked during the recess, after the tragic happening in California with the teenage girls who were lost but then found because of AMBER Alert, and the tragic kidnapping in Texas of a baby who was also found because of the AMBER Alert. Although in numbers the child abductions through the summer weren't any more than previous years, they seemed so much more because we knew about them and we were able to do something about them. Not all of them have had a happy ending, but more than ever before have had a happy ending. The realization that their child has been abducted must be the most terrifying nightmare a parent can endure. But that is what has happened to parent after parent in our country. The AMBER Alert bill is named for Amber Hagerman, who was abducted when she was 9 years old, riding her bicycle near her home in Arlington, TX, in 1996. Amber was murdered.”