Nick Lampson: “the pictures of missing children like Elizabeth Smart and Michelle Van Dam have been all over the news lately, and that…”

“the pictures of missing children like Elizabeth Smart and Michelle Van Dam have been all over the news lately, and that is a good thing; not that they are missing, but that people care enough to try to find them. As founder and chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, I see this as a positive move; but I am still concerned. I am concerned about the sporadic coverage and the lack of coverage or discussion about all missing children, children from every walk of life in every circumstance imaginable. Whether it has been by stranger abduction, parental abduction, international abduction, or runaways, all deserve all of the attention that we can give them. Mr. Speaker, I would like to challenge my colleagues here in the House of Representatives and in other branches of government and even the media to move toward more proactive and more helpful positions on missing kids, all missing kids, because that is the way we will bring our children home.”