Nick Lampson: “I stand here today to tell you that the Secret Service does not just protect the President, they also protect missing…”

“I stand here today to tell you that the Secret Service does not just protect the President, they also protect missing kids. Nearly a decade ago, Congress authorized the U.S. Secret Service to participate in a multi-agency task force with the purpose of providing resources, expertise and other assistance to local law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in cases involving missing and exploited children. This began a strong partnership between the Secret Service and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and resulted in the Secret Service providing critical forensic support, including polygraph examinations, handwriting examinations, fingerprint research and identification, age progressions and regressions and audio and video enhancements to the National Center and the law enforcement in numerous missing children's cases. However, there is a clear need to provide explicit statutory jurisdiction to the Secret Service to continue this forensic and investigative support upon request from local law enforcement, or NCMEC. I urge Members to support the Secret Service and NCMEC by cosponsoring the Secret Service Child Protection Act, H.R. 5389. Help the Secret Service continue their work on behalf of America's children.”