Nick Lampson: “I rise today to commend today as National Missing Children's Day. Mr. Speaker, you and I this morning attended a…”

“I rise today to commend today as National Missing Children's Day. Mr. Speaker, you and I this morning attended a breakfast that was put on by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to commemorate all of the missing children across this country. I have been speaking on this floor since February 16 telling a different story about a child taken in this country, 10,000 children since then, with only 2 days that I missed. Today it is about children who have been returned and about the volunteers who have spent their time and their energy and their money in trying to get those children, who have either been sexually exploited or abducted, back home with their parents. We heard some unbelievably moving stories. The volunteers were honored, but more importantly, the law enforcement officers that we hardly ever commend adequately, because they put their lives on the line every day. They are out there with their incredible determination, their total dedication to getting child abductors and sex criminals off the street. One of the things that we can do, Mr. Speaker, is to picture them home, and with our program to put pictures of missing children on our envelopes. It works, because one in six children who are published like that are returned to their parents. Mr. Speaker, I encourage us all to join that challenge and picture our children home.”