Nick Lampson: “The gentleman spoke of Craig Eiland, who is one of my constituents, Craig and Melissa; and their prematurely born twins…”

“The gentleman spoke of Craig Eiland, who is one of my constituents, Craig and Melissa; and their prematurely born twins are doing well in the hospital, thank goodness, but the night that those Department of Public Safety officers showed up in the hospital questioning the nurses that were taking care of those babies concerned Melissa significantly so, and then following that they went to her home to question her when it had already been announced, as the gentleman said, that they knew Craig Eiland was in Ardmore, Oklahoma, as did the rest of the country. That is bordering on harassment, but it is also the use of public funds and public employees to perform tasks, as the gentleman says, reminiscent of a police state. But what about the work that the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost) did recently on the AMBER Alert? I have done a lot of work in my 6 years here about the issue of missing and exploited children and worked diligently to pass legislation that would give our law enforcement capability to work with the public of this country to help find missing people. Interestingly enough, I understand that the State of Texas turned on the AMBER Alert system to try to find members of the Texas legislature.”