Nick Lampson: “I rise today to welcome our colleagues back and to remind everyone that while the media fervor of missing children has…”

“I rise today to welcome our colleagues back and to remind everyone that while the media fervor of missing children has died down it does not mean that the cases have gone away. It is my hope that we will continue in this body to focus and work on the issue of missing and exploited children. There is much that is going to be done. It is going to be years before we will address all of the problems that face children, so it will not be accomplished during this session or even the next Congress as well. I would like to invite the new freshmen Members joining us to join the Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. Children from every walk of life and every circumstance imaginable, stranger abduction, parental abduction, international abduction, runaways, and children being exploited, all deserve the attention we can give them. Today as many of us return from the campaign trail where we have talked about our future and our children, I challenge my colleagues in Congress to move toward more proactive and helpful positions on missing kids, all missing kids.”