Nick Lampson: “Yesterday a group of staffers for Members who are part of the Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children…”

“Yesterday a group of staffers for Members who are part of the Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children took part of a tour and briefing at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and I want to thank them today for taking the time to see firsthand the amazing work that the National Center does. One of the things that I did after the abduction and murder of Laura Kate Smither was to go to the National Center to see the work that they do there, to meet with Ernie Allen, the President and CEO of the National Center. Seeing the Center and the people who work there proved absolutely inspiring to me and helped me to found that Congressional caucus that so many of our Members now participate in. I hope that the Members of your staff, those of you who hear me and all of us who visited the center yesterday, were just as inspired and will bring that inspiration back to your offices. There is so much that we can do together to prevent the abduction and exploitation of America's children, if we but take the first step.”