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Do I think Ed Smart chose the right time and place to highlight the Ambert Alert bill? No, I do not. thanks for the link to Sensenbrenner's statement, I've read it and was just going to post it. What I don't get is why the House is still sitting on the bill. They passed a version of it last year, as did the Senate, but they couldn't come to agreement on the bill, and that session of congress expired. So the bills must both be reintroduced. The Senate has already passed their version of the bill. I appreciate Sensenbrenner's point of wanting to do the bill right. Do I think Ed Smart was overwrought? Yes I do.

From Friday's edition of the Salt Lake Tribune.

Sensitive Politicians
The Washington, D.C., office of Rep. James Sensenbrenner was barraged Thursday with hundreds of calls from people nationwide after Ed Smart publicly called out the Wisconsin Republican and challenged him to stop holding up the Amber Alert measure in a broader bill pending in the House Judiciary Committee. The measure sets up a nationwide child-disappearance alert system among law enforcement agencies.

When we called asking for a response from Sensenbrenner regarding Smart's plea, the congressman's Judiciary Committee press secretary, Terry Shawn, said, "I just want him [Smart] to quit crying [on TV]."

They are sitting on the Bill because of the language in it. Congressman Sensenbrenner (before Ed Smarts statement) had put in TOUGH penalty law in it. Tough on crime.

It had failed because of a Democrat Congress, and now it is being held up because of the language. They apparently do not want the sickle to come down on the head of these perps.

James Sensenbrenner on t.v., addressing Ed Smart in a televised conference, said (paraphrased) " We would invite you to work WITH us, not ATTACK us ". I can try to find that, but I don't know right where to look for it. I saw it tho when it happened. I do hope that the language will be adopted and the law is tough on the offender. Don't you ?

As to the spokesman's remark. I have no knowlege about that, but I would take it to mean that what Mr. Smart did in addressing the Congressman and saying "Blood of the children" would be on HIM...was very upsetting to the office of the Congressman.

Jim Sensenbrenner is about as fine a man as you will fine in the Congress. The crying part...maybe what he meant was the fact that Mr. Smart was crying (?) and then all of a sudden looked up and was angry, and started his rant on the Congressman. Maybe that is what he meant. It was pretty disoriented. I thought his anger could have been more understood by being livid that this scum degenerate, homeless, wacko had taken his daughter !

It amazes me how people will blindly believe things without checking them first and pick up a phone and lambast a man who has worked hard for this Bill before checking it out.

Ed needs to apologise to Congressman Sensenbrenner.

We need this National Amber Alert, and we need it NOW! Not next month or next year, after dozens more children are kidnapped.

All Congressmen need a little fire put under them to get anything done in that perpetual gridlock we call Capitol Hill.

Ed Smart has shown that he has intestinal fortitude by grabbing Sensenbrenner by the short hairs on national TV. I loved it when Ed did that!!!

Countless children will be saved by Ed's gutsy and bold actions. He really seized the moment. More power to him!