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The House passed a bill last year concerning abduction of children, etc (which included the Amber alert.) That bill died in the Senate. The Senate introduced a bill that only concerns the Amber alert, and it passed in two days. Sensenbrenner feels that his comprehensive bill has more teeth, and that may be. The House has taken time to get the bill right. Please don't put words into my mouth, of course I support the harshest penalties for child abusers and kidnappers and murderers.

And not to put too fine a point on it, Sensenbrenner is a good fine man, he is from your district, and you apparently know him or know of him. Perhaps now you can comprehend some of the feelings some of us have had the past nine months, sitting here and watching a family take that kind of heat from the media and from others, maligning their every move and motive. Again, I do not agree with Ed Smart's timing on what he said to Sensenbrenner. It does take time to get bills through Congress, and get the conferences to agree and compromise with each other.

Please don't put words into my mouth, of course I support the harshest penalties for child abusers and kidnappers and murderers.

Sigh....Ug, perhaps if posting words could also provide voice inflection, you would not get so defensive. I certainly meant nothing by saying what I did.That being that I thought we both agreed on the point I made. That's all.

Perhaps now you can comprehend some of the feelings some of us have had the past nine months, sitting here and watching a family take that kind of heat from the media and from others, maligning their every move and motive.

Ug...there is one difference between my admiring Congressman Sensenbrenner and your admiring Ed Smart. The Congrssman has not given me any pause, nor has he been questioned by media and others. I am real sorry that this story from the beginning has warrented all this "maligning". Somehow tho, no matter if it is Ed Smart or some other story about people, when people all over the country are saying the same thing, along with talk show hosts, tv personalities, etc. I think there is a question about credibility. Not that all these people in media or on message boards are making it up, but out of the mouth of(in this case, the Smart family) THEY have provided the questions to the "maligning" media and public.

No one wants it that way, there is no joy in it, but most will tell you it was there from the start, and only got worse. No one made it up, it came from their own mouth. That is very sad.