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PROTECT ACTION ALERT!
Call Rep. Alan Mollohan
(202) 225-4172

Please respectfully tell him to:
"Support the National Association to Protect Children's
Proposal for $30 Million in ICAC* Child Rescue Funding!"

[pronounced "eye-cack"]

Background Information:

THE PROBLEM: Despite years of hard work by PROTECT, parents of abducted children and Oprah Winfrey, some members of Congress are standing in the way of full-funding for the PROTECT Our Children Act.

WHAT IS PROTECT's PROPOSAL?: (1) Fund the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force program at $30 million, as recommended by the Senate. But before that can happen, Congress must (2) Give the ICACs their own line in the budget, because right now they are lumped together with a lot of other programs. Without that line item, the money won't reach the ICACs.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?: These task forces are the backbone of America's ability to fight child pornography and rescue its victims.

WHY MOLLOHAN?: Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) chairs the subcommittee handling this bill. Key Senate leaders are already on board.

WHAT BILL IS THIS?: FY10 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill (The "CJS Appropriations bill")

"BUT I'M NOT FROM MOLLOHAN'S DISTRICT": Chairman Mollohan's actions will impact children in every district in America!

WHY $30 MILLION?: That's only half the amount authorized, and the Senate is on board with this already.

I WANT MORE BACKGROUND BEFORE I CALL: Right here.

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The following message is forwarded from the National Association to Protect Children:

What's going on?... When PROTECT and Oprah Winfrey organize over 500,000 angry Americans to help pass the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008, yet Congress won't fully-fund it a year later?

What's going on?... When our government knows where hundreds of thousands of child pornography traffickers are, yet it won't give law enforcement the funding to do anything about them?

What's going on?... When America has the technology to locate and rescue little boys and girls who are victims of sexual predators, yet those children remain in peril?

What's going on is politics as usual, and that has to change now!  In the next few days, Congress will be negotiating a bill deciding next year's funding for the Justice Department (FY10 CJS Appropriations bill). At stake are millions in funding for the ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) child rescue teams -- funding which would protect countless thousands of children.

But some powerful Members of Congress are blocking the progress that PROTECT, parents of abducted children and Oprah Winfrey fought so hard for.

Tell them they're wrong! Please act right now, and ask everyone you can to do the same. You'll really be proud you did.

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--David Keith
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