IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1597 
Recognizing the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children on its 
40th anniversary. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 26, 2024 
Mr. BIGGS submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the National Center for Missing & Exploited 
Children on its 40th anniversary. 
Whereas 40 years ago John and Reve´ Walsh, along with 
other advocates for children, founded the National Center 
for Missing & Exploited Children, whose mission is to 
serve as the leading nonprofit organization in the United 
States to help locate missing children and combat child 
sexual exploitation; 
Whereas John and Reve´ Walsh’s son Adam was tragically 
murdered following an unconscionable abduction, leading 
them to a lifetime of advocacy on behalf of missing and 
exploited children; 
Whereas, as a result of the tireless advocacy of the Walshes 
and countless others, in 1984, the National Center for 
Missing & Exploited Children was established to serve as 
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the clearinghouse for information relating to missing and 
exploited children in the United States and as a resource 
for parents, children, and law enforcement; 
Whereas, in 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed into law 
the Missing Children’s Assistance Act (34 U.S.C. 11291 
et seq.), establishing a national resource center and clear-
inghouse for missing children, a role that the National 
Center for Missing & Exploited Children was designated 
to fulfill; 
Whereas the National Center for Missing & Exploited Chil-
dren, in coordination with Federal, State, local, Tribal, 
and territorial law enforcement agencies, provides a crit-
ical response to help in locating missing children, re-
sponds to reports of child sexual exploitation, and distrib-
utes posters of missing children to the public; 
Whereas, over the last 40 years, the National Center for 
Missing & Exploited Children has assisted law enforce-
ment in the recovery of over 448,000 children and has re-
ceived 200,000,000 reports relating to suspected child 
sexual exploitation; 
Whereas, since its founding, the National Center for Missing 
& Exploited Children has received more than 5,600,000 
calls to its 24-hour call center; 
Whereas, following an increase in reports relating to the on-
line sexual exploitation of children, the National Center 
for Missing & Exploited Children established its 
CyberTipline, which provides an online mechanism for 
members of the public and electronic service providers to 
report incidents of suspected online sexual exploitation; 
Whereas, since its inception in 1998, the CyberTipline has re-
ceived 200,000,000 reports of child sexual exploitation, 
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which the National Center for Missing & Exploited Chil-
dren reviews and makes available to international, Fed-
eral, State, and local law enforcement agencies, including 
the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Pro-
gram, for their review and handling; 
Whereas, in 2023, the National Center for Missing & Ex-
ploited Children launched its ‘‘Take It Down’’ tool, a 
groundbreaking program that helps victims of online 
child sexual exploitation remove from the internet nude 
or sexually explicit photos and videos taken of them while 
under the age of 18; 
Whereas, with the passage of the Missing Children’s Assist-
ance Reauthorization Act of 2023 (Public Law 118–65; 
138 Stat. 1439), on June 17, 2024, the National Center 
for Missing & Exploited Children was reauthorized to 
perform 16 programs of work, including— 
(1) helping to locate and recover missing children; 
(2) responding to reports of child sexual exploitation 
and working to identify children depicted in sexually abu-
sive imagery; 
(3) conducting analytical services, including on child 
sex trafficking cases; 
(4) offering community safety education for child- 
serving professionals; and 
(5) providing family crisis and mental health assist-
ance; and 
Whereas, for over 40 years, the National Center for Missing 
& Exploited Children has been essential to combating the 
sexual exploitation of children in the United States and 
has served as a critical resource to children, parents, and 
law enforcement: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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