Alcee Hastings on Families & Children Democratic Representative (FL-23)

Voted YES on establishing nationwide AMBER alert system for missing kids.

Voted NO on reducing Marriage Tax by $399B over 10 years.

Member of the Missing & Exploited Children's Caucus.

Statement Of Purpose
1. To build awareness around the issue of missing and exploited children for the purpose of finding children who are currently missing and to prevent future abductions.

2. To create a voice within Congress on the issue of missing and exploited children and introduce legislation that would strengthen law enforcement, community organizing and school-based efforts to address child abduction.

3. To identify ways to work effectively in our districts to address child abduction. By developing cooperative efforts that involve police departments, educators, and community groups we can heighten awareness of the issue and pool resources for the purpose of solving outstanding cases and preventing future abductions.

Rated 7% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-family voting record.

The Christian Coalition was founded in 1989 by Dr. Pat Robertson to give Christians a voice in government. We represent millions of people of faith and enable them to have a strong, unified voice in the conversation we call democracy.

Our Five-Fold Mission:
1. Represent the pro-family point of view before local councils, school boards, state legislatures, and Congress
2. Speak out in the public arena and in the media
3. Train leaders for effective social and political action
4. Inform pro-family voters about timely issues and legislation
5. Protest anti-Christian bigotry and defend the rights of people of faith.

TV shows should have explicit viewer advisories.

Declares that each of the four major television broadcast networks and their affiliates, independent television stations, the Public Broadcasting System, and cable programmers and operators should:

1. not telecast programming containing dramatized violence;
2. superimpose explicit viewer advisories throughout programming containing dramatized or documentary violence;
3. provide explicit audio and on-screen viewer advisories immediately prior to transmittal of such programming;
4. not transmit programming promotions or advertisements that contain violence;
5. develop a standard scheme for classifying programming on the basis of the amount and type of dramatized violence it contains; and
6. educate and inform viewers about the harmful effects of exposure to television violence.