After years without any progress toward a resolution. Ambassador Mabus implied to relatives of Ms. Roushs exhusband that he might withhold their visas to the United States unless the case was solved. He never actually threatened to withhold the visas. which he lacked the authority to do. but he hoped to at least get information about the girls condition and the fathers thinking throught this tactic. Ambassador Mabus discovered that even the implied threat of withholding visas from family members produced a new spirit of flexibility on the part of the father. By the time he returned to the United States. they had come close to negotiating a resolution. but that fell through after Mabus left. But this experience suggests that withholding visas from family members and other associates of the abducting parent is an effective way to put pressure on that parent to negotiate a resolution. There is a precedent for withholding visas from family members. In the HelmsBurton law on Cuba passed in 1996Public Law 104114. spouses and minor children of officers of corporations doing prohibited business with Cuba were made excludable. I thank the chairman and ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee and the Senator from Maryland.