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It's been an honor to be a part of this.

This is not a one-sided issue. It's on both sides of the aisle.

This type of stuff has got to stop on both sides.

The rise of hate crimes deeply concerns me. It concerns all of us.

Today's hearing is but an attempt to blame Republicans for the horrendous acts of violence.

What happened at Club Q is a tragedy that should never, ever, ever happen in the United States.

Clearly it sounds that you engaged in and change is necessary.

It is generating false negatives at facilities where, as the inspector general said--and Mr. Horowitz, if I am correct, your comments to the effect that if the warden and the chaplain are engaged in widespread sexual abuse of inmates…

I think you probably have an idea.

Investigating the abuse of incarcerated women by BOP employees, I want to return to some questions about management, accountability, what has gone wrong for the last 10 years such that there has been no systemic effort to address this…

Do these audits work?

It is the government's duty to incarcerate individuals, to punish people for crime, for keeping dangerous people away from the general public.

Today's hearing will examine the findings of our 8-month bipartisan investigation into the sexual abuse of women in Federal prisons.

I think proactively monitoring that data is going to be essential.

This process is badly, badly broken, and as a result the tool that you are going to have to rely on... is not currently functioning

I think we need to understand how this tool can be so ineffective that at Dublin, for example--and here is the 2017 Dublin audit--it was found that the facility met the standard of 'zero tolerance of sexual abuse and sexual harassment.'

What we found in the course of this investigation is that in two-thirds of the Federal prisons that have housed women in the last 10 years, there has been sexual abuse of female prisoners by BOP employees.

I have been genuinely encouraged by the tone of your tenure thus far.