Every single person on this side of the aisle warned that she would not enforce the law.

I think is a safety issue for correctional officers as well as for inmates.

for us, again, to ban people from getting Pell Grants, for example, it seems like a nonsensical waste of a taxpayer opportunity.

It's failing. It's undermining the implementation of the First Step Act.

Thank you all, everybody in the panel for being here. It means a lot to me.

The United States of America locked up more people than any other Nation or past empire when it comes to just the total gross amount of humanity that was being put into jails and prisons.

If a violent criminal is behind bars, he will not harm further on innocent people.

all the data I've seen shows a dollar invested in just need simple education program--GED, BA, graduate degrees--returns to the taxpayers a lot in terms of dropping the recidivism rates.

Are there people in this institution that are wasting taxpayer dollars and really shouldn't be here? Absolutely, yes.

I think we have this falsehood that often rhetorically is heard here in Washington, that somehow Americans are not equally concerned, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat or an Independent, about the safety of their communities.

Sadly, the Biden administration and liberal prosecutors appear to be more sympathetic to the dangerous criminals than they do to the law-abiding citizens they harm.

As Fiorello LaGuardia said, there's no republican or democratic way to fix a pothole.

Rehabilitation, when possible, was and remains an important part of our criminal justice system.

I strongly encourage my colleagues to support this commonsense measure today. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Protecting the privacy of the American people must be our priority. I strongly urge my colleagues to support this commonsense measure. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers. I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 1745

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