Michael Bennet: “Thank you again for the opportunity to testify today, and thanks to Senators Cortez Masto and Bennet, who have led these…”

This is not a podcast. It is the American people's health that is on the line here.

I think, this evening, as we are standing here, this will mark the longest shutdown in American history, and that is not something that anybody in this Chamber should be proud about. I have had the opportunity, since I have been here, to…

If you are interested in, and I’m sure everybody here is, in creating a set of incentives that actually will lead to better results, that will allow us to attack fraud and abuse and waste in these systems, that is not the system that we…

This new facility will not only nearly double the number of detention beds, but is in a rural location, far from the organizations that offer resources and oversight.