Mike Coffman: “While I fully support greater American production, this pipeline is not only in our nation's best interest for national…”

It’s in our interest to protect the public health of our community to be able to merely make a statement that requests or demands that (The GEO Group) comply on behalf of our residents.

I think the county and state may be prepared to go to court to force (GEO) to comply.

The fact is, GEO is not cooperative, and so we have an incident here. There could be other incidents down the road.

I think the notion that we're still at the point where neither DoD or VA has taken the lead--and I think that one of them has to have ownership for it.