Mike Coffman: “He has been terrific. He certainly has a passion for the people in El Paso and the people he represents.”

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.

You have had very, very positive things and intuitive things that you have done for not only constituents in your district, but across the entire country.

This administration, the Trump administration, promised to clean up the culture of bureaucratic incompetence inside the VA. And based on this testimony today and other hearings we've had, I don't think they've made a lick of difference.

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