Mike Coffman: “It was deplorable to me that we got responses out of VHA that made absolutely no sense whatsoever.”

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.

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.

He has been terrific. He certainly has a passion for the people in El Paso and the people he represents.