Mike Coffman: “I just think it is extraordinary.”

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.

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

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.