We are now almost 6 years past the deadline.

Let us crystallize those findings, and I am so grateful to you and your staff for undertaking that analysis at our request.

The work of your Committee is vital, and academic researchers like myself stand ready to assist and to support as needed.

It would provide openness in government.

We have to get this right.

DCRA required the Department of Justice to issue that report to Congress.

The Federal Government has unique authority to be able to collect this information from the jails in ways that members of the community cannot.

This is about the Americans who are locked up, many of them pretrial detainees who have been convicted of no crime, who are dying every year, in many cases preventably.

You found nearly 1,000 deaths last year alone uncounted by DOJ, and you believe it is likely a significant undercount.

The fact that we do not get the information that we have tasked you with producing... until 6 or 8 years after a deadline, that has cost human lives.

It would be much better if the Federal Government collected this level of information.

I think that the Subcommittee should help, in so far as we can, to honor and to remember Jonathan and Matthew.

It would bolster public confidence and trust in our judicial system.

DOJ has ceased the publication of this data because the data is no longer of sufficient completeness, accuracy, and integrity to publish it.

Is it also the case that 70 percent of the death in custody records produced by States to the Department were incomplete?

It would bring a new level of accountability to our nation's correctional institutions.

If legislation is what is required, let us legislate.

We need to understand, as the U.S. Congress, whether or not Meta is collecting, has collected, has access to, or is storing medical or health data for U.S. persons or your users.

Can you commit that in your written responses we are not just going to get talking points and generalities, we are going to get precision and yes-or-no answers to yes-or-no questions?

I am here pursuing the facts.

I rise today to recognize a giant of the great State of Georgia--which the Presiding Officer and I both have the distinct honor of serving--to recognize a true legend of the U.S. Senate, an extraordinary father, husband, and representative…

I further ask that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Missouri.

Will you commit to working with my office to expedite, as possible and practical, the deployment of those technologies, whether it is the software platforms or the new hardware, as possible, to ensure the Port of Savannah is secure, that…

I would like to ask you more broadly as well if you will please dedicate a member of your team to meet with a member of my staff...