Bonnie Watson Coleman

I think it is important how the law enforcement reacts to these tips that are coming in.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in December, Republicans rushed, and I do mean rushed, sped to pass with little thought, debate, or consideration for the long-term impact, a tax overhaul that has since been exposed over…

This budget proposal is a result of a President choosing to prioritize his misguided campaign promise to build an $18 billion border wall over urgent National security needs.

Depriving people of the opportunity to obtain job and life skills not only further punish and hamstring the individual, it also threatens public safety by increasing the likelihood that the individual re-offend.

Unfortunately, in 2017, the Department of Justice announced that it would cut funding for 16 residential reentry centers.

Studies show that former inmates who are employed in high quality jobs and have close ties with family members are less likely to become part of this statistic and recidivate.

Thank you Chairman Culberson and Ranking Member Serrano for allowing me to speak on this important and bipartisan topic--reducing the prison population and offering effective reintegration programs to all people in BOP custody.

I really appreciate the opportunity to speak on this important and bipartisan topic, reducing the prison population and offering effective reintegration programs to all people in BOP custody.

I urge you to support full funding for all VAWA programs as you work on the fiscal year 2019 CJS bill.

Everyone here today is well aware of the serious nature of the terrorist threat facing our transportation systems.

I have to tell you that I am a little disturbed here about some of what I think are--is an about-face on what is important and what represents security at our airports and other places.

It is unacceptable and Congress must reject it.

That is why it is so disappointing that this administration's TSA budget proposal eliminates, cuts, or shortchanges critical security programs.

But today, it concerns me that you are a team member in a team that I think is taking this country in the wrong direction.

It is simply a matter of resources.

However, this positive trend has also highlighted a problem: roughly 40 percent of Federal inmates released are rearrested within 3 years.

We need to do better.

This President's policy of hiring lobbyists into the Federal Government and a penchant for Cabinet Secretaries who have dubious relationships with ethics and physical responsibility... certainly do not reflect a desire to drain the swamp.

I need to tell you me why you failed there?

With all the resources, with all the armed forces, with all the rescue emergency and whatever else there is that this great country, the United States of America has at its disposal, if you can't get up a road to deliver supplies, vitally…

So my concern, it is not just you, sir. It is why did the United States of America, with all of its vast resources not do its very best for people who are indeed our people?

There are so many important issues and such little time, but today I want to stand in solidarity with my colleagues, with parents, with students, and with Americans across the country who are calling for action to address the crisis of gun…

Today's topic is an important one. TSA is perhaps the most public-facing agency of the Federal Government, interacting with over 2 million passengers daily at more than 440 airports across the Nation.

I think that the centralized training that takes place in Georgia now kind-of provides these officers... more tools on how to deal with this.

I believe that that is one of the things that your organization says is vitally important at these checkpoints and that will reduce the degree to which individuals are treated in a way that intrudes upon their civil liberties and their…