Mary Gay Scanlon

It makes it difficult to … follow up on issues about food and medical care if you can’t talk to people who are impacted.

We would be much better off if we were actually spending money to create a functioning immigration system.

The administration said they were going after the worst of the worst, and the people they are scooping up, and we’re seeing this increasingly are people on the way to work, or to school, or their court appointments to pursue their legal…

It’s inhumane. It’s traumatizing, and it’s particularly grotesque because this is then being done so private prison companies can make more profit.

So we have the situation where people are being jailed and then forced to work essentially for free to maintain basic sanitation, food, etc.

This is not supposed to be punitive, but it’s pretty hard to say that this is anything but.

Why are we jailing, essentially, people who are not a danger to our communities, who are in many cases contributing members to our economy and our communities, folks who are employed and are paying taxes? Why are these folks being put in a…

We all enjoy the extra hour or so of sunlight in the summer, but when people are considering this, they need to consider the extra hours of darkness in the winter.

If we’re going to make a permanent change that affects every American, we should follow the science and prioritize Americans’ health, particularly that of the children.

Permanent daylight savings time was repealed within a year because it didn't work.

I support H.R. 3497, the Medal of Sacrifice Act, which would award medals to honor those who lose their lives while serving as public safety officers. I encourage my colleagues to support it, too.

After not being in session for so long, one week has got everyone ready to go home.

I know that it is rare in D.C., but this amendment actually has broad bipartisan support, from the far right, from the far left, and from the middle. We just want to release the Epstein files. That is why we have offered the amendment, and…

May be the dumbest bill brought to the floor

That is the whole purpose is to have experts making those decisions. I thank the gentleman for organizing this Special Order.

I don't think so. I mean, it doesn't matter what aspect of our Federal Government you are concerned about. If you are concerned about clean air and clean water, the idea that they are just going to take out all the scientists and have…

It is September. It is Recovery Month. I have a son who is more than 11 years in recovery, and yet, I have friends who have lost sons and daughters to fentanyl poisoning, to overdose.

I hope you will convey my thanks to the more than 10,000 employees who you oversee and who are on the front lines of critical issues that you have been discussing.

Sheila was a fierce, fierce advocate for her constituents and an ardent defender of American civil rights, particularly voting rights.

Thank you, Representative McBath, for your leading role here.

The hardest working woman in Congress, everybody knows that.

The Chair of this Committee just said that he believes one of the biggest reasons for vaccine hesitancy is politics.

As the Chair acknowledged, we didn't start at 10. We started nearly an hour late or just over an hour late because he and his Republican colleagues had prioritized a meeting with Donald Trump over a Committee hearing and presumably they…

Instead, this hearing appears driven by the desire to curry favor with the disgraced, impeached, indicted, and now convicted former President.