Mary Gay Scanlon: “Thank you, Chair Lofgren, for calling this really important hearing.”

may be the dumbest bill brought to the floor

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.

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…

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