Mary Gay Scanlon: “I, like many Americans, would rather Congress focus on doing the people's business and ensuring that the FBI is able to…”

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.

We’ve heard a lot of people having fears about this election, and I just want everybody to know we’ve got this.

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…

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