Mary Gay Scanlon: “Today's hearing comes at a time when incidents of hate and violence are increasing at an alarming rate.”

In January when House and Senate Republicans punted once again on passing a budget and instead passed a continuing resolution, they forgot to include the funding to operate the District of Columbia. The Senate moved to rectify that mistake…

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

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.

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