Mary Gay Scanlon: “The hardest working woman in Congress, everybody knows that.”

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.

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

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.

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