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Hearing Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
MILLS, CORY "Further reading of the amendment is dispensed with. I am recognized for five minutes. This amendment provides for the independent and objective conduct and supervision of audits and investigations relating to the programs and operations funded with amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for foreign assistance, including humanitarian assistance, foreign development assistance, and related emergency assistance. I encourage all my colleagues to vote yes on this provision as it ensures enduring oversight to all U.S. foreign assistance while preserving the institutional knowledge and..."
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: The Decline in Assistance Receipt Among Eligible Individuals
Reports · Apr 10, 2023
The decline in the number of people receiving family cash assistance is a distinctive characteristic of the period after enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation...
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Child Welfare: State Plan Requirements under the Title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program
Reports · Nov 17, 2014
Under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, states, territories, and tribes are entitled to claim partial federal reimbursement for the cost of providing foster care, adoption assistance, and...
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Drug Testing and Crime-Related Restrictions in TANF, SNAP, and Housing Assistance
Reports · Nov 28, 2016
Throughout the history of social assistance programs, administrators have attempted to limit access only to those families considered “worthy” of assistance. Policies about worthiness have included...
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The Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance Program
Resources · Dec 11, 2023
The Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program subsidizes the rents of low-income individuals and families through rental assistance contracts between the Department of Housing and...
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, to be an Assistant Secretary, Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
WILLIAM HAGUE "the need for teamwork across groups, and the need to understand and measure what you're doing. I know that unleashing these free market principles in insular areas will help grow their prosperity. The assistant secretary for insular and international affairs plays a vital role in assisting our partners and fellow Americans in the Pacific and Caribbean. If given the opportunity to serve as assistant secretary, my goal would be to strengthen our relationship with each community and grow the wealth and security of"
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Thomas DiNanno, of Florida, to be Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security,...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Sep 17, 2025 · Request transcript
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Special Financial Assistance to Multiemployer Plans
Resources · Mar 18, 2021
Section 9704 in Title IX, Subtitle H, of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (P.L. 117-2) provides financial assistance to certain financially troubled multiemployer defined benefit (DB) pension...
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Income Eligibility and Rent in HUD Rental Assistance Programs: Frequently Asked Questions
Reports · Mar 28, 2017
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administers five main rental assistance programs that subsidize rents for low-income families: the Public Housing program, the Section 8 Housing...
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U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine Since 2022
InFocus · Jul 10, 2026
The United States has cooperated with European governments, the European Union (EU), NATO, and others to provide increased security assistance to Ukraine in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion...
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Emergency Assistance for Agricultural Land Rehabilitation
Report · Jul 14, 2026
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers several permanently authorized programs to help producers recover from natural disasters. Most of these programs offer financial assistance to...
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Forest Service Assistance Programs
Reports · Jun 30, 2023
Congress has established several forestry assistance programs within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support the management of state and private forests. These programs are under the...
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Julie Hocker, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary, Wayne Palmer, of Virginia, to be...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · May 22, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony MILLS, CORY
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Further reading of the amendment is dispensed with. I am recognized for five minutes. This amendment provides for the independent and objective conduct and supervision of audits and investigations relating to the programs and operations funded with amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for foreign assistance, including humanitarian assistance, foreign development assistance, and related emergency assistance. I encourage all my colleagues to vote yes on this provision as it ensures..."
Testimony JACOBS, SARA
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"A roll call vote. My amendment would require training for FSOs on managing development assistance awards on criteria like best practices, strategies, oversight, and tools to meet sustainable positive development outcomes and how development assistance complements humanitarian assistance and other stabilization and peacebuilding assistance. The State Department is now managing development assistance programs to an extent they never have before, but without the"
Testimony JACOBS, SARA
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Jacobs, 208. Thank you. My amendment would require the department to design training on humanitarian assistance for the State Department's foreign assistance workforce so that they have the know-how both to manage the major humanitarian assistance functions it's taken on and to become an effective interlocutor with other humanitarian assistance implementers and donors. It would also ensure that the department's Foreign Service Institute trains these employees to know the basics of humanitarian..."
Testimony MERKLEY, JEFF
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"We know that when local police serve as local police, they build relationships with the community and decrease crime. Research shows that jurisdictions that choose for local police to be local police We have a lot of people who refuse for local police to be local police and not assistance to a secret police, refusing to be commandeered as a federal agent, they have a higher median household income, they have less poverty, they have less reliance on public assistance, they have lower..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Kari Lake, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to Jamaica, Douglas Mastriano, of Pennsylvania, to be...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1691, to limit the use of facial recognition technology in airports, S.2314, to direct the Secretary of Commerce to...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 30, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Benjamin DeMarzo, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary, and Craig Trainor, of Virginia, to be...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 23, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1397, to require the Secretary of State to establish a quantum cooperation program to enhance international...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 5, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Caleb Orr, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary (Economic and Business Affairs), Kenneth Howery,...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · May 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Andrea Travnicek, of North Dakota, and Leslie Beyer, of Texas, both to be an Assistant Secretary...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · May 8, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness Kyle Mann
New York Legal Assistance Group · 1 hearing
Witness Jeffrey Frankston
Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy · 1 hearing
Witness John Lawson
Veterans Assistance Commission of St. Clair County · 1 hearing
Witness Matt Nosanchuk
Mattnos Strategies and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education · 1 hearing
Witness Scott Davis
Exercising the Delegated Authority of the Assistant Secretary- Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior · 1 hearing
Witness Candace Wheeler
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) · 1 hearing
Witness David Lipsetz
Housing Assistance Council · 1 hearing
Witness Ashlynne Haycock-Lohmann
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors · 2 hearings
Witness Donald Palmer
Election Assistance Commission · 1 hearing
Witness Lieutenant General Robert Collins
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army · 1 hearing
Hearing "To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conservation Programs"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SALINAS, ANDREA "NRCS staff for determining which conservation practices they should pursue on their land, help in the application process, and other technical assistance on the ground. Without that adequate NRCS staff support, farmers in my district and across the country are really struggling. Can you tell me, how does a 23 percent decrease in the NRCS staff support that direct technical assistance on the ground to federal conservation programs under NRCS? I love new IT. It's sad though, because a lot of my rural areas don't even have the broadband that they're able to get Wi-Fi and internet access onto..."
Hearing Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
FLOOD, MIKE "The topic of this hearing is the role that HUD plays in the disaster recovery through what's the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program, or CDBGDR. CDBGDR is a supplemental disaster recovery assistance program. It is intended to meet long-term disaster needs that remain unmet after other sources of assistance from FEMA and the SBA have already been deployed. CDBGDR is a very unique program. The program is not authorized in statute. Instead, CDBGDR funds are typically granted through a supplemental appropriations bill following a natural"
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Farm Bill Primer: Disaster Assistance
InFocus · Mar 20, 2026
Agricultural production involves risks related to weather, yield, markets, price, and other factors. Congress has authorized several federal programs to help agricultural producers recover from the...
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Foreign Assistance Authorization: Background and Issues
Resources · Jan 29, 2025
Introduction Congress has the power to authorize, fund, and oversee the implementation of U.S. foreign policy. In carrying out such responsibilities, Congress has set requirements for foreign affairs...
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Federal Rental Assistance and Affordability
Resources · Nov 18, 2024
Housing is generally considered affordable if it costs a household no more than 30% of their income; households who pay more are considered cost-burdened. About half of U.S. renters are cost-burdened...
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Simplifying FEMA’s Assistance Programs: Selected Actions Taken and Potential Future Considerations
Resources · Nov 7, 2024
Some Members of Congress, state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) offices of emergency management, nonprofits, disaster survivors, nonpartisan think-tanks, and the Government Accountability...
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Federal Assistance for Wildfire Response and Recovery
Resources · Jul 29, 2024
Wildfires are unplanned fires. Wildfires may be caused by natural phenomena (i.e., lightning strikes) or by deliberate or accidental human activities. Wildfires occur naturally, and many ecosystems...
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President Trump’s Executive Actions on Student Loans, Wage Assistance, Payroll Taxes, and Evictions: Initial Takeaways
Posts · Aug 10, 2020
In enacting the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stability Act (CARES Act), Congress provided relief to those confronting economic hardship as a result of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)...
Testimony JACOBS, SARA
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"I yield back. I and the Rink members support Representative Amo's amendment to install a plaque at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center honoring the lives saved because of our foreign assistance programs. This plaque will be an important reminder to the Foreign Service officers receiving training at the center of why foreign assistance is such an integral part of America's global leadership role, and why their roles as Foreign Service officers are integral to carrying out that..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio),...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"making the whole process better. So about $500,000 was provided under that $15 million in the previous administration for the Tribal Assistance Program, and we're currently going through a re-scoping process to look at both the Tribal Assistance Program and potential state assistance in the future using our funding. However, I would say I don't think it's slowed down our ability to engage with tribes. We've taken a really conscious effort to focus our tribal engagement on project"
Testimony STANSBURY, MELANIE A.
“Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"And so while President Trump is taking away food from hungry kids, we've also seen economic policies that have caused the cost of food to skyrocket. The price of food and vegetables has increased by 6 percent since May of last year. Energy costs have increased by 23 percent since last year. And when you couple that with cuts in access to health care, cuts in access to food assistance, cuts in access to educational assistance, and the fact that yesterday the President of the United States failed..."
Testimony SPEAKER_16
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"That would be fun, too, but part of the record. And we'll begin today with Assistant Secretary Travnik. We're grateful to have you here. Assistant Secretary Travnik is, as I mentioned briefly earlier, the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior, a position to which she was confirmed by the Senate in September of 2025. She has a decorated, distinguished record of public service in the water and natural resources space, previously serving in various roles..."
Testimony THOMPSON, GLENN
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"the New World Screw Room have also been commendable. The administration's action to prevent exposure in the spread of this pest for as long as possible. While the detection yesterday wasn't what we were hoping for, I know USDA will continue to make the necessary efforts to eradicate screw worm once again. Throughout the eradication process, it is imperative that USDA, state animal health officials, industry groups, and members of Congress work together to effectively deploy the whole of..."
Testimony MARCO RUBIO
Oversight Hearing – Department of Justice
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"but they are a transit zone where human traffickers bring people through. And so oftentimes, the assistance is assistance to local authorities and helping to partner with us to identify, or if they're already advanced enough in that field, simply sharing intelligence and information as we gather it and pick it up. In other cases, the assistance, depending on the country, is helping prevent human trafficking. In essence, working and partnering with the local, with the host government for..."
Testimony MS. SAMANTHA MEDLOCK
Mitigation and Multiple Loss Properties: Factors Influencing the High ...
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"The NFIP is taking needed steps toward actuarial soundness, tying ratings more closely to risk, and correcting a long-standing structural inequity. Under the legacy system, lower-value homes were effectively subsidizing higher-value ones, but accurate pricing only works if risk is reduced. Premiums that are sound but unaffordable will drive households out of coverage entirely, shifting those costs back to taxpayers through disaster assistance. We need means-tested assistance and robust..."
Testimony MS. DIANE HORN
Mitigation and Multiple Loss Properties: Factors Influencing the High ...
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"The—they always have the option of trying to buy insurance in the private market, but the likelihood is that that would be difficult to obtain or potentially just so expensive that they would not receive—they wouldn't be able to buy it. Without access to some form of insurance, they would be reliant either on disaster assistance if that is forthcoming or state assistance, or they would not be getting assistance to help with recovery from floods. Thank"
Testimony ROSEN, JACKY
Hearings to examine the nominations of Jared Isaacman, of Pennsylvania...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Dec 3, 2025
"Moreover, there is currently no Deputy Assistant Secretary for Travel and Tourism in place either. As a result, the National Travel and Tourism Office is led today by an acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, further underscoring the leadership gap in this space. And so it all means that tourism remains a sub-office, although critical to our national economy, remains a sub-office overseen by the Assistant Secretary for Industry and Analysis, position for which you are nominated, rather than by a..."
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
THOMPSON, GLENN "the New World Screw Room have also been commendable. The administration's action to prevent exposure in the spread of this pest for as long as possible. While the detection yesterday wasn't what we were hoping for, I know USDA will continue to make the necessary efforts to eradicate screw worm once again. Throughout the eradication process, it is imperative that USDA, state animal health officials, industry groups, and members of Congress work together to effectively deploy the whole of government response that has been planned for months. I also know that I'm not alone when I say thank you..."
Hearing A New Beginning for Colombia
house Western Hemisphere Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
CASTRO, JOAQUIN "Thank you, Chairwoman Salazar, and thank you to Assistant Secretary Weiland and Deputy Assistant Secretary Mendez for joining us today for your testimony. Colombia is one of our closest and most important partners in this hemisphere. For decades, Republicans and Democrats have worked together to build a security and economic relationship that has saved lives in both the United States and"
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE BROOKE ROLLINS "Moreover, President Trump has already secured 19 new trade deals in just over one year, helping us slash that $50 billion agricultural trade deficit by almost 50 percent from just one year ago. So think about what that means for our producers. As we expand opportunity over the long term, we are also providing farmers with our short-term support today through the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers Program, and others. USDA has delivered tens of billions of dollars in targeted direct relief to help our farmers manage natural disasters and temporary..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and the Fiscal Year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
UNKNOWN "The housing title of this bill addresses affordability concerns and ensures a responsible safety net for our most vulnerable, the elderly, the disabled, our veterans, and the working poor. The funds allocated support authorized rental assistance programs at a fiscally responsible level of $58 billion for the Section 8 vouchers, project-based rental assistance, and programs that serve the elderly and"
Hearing H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027; H.R. 7726 – Stop Child Care...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SCOTT, AUSTIN "As a member of the Ag Committee, one of the things that we watched over the last several years is that the ratio of spending between SNAP and other food assistance and conservation and ag production and all of the other things that are funded through this bill had shifted from approximately 70% SNAP and food assistance to over 80% SNAP and food assistance because of the way the programs had been administered under the prior administration. Is that correct? And so we call it the Farm Bill, and it is a food assistance bill as well, but what the previous administration did had been to shift all..."
Hearing Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MERKLEY, JEFF "We know that when local police serve as local police, they build relationships with the community and decrease crime. Research shows that jurisdictions that choose for local police to be local police We have a lot of people who refuse for local police to be local police and not assistance to a secret police, refusing to be commandeered as a federal agent, they have a higher median household income, they have less poverty, they have less reliance on public assistance, they have lower unemployment. and not assistants to a secret police, refusing to be commandeered as a federal agent, they have..."
Hearing “Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
STANSBURY, MELANIE A. "And so while President Trump is taking away food from hungry kids, we've also seen economic policies that have caused the cost of food to skyrocket. The price of food and vegetables has increased by 6 percent since May of last year. Energy costs have increased by 23 percent since last year. And when you couple that with cuts in access to health care, cuts in access to food assistance, cuts in access to educational assistance, and the fact that yesterday the President of the United States failed to show up to sign a housing bill that was bipartisan, that would have helped millions of families..."
Hearing Mitigation and Multiple Loss Properties: Factors Influencing the High Cost of Flooding
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MS. SAMANTHA MEDLOCK "The NFIP is taking needed steps toward actuarial soundness, tying ratings more closely to risk, and correcting a long-standing structural inequity. Under the legacy system, lower-value homes were effectively subsidizing higher-value ones, but accurate pricing only works if risk is reduced. Premiums that are sound but unaffordable will drive households out of coverage entirely, shifting those costs back to taxpayers through disaster assistance. We need means-tested assistance and robust investments in technical and financial assistance at the pace and scale to meet this growing and urgent..."
Hearing Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CLEAVER, EMANUEL "taxpayers. The system was created in 1932 to address the fundamental friction facing the housing market at that time, a market that bears little resemblance to today's. Yet, the system's core mission remains as important today as it did 100 years ago. Yesterday, I heard from the Federal Home Loan Banks of Des Moines. Since the Affordable Housing Program began, Missouri, my home state, has benefited from more than $175 million in grants, while the bank has assisted over 3,600 households through $19 million in down payment assistance and provided Missouri institutions with $6 billion in advance..."
Hearing H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents Opt-in Protection Act"; H.R. 8747, "K-12 AI Literacy and Readiness Act of...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KILEY, KEVIN "Yes, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be supporting today the K-12 AI Literacy and Readiness Act of 2026 because I think it will reinforce the work of our subcommittee, which has now held two hearings on the topic of the use of AI in schools, one focused on how it's being used to assist students and another on how teachers are using it to assist with their own lesson planning, instruction assessments, and so"
Hearing "Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Americans"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_17 "there and assess them against the CFR, which is the regulations that were written to support this. And so many people hear the top number and assume that's what they're going to get and don't understand. It's based upon actual losses in need. I would argue that that's semantics. The reality is, even if they got the full amount, it ain't going to make them whole. And I think that's one of the things to reexamine when we're talking about the survivors, is what exactly is the money supposed to do? Is it to make them whole? Is it to get them back in a home? Is it to provide housing assistance? I..."
Hearing More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State and Commerce
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KIM, YOUNG "we need a coordinated, expert-driven commercial diplomacy model. So, I want to thank you, Assistant Secretary Orr and Assistant Secretary Fogel for joining us today. And I look forward to a productive discussion on achieving that"
Hearing Markup of Fifteen Bills
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
PALLONE, FRANK "These safeguards are designed to ensure that decisions with major consequences for medical research, patient access, and criminal liability rest on scientific evidence. So I would urge the committee to withhold further action on this bill and simply direct DEI, DOJ, and HHS to do their jobs and engage in a science-based process to determine appropriate scheduling of these substances. But before I conclude, I just want to point out that a number of the bills being considered still have not received technical assistance from the agencies with expertise on these issues. So we received technical..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Bradford Pentony Wilson, of New Jersey, to be Archivist of the United States, Hal Duncan, of Texas, to be...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_16 "I hope we hear that today. But it's concerning to your point about doing something different, which I hope that's the case, but you were involved in this process for five months last year and are now back at DHS now, but you still can't answer questions about what happened while you were there, why this huge cliff of Democratic states being denied disaster assistance, survivors being denied disaster assistance. So I'm not satisfied with that answer. I don't trust that that's what you're going to do because it didn't seem like you did it when you were there before or were not involved in it or..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Small Business Committee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BRESNAHAN, ROBERT P. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the Ranking Member. I rise today alongside Representative Simon in support of the Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Evaluation Act of 2026. This bipartisan legislation directs the GAO to study the effectiveness of existing federal cybersecurity assistance resources available to small businesses and identify where improvements are needed. In the United States, small businesses are 210 percent more likely to experience cyber incidents compared to larger companies, a challenge Congress can no longer afford to overlook. By evaluating gaps in current..."
Hearing Hearings to examine Protecting American Citizenship lll: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits.
senate Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CORNYN, JOHN "During this time, he served as a circuit trial counsel from 2002 to 2004 and from 2004 to 2023 as a assistant staff judge advocate at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland, and he retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Texas beginning in 2002, first in the Laredo Division and later in the Houston Division. In 2021, he was promoted to deputy criminal chief, and in 2024, he was promoted to his current role as executive assistant U.S."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
NADLER, JERROLD "Burma living in Buffalo. Two weeks ago, he was left abandoned by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents outside of Tim Horton's coffee shop an hour after they closed, in the cold and in the dark, with no shoes on, miles away from his home. Five days later, he was found dead. Mr. Shah Alam escaped a genocide in his home country just to die here because Border Patrol could not be bothered to take him home or to tell his family where they had released him. When the story came out in the press, DHS claimed that they had dropped Mr. Shah Alam at a, quote, warm, safe location near his last known..."
Hearing Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer, Frank J. Bisignano
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
FRANK BISIGNANO "the United States and due to the regulatory Thank you. I think, first of all, the natural place I started with AI probably over 10 years ago was in call centers. And we weren't calling it AI then, but it was really not only to assist the caller, but to assist the operator. So our ability now to put the information in front of our service representatives so they can get to it faster, where they used to have to traverse multiple systems or try to go figure out the answer, we're prompting that in a manner. So that's taking both calls out of the queue and also allowing our representatives to..."
Testimony JACOBS, SARA
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"high-level American attention. It requires an assessment of any country interfering with the delivery of humanitarian assistance in Sudan, including those who receive U.S. security assistance, because this body should know if you're taking American support publicly but then privately blocking food and medicine for civilians. And it requires a comprehensive interagency accounting of U.S.-made weapons in"
Testimony MILLS, CORY
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Additionally, the USAID Inspector General has referred dozens of under-terrorists affiliated with Hamas for suspension and debarment, including an UNRWA school principal that also commanded a Hamas battalion on October 7th. For my colleagues on the left, this provision preserves legacy, autonomy, and expertise of the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Agency for International Development. For as long as foreign assistance endures, this legislation preserves the USAID Inspector General..."
Testimony MERKLEY, JEFF
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"And my colleagues across the aisle like to lean on states' rights. It's certainly a state's right to refuse to have its local police commandeered to be assistant ICE agents. Assistants now to ICE operating as a secret police in the United States of America. So the idea that local police do local police work and ICE agents do ICE work is protected by our"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
“Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"We are here to examine waste, fraud, and abuse in one of the largest government welfare programs. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as Food Stamps, provides $100 billion annually in federal food assistance. Every dollar from this program is intended to help feed eligible individuals in"
Testimony SPEAKER_42
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"even this year, year two of our second term, that American producers will set export records in key global markets. It's an incredible time. As we expand opportunity for the long term, we are also putting our farmers first by providing the short-term support that is Whether the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, the Specialty Crop Assistance Program, and so many others that we've been deploying over the last year, we have delivered at USDA tens and tens of billions of dollars into targeted..."
Testimony NEWHOUSE, DAN
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I guess I've been hearing from several people about that issue. And staying on the assistance topic for just a sec, I want to thank you for the recent announcement regarding the assistance for specialty crops. And while thank you very much, appreciate that, there's been a lot of concern expressed that there's going to be additional"
Testimony THE HONORABLE MICHAEL DESOMBRE
Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"Sure. Maybe I'll talk briefly, and then I'll turn it over to DAS Bedard to speak about some of the law enforcement cooperation. I mean, one of the benefits that we've seen in the State Department of having the regional bureaus now sort of running the foreign assistance is that we can use foreign assistance to really direct on these problems as they arise. So starting in October of last year, on the sidelines of ASEAN, we announced $52"
Testimony KLOBUCHAR, AMY
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"But these crops have been hit especially hard by the trade wars and the tariffs, both in terms of the impact on lost market shares and the impact on high input costs. And while these farmers receive some assistance, we appreciate this, through the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers Program, the structure of the program should be streamlined to make it easier for farmers to access. And I support this amendment and appreciate Senator Lujan's and others work on this. I urge my colleagues to..."
Testimony GRASSLEY, CHUCK
Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"oversaw more than 100 investigations and prosecuted a wide array of crimes, including complex national security cases against foreign terrorists. His career featured additional positions with the Department, serving as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Since 2020, Judge Cronin has served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He's done a great job, and I thank him for his service. Finally, Judge..."
Testimony GRASSLEY, CHUCK
Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"oversaw more than 100 investigations and prosecuted a wide array of crimes, including complex national security cases against foreign terrorists. His career featured additional positions with the Department, serving as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Since 2020, Judge Cronin has served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He's done a great job, and I thank him for his service. Finally, Judge..."
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"This risk, as I have said, reversing decades of progress made by IDEA, which is fundamentally an education law. Lastly, moving OSERS to HHS also risks weakening the federal support states need to implement IDEA effectively. Returning greater authority to states may be an important policy objective, but many states still struggle to meet IDEA's requirements and need federal technical assistance, coordination, and oversight to build capacity necessary to serve students with disabilities. It is..."
Testimony CRAPO, MIKE
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Vir...
senate Jul 23, 2026
"The committee will come to order. We meet today in executive session to consider favorably reporting the nominations of the following individuals. Francis Brooke to be Deputy Secretary of Treasury. Aaron Brown to be Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. Dr. S.P. Kothari to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Hunter McMaster to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets. I generally give an opening statement at this point and..."
Testimony CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 23, 2026
"And that is the Deputy Secretary making that decision? Assistant Secretary. Assistant Secretary? All"
Testimony GROTHMAN, GLENN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Okay. Is it possible that Biden Harris's Department of Labor's assistance to the plaintiff's attorneys extended beyond secret sharing agreements to assisting with briefs or practicing for oral arguments in court?"
Testimony SEWELL, TERRI A.
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have lost all credibility on election issues. Republicans refuse to condemn President Trump's lies that he won the 2020 election. Republicans continue to push the Save America Act, which is the broadest voter suppression effort since Jim Crow. And Donald Trump just fired the entire leadership of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which provides crucial assistance to states in running elections. If we were serious about securing and..."
Testimony MEEKS, GREGORY W.
Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and th...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"A security mission in Haiti must also be accompanied by disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs. Haitian humanitarian assistance must flow alongside security assistance because Haitians need food, medicine, and shelter. That means that the Trump administration must bring forward a comprehensive strategy equal to the scale of the"
Testimony CLEAVER, EMANUEL
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"taxpayers. The system was created in 1932 to address the fundamental friction facing the housing market at that time, a market that bears little resemblance to today's. Yet, the system's core mission remains as important today as it did 100 years ago. Yesterday, I heard from the Federal Home Loan Banks of Des Moines. Since the Affordable Housing Program began, Missouri, my home state, has benefited from more than $175 million in grants, while the bank has assisted over 3,600 households through..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Through the Mortgage Rate Reduction Program, along with providing him $15,000 through FHL Bank's Downpayment Assistance Program, he was able to see this dream come true and afford a home. In 2025, Downpayment Assistance Programs supported nearly 873 households in Kansas and 536 households in Nebraska, and in addition to FHL Bank Topeka, not only lived out its mission in meaningful and innovative ways in other areas, such as providing assistance to Native American homeownership in Oklahoma and..."
Testimony KILEY, KEVIN
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Yes, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be supporting today the K-12 AI Literacy and Readiness Act of 2026 because I think it will reinforce the work of our subcommittee, which has now held two hearings on the topic of the use of AI in schools, one focused on how it's being used to assist students and another on how teachers are using it to assist with their own lesson planning, instruction assessments, and so"
Testimony KILEY, KEVIN
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"And then we can see what is working, and we can do what we've been doing on our subcommittee and in this full committee, which is to highlight the examples that have been really helping students and helping teachers. And so that's what this bill will do. It will allow for greater flexibility in the use of funds in order to assist teachers with training related to AI, and in order to assist students with being able to use AI in productive ways. I'm also working on legislation that will provide..."
Testimony SCOTT, AUSTIN
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"like Minnesota, want to do anything about it. And so the one thing that I would tell you that I wish we had done, I think the other thing people want us to do is to cut spending, and it's pretty clear to me that if you look at the fraud that is occurring throughout the United States, that simply stopping the people that should not be getting assistance from stealing assistance, or dollars I should say, from the U.S. government, I mean, my understanding is CBO came out the other, was it CBO or..."
Testimony CASTRO, JOAQUIN
A New Beginning for Colombia
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you, Chairwoman Salazar, and thank you to Assistant Secretary Weiland and Deputy Assistant Secretary Mendez for joining us today for your testimony. Colombia is one of our closest and most important partners in this hemisphere. For decades, Republicans and Democrats have worked together to build a security and economic relationship that has saved lives in both the United States and"
Testimony STANTON, GREG
A New Beginning for Colombia
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"quote, total support and strength of the United States, unquote, behind him. It's unclear what that means. Assistant Secretary Whelan, you stated in your testimony that, quote, if a new government delivers, we are prepared to deepen our partnership across every dimension, unquote. In a March 26th report to Congress, the Trump administration estimated the total assistance of Columbia declined from $400.7 million in FY24 to $186.9 million in FY25, largely representing cuts to funding for global..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"there and assess them against the CFR, which is the regulations that were written to support this. And so many people hear the top number and assume that's what they're going to get and don't understand. It's based upon actual losses in need. I would argue that that's semantics. The reality is, even if they got the full amount, it ain't going to make them whole. And I think that's one of the things to reexamine when we're talking about the survivors, is what exactly is the money supposed to do?..."
Testimony SPEAKER_35
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Mr. Weed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this, and thank you to our witnesses for being here today. Over the past year, Wisconsin, my home state, has experienced two separate severe weather events, which resulted in widespread damage to private and public property, and subsequently met the requirements for major disaster declarations. I'm thankful that the requests for individual assistance, and most of the jurisdictions requesting public assistance, were recently approved by the Trump..."
Testimony MR. BEN BLACK
Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnersh...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Representative, thank you for your question. So currently, I think what you're referring to, in part, is foreign assistance and project development dollars, because that is the only foreign assistance dollars that the DFC has. As I said in my opening statement, I am engaging in an entire valuation process of all DFC investments, past, present, and that will hopefully include future, and we plan to fulsomely put that out there to see returns to the American taxpayer across the entire existence..."
Testimony KIM, YOUNG
More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State an...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"we need a coordinated, expert-driven commercial diplomacy model. So, I want to thank you, Assistant Secretary Orr and Assistant Secretary Fogel for joining us today. And I look forward to a productive discussion on achieving that"
Testimony MOYLAN, JAMES C.
More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State an...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"due to their small population. So, Mr. Rohrer, how can the future of commercial diplomacy assist countries with small population to obtain early-stage project preparation and technical assistance to strengthen American interests abroad? Thank you. Mr. Forgel, how can we encourage commercial diplomacy to become more competitive in exports, investment attractions, supply chain resilience, technological leadership, and geopolitical"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Hearings to examine the nominations of Jules Hurst III, of Virginia, t...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Our military service made each of us better people, better fathers, and better citizens. Over the last two decades, I have been blessed with a great variety of assignments, from the JSOC Intelligence Brigade to the Office of the Speaker of the House. I have held an equal variety of positions in this administration. Since January 2025, I performed the duties of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, the Assistant Secretary for Readiness, and the Undersecretary of Comptroller...."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"The Missing and Murdered Unit provides investigative and analytical support across jurisdictions by identifying leads, coordinating investigative resources, and assisting law enforcement agencies in resolving complex and multi-jurisdictional cases. The Missing and Murdered Unit employs a collaborative problem-solving approach that combines advanced forensic techniques, DNA analysis, AI-assisted analytical tools, comprehensive case reviews, information sharing, and inter-agency coordination. DNA..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Memorializing our Veterans: Outreach, Upkeep, and Community Partnershi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"state, tribal cemeteries, and volunteers who often serve as the first line of help for grieving families. We urge this subcommittee to ensure survivors receive consistent, comprehensive assistance after burial, including full implementation and expanded future capability of the Survivor Assistance and Memorial Support Program within VHA. Mr. Chairman, the men and women in Arlington and in cemeteries the world over gave their time on earth and the time they'll never spend with those they left..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"because it is going to be in every sector of our economy. Beyond that, it's going to be essential that we have a trusted supply chain of physical AI-enabled robotics in order to assist with our manufacturing, to assist with our logistics, warehousing, perimeter security, public safety, defense, transportation, and infrastructure. The robots that Boston Dynamics provides are used in a variety of ways to keep people safe and to keep public"
Testimony KAREN DONFRIED
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “The Congres...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 25, 2026
"Right. So our view of the future is, okay, we're going to integrate AI into the Bill Summary workflow, and that's going to allow us to produce a much, much more significant number of Bill Summaries for you. We think that on the research and analysis side, it's how do we take advantage of the power of AI, the speed of AI, to process information that is more reliable, that can almost be like a research assistant to CRS analysts. And that's going to take some time. I don't think that's a tomorrow..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Markup of Fifteen Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"These safeguards are designed to ensure that decisions with major consequences for medical research, patient access, and criminal liability rest on scientific evidence. So I would urge the committee to withhold further action on this bill and simply direct DEI, DOJ, and HHS to do their jobs and engage in a science-based process to determine appropriate scheduling of these substances. But before I conclude, I just want to point out that a number of the bills being considered still have not..."
Testimony SCHRIER, KIM
Markup of Fifteen Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"to discuss the bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm really glad this committee's moving important legislation to provide much-needed transparency when it comes to the broker and agent system that is influential in steering seniors toward certain Medicare plans. I just want to start by saying Medicare is really hard to navigate and choosing any insurance is challenging, so seniors absolutely need assistance and guidance when finding the right plan for them, but that assistance should be..."
Testimony MORELLE, JOSEPH D.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Mea...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026
"It even allows newly issued driver's license within 45 days, and it doesn't matter about expiration. North Carolina, you can use your driver's license, even if it is expired, a public assistance program ID card, Ms. Miller, a public assistance program ID card, or a student or staff ID from a list of over 7,000 institutions. You know why? Because in all these states, at the very least, they recognize what we're trying to just simply prove is that you are who you are. Not that you have a card..."
Testimony SALINAS, ANDREA
"To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conser...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"NRCS staff for determining which conservation practices they should pursue on their land, help in the application process, and other technical assistance on the ground. Without that adequate NRCS staff support, farmers in my district and across the country are really struggling. Can you tell me, how does a 23 percent decrease in the NRCS staff support that direct technical assistance on the ground to federal conservation programs under NRCS? I love new IT. It's sad though, because a lot of my..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
"To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conser...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"That's possible, yes. Yes. I think all options are on the table. From a technical assistance perspective, certainly we provide a good bit of technical assistance that comes directly from NRCS employees. And then the technical assistance provider network is another vehicle that we can invest in and provide technical assistance for"
Testimony CARBAJAL, SALUD O.
"To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conser...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"of major commodity crops, and instead must rely more heavily on conservation programs, crop insurance, and disaster assistance to manage risk and remain competitive. And while H.R. 1 included some notable investments in farm conservation and disaster assistance programs under your mission area, this came at a cost of cutting SNAP funding that millions of Americans depend on. Unlike some of my colleagues who supported H.R. 1, I do not believe these priorities are mutually exclusive. We should..."
Testimony WILLIAM HAGUE
Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"the need for teamwork across groups, and the need to understand and measure what you're doing. I know that unleashing these free market principles in insular areas will help grow their prosperity. The assistant secretary for insular and international affairs plays a vital role in assisting our partners and fellow Americans in the Pacific and Caribbean. If given the opportunity to serve as assistant secretary, my goal would be to strengthen our relationship with each community and grow the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Hearings to examine the nominations of Bradford Pentony Wilson, of New...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"I hope we hear that today. But it's concerning to your point about doing something different, which I hope that's the case, but you were involved in this process for five months last year and are now back at DHS now, but you still can't answer questions about what happened while you were there, why this huge cliff of Democratic states being denied disaster assistance, survivors being denied disaster assistance. So I'm not satisfied with that answer. I don't trust that that's what you're going..."
Testimony SPEAKER_14
Hearings to examine the nominations of Bradford Pentony Wilson, of New...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"Well, thank you for the question, ma'am. I think that every disaster has to be adjudicated and evaluated on their own merits. So, we would take the consideration of the public assistance, individual assistance team, formulate what we believe to be an appropriate course of action, and strong recommendations to the"
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"voluntarily cover insulin for only $35 out-of-pocket. Trump, Rx, and other direct-to-consumer platforms make insulin available for $25 today. The Insulin Act as introduced has 25 bipartisan co-sponsors including nine from the committee. I venture to say that the math suggests that the amendment will pass, but I'll let Senators know that transparently. When Senator Sanders was chair, this was never addressed. It suggests to me that the amendment today was not sincere nor done properly,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States ...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"to allow us 1.2 low-income residents to receive the employment and training program, to start a pilot program to see how we can make that happen. Right now, there's been language approved in the nutritional assistance program to allow that to continue to happen with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture. The House approved its version in the Farm"
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"to allow us 1.2 low-income residents to receive the employment and training program, to start a pilot program to see how we can make that happen. Right now, there's been language approved in the nutritional assistance program to allow that to continue to happen with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture. The House approved its version in the Farm"
Testimony FLOOD, MIKE
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"The topic of this hearing is the role that HUD plays in the disaster recovery through what's the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program, or CDBGDR. CDBGDR is a supplemental disaster recovery assistance program. It is intended to meet long-term disaster needs that remain unmet after other sources of assistance from FEMA and the SBA have already been deployed. CDBGDR is a very unique program. The program is not authorized in statute. Instead, CDBGDR funds are typically..."
Testimony CLEAVER, EMANUEL
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act led by Congressman Al Green. The bill does many things including requiring federal agencies to share all data to improve coordination of the disaster recovery process as well as increase oversight and data transparency. And another, authorizing the creation of a CDBG DR reserve fund that can quickly disperse initial recovery funding post-disaster without waiting for a new congressional action. Also, developing a formula to allocate assistance to the most..."
Testimony DOWNING, TROY
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Do you believe it's appropriate for HUD to have a role in disaster recovery at all when we have FEMA? Thank you. Would it make sense or more sense to reform FEMA assistance so it can be a one-stop shop or for disaster assistance? Or it sounds like, well, it just – met. Thank you. Ms. LeGrone, do you have"
Testimony MOORE, TIM
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I would submit to my colleagues that natural disasters do not distinguish between Republicans and Democrats. In western North Carolina, I will tell you, the communities are still recovering after the devastation of Hurricane Helene. The storm damaged tens of thousands of homes and displaced families, left many communities facing a long and difficult rebuilding process. For many of those families, flood insurance was simply not an option. These were mountain..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE BROOKE ROLLINS
An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Moreover, President Trump has already secured 19 new trade deals in just over one year, helping us slash that $50 billion agricultural trade deficit by almost 50 percent from just one year ago. So think about what that means for our producers. As we expand opportunity over the long term, we are also providing farmers with our short-term support today through the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers Program, and others. USDA has delivered tens of billions..."
Testimony BOOZMAN, JOHN
An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"I think that we all realize that this is still not enough to stop the bleeding in farm country, which is why we're working with Senator Hoeven to build upon the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program and the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers Program. I was pleased to hear that the President mentioned additional assistance during his event"
Testimony WELCH, PETER
An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Good morning. All right. I'm going to deny this if anybody quotes me, but, Secretary, I think you're doing a pretty good job. Oh, thank you. Here's the thing. You have been responsive, and Vermont has had very significant damage from floods that we had in 2023 and 2024, and I've had a chance to talk to you, but let me just ask you if you can tell us, Vermonters, what the status is of the Disaster Assistance Block Grant and then also the USDA Rural Development Disaster Assistance Fund, and both..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"So the money reassigns the funding evenly between the Department of Education's grants to states that will help recruit and retain teachers, and the Department of Justice's community-oriented policing services, or the COPS grant program that helps people hire and retain police officers. If that is insufficient, Amendment 157 reassigns funding, $10 billion for COPS, $10 billion for roads and bridges, $10 billion for teachers, $10 billion for food assistance, $10 billion for utility assistance,..."
Testimony BEAN, AARON
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"And then this pay and chase, we figure it out. So you and I, do you know this, you and I and your team have created a bill to codify what you're doing now, which is to verify, to use the data and statistics to making sure it's a legit bill that hasn't been paid by anybody else. So hats off to you. What else can we do, Mr. Secretary, to assist you, maybe it's just get out of the way, to assist you in fighting fraud? It's almost, they're bad guys. They hide and chase your"
Testimony SPEAKER_07
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"The Leahy Law prohibits assistance to foreign militaries that have committed gross violations of human rights. The Foreign Assistance Act prohibits arms transfers to countries that are restricting U.S. humanitarian aid, and Israel has been consistently blocking and restricting humanitarian assistance. These laws exist, and they're not being followed or"
Testimony SPEAKER_10
“Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in ...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"And the predictability of knowing what's going to happen in this environment is what makes me decide whether or not I'm going to continue to do business in the Federal marketplace. Thank you for the question. I really think it's important to have resources that are available to assist small businesses with technical assistance and access to training and education that will allow them to take We've worked with our partners, and we understand how important AI is to the growth of small businesses,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"The administrative warrant can be administrated if the individual is avoiding us by running through places of business, running into an apartment complex, going through a door. We feel like they're a danger. We've got to enter in there. We don't have time to stop. If we're going to knock on your door at 3 o'clock in the morning, though, we'll have a judicial warrant. We would applaud any assistance you could give us, any assistance that Congress could give us by passing new policies to help us..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"The housing title of this bill addresses affordability concerns and ensures a responsible safety net for our most vulnerable, the elderly, the disabled, our veterans, and the working poor. The funds allocated support authorized rental assistance programs at a fiscally responsible level of $58 billion for the Section 8 vouchers, project-based rental assistance, and programs that serve the elderly and"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Like the big ugly law, this proposed rule is based on a false stereotype that people who receive housing assistance don't or refuse to work. But time and again, data overwhelmingly shows that those receiving housing assistance that can work, do work. In fact, studies of work requirements in SNAP and Medicaid show that these policies don't improve employment numbers and in fact, they lead to many eligible people losing out on assistance. So, what's the point of this rule"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"We should not be appropriating any funds that would support this cruel rule. The rule would allow rental assistance to be taken away from people who cannot meet a stringent 40-hour work requirement per week, or if a household reaches a time limit on assistance. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have always said work requirements aren't such a burden, yet it's well documented these requirements decrease enrollment simply due to strict documentation burdens and administrative red"
Testimony SCOTT, AUSTIN
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"As a member of the Ag Committee, one of the things that we watched over the last several years is that the ratio of spending between SNAP and other food assistance and conservation and ag production and all of the other things that are funded through this bill had shifted from approximately 70% SNAP and food assistance to over 80% SNAP and food assistance because of the way the programs had been administered under the prior administration. Is that correct? And so we call it the Farm Bill, and..."
Testimony SMITH, ADRIAN
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"This funding supports local efforts aimed at delivering help to low-income families, including through direct cash assistance and non-assistance services. TANF was created to help families move from welfare to work, promote"
Testimony SEAN DUFFY
Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2026
"but then we also specifically meet with the Olympics and what we use our role is technical assistance for the most part they're on the ground telling us their needs what their thought process is on the routes and the plan and what streets are open what's what's closed and we provide assistance and how they're thinking through they're gonna operate the transit system for the games the Paralympics as well right after exactly yeah I mentioned"
Testimony BRESNAHAN, ROBERT P.
Various Measures
house Small Business Committee · May 20, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the Ranking Member. I rise today alongside Representative Simon in support of the Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Evaluation Act of 2026. This bipartisan legislation directs the GAO to study the effectiveness of existing federal cybersecurity assistance resources available to small businesses and identify where improvements are needed. In the United States, small businesses are 210 percent more likely to experience cyber incidents compared to..."
Testimony WILLIAMS, ROGER
Various Measures
house Small Business Committee · May 20, 2026
"underutilized or outdated. That is what H.R. 8880 aims to address. This bill will help expose where cybersecurity assistance is lacking. H.R. 8880, the Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Evaluation Act of 2026, directs the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the cyberattacks threatening small businesses and the effectiveness of federal programs in preventing them. This bill would also require the GAO to evaluate the effectiveness, coordination, and"
Testimony MERKLEY, JEFF
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · May 20, 2026
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And because of the work you all do across the country, we all have projects in our various states we're concerned about, and this is a chance for us to follow up on them and ask for your help. And Assistant Secretary Travnick, back in 2018, Congressman Walden and I set up the Klamath Drought Response Agency to assist the farmers in the Klamath Basin who had to idle their land for a season due to drought. And since then, the Bureau of Reclamation has continued..."
Testimony CISCOMANI, JUAN
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"faith-based counseling, employment training and placements, and more. They even have a mobile cafe where their program participants are able to gain on-the-job training. Since 2019, they have helped 747 people make a full recovery from addiction. 2,598 people obtained permanent housing assistance. Also assisted 2,138 people with finding a job and have provided over a million meals for those in need, all without a single dollar from the federal government or any entity of the government. Let me..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"grant. The fiscal year 2027 budget proposal seems to indicate that such cuts are going to continue. The president's budget proposes significant funding cuts for grant programs under the Office on Violence Against Women, slashing, for example, $14 million to transitional housing grants and $15 million to legal assistance grants. Both housing and legal assistance are crucial for survivors and their children, enabling them to escape the cycle of violence and to start the long process of actually..."
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine Protecting American Citizenship lll: Denaturalizat...
senate Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"During this time, he served as a circuit trial counsel from 2002 to 2004 and from 2004 to 2023 as a assistant staff judge advocate at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland, and he retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Texas beginning in 2002, first in the Laredo Division and later in the Houston Division. In 2021, he was promoted to deputy criminal chief, and in 2024, he was promoted to his current role as executive assistant..."
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine Protecting American Citizenship lll: Denaturalizat...
senate Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Not to be outdone, John Mark, another one of Texas' fine judges, received his B.A. from Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York, and his J.D. from St. John's University School of Law. He served as a prosecutor in New York City, first as a special assistant district attorney in Brooklyn and later as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx. In 2021, he experienced what I would imagine was quite a culture change and became an assistant United States attorney in the Southern..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Hearings to examine S.749, to amend title 38, United States Code, to e...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Can't more be done? It's a valid point, and so besides the Federal Register, we also use our newsletter and our ability to get to all veterans, even those unaffiliated with VA, through this information, and that's how we tell them about the listening sessions and how to reach us. Well, I think there's a need to they are entitled to? Senator, thank you for the question. Yes, there are specific provisions in the bill that we have concerns with. I'll start with probably the most meaningful one...."
Testimony ERNST, JONI
Closed hearings to examine the posture of United States Indo-Pacific C...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"Now, moving on, General Brunson, for you, Russia's war in Ukraine has become kind of a two-way military exchange between Putin and Kim Jong-un. We see a lot, whether it's the liquid-fueled ballistic missile program that goes back to North Korea, Russian military and technical assistance personnel coming from North Korea to assist Russia in the war in Ukraine. We could go on and"
Testimony ERNST, JONI
Hearings to examine maritime unmanned surface vessels.
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"Now, moving on, General Brunson, for you, Russia's war in Ukraine has become kind of a two-way military exchange between Putin and Kim Jong-un. We see a lot, whether it's the liquid-fueled ballistic missile program that goes back to North Korea, Russian military and technical assistance personnel coming from North Korea to assist Russia in the war in Ukraine. We could go on and"
Testimony KEVIN KIM
Hearings to examine the nominations of Catherine Dillon, of Maryland, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"Our focus and our presence in Southeast Asia, as well as ASEAN, cannot be simply a State Department role. It must encompass the whole of government. So that means working with the Development Finance Corporation, that means working with Ex-Im Bank to see how we can unlock American financing for additional infrastructure projects or other types of financial tools that the United States can leverage so that the quality of American investments can be seen and felt by people in Southeast Asia...."
Testimony DR. RUSH DOSHI
“Defending Main Street: Combating CCP Threats to America’s Small Busin...
house Small Business Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"I think probably somewhere there's been a disconnect, and the team that he has that cares about this should make sure that these programs have the money that they need, because the Chinese are investing. They do technical assistance, and we don't. They do technical assistance from their SOEs, from the universities, state research centers, on an industrial scale, and we shouldn't pause ours. Well, thank you very much, Congressman, for the opportunity to talk a little bit about that. My view is..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE JOHN SQUIRES
“Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"They can marshal their arguments or decide this is not going to go well, we're not going to waste our resources and refile with something – direct the resources to something that might be more productive. So we're trying to get information in the hands of people at the soonest possible point where they can do something with it and have people be on the same page. On the eligibility side, we've formed a 101 working group, and we've have – are starting to deploy AI agents to assist in some of the..."
Testimony WARNER, MARK R.
Hearings to examine worldwide threats; to be immediately followed by a...
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"And we are now seeing in real time the cost to the State Department – thousands of American citizens were trapped in a literal war zone, with little assistance from their own government. For a time, those calling the State Department hotline for assistance were greeted with a pre-recorded message that said, quote, please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation. This was a foreseeable security"
Testimony KLOBUCHAR, AMY
Hearings to examine increasing domestic consumption of United States-g...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"you know, only certain specialty crops will be available for a billion in assistance. Do you believe that the economic assistance is adequate, and are you in favor of advancing a farm"
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"the country. Now, we look forward to hearing directly on what life in Minnesota has been like thanks to the Trump administration's actions. And the truth is that Donald Trump and Republicans have cut billions of dollars, billions of dollars from health care and food assistance. That is a reality. Instead, with that money, they've used it to hire officers who are now terrorizing cities and killing Americans. That's where our taxpayer dollars have gone. We've taken from food assistance, we've..."
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Burma living in Buffalo. Two weeks ago, he was left abandoned by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents outside of Tim Horton's coffee shop an hour after they closed, in the cold and in the dark, with no shoes on, miles away from his home. Five days later, he was found dead. Mr. Shah Alam escaped a genocide in his home country just to die here because Border Patrol could not be bothered to take him home or to tell his family where they had released him. When the story came out in the press, DHS..."
Testimony KRISTI NOEM
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"41 of them major disasters. FEMA is dispersing funds on grants and relief and public assistance and individual assistance twice as fast as it ever has in its history. I appreciate"
Testimony FRANK BISIGNANO
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"the United States and due to the regulatory Thank you. I think, first of all, the natural place I started with AI probably over 10 years ago was in call centers. And we weren't calling it AI then, but it was really not only to assist the caller, but to assist the operator. So our ability now to put the information in front of our service representatives so they can get to it faster, where they used to have to traverse multiple systems or try to go figure out the answer, we're prompting that in..."
Testimony PANETTA, JIMMY
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"efficiently and is accessible when our constituents need the help that they deserve, especially when it comes to their taxes. However, it seems that many of the steps that this administration has taken can undermine some of those shared goals. The very structure of your role, for instance, requires you to oversee the operations of both the IRS and Social Security. With all due respect of your background, that divides your attention. And I think it could lead to shortchanging these two very,..."
Testimony CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
Hearings to examine Water Resources Development Act of 2026, focusing ...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"all solution. In September, I stressed the importance of the timely implementation of WRDA 2024 and prior WRDAs consistent with congressional content. Secretary Tell, throughout your two decades as a senator staffer and your confirmation process, you heard how important the Corps' work and policies enacted in WRDA are to communities across the country. Now that you've had more time on the job, I look forward to an update on the Corps' implementation efforts. I also want to acknowledge and thank..."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio), “Expanding the Fast Track Act of 2026.’’ • H.R. 9640 (Rep. Wittman), “Earth...
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_13 "making the whole process better. So about $500,000 was provided under that $15 million in the previous administration for the Tribal Assistance Program, and we're currently going through a re-scoping process to look at both the Tribal Assistance Program and potential state assistance in the future using our funding. However, I would say I don't think it's slowed down our ability to engage with tribes. We've taken a really conscious effort to focus our tribal engagement on project"
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including post-2026 operations negotiations.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_16 "That would be fun, too, but part of the record. And we'll begin today with Assistant Secretary Travnik. We're grateful to have you here. Assistant Secretary Travnik is, as I mentioned briefly earlier, the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior, a position to which she was confirmed by the Senate in September of 2025. She has a decorated, distinguished record of public service in the water and natural resources space, previously serving in various roles in the North Dakota state"
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Justice
house Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Jun 2, 2026 · Transcript
MARCO RUBIO "but they are a transit zone where human traffickers bring people through. And so oftentimes, the assistance is assistance to local authorities and helping to partner with us to identify, or if they're already advanced enough in that field, simply sharing intelligence and information as we gather it and pick it up. In other cases, the assistance, depending on the country, is helping prevent human trafficking. In essence, working and partnering with the local, with the host government for programs that help identify potential victims of human trafficking and prevent them from being trafficked..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Jared Isaacman, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Dec 3, 2025 · Transcript
ROSEN, JACKY "Moreover, there is currently no Deputy Assistant Secretary for Travel and Tourism in place either. As a result, the National Travel and Tourism Office is led today by an acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, further underscoring the leadership gap in this space. And so it all means that tourism remains a sub-office, although critical to our national economy, remains a sub-office overseen by the Assistant Secretary for Industry and Analysis, position for which you are nominated, rather than by a new Assistant Secretary dedicated solely to focusing on the ecosystem, and it is an ecosystem, it's..."
Hearing Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, focusing on assessing the United States response.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE MICHAEL DESOMBRE "Sure. Maybe I'll talk briefly, and then I'll turn it over to DAS Bedard to speak about some of the law enforcement cooperation. I mean, one of the benefits that we've seen in the State Department of having the regional bureaus now sort of running the foreign assistance is that we can use foreign assistance to really direct on these problems as they arise. So starting in October of last year, on the sidelines of ASEAN, we announced $52"
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
KLOBUCHAR, AMY "But these crops have been hit especially hard by the trade wars and the tariffs, both in terms of the impact on lost market shares and the impact on high input costs. And while these farmers receive some assistance, we appreciate this, through the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers Program, the structure of the program should be streamlined to make it easier for farmers to access. And I support this amendment and appreciate Senator Lujan's and others work on this. I urge my colleagues to vote"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
GRASSLEY, CHUCK "oversaw more than 100 investigations and prosecuted a wide array of crimes, including complex national security cases against foreign terrorists. His career featured additional positions with the Department, serving as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Since 2020, Judge Cronin has served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He's done a great job, and I thank him for his service. Finally, Judge Manion. Jason Manion has also been nominated to the U.S. Sentencing"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Gregory Carl Cook, to...
senate Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
GRASSLEY, CHUCK "oversaw more than 100 investigations and prosecuted a wide array of crimes, including complex national security cases against foreign terrorists. His career featured additional positions with the Department, serving as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Since 2020, Judge Cronin has served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He's done a great job, and I thank him for his service. Finally, Judge Manion. Jason Manion has also been nominated to the U.S. Sentencing"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the functions of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
CASSIDY, BILL "This risk, as I have said, reversing decades of progress made by IDEA, which is fundamentally an education law. Lastly, moving OSERS to HHS also risks weakening the federal support states need to implement IDEA effectively. Returning greater authority to states may be an important policy objective, but many states still struggle to meet IDEA's requirements and need federal technical assistance, coordination, and oversight to build capacity necessary to serve students with disabilities. It is unclear whether HHS has the institutional capacity to provide such technical assistance if HHS, as the..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under...
senate Jul 23, 2026 · Transcript
CRAPO, MIKE "The committee will come to order. We meet today in executive session to consider favorably reporting the nominations of the following individuals. Francis Brooke to be Deputy Secretary of Treasury. Aaron Brown to be Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. Dr. S.P. Kothari to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Hunter McMaster to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets. I generally give an opening statement at this point and then turn it over to Senator Wyden and then since no other senators are present we would then..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews,...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 23, 2026 · Transcript
CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE "And that is the Deputy Secretary making that decision? Assistant Secretary. Assistant Secretary? All"
Hearing “Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Information”
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
GROTHMAN, GLENN "Okay. Is it possible that Biden Harris's Department of Labor's assistance to the plaintiff's attorneys extended beyond secret sharing agreements to assisting with briefs or practicing for oral arguments in court?"
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SEWELL, TERRI A. "The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have lost all credibility on election issues. Republicans refuse to condemn President Trump's lies that he won the 2020 election. Republicans continue to push the Save America Act, which is the broadest voter suppression effort since Jim Crow. And Donald Trump just fired the entire leadership of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which provides crucial assistance to states in running elections. If we were serious about securing and expanding our elections, we would all be calling out President Trump's lies and his dismantling of our..."
Hearing Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and the Path Ahead
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
MEEKS, GREGORY W. "A security mission in Haiti must also be accompanied by disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs. Haitian humanitarian assistance must flow alongside security assistance because Haitians need food, medicine, and shelter. That means that the Trump administration must bring forward a comprehensive strategy equal to the scale of the"
Hearing H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital Access Act; H. Con. Res. 113 – Establishing the congressional budget for the...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026 · Transcript
SCOTT, AUSTIN "like Minnesota, want to do anything about it. And so the one thing that I would tell you that I wish we had done, I think the other thing people want us to do is to cut spending, and it's pretty clear to me that if you look at the fraud that is occurring throughout the United States, that simply stopping the people that should not be getting assistance from stealing assistance, or dollars I should say, from the U.S. government, I mean, my understanding is CBO came out the other, was it CBO or Congressional Research, one of our people came out and said for every dollar you put into fraud..."
Hearing Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnerships
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
MR. BEN BLACK "Representative, thank you for your question. So currently, I think what you're referring to, in part, is foreign assistance and project development dollars, because that is the only foreign assistance dollars that the DFC has. As I said in my opening statement, I am engaging in an entire valuation process of all DFC investments, past, present, and that will hopefully include future, and we plan to fulsomely put that out there to see returns to the American taxpayer across the entire existence of the DFC by"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Jules Hurst III, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary (Comptroller), Richard O'Malley, of Wisconsin, to be a...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_03 "Our military service made each of us better people, better fathers, and better citizens. Over the last two decades, I have been blessed with a great variety of assignments, from the JSOC Intelligence Brigade to the Office of the Speaker of the House. I have held an equal variety of positions in this administration. Since January 2025, I performed the duties of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, the Assistant Secretary for Readiness, and the Undersecretary of Comptroller. I now serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. These..."
Hearing Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country”
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "The Missing and Murdered Unit provides investigative and analytical support across jurisdictions by identifying leads, coordinating investigative resources, and assisting law enforcement agencies in resolving complex and multi-jurisdictional cases. The Missing and Murdered Unit employs a collaborative problem-solving approach that combines advanced forensic techniques, DNA analysis, AI-assisted analytical tools, comprehensive case reviews, information sharing, and inter-agency coordination. DNA technologies continue to expand investigative capabilities and have proven invaluable in..."
Hearing Memorializing our Veterans: Outreach, Upkeep, and Community Partnerships at Veterans Cemeteries
house Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "state, tribal cemeteries, and volunteers who often serve as the first line of help for grieving families. We urge this subcommittee to ensure survivors receive consistent, comprehensive assistance after burial, including full implementation and expanded future capability of the Survivor Assistance and Memorial Support Program within VHA. Mr. Chairman, the men and women in Arlington and in cemeteries the world over gave their time on earth and the time they'll never spend with those they left behind in the hope that we would, as the Constitution says, form a more perfect"
Hearing American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "because it is going to be in every sector of our economy. Beyond that, it's going to be essential that we have a trusted supply chain of physical AI-enabled robotics in order to assist with our manufacturing, to assist with our logistics, warehousing, perimeter security, public safety, defense, transportation, and infrastructure. The robots that Boston Dynamics provides are used in a variety of ways to keep people safe and to keep public"
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “The Congressional Research Service and the Future of AI-Enabled Policy Analysis”
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
KAREN DONFRIED "Right. So our view of the future is, okay, we're going to integrate AI into the Bill Summary workflow, and that's going to allow us to produce a much, much more significant number of Bill Summaries for you. We think that on the research and analysis side, it's how do we take advantage of the power of AI, the speed of AI, to process information that is more reliable, that can almost be like a research assistant to CRS analysts. And that's going to take some time. I don't think that's a tomorrow thing. But that's why we want to be testing these five different chatbots, because they all are a..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Measures
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
MORELLE, JOSEPH D. "It even allows newly issued driver's license within 45 days, and it doesn't matter about expiration. North Carolina, you can use your driver's license, even if it is expired, a public assistance program ID card, Ms. Miller, a public assistance program ID card, or a student or staff ID from a list of over 7,000 institutions. You know why? Because in all these states, at the very least, they recognize what we're trying to just simply prove is that you are who you are. Not that you have a card that's not expired, not that you, limiting this to the narrowest range is clear, what you're intending..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of mental or physical disability in cases of organ transplants,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "voluntarily cover insulin for only $35 out-of-pocket. Trump, Rx, and other direct-to-consumer platforms make insulin available for $25 today. The Insulin Act as introduced has 25 bipartisan co-sponsors including nine from the committee. I venture to say that the math suggests that the amendment will pass, but I'll let Senators know that transparently. When Senator Sanders was chair, this was never addressed. It suggests to me that the amendment today was not sincere nor done properly, particularly since it contains text of matters that have already been signed into law. It has not been scored..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "to allow us 1.2 low-income residents to receive the employment and training program, to start a pilot program to see how we can make that happen. Right now, there's been language approved in the nutritional assistance program to allow that to continue to happen with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture. The House approved its version in the Farm"
Hearing Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "to allow us 1.2 low-income residents to receive the employment and training program, to start a pilot program to see how we can make that happen. Right now, there's been language approved in the nutritional assistance program to allow that to continue to happen with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture. The House approved its version in the Farm"
Hearing H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act; H. Res. 1335 – Condemning actors seeking to...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "So the money reassigns the funding evenly between the Department of Education's grants to states that will help recruit and retain teachers, and the Department of Justice's community-oriented policing services, or the COPS grant program that helps people hire and retain police officers. If that is insufficient, Amendment 157 reassigns funding, $10 billion for COPS, $10 billion for roads and bridges, $10 billion for teachers, $10 billion for food assistance, $10 billion for utility assistance, and $20 billion towards paying down the national debt, which has ballooned in this reconciliation..."
Hearing Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
BEAN, AARON "And then this pay and chase, we figure it out. So you and I, do you know this, you and I and your team have created a bill to codify what you're doing now, which is to verify, to use the data and statistics to making sure it's a legit bill that hasn't been paid by anybody else. So hats off to you. What else can we do, Mr. Secretary, to assist you, maybe it's just get out of the way, to assist you in fighting fraud? It's almost, they're bad guys. They hide and chase your"
Hearing H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "The Leahy Law prohibits assistance to foreign militaries that have committed gross violations of human rights. The Foreign Assistance Act prohibits arms transfers to countries that are restricting U.S. humanitarian aid, and Israel has been consistently blocking and restricting humanitarian assistance. These laws exist, and they're not being followed or"
Hearing “Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in National Security.”
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "And the predictability of knowing what's going to happen in this environment is what makes me decide whether or not I'm going to continue to do business in the Federal marketplace. Thank you for the question. I really think it's important to have resources that are available to assist small businesses with technical assistance and access to training and education that will allow them to take We've worked with our partners, and we understand how important AI is to the growth of small businesses, but decisions about the affordability of those technologies, the availability of those..."
Hearing “A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security”
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "The administrative warrant can be administrated if the individual is avoiding us by running through places of business, running into an apartment complex, going through a door. We feel like they're a danger. We've got to enter in there. We don't have time to stop. If we're going to knock on your door at 3 o'clock in the morning, though, we'll have a judicial warrant. We would applaud any assistance you could give us, any assistance that Congress could give us by passing new policies to help us streamline this would be wonderful, but unfortunately, we haven't upgraded our immigration, you..."
Hearing Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
SEAN DUFFY "but then we also specifically meet with the Olympics and what we use our role is technical assistance for the most part they're on the ground telling us their needs what their thought process is on the routes and the plan and what streets are open what's what's closed and we provide assistance and how they're thinking through they're gonna operate the transit system for the games the Paralympics as well right after exactly yeah I mentioned"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of...
senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
MERKLEY, JEFF "Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And because of the work you all do across the country, we all have projects in our various states we're concerned about, and this is a chance for us to follow up on them and ask for your help. And Assistant Secretary Travnick, back in 2018, Congressman Walden and I set up the Klamath Drought Response Agency to assist the farmers in the Klamath Basin who had to idle their land for a season due to drought. And since then, the Bureau of Reclamation has continued to support the agency in drought"
Hearing Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 12, 2026 · Transcript
CISCOMANI, JUAN "faith-based counseling, employment training and placements, and more. They even have a mobile cafe where their program participants are able to gain on-the-job training. Since 2019, they have helped 747 people make a full recovery from addiction. 2,598 people obtained permanent housing assistance. Also assisted 2,138 people with finding a job and have provided over a million meals for those in need, all without a single dollar from the federal government or any entity of the government. Let me say that again. All these results without any help from the federal government. That's one of the..."
Hearing “Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "grant. The fiscal year 2027 budget proposal seems to indicate that such cuts are going to continue. The president's budget proposes significant funding cuts for grant programs under the Office on Violence Against Women, slashing, for example, $14 million to transitional housing grants and $15 million to legal assistance grants. Both housing and legal assistance are crucial for survivors and their children, enabling them to escape the cycle of violence and to start the long process of actually rebuilding their lives. The administration has again proposed that the Office on Violence Against..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.749, to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend increased dependency and indemnity compensation paid to surviving...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "Can't more be done? It's a valid point, and so besides the Federal Register, we also use our newsletter and our ability to get to all veterans, even those unaffiliated with VA, through this information, and that's how we tell them about the listening sessions and how to reach us. Well, I think there's a need to they are entitled to? Senator, thank you for the question. Yes, there are specific provisions in the bill that we have concerns with. I'll start with probably the most meaningful one. The bill requires VA to administer a training module on the Bill of Rights in the Transition..."
Hearing Closed hearings to examine the posture of United States Indo-Pacific Command and United States Forces Korea in review of the Defense Authorization...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
ERNST, JONI "Now, moving on, General Brunson, for you, Russia's war in Ukraine has become kind of a two-way military exchange between Putin and Kim Jong-un. We see a lot, whether it's the liquid-fueled ballistic missile program that goes back to North Korea, Russian military and technical assistance personnel coming from North Korea to assist Russia in the war in Ukraine. We could go on and"
Hearing Hearings to examine maritime unmanned surface vessels.
senate SeaPower Subcommittee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
ERNST, JONI "Now, moving on, General Brunson, for you, Russia's war in Ukraine has become kind of a two-way military exchange between Putin and Kim Jong-un. We see a lot, whether it's the liquid-fueled ballistic missile program that goes back to North Korea, Russian military and technical assistance personnel coming from North Korea to assist Russia in the war in Ukraine. We could go on and"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Catherine Dillon, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary (Educational and Cultural Affairs), and Yeouk...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
KEVIN KIM "Our focus and our presence in Southeast Asia, as well as ASEAN, cannot be simply a State Department role. It must encompass the whole of government. So that means working with the Development Finance Corporation, that means working with Ex-Im Bank to see how we can unlock American financing for additional infrastructure projects or other types of financial tools that the United States can leverage so that the quality of American investments can be seen and felt by people in Southeast Asia. Within the tools of the State Department, foreign assistance is one element that should be looked at and..."
Hearing “Defending Main Street: Combating CCP Threats to America’s Small Businesses.”
house Small Business Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
DR. RUSH DOSHI "I think probably somewhere there's been a disconnect, and the team that he has that cares about this should make sure that these programs have the money that they need, because the Chinese are investing. They do technical assistance, and we don't. They do technical assistance from their SOEs, from the universities, state research centers, on an industrial scale, and we shouldn't pause ours. Well, thank you very much, Congressman, for the opportunity to talk a little bit about that. My view is that the SBA has a number of tools. Some of them have lapsed and can be reauthorized, and some of..."
Hearing “Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE JOHN SQUIRES "They can marshal their arguments or decide this is not going to go well, we're not going to waste our resources and refile with something – direct the resources to something that might be more productive. So we're trying to get information in the hands of people at the soonest possible point where they can do something with it and have people be on the same page. On the eligibility side, we've formed a 101 working group, and we've have – are starting to deploy AI agents to assist in some of the areas where there are the thornier issues to decide on 101 and to give some assistance to the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine worldwide threats; to be immediately followed by a closed session in SH-219.
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
WARNER, MARK R. "And we are now seeing in real time the cost to the State Department – thousands of American citizens were trapped in a literal war zone, with little assistance from their own government. For a time, those calling the State Department hotline for assistance were greeted with a pre-recorded message that said, quote, please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation. This was a foreseeable security"
Hearing Hearings to examine increasing domestic consumption of United States-grown agricultural products.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript
KLOBUCHAR, AMY "you know, only certain specialty crops will be available for a billion in assistance. Do you believe that the economic assistance is adequate, and are you in favor of advancing a farm"
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
GARCIA, ROBERT "the country. Now, we look forward to hearing directly on what life in Minnesota has been like thanks to the Trump administration's actions. And the truth is that Donald Trump and Republicans have cut billions of dollars, billions of dollars from health care and food assistance. That is a reality. Instead, with that money, they've used it to hire officers who are now terrorizing cities and killing Americans. That's where our taxpayer dollars have gone. We've taken from food assistance, we've taken from health care, and we superfunded terror on American streets. Now, Donald Trump has unleashed..."
Hearing Hearings to examine Water Resources Development Act of 2026, focusing on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, programs, and priorities.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Feb 25, 2026 · Transcript
CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE "all solution. In September, I stressed the importance of the timely implementation of WRDA 2024 and prior WRDAs consistent with congressional content. Secretary Tell, throughout your two decades as a senator staffer and your confirmation process, you heard how important the Corps' work and policies enacted in WRDA are to communities across the country. Now that you've had more time on the job, I look forward to an update on the Corps' implementation efforts. I also want to acknowledge and thank the staff across the Corps enterprise for their ongoing efforts to provide the committee with..."
Hearing "Enhancing Educational Outcomes in Indian Country: Postsecondary Education at the Bureau of Indian Education"
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 24, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Scott Davis, Exercising the Delegated Authority of the Assistant Secretary- Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 3123, Ernest Peltz Accrued Veterans Benefits Act; H.R. 3627, Justice for America’s Veterans and Survivors Act of...
house Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Candace Wheeler, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
Hearing Housing in the Heartland: Addressing our Rural Housing Needs
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jun 12, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: David Lipsetz, Housing Assistance Council
Hearing “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Matt Nosanchuk, Mattnos Strategies and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
Hearing "Unmasking Union Antisemitism"
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · Sep 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Kyle Mann, New York Legal Assistance Group
Hearing Detrimental Delays: Reviewing Payment Failures in VA’s Education Programs
house Economic Opportunity Subcommittee · Dec 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Ashlynne Haycock-Lohmann, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
Hearing Securing the Supply Chain: The Defense Production Act in Focus
house National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee · Aug 13, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Jeffrey Frankston, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 2334, To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to preempt any squatter’s rights established by State law...
house Economic Opportunity Subcommittee · Jun 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Ashlynne Haycock-Lohmann, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
Hearing Full Committee Hearing: “Why the Wait? Unpacking California’s Untimely Election Counting Process”
house Committee on House Administration · Apr 29, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Donald Palmer, Election Assistance Commission
Hearing Oversight: Beyond the City Limits: Delivering for Rural Veterans
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jul 25, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: John Lawson, Veterans Assistance Commission of St. Clair County
Hearing Small UAS and Counter-Small UAS: Gaps, Requirements, and Projected Capabilities
house Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee · May 1, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Lieutenant General Robert Collins, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army
Committee Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee
house Veterans' Affairs Committee