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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 · 18 transcript matches
UNKNOWN "Throughout our country, families are struggling to stay afloat as the cost of living keeps climbing and climbing. And instead of extending a lifeline, this bill cuts off support. I encourage my colleagues to oppose the bill before us today and negotiate on a bipartisan basis to craft a bill that meets the needs of the American people. Thank you and I yield back. Thank you, gentlelady, for her"
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 · 10 transcript matches
MCGOVERN, JAMES P. "grocery bills are up, energy costs are up, inflation is up. And what is the Republican answer? Cut WIC. I mean, to be clear, WIC helps pregnant women and postpartum moms. It helps babies and little kids. It helps families buy healthy food. It connects families to health care and nutrition support. It's one of the most successful public health programs in America. And the Republicans want to cut it. This bill would force eligible families to be turned away from WIC for the first time in 30 years. Just think about that. And it doesn't stop there. This bill cuts fruit and vegetable benefits, not..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Bill
house Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Jun 5, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
DELAURO, ROSA L. "are still pushing to restrict access to reproductive care, regardless of what state you are in. The bill cuts funding for Title X family planning, leaving 2.6 million men and women without access to preventive care services, including cancer screening, diabetes screenings, mental health services, and contraception. It eliminates the teen pregnancy prevention program entirely and includes dozens of partisan provisions that target reproductive health care access. And as if the health care cuts in the big, beautiful bill were not enough, this bill cuts $2 billion in operations funding from the..."
CRS Report
Department of Transportation (DOT): FY2016 Appropriations
Reports · Dec 21, 2015
On February 2, 2015, the Obama Administration proposed a $93.7 billion budget for the Department of Transportation (DOT) for FY2016. That is about $22 billion (31%) more than was provided in FY2015....
Testimony MCGOVERN, JAMES P.
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"grocery bills are up, energy costs are up, inflation is up. And what is the Republican answer? Cut WIC. I mean, to be clear, WIC helps pregnant women and postpartum moms. It helps babies and little kids. It helps families buy healthy food. It connects families to health care and nutrition support. It's one of the most successful public health programs in America. And the Republicans want to cut it. This bill would force eligible families to be turned away from WIC for the first time in 30..."
Hearing Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_24 "I certainly appreciate your partnership in the effort. You know, the working families tax cut bill was very productive, certainly teed up by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act from the first Trump term and it's interesting, in the meantime, we had a bipartisan bill where we had many of my colleagues, both sides of the"
Hearing Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SCOTT, TIM "97% of Americans received a tax cut this year. 97%. And the people who benefit the most are people earning less than $200,000 a year. Hard-working American families will take home nearly $300 a month more because of the Working Families Tax Cut Bill. Let's not forget, every single Democrat in the Senate voted against cutting taxes, which would have led to a $5 trillion tax increase. This committee has already advanced efforts to improve housing"
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
MARSHALL, ROGER "we don't want anyone to go home hungry. We don't. When the working family tax cuts bill was passed, we gave states what a year and a half to improve their error rates, and then we've added another year. So that would be two and a half years of error rate. I've yet to hear anyone from the other side of the aisle say why can't our"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bill
house Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 15, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
KAPTUR, MARCY "Finally, a total 100 percent elimination of funding for the Army Corps Formally Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, FUSRAP, is unacceptable, period. We seek no less than $200 million for this program to continue cleaning up contaminated sites. Why would we not want to do that fully as soon as we can, resulting from our nation's early atomic energy program? And further, the bill cuts other programs that would need adjustments addressed. Critically, the bill should only repurpose funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act if the changes are bipartisan and embrace an..."
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Rela...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 5, 2026
"are still pushing to restrict access to reproductive care, regardless of what state you are in. The bill cuts funding for Title X family planning, leaving 2.6 million men and women without access to preventive care services, including cancer screening, diabetes screenings, mental health services, and contraception. It eliminates the teen pregnancy prevention program entirely and includes dozens of partisan provisions that target reproductive health care access. And as if the health care cuts in..."
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Rela...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 5, 2026
"As new technology upends the workforce and inflation outpaces wage growth, this bill eviscerates funding for employment and training programs by $3.3 billion, one-third below the 2026 level. It eliminates funding for adult and youth job training entirely, while cutting funding job training entirely while cutting funding for the Job Corps in half. This bill cuts funding for health and human service programs by $4.5 billion, including a $1 billion cut to the Centers for Disease Control and..."
Testimony SPEAKER_24
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I certainly appreciate your partnership in the effort. You know, the working families tax cut bill was very productive, certainly teed up by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act from the first Trump term and it's interesting, in the meantime, we had a bipartisan bill where we had many of my colleagues, both sides of the"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Throughout our country, families are struggling to stay afloat as the cost of living keeps climbing and climbing. And instead of extending a lifeline, this bill cuts off support. I encourage my colleagues to oppose the bill before us today and negotiate on a bipartisan basis to craft a bill that meets the needs of the American people. Thank you and I yield back. Thank you, gentlelady, for her"
Testimony PINGREE, CHELLIE
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"I urge my colleagues to support this amendment. Thank you. I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for this amendment and I urge you all to support it. This bill cuts funding to the states for water infrastructure, and the reason the majority made these cuts is simple. It's because they did not give the interior bill sufficient allocation. That allocation is a policy choice, and that is reflected in the funding cuts across this"
Testimony SCOTT, TIM
Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"97% of Americans received a tax cut this year. 97%. And the people who benefit the most are people earning less than $200,000 a year. Hard-working American families will take home nearly $300 a month more because of the Working Families Tax Cut Bill. Let's not forget, every single Democrat in the Senate voted against cutting taxes, which would have led to a $5 trillion tax increase. This committee has already advanced efforts to improve housing"
Testimony PINGREE, CHELLIE
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"you, Mr. Chair, for yielding. First, I want to thank Chairman Cole and Ranking Member DeLauro, and I want to give a big shout-out to the staff on both sides of the aisle who do an incredible job and are wonderful to work with, and in particular, those that we work with on the Democratic side, Rita Cole, Tyler Coe, and the woman who retired from our committee this year, Jocelyn Hunn. Chairman Simpson, I really appreciate our working relationship and that we were able to find common ground last..."
Testimony BISHOP, SANFORD D.
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"Farm income is forecast to decline by $4.1 billion from last year, according to USDA's own economists. I know that ag producers have spoken to me and my staff are concerned about closed or understaffed USDA offices and the hemorrhaging of experienced federal workers who knew how to provide them the assistance that they need. Yet this bill cuts staff at the agencies that our farmers and ranchers rely on the most, the Farm Service Agency, the Rural Development Agency, and the National Resource..."
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"And nowhere is that more apparent than in the Republican attack on WIC. At a time when food costs are high and getting higher, this bill cuts funding for WIC by $200 billion and would force pregnant moms and kids off the program for the first time in 30 years. Now, we've just heard a novel explanation for why the cut might be okay, because there's less participation. But if you talk to the folks who run the WIC programs, as I have twice in the last"
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Rela...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 5, 2026
"Healthcare costs are going up. Hospitals are shutting down, the President's signature piece of legislation, the one big beautiful bill, cut Medicaid and nutrition assistance by $1.2 trillion. It will push 15 million Americans off their health insurance, and all of this just to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and for the biggest"
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Rela...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 5, 2026
"quote, we are fighting wars, end quote. The President wants to increase the defense budget by half a trillion dollars, meanwhile this bill cuts funding for education, public health, reproductive health, and job training. Horace Mann called education, and I quote, the great"
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Rela...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 5, 2026
"It is a promise we make to each succeeding generation that they will be better off than the last. Yet, this bill cuts $8 billion, 10% from the Department of Education. That includes a $2 billion cut to Title I grants, which will push tens of thousands of teachers out of their classrooms, leave countless children with a worse education. This is a step down the path toward eliminating public education in this nation, but I believe that that is the ultimate goal of the"
Testimony LAHOOD, DARIN
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I want to touch on affordable housing. I think collectively, as we travel back to our districts, we continue to hear about the lack of affordable housing, and I would describe it as a rural, suburban, and urban problem. And last year, in the Working Families Tax Cut Bill, we included a number of provisions on affordable housing, and one of those was my bill that was included in there on the affordable housing tax credit. And as you're well aware, one of the most significant barriers to economic..."
Testimony LAHOOD, DARIN
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I also, beyond being on the Ways and Means Committee, I serve on our Select Committee on China, which is a bipartisan committee focused on how do we win the strategic competition against the CCP. And I also serve on our Intelligence Committee. And I want to focus on 45X, and that's a provision in the tax code. And so last year in the Working Families Tax Cut Bill, we included the foreign entity of concerns restrictions that pertain to curbing Chinese technology by manufacturers and mandating in..."
Testimony SPEAKER_25
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"It saddles cities, towns, and working families with higher utility bills, and it allows President Trump to continue raiding public funds to pay for his own vanity projects. This bill cuts the EPA's budget by $1.8 billion, or 20%. Keep that $1.8 billion in"
Testimony FRANKEL, LOIS
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this Interior Budget Bill because it misses the mark on some of our most important priorities and I want to focus on one today and that is our investment in arts and humanities. This bill cuts funding from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities by more than 35%. And this is not just cutting a line in the budget, it's cutting support for the institutions and the programs that preserve our history, inspire creativity, bring joy to our"
Testimony ESPAILLAT, ADRIANO
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"At a time when Americans experience a surge in environmental disasters and a growing affordability crisis, this bill raises the cost of everyday households and cuts resources to ensure communities stay safe. Most notably, the bill cuts EPA funding by 20 percent, limiting its ability to continue critical environmental protection and reversing years of renewable energy development. By shifting costs onto state and local governments and making electricity more expensive through funding cuts, this..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"While the Trump administration pays lip service to quote making America healthy again, they are forcing hundreds of thousands of low-income families to continue being exposed to lead paint. This bill cuts funding that helps people who are homeless to get the support they need to get back on their feet. It slashes homeless assistance grant funding by $256 million, rolling back aid for the more than 745,000 people experiencing homelessness and preventing tens of thousands of people from moving..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"which the bipartisan infrastructure law helped us to achieve. Unfortunately, this bill cuts those solutions, going so far as to eliminate critical programs like the Federal-State Partnership, which helps repair intercity passenger rail"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"that their fundamental needs for shelter and transportation are no longer a priority. This bill cuts $5.8 billion from the Department of Transportation at a time when many congested cities like"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Instead of investing in the American people, this bill cuts $6 billion from the HUD budget, including a 15% reduction in funding for housing for the most needy, including our senior citizens, that will leave many families in unsafe, deteriorating"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"of affordable housing projects nationwide would go undeveloped. I met a woman the other day, she goes, Marcy, I finally, she's 80 years old, she gets $1,420 a month in her Social Security and she was able to get into a National Church Residence's dwelling and she was in her wheelchair and she was so grateful. And that was because of these programs working together. It just really made my week. It even guts eviction prevention grants that help keep Americans in their homes. This is completely..."
Testimony SCOTT, TIM
Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"cannot afford. Affordability comes from promoting competition, innovation, and opportunity. That is why Senate Republicans have been focused on results that will bring relief to everyday Americans. We are approaching the one-year anniversary of the Working Families Tax Cut Bill, a bill that has put more money in the pockets of Americans who desperately need it. Because of this bill, 97% of Americans received a tax cut this year. 97%. And the people who benefit the most are people earning less..."
Testimony SCOTT, TIM
Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"I'll start. One of the things I said during my opening comments was that because of the working families tax cut bill, 97% of Americans saw their taxes go down, and the focus of those tax decreases were on people making less than $200,000 a"
Testimony SCOTT, TIM
Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"$5 trillion is just a mind-numbing amount, but $250 a month is something I can understand. Giving Americans $250 additional dollars because of our working families tax cut bill that showed up in tax returns, an increase on average of 11%, is just another way the Republican majority is working on behalf of the American people, making 2026 the year of affordability, working in the right direction. I'd also add to that, comparisons"
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"we don't want anyone to go home hungry. We don't. When the working family tax cuts bill was passed, we gave states what a year and a half to improve their error rates, and then we've added another year. So that would be two and a half years of error rate. I've yet to hear anyone from the other side of the aisle say why can't our"
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"We're spending $100 billion a year on this SNAP program right now. The only people from the Working Family Tax Cuts bill that lost their SNAP benefits were folks that weren't willing to work 20 hours a week, go to school, volunteer, and that were healthy, healthy people, had to be healthy, unwilling to do something 20 hours a week. Isn't it a good thing to help get people, lift them up to get a job so they don't have to be on government assistance? So I think that that's totally misstated, that..."
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I want to start, of course, welcoming Secretary Sundlings. Thank you for being here as well. I want to start by just chatting about what I consider one of the greatest pro-worker agendas that we've ever seen accomplished over the last two years, the working family tax cuts bill with Republicans-only votes, no taxes on TIP, no taxes on overtime, absolutely pro-worker. We've seen great private sector job growth, 600,000 private sector job"
Testimony SPEAKER_10
H.R. 9641, H.R. 3108, H.R. 9642, H.R. 9468, H.R. 3514, H.R. 9644, and ...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"This high rate of overturned appeals strongly suggests that insurers may be abusing the prior authorization process, resulting in dangerous delays in care. By establishing a standardized electronic prior authorization process, this bill cuts through that red tape. It ensures timely care by requiring standard prior authorization requests to be completed in seven days and urgent requests to be completed within 72"
Testimony WALBERG, TIM
“Training Activists, Not Physicians: The Impact of DEI on Medical Scho...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"There was a statement made during the course of our questioning today that we cannot reduce the cost of medical education. That's why the Working Families Tax Cut Bill was passed and signed into law. One of the key reasons to reduce the cost, the unnecessary cost of education, medical and otherwise, to put the downward pressure, the audacity to say that it can't be"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Beyer. I do want to present my objection to the amendment. I want to remind folks that our legislation invested $50 billion in rural health care through the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill. I realize that the amendment is probably more of a messaging amendment than anything else, but on a technical basis, virtually impossible to enforce or detect what would trigger a various"
Testimony SPEAKER_04
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"And I would love to be able to go hours and hours and hours toe to toe on what the one big beautiful bill did for people's affordability for prices, for allowing people to get more of their taxpayer dollars back. I appreciate that opportunity. When we talk about some of the impacts that the Working Families Tax Cut Bill has had, I have listened to the criticisms. We have listened about affordability. We have listened about not being able to pay for health care. The fact is that 96 percent of..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Doyle, of Connecticut, Da...
senate Finance Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Yeah, great. And I just have to add that Kansas has seen a huge resurgence of manufacturing over the past year, whether it's the aerospace industry, windows, tractors, trailers, all sorts of things, manufacturing jobs, coming back home. I think a lot of it is due to the working family tax cuts bill, but also probably some of the tariffs as well. So I do hope you all take note of, you know, what is working right now as well going forward. My next question for Mr. Foley and Mr. Pappas the same..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Republicans' big, ugly bill cut health care by a trillion dollars, and then the Trump administration launched a campaign to cut health care to blue states even"
Testimony LEVIN, MIKE
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"traumatic brain injury, and other conditions that hit our military families and veterans the hardest. And it's long enjoyed bipartisan support on this committee. Unfortunately, this bill cuts CDMRP by $353.5 million below fiscal year 26 levels. And those cuts fall hardest on specific lines. Funding for autism, melanoma, and vision research is reduced. Epilepsy, hearing"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Over 20 million Americans saw their health care premiums skyrocket at the beginning of this year because of Republicans' failure to extend the premium tax credits. And Republicans' big, ugly bill cut Americans' health care by more than a trillion dollars and families across the country are facing the brunt of this health care crisis. Now doubling down on this chaos, just last week the Trump administration issued a rule that will intentionally result in more people losing access to health care..."
Testimony LAHOOD, DARIN
Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Obviously, those are important to making this program successful, the Ticket to Work. As you know, we have roughly 7 million unfilled jobs in the country. Last year in our working families tax cut bill, we worked on transitioning people off of government funding into working. And the best social safety network is a job. And so we believe the Ticket to Work"
Testimony THOMPSON, GLENN
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"birthday today. On the Ag Committee, our work revolves around a core question. What can we do to help rural America? We go about answering that question through hearings, briefings, roundtables, farm visits, and listening sessions. However, the legislation that we ultimately pass is not where this discussion ends. That is where USDA steps in and begins their important work of implementing the programs that we have authorized. There's no better example of this than the work that we've seen with..."
Testimony KAPTUR, MARCY
Fiscal Year 2027 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bil...
house Appropriations Committee · May 15, 2026
"Finally, a total 100 percent elimination of funding for the Army Corps Formally Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, FUSRAP, is unacceptable, period. We seek no less than $200 million for this program to continue cleaning up contaminated sites. Why would we not want to do that fully as soon as we can, resulting from our nation's early atomic energy program? And further, the bill cuts other programs that would need adjustments addressed. Critically, the bill should only repurpose funds from..."
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Fiscal Year 2027 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bil...
house Appropriations Committee · May 15, 2026
"even as they still preside over 20 active sites. Lastly, the bill cuts the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management by $863 billion, or 10 percent. This slows down cleanup of some of the most"
Testimony CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Two programs were a particular concern. Thirty billion dollars that went to the so-called Green Bank and environmental justice block grant programs. Billions of dollars went out the door with limited transparency and questionable oversight. The EPA's action to cancel roughly 17 billion dollars of those grants was an important first step for Congress to build upon, which we did in the Working Family Tax Cut bill. The EPW committee's title of that bill took the final step to repeal the Green Bank..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"The battery numbers you're talking about in terms of megawatts relative to the massive amount of energy we have, the battery storage worldwide, even though it could be doubling, but right now it's less than an hour's worth of storage worldwide, like an hour's worth of power on all the batteries in the world added up. I guess the last thing I would just say is, and I understand Senator King that you understand more about this than most of the people in the Senate, but then I don't understand why..."
Testimony SCOTT, TIM
Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be ...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"in our economy. Through efforts like the Working Families Tax Cut Bill, we are helping Americans keep more of their hard-earned money. Compared to the average tax return under President Biden over four years, the average return is up 24% since"
Testimony SCOTT, TIM
Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be ...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"overtime earnings, senior citizens, or auto loan interest, four major parts of the Working Families Tax Cut Bill that every single person on this dais to the right voted for. Under President Trump's leadership, Americans are keeping more of their hard-earned"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“The Legal Basis for Action Against Venezuelan Drug Traffickers”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"He terminated $1.7 billion in block grants for mental health services for state health departments, and he cut $350 million in addiction and overdose prevention funding in 2025. It's already way underfunded, but he's been slashing away at the money that's actually there. His one big ugly bill cut tens of billions of dollars out of Medicaid, which provides health coverage to nearly half of adults in America who have an opioid use disorder. But we're not going to be able to treat addiction to..."
Testimony MARTHA GIMBEL
Hearings to examine the fiscal outlook, 2027-2036.
senate Finance Committee · Mar 11, 2026
"You know, again, I think one thing that's really important to talk about with that is when that was scored by CBO, by us, by Penn Wharton, it was unusual for a tax cut bill in that when it was scored dynamically, it actually became more"
Testimony SCOTT, TIM
Hearings to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council's Annual...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Feb 5, 2026
"And President Trump has had to fill that hole. As a matter of fact, we've seen some of the strongest GDP growth that we've seen in decades. We've seen strong GDP success, and this doesn't get a lot of attention, but let's make sure that it gets more today. If you look at the success of the working families tax cut bill, for those folks in blue-collar America, for the folks who are working every single day, sometimes two jobs, trying to make sure that their ends meet, when they look at sitting..."
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"Coach thank you so much and welcome to our witnesses today I'm happy to be here to celebrate school choice week I think coach will appreciate this story my college track coach told me the Welcome to our witnesses today. I'm happy to be here to celebrate school choice week. first day of track practice everyone's bragging how great of athletes they were in high school he said don't tell me show me and I think the Republican Party has shown our support for this school choice and the working family..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
LEVIN, MIKE "traumatic brain injury, and other conditions that hit our military families and veterans the hardest. And it's long enjoyed bipartisan support on this committee. Unfortunately, this bill cuts CDMRP by $353.5 million below fiscal year 26 levels. And those cuts fall hardest on specific lines. Funding for autism, melanoma, and vision research is reduced. Epilepsy, hearing"
CRS Report
Tax Cuts and Economic Stimulus: How Effective Are the Alternatives?
Reports · May 14, 2020
The economic effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led Congress to enact general fiscal stimulus in the form of tax cuts and spending increases. Further stimulus may be...
CRS Report
Comparing Key Elements of H.R. 1 to 2017 Tax Law
Resources · Dec 22, 2017
H.R. 1 was passed in both the House and the Senate on December 20, 2017 (before the final version was passed, this bill was called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act). The act substantively changes the...
Hearing H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R. 9504
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_06 "Thank you, Mr. Beyer. I do want to present my objection to the amendment. I want to remind folks that our legislation invested $50 billion in rural health care through the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill. I realize that the amendment is probably more of a messaging amendment than anything else, but on a technical basis, virtually impossible to enforce or detect what would trigger a various"
Hearing H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H.R. 8884 – Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act; H. Res....
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_04 "And I would love to be able to go hours and hours and hours toe to toe on what the one big beautiful bill did for people's affordability for prices, for allowing people to get more of their taxpayer dollars back. I appreciate that opportunity. When we talk about some of the impacts that the Working Families Tax Cut Bill has had, I have listened to the criticisms. We have listened about affordability. We have listened about not being able to pay for health care. The fact is that 96 percent of filers receiving a tax credit earned less than $200,000 annually. That is an average savings of $815..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be a Member and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCOTT, TIM "in our economy. Through efforts like the Working Families Tax Cut Bill, we are helping Americans keep more of their hard-earned money. Compared to the average tax return under President Biden over four years, the average return is up 24% since"
Hearing Hearings to examine the fiscal outlook, 2027-2036.
senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth Subcommittee · Mar 11, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MARTHA GIMBEL "You know, again, I think one thing that's really important to talk about with that is when that was scored by CBO, by us, by Penn Wharton, it was unusual for a tax cut bill in that when it was scored dynamically, it actually became more"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council's Annual Report to Congress.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Feb 5, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCOTT, TIM "And President Trump has had to fill that hole. As a matter of fact, we've seen some of the strongest GDP growth that we've seen in decades. We've seen strong GDP success, and this doesn't get a lot of attention, but let's make sure that it gets more today. If you look at the success of the working families tax cut bill, for those folks in blue-collar America, for the folks who are working every single day, sometimes two jobs, trying to make sure that their ends meet, when they look at sitting down at the kitchen table wondering if anyone is paying attention in Washington to the suffering and..."
Hearing H.R. 139 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 8595 – National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027;...
house Rules Committee · Jul 13, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MCGOVERN, JAMES P. "with zero evidence that Democrats were responsible for weaponizing government. You guys are doing exactly what you wrongfully accused us of, and you're not even trying to hide it. You're doing it out in the open for everyone to see. And I personally think it's really insulting for them to dishonor and disrespect those who served our country by questioning their patriotism and punishing them simply for disagreeing. This isn't complicated. When you draft a bill that cuts tens of billions of dollars in benefits for disabled veterans, veterans are going to oppose your bill. You know, Republicans..."
Hearing Markup of Fifteen Bills
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
PALLONE, FRANK "However, I want to make clear to my Republican colleagues that these bills are not adequate to address the issue of health care affordability. The truth is, Republicans have created a health care affordability crisis with their Big Ugly Bill that cut health care by $1 trillion, the largest health care cut in American history, and by refusing to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credit. Now across the country, Americans are seeing their health care costs double or even triple in one year. Hospitals are closing service lines and facilities due to the Big Ugly Bill's hospital"
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 · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_30 "I mean, we have $200 billion to put to continue this policy of cruelty, to reward agencies that have behaved unlawfully. But just last week, we voted on an agriculture appropriation bill to cut WIC by $200 million. I mean, you know, and you said we don't have the"
Hearing Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U.S. Provider Landscape
house Health Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
RUIZ, RAUL "That's who you all work for. That's who I work for in the emergency department are the patients. And so how are we going to do that when we have the health care system has just sustained gunshot wounds to the chest and the abdomen with the one big beautiful bill that cut nearly $1 trillion out of Medicaid when these guys voted against and intentionally did not extend the Affordable Care Act tax credit? That's going to raise premiums by $18,000 a year for many of my"
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 · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_12 "And we have no idea how that money in the reconciliation bill, if it would ever pass, would be used. I mean, yeah, I mean, this is scary. And this should not be a partisan issue. And not just Democrats, but Republicans in this chamber who give a damn about integrity in elections ought to be outraged by what's going on. With that, I yield back. Just briefly, Mr. Davidson, we objected to your veterans bill because you cut veterans benefits to pay for other veterans benefits, but if you are going to pay for veterans benefits, then you ought to pay for the war, and this doesn't do that. Ms...."
Testimony MCGOVERN, JAMES P.
H. Res. 1336 – Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with ...
house Rules Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"dollars more to agencies that already have unspent in their budgets 100 billion dollars. And I, you know, I mean, this is about priorities, it's about values, and again, I just, like, I don't understand why ICE and CBP need more- that extra money when they have a hundred billion dollars that has not been spent. And, you know, and that this is the emergency, but in any event, I support this amendment. Again, we cut to- in the big ugly bill, they cut 200 billion dollars out of SNAP. People are..."
Testimony MRVAN, FRANK J.
Fiscal Year 2027 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bil...
house Appropriations Committee · May 15, 2026
"families in northwest Indiana have seen their utility rates jump more than 26 percent, and these costly increases are making it difficult for seniors, families, and hardworking Americans to keep their lights on. The work we do in this committee has a direct impact for the families in my area and across the country who are feeling the effects of this financial strain. It is critical that we support Federal policies that expand energy supply, support good-paying jobs, and bring rural relief...."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for the fi...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"Okay, so you can complain about the Middle East. I'm not even complaining about the Middle East. I'm complaining about the fact that you're cutting the hydrogen program and that in the big beautiful bill, they cut the sustainable tax credit in value. And so you're really crippling the next generation of jet"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
MARSHALL, ROGER "I want to start, of course, welcoming Secretary Sundlings. Thank you for being here as well. I want to start by just chatting about what I consider one of the greatest pro-worker agendas that we've ever seen accomplished over the last two years, the working family tax cuts bill with Republicans-only votes, no taxes on TIP, no taxes on overtime, absolutely pro-worker. We've seen great private sector job growth, 600,000 private sector job"
Hearing H.R. 9641, H.R. 3108, H.R. 9642, H.R. 9468, H.R. 3514, H.R. 9644, and H.R. 9645
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "This high rate of overturned appeals strongly suggests that insurers may be abusing the prior authorization process, resulting in dangerous delays in care. By establishing a standardized electronic prior authorization process, this bill cuts through that red tape. It ensures timely care by requiring standard prior authorization requests to be completed in seven days and urgent requests to be completed within 72"
Hearing “Training Activists, Not Physicians: The Impact of DEI on Medical Schools”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
WALBERG, TIM "There was a statement made during the course of our questioning today that we cannot reduce the cost of medical education. That's why the Working Families Tax Cut Bill was passed and signed into law. One of the key reasons to reduce the cost, the unnecessary cost of education, medical and otherwise, to put the downward pressure, the audacity to say that it can't be"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Doyle, of Connecticut, David Foley, Jr., of Virginia, Samuel Negatu, of the District of Columbia,...
senate Finance Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "Yeah, great. And I just have to add that Kansas has seen a huge resurgence of manufacturing over the past year, whether it's the aerospace industry, windows, tractors, trailers, all sorts of things, manufacturing jobs, coming back home. I think a lot of it is due to the working family tax cuts bill, but also probably some of the tariffs as well. So I do hope you all take note of, you know, what is working right now as well going forward. My next question for Mr. Foley and Mr. Pappas the same question. You both stand out for your significant IP expertise, including at the Patent and Trademark..."
Hearing State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight Deficiencies.
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Republicans' big, ugly bill cut health care by a trillion dollars, and then the Trump administration launched a campaign to cut health care to blue states even"
Hearing "Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency."
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "Over 20 million Americans saw their health care premiums skyrocket at the beginning of this year because of Republicans' failure to extend the premium tax credits. And Republicans' big, ugly bill cut Americans' health care by more than a trillion dollars and families across the country are facing the brunt of this health care crisis. Now doubling down on this chaos, just last week the Trump administration issued a rule that will intentionally result in more people losing access to health care when they need it"
Hearing Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the Commissioner of Social Security, Frank J. Bisignano
house Social Security Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
LAHOOD, DARIN "Obviously, those are important to making this program successful, the Ticket to Work. As you know, we have roughly 7 million unfilled jobs in the country. Last year in our working families tax cut bill, we worked on transitioning people off of government funding into working. And the best social safety network is a job. And so we believe the Ticket to Work"
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
THOMPSON, GLENN "birthday today. On the Ag Committee, our work revolves around a core question. What can we do to help rural America? We go about answering that question through hearings, briefings, roundtables, farm visits, and listening sessions. However, the legislation that we ultimately pass is not where this discussion ends. That is where USDA steps in and begins their important work of implementing the programs that we have authorized. There's no better example of this than the work that we've seen with the implementation of the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill. This was the largest investment in..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Environmental Protection Agency.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE "Two programs were a particular concern. Thirty billion dollars that went to the so-called Green Bank and environmental justice block grant programs. Billions of dollars went out the door with limited transparency and questionable oversight. The EPA's action to cancel roughly 17 billion dollars of those grants was an important first step for Congress to build upon, which we did in the Working Family Tax Cut bill. The EPW committee's title of that bill took the final step to repeal the Green Bank and rescind those canceled grant funds, as well as billions of dollars from other IRA programs,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Interior.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "The battery numbers you're talking about in terms of megawatts relative to the massive amount of energy we have, the battery storage worldwide, even though it could be doubling, but right now it's less than an hour's worth of storage worldwide, like an hour's worth of power on all the batteries in the world added up. I guess the last thing I would just say is, and I understand Senator King that you understand more about this than most of the people in the Senate, but then I don't understand why if it's low cost, why we had to have massive taxpayer subsidies to produce it because once the..."
Hearing “The Legal Basis for Action Against Venezuelan Drug Traffickers”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "He terminated $1.7 billion in block grants for mental health services for state health departments, and he cut $350 million in addiction and overdose prevention funding in 2025. It's already way underfunded, but he's been slashing away at the money that's actually there. His one big ugly bill cut tens of billions of dollars out of Medicaid, which provides health coverage to nearly half of adults in America who have an opioid use disorder. But we're not going to be able to treat addiction to opioids in the crisis we have in overdoses by blowing up boats in the middle of the"
Hearing Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026 · Transcript
MARSHALL, ROGER "Coach thank you so much and welcome to our witnesses today I'm happy to be here to celebrate school choice week I think coach will appreciate this story my college track coach told me the Welcome to our witnesses today. I'm happy to be here to celebrate school choice week. first day of track practice everyone's bragging how great of athletes they were in high school he said don't tell me show me and I think the Republican Party has shown our support for this school choice and the working family tax cuts bill we have a $1,700 tax credit for scholarships for school choice we've increased in the..."
Hearing H. Res. 1336 – Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee...
house Rules Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
MCGOVERN, JAMES P. "dollars more to agencies that already have unspent in their budgets 100 billion dollars. And I, you know, I mean, this is about priorities, it's about values, and again, I just, like, I don't understand why ICE and CBP need more- that extra money when they have a hundred billion dollars that has not been spent. And, you know, and that this is the emergency, but in any event, I support this amendment. Again, we cut to- in the big ugly bill, they cut 200 billion dollars out of SNAP. People are losing their benefits as we speak, and the worst is yet to come. So, in any event, I thank the general..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for the fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Energy.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "Okay, so you can complain about the Middle East. I'm not even complaining about the Middle East. I'm complaining about the fact that you're cutting the hydrogen program and that in the big beautiful bill, they cut the sustainable tax credit in value. And so you're really crippling the next generation of jet"
Hearing Business meeting to markup S.1759, to allow for the operation of civil supersonic flight in the national airspace system under certain conditions,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
THUNE, JOHN "I'm glad to see it get out of the committee. This is a common sense bill that cuts unnecessary red tape, increases transparency in the federal permitting process, and ensures broadband applications are being processed within the deadline laid out in the Mobile Now Act. Further, this bill streamlines broadband deployment and ensures federal investment in broadband deployment and ensures federal investment in broadband continues to be efficient,"
Hearing H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. 9609, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Student Aid Act"; H.R. 9602, "Less...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_12 "These bills will not reduce bureaucracy because these departments are already overburdened and underfunded. These bills are cuts, cuts that will harm our children and their future. And I yield"
Hearing Subcommittee Markup of Six Pieces of Legislation
house Energy Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SCHRIER, KIM "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am proud to co-lead the Efficient Nuclear Licensing Hearings Act with Congressman Griffith. A bipartisan bill that cuts red tape, lowers energy costs, and brings clean energy onto the grid faster. Even when no one is even contesting a project, nuclear regulators are still required to hold mandatory hearings that take away thousands of staff hours and increase costs when"
Hearing AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepayers
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "intelligence technologies are throwing the grid into a generation crisis. At a time when we need almost all the energy we can get, Republicans have proceeded with their illogical war on clean energy, dedicating themselves to taking vital sources of power off the grid, and American families are paying the price. Last year, Republicans used reconciliation to wreck our power grid and repeal billions of tax incentives and programs that would have financed hundreds of gigawatts of clean, reliable power. The problem is that I fundamentally find it difficult to trust proposals to fix our problems..."
Hearing "Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of Entrepreneurship."
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
MCGARVEY, MORGAN "understand that, but then for anybody else, not a veteran, not having a spouse, not having a Medicare, there's basically only two options. They can go and they can apply for Medicaid or they can go to the ACA marketplace and I think this is one of my big fears, especially what we see in my home state of Kentucky right now, in the one big beautiful bill that cut a trillion dollars for Medicaid, largest cut to Medicaid in our country's history, the Kentucky Hospital Association has already predicted the impact is going to be massive. 35 rural hospitals are going to close. It's going to impact..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.465, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reform the interconnection queue process for the prioritization...
senate Energy Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Transcript
MCCORMICK, DAVID "It's something I introduced with Senator Welsh, who I think is here as well, and we'll look forward, there he is, yeah, look forward to hearing from him in a minute. This bill will cut permitting delays and accelerate the deployment of innovative grid technologies through reconductoring. Both of these bills are meaningful steps forward in reducing permitting delays and helping us to win the AI race, but there's still so much work to be"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee Allocations
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025 · Transcript
UNDERWOOD, LAUREN "Once again, Republicans in Congress are so eager to hand our power of the purse to President Trump and Doge in violation of federal law and the Constitution's separation of powers. This reckless bill also cuts funding for the Library of Congress by 10%. This latest attack on the Library follows President Trump's firing of Dr. Carla Hayden with a two-sentence email on May 8, 2025. Dr. Hayden is a highly accomplished and widely respected scholar who also happens to be the first woman and the first black person to serve as Librarian of"
Hearing Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript
BRENDAN DUKE "under $400,000 without those cuts to SNAP and Medicaid. In other words, the cuts to health care and food assistance in the reconciliation bill were entirely the result of Congress' choice to load the bill with tax cuts beyond the 2017 tax cuts along with large increases for defense and immigration enforcement. The result is millions of low-income families will lose the ability to afford the high cost of groceries or go to the doctor when they're sick, cuts that a vast majority of the"
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
AMO, GABE "I yield back. Mr. Chairman, the multiple times rebranded, big beautiful bill, working families tax cut act is the working families price increase act. My amendment is simple. It would reverse Trump and Republicans' big, ugly cuts that jacked up Rhode Islanders' energy bills. It would make it easier for Rhode Islanders to fill up their gas and heating oil tanks, and it would start restoring some of the roughly 1.7 million construction jobs"
Hearing H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Condemning prosecution policies that give preferential treatment to foreign...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "And yet, the discipline is fierce around here, and so here we go again with a divisive rhetorical exercise, because what the American people apparently really need right now is another non-binding, hortatory, symbolic resolution from the House distorting and second-guessing local prosecution policies. Meantime, back in the reality-based world, there are five million Americans who no longer have health insurance because the GOP failed to enact any legislation to prevent premiums from skyrocketing after passage of their Big Beautiful Bill, which is so unpopular now they tried to change its..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under Secretary,...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
BLACKBURN, MARSHA "Thank you to each of you for being here and congratulations on your nomination. We are pleased with that. Mr. Brooke, I want to start with you. I think that one of the things we did well in the Working Families Tax Cut Big Beautiful Bill was the creation of the Trump accounts. And I am thrilled that these are off to a good"
Hearing Markup of H.R. 9250 (Rep. Westerman), “Great American Outdoors Act 250”
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
HUFFMAN, JARED "bicameral agreement on a final bill. Even so, it's important to remember that the Legacy Restoration Fund has always just been one step towards Congress's work to fully invest in our national parks. It's not the only step, it is not the final step, and Congress has to follow up passage of today's bill with measures that increase annual appropriations for maintenance and construction, which over decades have taken cut after cut in appropriations bills, even as our parks continue to see record-breaking visitation. We also can't make these investments matter the way they should without..."
Testimony MCGOVERN, JAMES P.
H.R. 139 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 8595 – National Secur...
house Rules Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"with zero evidence that Democrats were responsible for weaponizing government. You guys are doing exactly what you wrongfully accused us of, and you're not even trying to hide it. You're doing it out in the open for everyone to see. And I personally think it's really insulting for them to dishonor and disrespect those who served our country by questioning their patriotism and punishing them simply for disagreeing. This isn't complicated. When you draft a bill that cuts tens of billions of..."
Testimony SIMPSON, MICHAEL K.
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"an increase of almost 300 projects compared to the FY 26 House Bill. While requests greatly exceeded the funding available for projects, we did our best to provide some funding for all projects given the impact these dollars will have in communities across the country. Even with funding for CPFs, the bill also continues to protect and provide funding for grants that go directly to states and tribes for water infrastructure projects and to help fulfill Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean..."
Testimony KAPTUR, MARCY
Fiscal Year 2027 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bil...
house Appropriations Committee · May 15, 2026
"This imbalance needs correction, because that is where innovation lies, in the part of the bill that has been cut. The most harmful cuts in this bill include a $1.3 billion cut, or 40 percent, to critical materials and energy"
CRS Report
Capitol Unrest, Legislative Response, and the Bill of Attainder Clause
Posts · Jan 22, 2021
On January 6, 2021, a crowd gathered on the U.S. Capitol grounds, breached police barriers, entered and occupied portions of the Capitol building, and clashed with law enforcement. The incident...
CRS Report
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD): FY2011 Appropriations
Reports · Apr 7, 2011
President Obama requested a total of $123.7 billion for FY2011 for the Department of Transportation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the related agencies that are funded through...
Testimony MCGOVERN, JAMES P.
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"their fruits and vegetables? This bill is a betrayal of everything MAHA claims to stand for. And while Republicans take food away from babies, this bill also cuts conservation, rural development, clean water, broadband, energy and small business support. It slashes Food"
Testimony MCGOVERN, JAMES P.
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"No way I would. And I think anybody who supports a bill that cuts WIC by $200 million, especially now — it's at an all-time high, and food prices are through the roof. You know, go home and explain that to your"
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"These cuts are devastating to local farmers. That's how they get paid. They're already struggling with skyrocketing costs for fuel and fertilizer, and now face the loss of a market with families who used to be able to purchase produce with their WIC vouchers. This bill also cuts rural development investments, cuts water, wastewater programs, cuts broadband deployment, cuts rural energy programs, and continues a pattern of shrinking the federal workforce that supports farmers and rural..."
Testimony NEGUSE, JOE
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"and so I view it much through the same lens that Mr. Bishop does. The bill does cut the rural utilities program, correct? The grant program."
Testimony BISHOP, SANFORD D.
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"that it's going to raise costs for rural communities, rural businesses, and our farmers, and they need energy in order to irrigate, to run their farm equipment, and just the communities themselves. And this bill actually cuts that. It eliminates funding for the high energy cost grant program, which helps reduce the cost of energy for families and individuals in communities where there's extremely high per household energy costs of 270% of the national average cost. These are things that help..."
Testimony CUELLAR, HENRY
Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Rela...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 5, 2026
"Homeland Security folks, but I'm concerned that this bill does not provide sufficient oversight of the department or certain operational reforms that we've been talking about. For example, while the bill doubles the funding for body-worn cameras, there's nothing in this bill requiring it's used during immigration enforcement operations or ensure that the This bill also cuts the OIG, and I had time to spend time with them, by 12 percent and stripped oversight we had agreed to last year for..."
Testimony PINGREE, CHELLIE
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"programs by cutting the NEA and NEH. I am vehemently opposed to this bill slashing each endowment by 35% or $72 million. The bill also cuts funding for cultural institutions, such as the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. Last year, we came to an agreement and beat back these cuts, and we must do so again this year. While the administration is focused on building a gilded ballroom and a triumphal arch to apprease the President's ego, Americans are facing soaring gas and..."
Testimony BISHOP, SANFORD D.
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"we need to do better than funding levels that are provided in this legislation. The bill also cuts funding for the Bureau of Labor, of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey. These agencies are tasked with stewarding our national resources for future"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"in San Antonio, the City of San Antonio, the County of Bexar County, VIA and all the folks have been working. So with that, Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for this. Three things, three areas are very important to me so I want to thank you. We got a little bit more work to do but knowing the process we're gonna get there in a bipartisan way. So with that I say thank you so much. Yield back the balance of my time. Thank the gentleman for his comments. Gentlelady from Pennsylvania, Ms. Dean is..."
Testimony BENNET, MICHAEL F.
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"that strengthens rural hospitals instead of pushing them into bankruptcy, which we're doing today. That ensures the next generation will be able to build a future in the communities where they grew up rather than being forced to take a job somewhere else. And it's in that context that I bring up my amendment, number six. Mr. Chairman, this amendment would reverse the underlying bill's cuts to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, EQIP, and the Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP...."
Testimony WARNOCK, RAPHAEL G.
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"So I don't know anything beautiful about that. It's unconscionable. It's not beautiful. And now this unfunded mandate around the error rate, let's call it what it is. It's shifting an unfunded mandate responsibility to states. And governors in blue states and red states are saying that they can't afford this. And CBO estimates that this bill will cut SNAP by $1.294 billion. Another $1.2 billion, this"
Testimony SEWELL, TERRI A.
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"And hospitals are carrying much of that burden. Now on top of those cuts, this bill would impose duplicative and burdensome reporting requirements on hospitals that are already struggling to keep their doors open. While this bill correctly recognizes that these requirements could be more burdensome for critical access hospitals and rural emergency hospitals, the bill fails to recognize that safety net and dish hospitals face many of those same financial"
Testimony SPEAKER_36
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"Medicare, and Medicaid need to be adjusted and fixed. We all know what that means. It means cuts, and we see that in the big ugly bill. If anything, we got to be expanding Social Security disability insurance so that the millions of Americans that depend on it can survive the high of the Trump economy. And then we have the second resolution this year that celebrates Republicans' big ugly bill. Who's for this? Nobody in America is sitting at their kitchen table now saying, you know what would..."
Testimony MCCOLLUM, BETTY
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"an unprecedented top line. And that comes at the cost of deep cuts to other appropriations bills. For example, labor health and human services and education bill was cut by $19 billion, a 9% reduction. The education and workforce programs were deeply impacted with these"
Testimony MAYA MACGUINEAS
Hearings to examine the fiscal outlook, 2027-2036.
senate Finance Committee · Mar 11, 2026
"done in the past decade and more has relied on more borrowing. Unoffset tax cuts, infrastructure bill, PACT, spending on seniors, which made Social Security insolvent even"
Testimony THUNE, JOHN
Business meeting to markup S.1759, to allow for the operation of civil...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I'm glad to see it get out of the committee. This is a common sense bill that cuts unnecessary red tape, increases transparency in the federal permitting process, and ensures broadband applications are being processed within the deadline laid out in the Mobile Now Act. Further, this bill streamlines broadband deployment and ensures federal investment in broadband deployment and ensures federal investment in broadband continues to be efficient,"
Testimony SPEAKER_12
H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. ...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"These bills will not reduce bureaucracy because these departments are already overburdened and underfunded. These bills are cuts, cuts that will harm our children and their future. And I yield"
Testimony SCHRIER, KIM
Subcommittee Markup of Six Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am proud to co-lead the Efficient Nuclear Licensing Hearings Act with Congressman Griffith. A bipartisan bill that cuts red tape, lowers energy costs, and brings clean energy onto the grid faster. Even when no one is even contesting a project, nuclear regulators are still required to hold mandatory hearings that take away thousands of staff hours and increase costs when"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Markup of Fifteen Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"However, I want to make clear to my Republican colleagues that these bills are not adequate to address the issue of health care affordability. The truth is, Republicans have created a health care affordability crisis with their Big Ugly Bill that cut health care by $1 trillion, the largest health care cut in American history, and by refusing to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credit. Now across the country, Americans are seeing their health care costs double or even triple in one year...."
Testimony SPEAKER_30
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"I mean, we have $200 billion to put to continue this policy of cruelty, to reward agencies that have behaved unlawfully. But just last week, we voted on an agriculture appropriation bill to cut WIC by $200 million. I mean, you know, and you said we don't have the"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepay...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"intelligence technologies are throwing the grid into a generation crisis. At a time when we need almost all the energy we can get, Republicans have proceeded with their illogical war on clean energy, dedicating themselves to taking vital sources of power off the grid, and American families are paying the price. Last year, Republicans used reconciliation to wreck our power grid and repeal billions of tax incentives and programs that would have financed hundreds of gigawatts of clean, reliable..."
Testimony MCGARVEY, MORGAN
"Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of...
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"understand that, but then for anybody else, not a veteran, not having a spouse, not having a Medicare, there's basically only two options. They can go and they can apply for Medicaid or they can go to the ACA marketplace and I think this is one of my big fears, especially what we see in my home state of Kentucky right now, in the one big beautiful bill that cut a trillion dollars for Medicaid, largest cut to Medicaid in our country's history, the Kentucky Hospital Association has already..."
Testimony MCCORMICK, DAVID
Hearings to examine S.465, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Co...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 15, 2026
"It's something I introduced with Senator Welsh, who I think is here as well, and we'll look forward, there he is, yeah, look forward to hearing from him in a minute. This bill will cut permitting delays and accelerate the deployment of innovative grid technologies through reconductoring. Both of these bills are meaningful steps forward in reducing permitting delays and helping us to win the AI race, but there's still so much work to be"
Testimony RUIZ, RAUL
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U....
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"That's who you all work for. That's who I work for in the emergency department are the patients. And so how are we going to do that when we have the health care system has just sustained gunshot wounds to the chest and the abdomen with the one big beautiful bill that cut nearly $1 trillion out of Medicaid when these guys voted against and intentionally did not extend the Affordable Care Act tax credit? That's going to raise premiums by $18,000 a year for many of my"
Testimony FLETCHER, LIZZIE
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U....
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"blame from this Congress and this administration for the healthcare affordability crisis that we're experiencing. And certainly there are a lot of important drivers, but as many of my colleagues have already said today, we cannot have any discussion about healthcare affordability without acknowledging that over the last year, this Congress has voted time and again, and it is Republicans in this Congress who have cast vote after vote to increase healthcare costs in the so-called one big..."
Testimony UNDERWOOD, LAUREN
Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025
"Once again, Republicans in Congress are so eager to hand our power of the purse to President Trump and Doge in violation of federal law and the Constitution's separation of powers. This reckless bill also cuts funding for the Library of Congress by 10%. This latest attack on the Library follows President Trump's firing of Dr. Carla Hayden with a two-sentence email on May 8, 2025. Dr. Hayden is a highly accomplished and widely respected scholar who also happens to be the first woman and the..."
CRS Report
Tax Policy and Disaster Recovery
Reports · Sep 3, 2021
The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) contains a number of provisions intended to provide disaster relief. Following certain disasters, Congress has passed legislation with temporary and targeted tax...
Testimony LEGER FERNANDEZ, TERESA
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"Thank you very much, and Mr. Chairman of the subcommittee, my colleague went through all of the different cuts, right, and he asked you, we're cutting RIC, we're cutting SNAP, we are cutting in this bill. Now, you try to say it's small cuts, but I want to go to something that I think makes a difference, and ask about the different kinds of cuts. I understand that there is a $19 million cut for foreign service agency salaries and expenses. Is that"
Testimony BRENDAN DUKE
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"under $400,000 without those cuts to SNAP and Medicaid. In other words, the cuts to health care and food assistance in the reconciliation bill were entirely the result of Congress' choice to load the bill with tax cuts beyond the 2017 tax cuts along with large increases for defense and immigration enforcement. The result is millions of low-income families will lose the ability to afford the high cost of groceries or go to the doctor when they're sick, cuts that a vast majority of the"
Testimony SPEAKER_32
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"country, from closing. The Medicaid cut in the One Big Ugly Bill is the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, threatening to rip health care away from more than 14 million Americans at a time when health care costs are already skyrocketing out of control. This amendment gives House Republicans the opportunity to help President Donald Trump keep his"
Testimony AMO, GABE
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I yield back. Mr. Chairman, the multiple times rebranded, big beautiful bill, working families tax cut act is the working families price increase act. My amendment is simple. It would reverse Trump and Republicans' big, ugly cuts that jacked up Rhode Islanders' energy bills. It would make it easier for Rhode Islanders to fill up their gas and heating oil tanks, and it would start restoring some of the roughly 1.7 million construction jobs"
CRS Report
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Budget: Background, Trends, and Policy Options
Report · Jun 8, 2026
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank; P.L. 111-203). Dodd-Frank specified that the CFPB would...
CRS Report
Statutory PAYGO and Budget Reconciliation Legislation
Legal Sidebar · Feb 12, 2026
This Insight provides a brief overview of statutory PAYGO, its application to reconciliation legislation, and the ways in which it has been addressed in relation to previously enacted budget...
Testimony MCCOLLUM, BETTY
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"And that includes an $8 billion cut to the Department of Education and a $2 billion cut to teacher training opportunities. I've said this before, cuts to education will have a negative downstream impact on our national security. Engineering, math, science, cyber, computing programs, they will all be impacted by these cuts. These cuts undermine our future national security workforce. And the programs that we fund in the defense bill will suffer because of that. The majority also cut the State..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"And yet, the discipline is fierce around here, and so here we go again with a divisive rhetorical exercise, because what the American people apparently really need right now is another non-binding, hortatory, symbolic resolution from the House distorting and second-guessing local prosecution policies. Meantime, back in the reality-based world, there are five million Americans who no longer have health insurance because the GOP failed to enact any legislation to prevent premiums from..."
Testimony MCGOVERN, JAMES P.
H.R. 139 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 8595 – National Secur...
house Rules Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"without any offsets. The DOD still has over $90 billion unspent. And instead of using any of those billions, this bill would instead cut benefits for veterans with tinnitus or sleep apnea and raise fees on VA home loans to pay for"
Testimony SPEAKER_12
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"And we have no idea how that money in the reconciliation bill, if it would ever pass, would be used. I mean, yeah, I mean, this is scary. And this should not be a partisan issue. And not just Democrats, but Republicans in this chamber who give a damn about integrity in elections ought to be outraged by what's going on. With that, I yield back. Just briefly, Mr. Davidson, we objected to your veterans bill because you cut veterans benefits to pay for other veterans benefits, but if you are going..."
Testimony SPEAKER_12
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"to Jeff Bezos and other billionaires. And the bill and the cuts haven't even been fully implemented yet. So I'd urge a yes vote on this to reverse these terrible"
Testimony BLACKBURN, MARSHA
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Thank you to each of you for being here and congratulations on your nomination. We are pleased with that. Mr. Brooke, I want to start with you. I think that one of the things we did well in the Working Families Tax Cut Big Beautiful Bill was the creation of the Trump accounts. And I am thrilled that these are off to a good"
Testimony HUFFMAN, JARED
Markup of H.R. 9250 (Rep. Westerman), “Great American Outdoors Act 250...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"bicameral agreement on a final bill. Even so, it's important to remember that the Legacy Restoration Fund has always just been one step towards Congress's work to fully invest in our national parks. It's not the only step, it is not the final step, and Congress has to follow up passage of today's bill with measures that increase annual appropriations for maintenance and construction, which over decades have taken cut after cut in appropriations bills, even as our parks continue to see..."
CRS Report
Trump Administration’s FY2027 Small Business Administration (SBA) Budget Request
Legal Sidebar · May 27, 2026
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) operates a range of programs to support small businesses. These include loan guarantee and venture capital programs to enhance small business access to...
CRS Report
Department of Housing and Urban Development: FY2016 Appropriations
Reports · Feb 12, 2016
Most of the funding for the activities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) comes from discretionary appropriations provided each year in the annual appropriations acts, typically...
CRS Report
Water Infrastructure Financing: History of EPA Appropriations
Reports · Apr 10, 2019
The principal federal program to aid municipal wastewater treatment plant construction is authorized in the Clean Water Act (CWA). Established as a grant program in 1972, it now capitalizes state...
CRS Report
Capital Gains Taxes: An Overview of the Issues
Reports · May 24, 2022
Capital gain is the difference between an asset’s market value and its basis (generally the original purchase price). The tax code treats capital gains more favorably than it does other forms of...
CRS Report
The Child Tax Credit: Legislative History
Reports · Dec 23, 2021
When the child tax credit was initially enacted in 1997, it was a relatively modest nonrefundable tax credit for middle-income families with children. Through successive legislative changes,...
CRS Report
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): FY2011 Appropriations
Reports · Jun 24, 2011
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the federal agency charged with administering a number of programs designed to promote the availability of safe, decent, and affordable...
CRS Report
Zivotofsky v. Kerry: The Jerusalem Passport Case and Its Potential Implications for Congress’s Foreign Affairs Powers
Reports · Sep 28, 2015
The Supreme Court in its last term by a vote of 6-3 invalidated a statute passed by Congress touching on the status of Jerusalem, affirming the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decision in...