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Hearing Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and tourists.
senate Constitution Subcommittee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript · 24 transcript matches
MS. AMANDA FROST "First is that, according to Mr. Schweitzer's book, no one really knows how many people are birth tourists, so we don't have numbers. The citizenship, sorry, Mark Kerkorian, who's been a witness here before, has estimated that it's less than 1% of the children born in the United States are birth tourist children. So it doesn't seem like this is a huge problem, but if it is, there is an easy fix, which is there's a law on the books, 21 CFR 41.31, which makes it illegal to enter the United States on a tourist visa for the purpose of giving birth and empowers immigration officials to deny a..."
CRS Report
U.S. Citizenship for Children Born Abroad: In Brief
Reports · Aug 25, 2022
Children born abroad may acquire U.S. citizenship through qualifying U.S. citizen parents. This report summarizes Immigration and Nationality Act provisions under which children born abroad may...
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 · 6 transcript matches
ESPAILLAT, ADRIANO "Well, on February, you had released a proposed rule that would alter the reading of the Housing and Community Development Act and essentially force mixed status families to choose between access to rental homes, rental assistance, and staying together as a family. In fact, if a family has a mother who's a U.S. citizen, a dad who is a legal permanent resident or undocumented, and three children that are also U.S. born citizens, American citizens, you're saying that this family could very well be split and be divided and not have a roof over their head. What happens to these U.S. born children..."
Testimony ESPAILLAT, ADRIANO
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"Well, on February, you had released a proposed rule that would alter the reading of the Housing and Community Development Act and essentially force mixed status families to choose between access to rental homes, rental assistance, and staying together as a family. In fact, if a family has a mother who's a U.S. citizen, a dad who is a legal permanent resident or undocumented, and three children that are also U.S. born citizens, American citizens, you're saying that this family could very well be..."
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"First is that, according to Mr. Schweitzer's book, no one really knows how many people are birth tourists, so we don't have numbers. The citizenship, sorry, Mark Kerkorian, who's been a witness here before, has estimated that it's less than 1% of the children born in the United States are birth tourist children. So it doesn't seem like this is a huge problem, but if it is, there is an easy fix, which is there's a law on the books, 21 CFR 41.31, which makes it illegal to enter the United States..."
Testimony HIRONO, MAZIE K.
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"I would say the plain meaning of subject to jurisdiction, but apparently nothing is plain to people who are trying to make another kind of argument. The people who are born in this country, born on our soil, and I think, Ms. Frost, you mentioned And I think, Ms. Frost, you mentioned there are 255,000 children born on American soil. And I would say that most of them are probably not here because of tourism or birthright tourism or whatever you call it. In fact, I think I heard your testimony..."
Testimony ESPAILLAT, ADRIANO
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"I'll reclaim my time Mr. Chairman, clearly the secretary is implementing a rule that is splitting families up, including U.S. born children. Mr Chairman not surprised because I've seen U S born children reported as"
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"But this just isn't about notable birthright citizens. The executive order would create a permanent underclass of American-born children who would contribute to our nation and yet be denied the opportunity of citizenship. As General Milley said, our oath is to the Constitution and the idea of America, an America I love that rejects a caste system of residence and welcomes the contributions of immigrant families. One week ago, Secretary Christy Noem walked in and sat down at this"
Testimony MR. CHARLES COOPER
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"The Civil Rights Act granted citizenship at birth to persons, quote, born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, close quote. The act on its face thus excludes from birthright citizenship American-born children of temporary foreign visitors and illegal aliens, because the child's foreign parents, and thus the child, are by definition subject to a foreign power. Any possible doubt about this is removed by the act's congressional history. The citizenship provision of the act..."
Testimony MR. CHARLES COOPER
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"The bottom line, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, is this. American-born children of foreign visitors and illegal aliens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and are therefore not entitled to birthright"
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"So I'm not going to spend any more time today discussing the legality of the executive order. Where it's clearly unconstitutional and illegal, I'm going to talk about the consequences of the executive order were to go into effect. First, it would immediately take away citizenship from 250,000 children born every year who would be born, some of them stateless, potentially deported from the country day one of their lives with no access to the rights and privileges of citizenship. And by the way,..."
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"So it doesn't seem like this is a huge problem, but if it is, there is an easy fix, which is there's a law on the books, 21 CFR 41.31, which makes it illegal to enter the United States on a tourist visa for the purpose of giving birth and empowers immigration officials to deny a visibly pregnant woman entry into the United States if they believe she will give birth during her visit. So, as this suggests, if we do have a problem with birth tourism, and I don't think there's any evidence that we..."
Testimony PROFESSOR ILAN WURMAN
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"They were, while in the realm, natural subjects of the king. That is why their children born in the realm were understood to be natural born subjects. In contrast, the children born of invading soldiers were not birthright subjects, although born upon the king's soil because they were not born under the ligience or connection of a subject, nor under the protection of the king. In contrast, the children born of invading soldiers were not birthright subjects, although born upon the king's soil..."
Testimony PROFESSOR ILAN WURMAN
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"An appellate decision in New York from 1860 strongly suggested similarly. Most significantly perhaps, the military authorities in the Department of the Gulf had to decide whether during the Civil War they could conscript into the Union Army children born in Louisiana to French parents. A provost judge and the commanding general both concluded that such children, though born on U.S. soil, were only liable to the duties of American citizenship, such as conscription, A provost judge and the..."
Testimony ALEJANDRO BARRANCO
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"It is about knowing who belongs. It is about making sure that children born in this country are treated equally, no matter what state they were born in or what their parents' status may be. I cannot imagine a system where my citizenship would have depended on geography or"
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"child abuse. By the way, I'll also add nothing in the executive order would have affected the children born to what was a green card holder in California through surrogacy. The executive order doesn't deal with that. That's a surrogacy problem"
Testimony PETER SCHWEIZER
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"They list their clientele, and as I was saying earlier, these are military officers. There's one gentleman, senior military officer, who's had three children born in the United States through this practice. So these are members of the elite, part of the CCP elite. In fact, I believe it was two foreign ministers ago, the Chinese foreign minister had a child born in the United States through birthright"
Testimony PROFESSOR ILAN WURMAN
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"And so it was part of the public meaning. Well, in which sense are temporary visitors, for example, which you were talking to Mr. Schweitzer about, not subject to this complete jurisdiction? Well, the Louisiana military authorities thought they could not conscript children born in Louisiana to people who were only temporarily"
Testimony SPEAKER_04
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"We invested in the financial future of Americans' children. Starting on the 4th of July, Treasury will deposit $1,000 into Trump accounts for children born during the Trump administration. The Ways and Means Committee has heard numerous stories of how Americans"
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine Social Security, focusing on a discussion on the f...
senate Budget Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"I just feel a duty and an obligation to recognize we can't talk about the future of the United States without recognizing the impact of the pandemic and their contributions to the workforce, to our economy, and to Social Security. So Mr. Chairman, I'd like to enter into the record a report from 2024 from the Migration Policy Institute that shows that without immigrants and their U.S.-born children, so we're talking citizens here as well, the prime working age population would have shrunk by..."
Testimony KAREN GLENN
Hearings to examine Social Security, focusing on a discussion on the f...
senate Budget Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"That's absolutely correct. All the factors you mentioned, immigrants who are paying into the system, many of them will never receive benefits, and they also have U.S.-born children. It would"
Testimony ERNST, JONI
Member Day to examine legislative priorities.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 19, 2026
"also known as a birth defect. Children born with congenital conditions affecting the eyes, ears, teeth, mouth, or jaw are not just cosmetic, but can affect a child's ability to breathe, to eat, and speak, yet"
Testimony ERNST, JONI
Member Day to examine legislative priorities.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 19, 2026
"I'm grateful for the strong support this legislation has received from nearly half of the Senate. Passing ELSA would ensure children born with congenital anomalies can receive basic care so they can see, hear, chew, swallow, and"
CRS Report
Intergenerational Income Mobility
Resources · Jan 17, 2017
In a mobile society, individuals’ incomes and income rank rise and fall over time. Intergenerational income mobility describes these patterns across generations; specifically how children’s incomes...
Hearing Hearings to examine Social Security, focusing on a discussion on the facts and the path forward.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
PADILLA, ALEX "I just feel a duty and an obligation to recognize we can't talk about the future of the United States without recognizing the impact of the pandemic and their contributions to the workforce, to our economy, and to Social Security. So Mr. Chairman, I'd like to enter into the record a report from 2024 from the Migration Policy Institute that shows that without immigrants and their U.S.-born children, so we're talking citizens here as well, the prime working age population would have shrunk by more than 8 million people between 2000 and 2025. Objection. Thank you very much. It also shows that..."
Hearing Member Day to examine S.297, to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require group health plans and health insurance issuers...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 19, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
ERNST, JONI "also known as a birth defect. Children born with congenital conditions affecting the eyes, ears, teeth, mouth, or jaw are not just cosmetic, but can affect a child's ability to breathe, to eat, and speak, yet"
Hearing Latin America After the Fall of Maduro
house Western Hemisphere Subcommittee · Apr 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
JACKSON, JONATHAN L. "the president. I went to the hospitals. I went to the maternity wards. I do not believe that the American people would sit here and appreciate the administration's efforts to continue to punish the children that have just been born. I saw a child in the maternity ward named Alessandro. This child needed a ventilator, needed an incubator, the incubator and the ventilator machines. A low birth weight baby, born less than a thousand grams, and the lights were flickering on and off. I saw women walking up and down the stairs at the hospital that were in their last trimester of pregnancy because..."
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 · 2 transcript matches
MCBATH, LUCY "multiple times, he said it over and over again on social media, he slipped through the cracks. And he was sold a gun and killed 17 innocent people, including 14 teenagers. So programs like these identify and they get people the help that they need. Why would you not want to help people that are in crisis? Why would you not want to help our children that are in crisis? They have so many stressors on them. I was born in the 1960s and I can tell you this, students today, I couldn't even imagine having the kinds of stressors that they have on themselves every single day. I just"
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
LIEU, TED "Right. And the reason she's with her family is because she almost died in ICE detention until folks brought a lawsuit forcing the release of Amalia. Now, you may wonder, well, why is ICE going after children? And it's because study after study shows that immigrants, both documented and undocumented, commit less crimes than native-born Americans. So I'm going to put up this slide from NPR. It actually describes also a study that in Texas, immigrants commit committed less than 37 percent of crimes compared to native-born Americans. And this has now resulted in your agents having to go after..."
CRS Report
Trump v. Barbara: Supreme Court Considers Birthright Citizenship
Legal Sidebar · Apr 29, 2026
On April 1, 2026, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. The question before the Court was whether Executive Order 14160 (E.O. 14160, or the E.O.), “Protecting the Meaning and...
CRS Report
Supreme Court Hears Challenges to Nationwide Injunctions
Posts · May 19, 2025
On May 15, 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Trump v. CASA, Inc., Trump v. Washington, and Trump v. New Jersey, a trio of cases involving nationwide injunctions against the federal...
CRS Report
Birthright Citizenship: Litigation Status Update
Legal Sidebar · Apr 3, 2026
On April 1, 2026, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara regarding Executive Order 14160, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” (E.O. 14160 or the E.O.),...
CRS Report
Trump v. CASA, Inc.: Supreme Court Limits Nationwide Injunctions
Posts · Jul 1, 2025
On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., a trio of consolidated cases in which the Court limited the ability of federal courts to block federal laws and policies....
CRS Report
U.S. Naturalization Policy
Reports · Apr 15, 2024
Naturalization is the process that grants U.S. citizenship to lawful permanent residents (LPRs) who fulfill requirements established by Congress and enumerated in the Immigration and Nationality Act...
Testimony PETER SCHWEIZER
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"So it clearly is a vigorous one. This really began in mass around 2013, 2014. That's when it really took off. So if you do the math, you're potentially looking at anywhere from between 750,000 to 1.5 million U.S. citizens that are being raised in China because these children are born here. As soon as they are capable of flying, they are flown back to China, and that is where they will be raised."
CRS Report
Measuring the Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Labor Markets: Quasi-Experimental Studies of §287(g) Agreements and the Secure Communities Program
InFocus · Mar 12, 2026
In 2025 and 2026, the Trump Administration has issued numerous executive actions and initiatives related to the enforcement of federal immigration laws (some are discussed in CRS Legal Sidebar...
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
SPEAKER_04 "We invested in the financial future of Americans' children. Starting on the 4th of July, Treasury will deposit $1,000 into Trump accounts for children born during the Trump administration. The Ways and Means Committee has heard numerous stories of how Americans"
Hearing “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY "They were children. And children are not born with hate. They are taught"
Hearing Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Rising Costs of Housing and Borrowing
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_28 "And thanks to his leadership, Americans are going to be supercharged when they file. So one of my favorite aspects of the bill is Trump accounts that will be seeded with $1,000 for children who are born between January 1 of 2025 and December 31 of 2028. And last week, when Secretary Besson was before our committee, he shared that already"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Lieutenant General Douglas A. Schiess, USSF, to be general and Chief of Space Operations.
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
LIEUTENANT GENERAL DOUGLAS SCHIESS "We are also thankful for our son-in-law, Matthew, and Katelyn's fiancé, Noah. will be watching online today and if our fathers were still with us they would be watching too. I know the demands of military service are borne by our spouses, our children, parents and loved ones. I'm deeply thankful for the support my family has given me throughout my career which makes my service possible. I'd like to thank the second Chief of Space Operations General Chance Saltzman and his wife Jennifer who have tirelessly worked for the last four years to transform our Space Force to the warfighting service..."
Hearing "To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conservation Programs"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
FIGURES, SHOMARI "for beginning ranchers and farmers, some of which you just referenced again there, and invested in additional resources into conservation programs. Those are all improvements that producers have long advocated for and farmers have long sought and were certainly necessary and certainly things that I support. But we cannot move forward without recognizing the real people who are paying the price, and that's the children who didn't decide the circumstances they were born into and yet go hungry. The local grocers who relied on SNAP dollars, because as you know, look, SNAP dollars are not..."
Hearing Full Committee Markup of 16 Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "general guidelines, low-income and uninsured women who could not otherwise afford a screening, mothers and infants in communities with limited prenatal care, children and low-income families that rely on school-based health care, and Americans in regions where vector-borne disease has spread. The federal programs that close these gaps don't replace state, local, and private effort. They make it possible. For instance, I am pleased that we are considering legislation to authorize funding for school-based health centers, which allow students to access mental"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
KAPTUR, MARCY "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and let me just say a deep thank you of appreciation to our colleagues for their serious attention to this consequential amendment. Ukraine is the scrimmage line for liberty on the continent of Europe today. With our closest time-tested allies in NATO, adjoining countries like Poland, Hungary, Moldova, listen to the list, Serbia, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, all these hang in the balance. They are small countries. Russia is so large, 11 time zones, a full military. Russia has stolen over 20,000 Ukrainian children and hidden them inside Russia..."
Hearing "Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, and Legal Abuses in America’s Schools"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
MCBATH, LUCY "Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to our witnesses for each and every one of you being here today. We really appreciate it. And Dr. King, as I said to you earlier, one of my sisters is a teacher in your Chicago Public School system. I was actually born and raised in Chicago. So thank you. I hope that we're able to get back to the essence of why we're here today, talking about educating our children today, which is most important. And that truly is your responsibility. I know it can be difficult and a thankless task, job, for what you're"
CRS Report
Expansion of Benefits to Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans
Resources · Nov 20, 2019
Legislative History The Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019 (P.L. 116-23) is the most recent action taken by Congress to grant disability compensation benefits to veterans exposed to Agent...
CRS Report
Trump Accounts: Overview and Policy Considerations
Report · Jun 15, 2026
Trump Accounts are a new form of traditional individual retirement account (IRA) that the 2025 reconciliation law (P.L. 119-21) created for the benefit of children. Savers will be able to contribute...
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"They were children. And children are not born with hate. They are taught"
Testimony SPEAKER_28
Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Ri...
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"And thanks to his leadership, Americans are going to be supercharged when they file. So one of my favorite aspects of the bill is Trump accounts that will be seeded with $1,000 for children who are born between January 1 of 2025 and December 31 of 2028. And last week, when Secretary Besson was before our committee, he shared that already"
CRS Report
Election 2024: Recent Court Rulings on Voting and Counting Ballots
Posts · Oct 30, 2024
Recent court rulings in various states have determined key issues relating to the voting process and the counting of ballots for the 2024 congressional and presidential elections. This Sidebar...
CRS Report
The Compacts of Free Association
InFocus · Dec 3, 2025
Overview The Compacts of Free Association (also referred to as COFA) govern the relationships between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Federated States of Micronesia...
CRS Report
The U.S. Income Distribution: Trends and Issues
Reports · Jan 13, 2021
Income inequality—that is, the extent to which individuals’ or households’ incomes differ—has increased in the United States since the 1970s. Rising income inequality over this time period is driven...
CRS Report
Overview of Long-Term Services and Supports
Resources · Aug 28, 2025
What Are Long-Term Services and Supports? Long-term services and supports (LTSS) refers to a broad range of health and health-related services and supports needed by individuals who lack the capacity...
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"I think there's hardly anything else the country agrees on as much as the fact that this executive order is unconstitutional. In addition, it would require every child born in the United States, that's 3.5 million children a year, they'd all be born presumptively non-citizens. They would all be born with their parents now required to prove the parents' citizenship and ancestry, perhaps going back for generations, in order for the child to be established as a citizen, putting those kinds of..."
Testimony PROFESSOR ILAN WURMAN
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"William Blackstone, in his influential commentaries, described the rule respecting foreign ambassadors similarly. Their children were not natural born subjects because they were born under the protection and within the allegiance of another sovereign represented by the father of the ambassador. To summarize the rule, he used Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story. Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens born in a country, while the parents are..."
CRS Report
Lifetime Low Earners and Social Security: Analysis of Data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
Report · Apr 6, 2026
For the purpose of Social Security, individuals with lifetime low earnings are commonly defined as those with low career-average covered earnings. Covered earnings include wages and self-employment...
Testimony LIEUTENANT GENERAL DOUGLAS SCHIESS
Hearings to examine the nomination of Lieutenant General Douglas A. Sc...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"We are also thankful for our son-in-law, Matthew, and Katelyn's fiancé, Noah. will be watching online today and if our fathers were still with us they would be watching too. I know the demands of military service are borne by our spouses, our children, parents and loved ones. I'm deeply thankful for the support my family has given me throughout my career which makes my service possible. I'd like to thank the second Chief of Space Operations General Chance Saltzman and his wife Jennifer who have..."
Testimony JACKSON, JONATHAN L.
Latin America After the Fall of Maduro
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"the president. I went to the hospitals. I went to the maternity wards. I do not believe that the American people would sit here and appreciate the administration's efforts to continue to punish the children that have just been born. I saw a child in the maternity ward named Alessandro. This child needed a ventilator, needed an incubator, the incubator and the ventilator machines. A low birth weight baby, born less than a thousand grams, and the lights were flickering on and off. I saw women..."
Testimony JACKSON, JONATHAN L.
Latin America After the Fall of Maduro
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"corporations that continue to inflict those sort of punishments on them. I saw the roads that were empty. I saw children not being able to go to school. I saw the grocery store shelves going empty and bare with my own eyes, and this was less than two weeks ago. Madam Chairwoman, I would invite you to come along with me that we go down to Cuba so that we can see this suffering of the Cuban people, children that had not been born since this government had its change, and I would ask that we have..."
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"And in Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court, the majority, said it applied to people who were here for business or pleasure. Chief Justice Fuller, who dissented, described the majority's opinion, he didn't like it, as giving citizenship to, quote, children of foreigners happening to be born to them while passing through the country, end quote. So everyone understood the rationale of the decision applied to everyone born in the United"
Testimony FIGURES, SHOMARI
"To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conser...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"for beginning ranchers and farmers, some of which you just referenced again there, and invested in additional resources into conservation programs. Those are all improvements that producers have long advocated for and farmers have long sought and were certainly necessary and certainly things that I support. But we cannot move forward without recognizing the real people who are paying the price, and that's the children who didn't decide the circumstances they were born into and yet go hungry...."
Testimony MCBATH, LUCY
H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. ...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"multiple times, he said it over and over again on social media, he slipped through the cracks. And he was sold a gun and killed 17 innocent people, including 14 teenagers. So programs like these identify and they get people the help that they need. Why would you not want to help people that are in crisis? Why would you not want to help our children that are in crisis? They have so many stressors on them. I was born in the 1960s and I can tell you this, students today, I couldn't even imagine..."
Testimony LIEU, TED
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Right. And the reason she's with her family is because she almost died in ICE detention until folks brought a lawsuit forcing the release of Amalia. Now, you may wonder, well, why is ICE going after children? And it's because study after study shows that immigrants, both documented and undocumented, commit less crimes than native-born Americans. So I'm going to put up this slide from NPR. It actually describes also a study that in Texas, immigrants commit committed less than 37 percent of..."
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. ...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendments and nature of a substitute. When Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, we made a commitment to all of America's children that they would have access to a quality education, no matter their background or what circumstances they were born into. Access to free, fair, and equal public education is a fundamental tenet of"
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"Some provisions of the U.S. Constitution are vague or ambiguous, but the Citizenship Clause is not one of them. The text, the legislative history, and the original public understanding all confirm that the Citizenship Clause applies to everyone born in the United States, with narrow exceptions, States, with narrow exceptions, the only relevant one today being for the children of diplomats. And by the way, they did say this in the legislative"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Full Committee Markup of 16 Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · May 21, 2026
"general guidelines, low-income and uninsured women who could not otherwise afford a screening, mothers and infants in communities with limited prenatal care, children and low-income families that rely on school-based health care, and Americans in regions where vector-borne disease has spread. The federal programs that close these gaps don't replace state, local, and private effort. They make it possible. For instance, I am pleased that we are considering legislation to authorize funding for..."
Testimony KAPTUR, MARCY
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and let me just say a deep thank you of appreciation to our colleagues for their serious attention to this consequential amendment. Ukraine is the scrimmage line for liberty on the continent of Europe today. With our closest time-tested allies in NATO, adjoining countries like Poland, Hungary, Moldova, listen to the list, Serbia, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, all these hang in the balance. They are small countries. Russia is so large, 11 time..."
Testimony SCHMITT, ERIC
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"Today's topic is protecting American citizenship, birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and tourists. This is an especially pressing topic given the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the Trump v. Barbara case next month regarding President Trump's executive order eliminating birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens and temporarily present aliens. For years, the American people have been told that the Constitution requires the United States to grant citizenship to almost..."
Testimony MCBATH, LUCY
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to our witnesses for each and every one of you being here today. We really appreciate it. And Dr. King, as I said to you earlier, one of my sisters is a teacher in your Chicago Public School system. I was actually born and raised in Chicago. So thank you. I hope that we're able to get back to the essence of why we're here today, talking about educating our children today, which is most important. And that truly is your responsibility. I know it can be..."
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"it should be regulated through that Yeah, so first I just want to point out, because I think it's not clear to everyone when they discuss this issue, that the executive order denies citizenship not just to the children of undocumented immigrants or tourists, but also to the children of people that have been legally present in the United States for years, who are applying for green cards, who maybe receive a green card the day after the child is born. It doesn't"