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Hearing Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Act's Mobile Source Requirements
house Environment Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 11 transcript matches
EVANS, GABE "closely behind California. I've seen the results that this heavy regulatory burden has on the economy of Colorado and people's ability to make a living. We've seen, we just read what these California regulations, the impact it has on California. And so the Locomotives Act that we're talking about closes yet another loophole by which blue states like California and Colorado can try to force rail carriers to comply with California standards. And so, Ms. Gelb, the question to you is, does that actually, would these California standards projected across the nation, would that actually protect the..."
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 · 7 transcript matches
SPEAKER_19 "Sufficient support has been demonstrated. The clerk will call the roll. wishing to vote or change their vote gentlemen from New York Mr. Espy at I went from California Mr. Harder I the other gentleman from California Mr. Levin I don't want from North"
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California Dreamin’ of Privacy Regulation: The California Consumer Privacy Act and Congress
Posts · Nov 1, 2018
On June 28, 2018, with subsequent minor amendments, the State of California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a law that generally restricts certain businesses’ ability to collect...
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California Drought: Water Supply and Conveyance Issues
Resources · Feb 28, 2017
Overview Despite recent rain, snowstorms, and severe flooding, portions of California—primarily the south-central coast and Southern California—continue to experience moderate to severe drought. (See...
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California v. Texas: The Fate of the Affordable Care Act
Posts · Oct 27, 2020
On November 10, 2020, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in California v. Texas (consolidated with the related case Texas v. California), a constitutional challenge to the...
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Supreme Court Dismisses Challenge to the Affordable Care Act in California v. Texas
Posts · Jun 21, 2021
On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its decision in California v. Texas, one of the most closely watched cases of this term. At stake in California was the constitutionality of the Patient...
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The Oregon and California Railroad Lands (O&C Lands): In Brief
Reports · May 25, 2023
The Oregon and California Railroad (O&C) lands consist of 2.6 million acres of timberland in western Oregon. The majority of these lands were originally granted to the Oregon & California Railroad...
Hearing Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
SPEAKER_02 "for bead money? No. And we're working actively to get California's application approved. No. In fact, that's precisely what we're working on is ensuring that California gets held to the same standards that we've held other states to. Okay. Has the NTIA communicated their concerns to California in writing? We have certainly communicated our concerns to California. And I can't speak to our deliberations with the state, but we have"
Hearing Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Century”
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
MR. SHIVAJI DESHMUKH "Thank you. Good morning, Chair Hageman, Ranking Members Hoyle and Huffman, and Congress Member Min for that kind introduction. I appreciate the opportunity to testify today on Metropolitan's Pure Water Southern California Water Recycling Project and the benefit of the grant we've received from the Bureau of Reclamation's large-scale recycled water program. This federal grant program helps fund projects that increase the resilience of Western water supplies and ensure communities have water to meet their needs today and for the next 100 years. We serve drinking water to approximately 19..."
Hearing An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
SPEAKER_20 "California's just stood in the way of energy infrastructure. Democrats have decided to make energy of all kinds expensive in California, and President Trump has thought that's deeply unfair, and we need to do everything we can to lower the price of energy for all 340 Americans, whatever state they live in, and so a lot of products from your district have been able to transit more cheaply from the Gulf Coast to California. Where does California get over 60% of its"
Hearing Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
WATERS, MAXINE "I understand that this hearing is all about looking at the systems and how they work or they don't work. Really, we've been talking about this since Katrina with CDBGR, and some of the people of the people never got compensated down there in New Orleans. But let me tell you, I want to talk about California today. We have 100,000 displaced people in California, in Pacific America. The President of the United States came out there and said that he was going to get emergency funds to get that done, to get the work done. He has done nothing. The Cabinet has done nothing. The people have continued..."
Hearing H.J. Res. 60 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Park...
house Rules Committee · Apr 28, 2025 · Request transcript
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The California Cap-and-Trade Program: Overview and Considerations for Congress
Reports · Dec 18, 2024
California’s cap-and-trade program, launched in 2013, is one example of a market-based, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction policy adopted and implemented in the United States. Insights into the...
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Supreme Court Invalidates California Donor Disclosure Rule on First Amendment Grounds
Posts · Jul 13, 2021
On July 1, 2021, the Supreme Court struck down part of a California regulation requiring charitable organizations registered in the State to disclose their major donors to the State Attorney...
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ACA Connects v. Bonta: Ninth Circuit Upholds California’s Net Neutrality Law in Preemption Challenge
Posts · Feb 2, 2022
On January 28, 2022, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in ACA Connects v. Bonta that California’s net neutrality law, SB-822, is not preempted by federal...
Testimony EVANS, GABE
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"closely behind California. I've seen the results that this heavy regulatory burden has on the economy of Colorado and people's ability to make a living. We've seen, we just read what these California regulations, the impact it has on California. And so the Locomotives Act that we're talking about closes yet another loophole by which blue states like California and Colorado can try to force rail carriers to comply with California standards. And so, Ms. Gelb, the question to you is, does that..."
Witness John Kim
Catalyst California · 1 hearing
Witness Tiffany Bohee
Mercy Housing California · 1 hearing
Witness Annette Jones
California Department of Food and Agriculture · 1 hearing
Witness Rich Lyons
University of California, Berkeley · 1 hearing
Witness Shaun Harper, Ph.D.
University of Southern California · 1 hearing
Witness Shaun Harper
University of Southern California · 1 hearing
Witness Amy Mainzer
University of California, Los Angeles · 1 hearing
Witness Jeffrey Armstrong
California Polytechnic State University · 1 hearing
Witness John Villasenor
University of California, Los Angeles · 1 hearing
Witness Edward Ring
California Policy Center · 1 hearing
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Darrell Owens, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.630, to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to the Quapaw Nation and certain members of the Quapaw...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.236, to amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the "Long-Term Leasing Act"), to authorize leases of up...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · May 20, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Michael Kavoukjian, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway, Michelle Steel, of California,...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · May 20, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.462, to provide for economic development and conservation in Washoe County, Nevada, S.1349, to withdraw the National Forest...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Feb 12, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.90, to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to finalize and implement certain travel...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Tammy Bruce, of California, to be the Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Dec 3, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Tammy Bruce, of California, to be the Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the United...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight Deficiencies.
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
TYLER SADWITH "It's really important. Yeah, the partnership between the state of California and the federal government is paramount to making sure bad actors stay out of the program when it comes to hospice care and home health. Just as context, Medicare, the federal program, is the primary payer for hospice care in California. The state department, California Department of Public Health, my sister state agency, does perform licensure for hospice providers, and the state has acted swiftly to root out bad actors. The California Department of Public Health has imposed a licensure moratorium that was enacted..."
Hearing Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
TYLER BRIDEGAN "Some states have taken it further to go to a full-on ban, but that is, I would say, that but that is, I would say, that even goes further than the GDPR on that front. Yeah. I alluded to this earlier. The wiretap litigation is a really good example of how there's this sort of different interpretation of privacy laws that is inconsistent with, say, take the California wiretap law compared to California's privacy law. Those provisions, if you comply with California's comprehensive privacy law, that does not immunize you from suit by private plaintiffs. So there's companies that were having to..."
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Use in California
Resources · Jul 2, 2014
Hydraulic fracturing (sometimes referred to as fracking) is a technique that uses water, sand, and chemicals under pressure to enable or enhance the production of natural gas and crude oil from...
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Homeowners Insurance and California Wildfires
Posts · Jan 16, 2025
Insurance premiums for homeowners across the United States have significantly increased over the past few years, with some homeowners encountering difficulties in obtaining insurance. While such...
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Ninth Circuit Rules That Federal Arbitration Act Preempts California’s Ban on Employer-Mandated Arbitration Agreements
Posts · Feb 27, 2023
On February 15, 2023, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Chamber of Commerce of the United States v. Bonta. The court held that the...
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Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act: Bureau of Reclamation and California Water Provisions
Reports · Dec 14, 2018
Most of the provisions in the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act; P.L. 114-322), enacted on December 16, 2016, relate to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. However, the...
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Affordable Care Act Litigation Still on the Docket After California v. Texas
Posts · Sep 14, 2021
Referred to as “the most challenged statute in American history” by some commentators, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been the subject of numerous lawsuits since its...
Testimony PALMER, GARY J.
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"state of California $800 million annually in compliance costs. Basically, rail would be economically infeasible in California and these costs would be passed along to American consumers. This is especially worrisome because under the Clean Air Act, the California rule would become national in scope. Two-thirds of the locomotive fleet would be prohibited from operating in California by 2030, and even more states could have adopted this approach under the Clean Air Act. I have real concerns with..."
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. Forest Service"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
TOM SCHULTZ "We look at the communities impacted. So all of those go into those tactical decisions that are being made, but I will assure you that every fire has a full suppression strategy. Mr. Chair and Mr. Valadao, what's really exciting is a lot of the new technologies you mentioned, but the camera technologies that exist, a lot of that technology actually came out of California. University of California, Santa Barbara, designed some of this, which has also been made commercialized, but we have many cameras now across California that are not just on Forest Service sites, but on private sites,..."
Hearing Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Federal Tax Policy in the Multibillion-Dollar Industry
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MURPHY, GREGORY F. "So many of these kids come from impoverished homes that are not used to paying taxes, and then all of a sudden they get out of the blue. The boogeyman comes. They don't understand they also have to pay their agent their 20 percent, and then the hanger's on, et cetera, et cetera. There's so much financial literacy that does not happen in so many places, and then to have so much money dumped on them, it's great for them, but it doesn't usually last very long. So, real quick question, Mr. Rayola, if an athlete goes to California, a professional athlete goes to California and has to pay..."
Hearing "Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Americans"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_17 "many states are now struggling with, we used to have wildfire seasons. There's no wildfire season in California. It's a bad weather day we have wildfires in California. I think we're"
Hearing H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MCCLINTOCK, TOM "D.C. The sheriff of Tulare County, California, testified to our subcommittee that the Sinaloa cartel now operates throughout the state of California, including extensive drug and human trafficking, extortion, and even organized execution squads. He estimates that half of the crime he deals with in his rural county involved illegal aliens, many serving organized criminal"
Hearing H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_38 "Well, the line that it's in is a very significant environmental reform, environmental review process, and it actually is stronger than the federal NEPA program. The California's had a pilot program available to it for several years in which they would be able to have just one of the two reviews, the CEQA, the California Environmental Program, which is stronger than NEPA, and thereby not having to do"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"the 1970s or 1990s. Congress should repeal provisions that have outlived their purpose. Second, California's waiver needs to be reformed. The extreme smog that justified the highly unusual waiver in the 1960s is a thing of the past. In my view, Congress should simply repeal California's waiver authorities going forward for future model years, placing California on an equal footing with every other state consistent with the principle of equality among the states. Third, Title II should prohibit..."
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"We look at the communities impacted. So all of those go into those tactical decisions that are being made, but I will assure you that every fire has a full suppression strategy. Mr. Chair and Mr. Valadao, what's really exciting is a lot of the new technologies you mentioned, but the camera technologies that exist, a lot of that technology actually came out of California. University of California, Santa Barbara, designed some of this, which has also been made commercialized, but we have many..."
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"So there's opportunities to move forward with categorical exclusions and other things that we can do to expedite this. to get trees planted in many parts of the landscape. In California, for instance, you can look at many of those big fires. You know, we talk about a big fire being 100,000 acres. That's a small fire in California, unfortunately. We've had 2 million-acre fires in California in the last six years. The Caldor fire was 235,000 acres. When you look at what needs to be done for..."
Testimony WEBER, RANDY K. SR.
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"is the patchwork of state regulations. And they vary very widely depending on where you are. And of course, we're talking about California's lawmakers who enacted SB 343, which for the life of me, I don't understand, prohibits the use of the chasing arrows symbol. You know, I used to have that in cowboys and, you know, Indians, country westerns back in the day. I guess they all had arrow symbols. That's a joke. Y'all can laugh at that. But at any rate, other than your recyclability claim,..."
Testimony GALLAGHER, JAMES
Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"state to local is very important to all of us. So thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I yield back my time. No problem, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Gallagher from California. I want to voice my support for the amendment and the underlying legislation, Mr. Chairman. We know the power of geothermal energy out in California. We have the Geysers Project in Northern California, which has been a great source of renewable power in the North. Many of our municipal jurisdictions rely on that power, and I think it has..."
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
“Training Activists, Not Physicians: The Impact of DEI on Medical Scho...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I see we have many medical schools from California represented today. I'm sure all of you are aware as administrators from medical schools in California that California excludes race as a consideration for admission. Do you have that understanding, Dr."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"for bead money? No. And we're working actively to get California's application approved. No. In fact, that's precisely what we're working on is ensuring that California gets held to the same standards that we've held other states to. Okay. Has the NTIA communicated their concerns to California in writing? We have certainly communicated our concerns to California. And I can't speak to our deliberations with the state, but we have"
Testimony MURPHY, GREGORY F.
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"So many of these kids come from impoverished homes that are not used to paying taxes, and then all of a sudden they get out of the blue. The boogeyman comes. They don't understand they also have to pay their agent their 20 percent, and then the hanger's on, et cetera, et cetera. There's so much financial literacy that does not happen in so many places, and then to have so much money dumped on them, it's great for them, but it doesn't usually last very long. So, real quick question, Mr. Rayola,..."
Testimony TYLER SADWITH
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"It's really important. Yeah, the partnership between the state of California and the federal government is paramount to making sure bad actors stay out of the program when it comes to hospice care and home health. Just as context, Medicare, the federal program, is the primary payer for hospice care in California. The state department, California Department of Public Health, my sister state agency, does perform licensure for hospice providers, and the state has acted swiftly to root out bad..."
Testimony SPEAKER_08
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"all to hear that that's potentially being revisited by the administration for no good reason. It's how we have improved air quality in California through the previously held Clean Air Act Waivers Authorities that the state of California had, which the Republican majority stripped from California on a partisan basis. So I clearly am registering my frustration with the way the committee has operated today regarding several forestry provisions, including the amendment in the nature of a substitute..."
Testimony GRAY, ADAM
"Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Her and I at the end of that conversation respectfully agreed to disagree, I guess, on what those things might be. But, of course, many of those things are things California farmers are facing today. And the United States is the world's largest agricultural exporter. California is a big part of that. I represent California's Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world and certainly in the"
Testimony TYLER BRIDEGAN
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Some states have taken it further to go to a full-on ban, but that is, I would say, that but that is, I would say, that even goes further than the GDPR on that front. Yeah. I alluded to this earlier. The wiretap litigation is a really good example of how there's this sort of different interpretation of privacy laws that is inconsistent with, say, take the California wiretap law compared to California's privacy law. Those provisions, if you comply with California's comprehensive privacy law,..."
Testimony MR. SHIVAJI DESHMUKH
Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Centu...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 20, 2026
"Thank you. Good morning, Chair Hageman, Ranking Members Hoyle and Huffman, and Congress Member Min for that kind introduction. I appreciate the opportunity to testify today on Metropolitan's Pure Water Southern California Water Recycling Project and the benefit of the grant we've received from the Bureau of Reclamation's large-scale recycled water program. This federal grant program helps fund projects that increase the resilience of Western water supplies and ensure communities have water to..."
Testimony MR. SHIVAJI DESHMUKH
Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Centu...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 20, 2026
"investing in more water efficiency as well as new local supplies and we must take action now to ensure the people and the economic engine of Southern California have the water they need for the next century. Our federal partners have provided critical support to our region's water supply reliability for the past 100 years and we look forward to the next 100. The state of California and Metropolitan are renowned for our complex and integrated water systems as well as commitment to water use..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"but now when we try to get back to those numbers with better IT, people act like the sky is falling. Yes, and I'd say in relative to California, California at one point in time was producing 25% of the world's oil. It was self-sufficient, and now California itself is a national security risk. 63% on the California website, it's not my number, 63% at the time of this recent conflict was being imported from foreign countries. It had the highest level of dependence on foreign"
Testimony MS. WHITNEY MUSE
AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepay...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Certainly. The grid resilience and innovation partnership program had $10.5 billion available through the bipartisan infrastructure law, and some of the prioritized areas that we supported through the grid resilience and the smart grid grants were to deploy grid-enhancing technologies to increase capacity on the grid, to use AI and drone technologies to help with transmission line inspections, AI and machine learning technologies to help accelerate the interconnection processes, without..."
Testimony CHRIS WRIGHT
The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"the front of the agenda. It's ruinous what California, I lived in California for many years, absolutely ruinous what they've done to create an enfeebled energy island in the United States' greatest state, largest state, and the largest collection, largest amount of our military resources are in the state of California. Yeah, it's over 50% imported oil, even though the United States is a net exporter of oil. Over 50% of the price of gasoline in California, $2 higher than the national average, is..."
Testimony CHRIS WRIGHT
The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"They're almost completely irrelevant in that world as well, almost completely. California has gone way down this road. And what does it mean? It just means industry left California. The emissions just left California with the businesses and the jobs, and electricity overall in the country is about 20 percent of energy. In California, it's less than 15 percent. So they reduced the carbon intensity of something they"
Testimony MR. TOM LYONS
“Defending Main Street: Combating CCP Threats to America’s Small Busin...
house Small Business Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"I do think awareness is a big part of this. I also think that state laws create a discrepancy in being able to actually conduct things like due diligence. And I brought up briefly the California statute, not picking on California. It's just we come across a lot of companies based in California, and the statutes are currently favored towards privacy versus background research on people. And when you're running a critical technology like AI or quantum, where it is a zero-sum game, we need to be..."
Testimony BARRAGÁN, NANETTE DIAZ
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U....
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"why when we get data like this, we don't have Congress making sure we're investing in programs like this to save money. It's really frustrating to see that the Medicaid cuts are going to result in more people being on wait lists and less people getting access to care. My mother is in that program. She had to wait six months to get into it, and we've seen the big difference. Mr. Pollack, I want to ask you, in 2021, Sutter Health, the largest hospital system in Northern California, settled a..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE PAMELA BONDI
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"If Christians want to protest in front of an abortion clinic without being arrested, they will California? We are establishing, as you have heard, a fraud unit. I'm sorry you're having to deal with that in your state, but the Calvary is coming. We have Colin McDonald, who hopefully will be confirmed soon. We're working on Minneapolis. I don't know if you were sitting here when I said that, but California was right up there. I'm sorry to say for both sides of the aisle that California is right..."
Hearing Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
WEBER, RANDY K. SR. "is the patchwork of state regulations. And they vary very widely depending on where you are. And of course, we're talking about California's lawmakers who enacted SB 343, which for the life of me, I don't understand, prohibits the use of the chasing arrows symbol. You know, I used to have that in cowboys and, you know, Indians, country westerns back in the day. I guess they all had arrow symbols. That's a joke. Y'all can laugh at that. But at any rate, other than your recyclability claim, unless the product meets specific criteria determined solely by one state, California, I know there's..."
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including post-2026 operations negotiations.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_08 "all to hear that that's potentially being revisited by the administration for no good reason. It's how we have improved air quality in California through the previously held Clean Air Act Waivers Authorities that the state of California had, which the Republican majority stripped from California on a partisan basis. So I clearly am registering my frustration with the way the committee has operated today regarding several forestry provisions, including the amendment in the nature of a substitute to"
Hearing The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CHRIS WRIGHT "the front of the agenda. It's ruinous what California, I lived in California for many years, absolutely ruinous what they've done to create an enfeebled energy island in the United States' greatest state, largest state, and the largest collection, largest amount of our military resources are in the state of California. Yeah, it's over 50% imported oil, even though the United States is a net exporter of oil. Over 50% of the price of gasoline in California, $2 higher than the national average, is because of state"
Hearing States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MR. MICHAEL SENA "My name is Mike Cena. I'm the President of the National Fusion Center Association and also the Executive Director for the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center and the Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. Every day, over 3,200 personnel across 80 fusion centers work with federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners to detect threats, analyze intelligence,"
Hearing “Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BIGGS, ANDY "and now I will introduce today's witnesses. Ms. Kozak, Kayleigh Kozak, she is the namesake of Kayleigh's Law, versions of which have been enacted in a number of states and provide protections for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse. She also advocates for other measures aimed at enhancing protections for victims and promoting justice. The Honorable Suzette Martinez-Valladares. Ms. Valladares represents District 23 in the California State Senate, where she serves as the Vice Chair of the Health Committee and as a member of the Judiciary Committee. She previously served in the California..."
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Trump Administration Executive Order on California Water Resources
Posts · Feb 13, 2025
On January 24, 2025, the Trump Administration issued Executive Order 14181 (E.O.), “Emergency Measures to Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas,” which...
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California and the Clean Air Act (CAA) Waiver: Frequently Asked Questions
Reports · May 9, 2025
In the Air Quality Act of 1967 (P.L. 90-148), later amended to the Clean Air Act (CAA; codified at 42 U.S.C. §§7401 et seq.), Congress preempted state governments from adopting their own air...
Testimony PALMER, GARY J.
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Also, we'd like to thank Representative Fedorczyk and Representative Langworthy for their work on these bills and their leadership in modernizing the mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act. The witnesses we will hear from today have extensive experience with the challenges presented by out-of-date provisions and are well suited to explain their impact. I look forward to their testimony on the discussion drafts and legislation. I'm particularly interested in testimony that relates to the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Yes. In 1967, Congress enacted a particular waiver authority that's pretty unique that allows California to set emission standards within its state, but then in 1977, Congress further amended the act to allow other states in the country to adopt California standards. This in practice means that California has a veto over manufacturer production decisions in about one-third of the market, which effectively means the whole national"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Yes, so California has a rule requiring ocean-going vessels to essentially electrify when they stop at the Port of Los Angeles, for example. The ports in California account for about 40 percent of the freight moved in the country. So, pretty much every ocean-going vessel moves through California. Essentially, that requires vessels, even foreign flag vessels, to adopt equipment to"
Testimony SPEAKER_19
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"And to deploy your capital, you need long-term certainty. And what's happened, you know, with CARB in California is different engine model year requirements have gotten out of whack, where we have an EPA standard that requires one set of capital expenditure plannings that California, through some of their regulations, have completely changed. And California, similar with shipping, is a huge market for motor"
Testimony JOYCE, JOHN
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"In addition, California attempted to use their unique Clean Air Act waiver to require a phase out of internal combustion engine vehicles. Americans across our country in states that followed California's standard were faced with California bureaucrats attempting to ban them from purchasing affordable, reliable vehicles based on radical principles rather than the reality of what the consumer wanted and what the consumer could"
Testimony LEE, LAUREL M.
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"but our regulations are intended to be a means to an end, not an end in themselves. And every regulation should be grounded in reality and tied to a clear environmental objective. We should also review them regularly to ensure that they remain current and relevant to the contemporary landscape. And so I thank all of you for being here today to help us in that endeavor. Mr. Conde, I'd like to start with you. I'd like to go back to the discussion of California's waiver authority and the kind of..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"tailored to minimize cost on consumers and producers. So I think codifying the recent guidance on DEF by the EPA Administrator would be a very good place to start. I know we represent a states like Florida? Yeah, so there's no question that since California began its regulatory push to electrify everything in about 2012, car prices have exploded. They've increased by 50 percent. The median car prices have increased by 50 percent since 2012, while incomes have only increased by half as much. So..."
Testimony EVANS, GABE
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"two refineries shut down, taking nearly 20 percent of the state's refining capacity. California is now outsourcing to Asian refineries to make more of California's special blend gas. And I want to ship that gas back to California, halfway around the world, which the story says here. In addition to increased pollution, transporting the gas across the Pacific can take weeks, which results in higher costs and greater volatility. And so I wanted to read that to kind of level set about what we're..."
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"What's really interesting is when you look at those issues, you would think maybe that Region 5 or California would be highly litigious. What we have seen, the impact of wildfire has been so devastating to California that there is actually very little litigation in California over the projects that we do. The community actually is encouraging us to do more work on the ground to protect them, to clean up the forest, provide for forest health, and protect communities. A lot of the litigation..."
Testimony JOHN BREYAULT
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"However, we do believe that states play a key role in truth and labeling laws. States like California, in particular, are ones that set the standard for the rest of the country. We know that when California takes action on a whole range of consumer safety and consumer protection issues, the rest of the country tends to follow. And so we really do look to them as a bellwether for what industry can"
Testimony MATSUI, DORIS O.
Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"in digital equity funds, including $70 million that's going to help California families. That decision stopped a proposed project that would have helped more than 500,000 digitally disadvantaged California households gain affordable broadband access, digital skills training, and the devices they need to participate in today's economy. Across 50 California counties, including the Sacramento regions, seniors, veterans, students, people with"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Really appreciated our conversation. In terms of California, we want to see every state, last state approved, including California. We have communicated certain"
Testimony PETERS, SCOTT H.
Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"That's if NTIA were to approve California's final plan today. After months of going back and forth between NTIA and California on its final proposal with multiple rounds of curing earlier this spring, California thought it was nearing final approval. And then after months of silence from NTIA, NTIA recently sent California a completely new round of curing"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"We found, you know, we oversighted the program and conducting our due diligence is really important to ensure protection of taxpayer dollars. And there were several examples in California where, you know, there were requests for really exorbitant amounts of money, ostensibly to serve apartments in the middle of nowhere. And so we had to work with the state to ensure that we address those mapping challenges. We're working with the state. We intend to, we look forward to receiving California's..."
Testimony MR. ROBERT RAIOLA
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"and the other playoff games, but he wound up paying $249,000 in the income tax. You may ask, how is that possible? The Seahawks will play games in California later in the 2026-27 season, so they count in the equation, and they're entered into as part of the amount of tax that he'll pay, and it seems ludicrous that you can play in the Super Bowl and make one amount and yet pay income tax at a higher amount, but that's California for you. That would bring in a lot of revenue. I think you..."
Testimony MR. ROBERT RAIOLA
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"that and expand that to teams, any franchise that's owned? So I think it's a big disadvantage to the publicly traded companies, especially the ones in New York. That's definitely a law that's got to be changed, and we talked about teams moving. The Raiders moved from California to Nevada, which was a windfall for the players because they went from the state playing in the highest state tax rate, California, to no state tax, Nevada. Nevada,"
Testimony CLARKE, YVETTE D.
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"but has not provided Minnesota with a meaningful or consistent guidance on how to address CMS's concerns. In California, CMS has put $1.3 billion in Medicaid funding in jeopardy through a deferral for home health care service payments. CMS Administrator Oz proudly announced that this was the largest deferral ever by the agency. He fails to acknowledge the impact that these overbroad indiscriminate actions will have, and he has refused to accept California's explanations for the growth in those..."
Testimony TYLER SADWITH
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Chairman Joyce, Ranking Member Clark, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Tyler Sadwith, and I am the Medicaid Director for California, a position in the California Department of Healthcare Services. I want to be clear from the"
Testimony JOYCE, JOHN
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Now before they can operate in California, this is just a simple yes, no. Do you allow this hospice organization to operate with or without a California license? Is that required before they can operate in California? Yes or no? So prior to just this week, your words, you could operate a hospice in California without a license. Is that what you just said to"
Testimony SPEAKER_05
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"We partnered with some of the highest-priority agricultural districts in the nation, funding conservation with numerous types of programs, and the key with our agricultural partners is it's not one-size-fits-all. Every agency had a different way of participating with different financial needs, but ultimately, every single agricultural agency and tribe in California partnered in conservation to help reduce use. Finally, the state of California stepped up with infrastructure funding to line the..."
Testimony KATE GOODLOE
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Thank you for the question. I think California has a different approach than the other 21 state consumer privacy laws, and California took the important step of adopting the United States' first state-level comprehensive privacy law back in 2018, but we haven't seen anyone copy it since. The model that has been widespread throughout the states where it's had common"
Testimony ASHLI WATTS
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"and when every day we talk to our consumers, our businesses, about affordability, I do think it's a great concern to be going down the path of what Europe did with privacy. I think it's absolutely fair to say, and like Ms. Goodloe said, I think it's very important to note that California and no other states have passed the California model. We're pretty proud that many states have passed the Kentucky"
Testimony TYLER BRIDEGAN
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"It is also a somewhat amorphous standard, and sometimes, you know, hearkening back to consent again, if someone violated the consent provisions, I would rely on that as an enforcer to point to that they violated the law. I would not necessarily need to. I could add on a violation of data minimization, which is what California recently did, or because California does not have consent protections for sensitive data in the recent settlement with a vehicle manufacturer a couple weeks ago, they had..."
Testimony SCOTT CAMERON
Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Centu...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 20, 2026
"We are definitely seeking to fill vacancies. We have some, I've forgotten the exact number, we've got something in the order of 100 vacancy announcements out on the street. And we are prioritizing the areas in the country where we think we have the biggest problems right now. Like Colorado and California being among them. It's also, I think, worth pointing out that under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, we have allocated $889 million to water infrastructure projects across the West. A big chunk..."
Testimony MR. SHIVAJI DESHMUKH
Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Centu...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 20, 2026
"and funding assistance from the federal government, Metropolitan has added more than two million acre-feet into Lake Mead since 2007. So, our Pure Water Southern California project, a large regional recycled water project, is precisely that kind of large-scale drought-proof supply that Southern California needs to help us manage through these changing hydrologic conditions. It's not just a new supply for Southern California, it's a way to reduce dependence on a river system that supports 40..."
Testimony MR. SHIVAJI DESHMUKH
Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Centu...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 20, 2026
"That's why, since Title 16 was developed, there's been a strong support and investment in projects like this, not just in Southern California, but throughout the Southwest. It really goes back to all those reasons that I mentioned before, in terms of increasing the water resiliency and reliability for Southern California, the water resiliency and reliability for Southern California. But it's not limited to local"
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"I share my colleagues' concern, though, over the deep cuts to food for families in the SNAP program. California is particularly hit hard by these cuts, and delaying the imposition of the cuts but not ameliorating them or giving California a chance to reduce an error rate while states with higher error rates get a break is just not something I can support. It will shift billions of dollars away from California, and we're already a donor"
Testimony WESTERMAN, BRUCE
Mark-up of: • H.R. 309 (Rep. Nehls), “National Law Enforcement Officer...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Bird Treaty Amendment Act with an amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by the gentleman from Alaska, Mr. Begich designated Begich 174 ANS. H.R. 8121, to designate the Christianstead Bandstand at the Christianstead National Historic Site, St. Croix, Virgin Islands as the Peter G. Thurland Senior Bandstand with an amendment in the nature or with an amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Neguse designated Neguse No. 1. H.R. 8454, to provide for the transfer of..."
Testimony JORDAN, JIM
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"The gentlelady yields back. A point of order reserved by the gentleman from California. The other gentleman from California."
Testimony MR. MICHAEL SENA
States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"My name is Mike Cena. I'm the President of the National Fusion Center Association and also the Executive Director for the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center and the Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. Every day, over 3,200 personnel across 80 fusion centers work with federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners to detect threats, analyze intelligence,"
Testimony STEUBE, W. GREGORY
States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"So, to Mr. Christenmorthy's point, you wouldn't lose any federal funding, is that correct? Mr. Sena, California, if the president's announcements today, tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday, if his announcement tomorrow is regarding the Georgia election fraud and the declassifying of documents, you're from California, right? So, you would have absolutely zero knowledge whatsoever of anything that occurred in Georgia, is that"
Testimony JAMES O'KEEFE
Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you. through? What's that all about? Yes, Senator. One is a California state crime to fraudulently sign in someone else's name to get something on the California ballot initiative. And the other is a federal crime. There's federal jurisdiction where you pay someone in order vote. I mean, have you kind of followed that whole? Yes. In one instance, we looked over the shoulder and a petitioner logged into a website, something called sigvalid.com and accessed currently registered voters using..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"many states are now struggling with, we used to have wildfire seasons. There's no wildfire season in California. It's a bad weather day we have wildfires in California. I think we're"
Testimony SPEAKER_16
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I've been through far too many disasters in my state of California, especially in Northern California. So I'm all too familiar with FEMA. And Mr. Fugate and I have interacted on many occasions over the"
Testimony SPEAKER_16
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"every single federal request for aid came through. And even in the L.A. fires, $2.7 billion has been allocated to California for the L.A. fires. So to say that somehow this is being politicized is completely ridiculous. And in California's Exhibit A of that, we've had many disasters and we've asked for that aid. And look, FEMA's a little bit like lawyers, right? Everybody hates them until you need them, right? And I will say there's been many occasions where FEMA has come through and been very..."
Testimony SPEAKER_12
The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you, Chairman and Ranking Member, for hosting today's hearing, and thank you, Mr. Vogt, for joining us. As you know, I've long been supporting and championing the Community Development Financial Institution Fund, and in my district, California 48 in Southern California, I saw firsthand the impact of CDFI funds when I visited Vera Sanctuary. This is a licensed residential treatment center that dedicate to helping the victims of human trafficking, and they tell us that they would not exist..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Subcommittee Markup of Seven Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Look, the bottom line is that people that live, we have the same phenomenon in New Jersey. You have the situation where we have the port of New York and New Jersey and many parts of our state or many towns in our state, and unfortunately what happens is that the people that live there locally are the ones that have the burden of all this pollution, and it is bad. The idea that we would restrict California or any state that might adopt California standards or whatever from doing that I think is..."
Testimony GALLAGHER, JAMES
FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Thank you. This is Northern California, just south of Yuba City, California, Mr. Chairman. I'd love to have you"
Testimony MCCLINTOCK, TOM
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"the University of Iowa College of Law. And finally, we have Sheriff Gary Redman, who's been the Sheriff of Amador County, California, since 2021. He's a veteran of the U.S. Air Department and nearly three decades with the Amador County Sheriff's Office. He's a graduate of the Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute and the Federal Bureau of Investigations National Academy held in Quantico, Virginia. On a personal note, I'll add that Sheriff Redman has been a leading advocate in..."
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Representative Rivas for five minutes. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for recognizing me. As mentioned, Earth MRI has been extremely successful because of state, private sector, tribal, and university partnerships, especially in my home state of California. Earth MRI has been a tremendous asset to help California identify natural resources, such as mineral deposits, groundwater, and dangerous fault lines. I ask for unanimous consent to enter an"
Testimony BAIRD, JAMES R.
"Reviewing Partnerships to Enhance Management of the National Forest S...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"I just bring that up because we're talking about nature and national forests. And sometimes if you let nature alone, it will take care of itself. But I don't ask you to comment on that because, anyway, my question, Mr. Cole, goes to the role of the universities. And you've worked with the University of California Extension Service. You've also worked with the California Farm Bureau, as well as NACO. So I just would appreciate your thoughts. And we've got about 40-some seconds. I appreciate your..."
Testimony WILLIAMS, ROGER
“From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and I...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Thank you. The gentleman yields back. I now recognize Mr. Jack from the great state of Georgia for five minutes. Thank you, I now recognize Ms. Simon from California, great state of California, for The gentlelady yields"
Testimony COSTA, JIM
"To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conser...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"The backlog has many causes, but the USDA cannot cut, reorganize, and reshuffle the local capacity and act surprised, act surprised when farmers are stuck waiting, because that's the condition. When Fresno County, one of the most important agricultural counties in California and in the country, have trouble recruiting an FSA executive director, that tells me Washington isn't making it. It's making it harder for farmers to do. He thought to threaten to close the Fresno County and Kern County..."
Testimony STEIL, BRYAN
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Mea...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026
"I think my interview, as noted, was accurate. I think you posted it, a member here posted it on their own social media because the interview I gave was accurate. And I think most Americans are shocked as to how California runs their elections. There's a lot of problems with how California runs their elections. If you care about building up Americans' confidence in our elections, to me, and that visit was really about one key principle, it's not the discussion today, but that is a simple..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Legislative field hearing on a Discussion Draft of the “Great American...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 12, 2026
"recently gave us, which is local hire authority. We are hiring in the Park Service and making sure that those positions are filled, especially in the field, so that the parks have everyone they need. And the most important thing I want to say is that local hire authority, we've used it already for over 100 people. It allows us to hire from the local communities. And those are often the people who are most passionate about the lands they want to talk about and share the stories with all of I..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Requ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"California's just stood in the way of energy infrastructure. Democrats have decided to make energy of all kinds expensive in California, and President Trump has thought that's deeply unfair, and we need to do everything we can to lower the price of energy for all 340 Americans, whatever state they live in, and so a lot of products from your district have been able to transit more cheaply from the Gulf Coast to California. Where does California get over 60% of its"
Testimony SPEAKER_20
An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Requ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"So, Representative, you raise a key issue. Drones are just massively expanding around the world for many applications, but as a threat to our energy infrastructure, absolutely true. Drones fly over our national labs. They fly over critical energy infrastructure. In fact, I was out in California at the returning on of a legacy oil field that California in crazily, foolishly, had stopped producing for 12 years. It's in federal waters. It's producing oil, and the processing facilities right on..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Requ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"As a pro-energy and an energy-knowledgeable representative in a state that sort of lost its way in energy policy, you play a valuable role, a very valuable role, in the United States' most populous state. Not only is California the most populous state, but we have more military installations in California than anywhere else, something like 30 military installations, of course, served by great Californians that are there to defend our country. But yet the energy that comes to those military..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Requ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"It was an energy powerhouse. If we can restore that, not only can we supply secure energy to our 30 bases in California, we can supply Hawaii and Guam and our forward bases in Asia from California. That's the way it should be done. That's the way it should be done. If you believe in American security, American affordability, and higher standards of living for the Americans living in California. Yeah. So we are in dialogue with many businesses in"
Testimony SPEAKER_20
An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Requ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"reliable dispatchable energy sources. Not impossible, but very hard. Florida, I will say, is a state that led the way. Florida and California had similar electricity prices 15 years ago. Today, California's electricity prices are more than twice as high as Florida's electricity prices. And another fact people don't know, Florida produces 20 percent more electricity than California does. Just common sense. Florida gets 75 percent of its electricity from natural gas. If you're going to build from..."
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"I understand that this hearing is all about looking at the systems and how they work or they don't work. Really, we've been talking about this since Katrina with CDBGR, and some of the people of the people never got compensated down there in New Orleans. But let me tell you, I want to talk about California today. We have 100,000 displaced people in California, in Pacific America. The President of the United States came out there and said that he was going to get emergency funds to get that..."
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"He's brazen. He doesn't care about anything or anybody else when he decides to do something. So what can we say? Don't tell me about what needs to be tickled in the system. We know that the system is messed up. We've been talking about CDBGR since I got involved with Katrina in New Orleans. I want to know why the President of the United States of America will not give the leadership that is needed for the emergency fund in California, in my city, right now. Stop this meeting and let's talk..."
Testimony DE LA CRUZ, MONICA
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing today. And my goodness, my colleague wanted some answers about California, and she asked, does anybody have anything to say about California? I sure do when it comes to election fraud and the terrible state leadership that has caused the homelessness that my colleague... That's not germane to this hearing. Excuse me, but I'm reclaiming my time, because this is my time. So, that being said, we're going to talk about another issue that is..."
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Thank you very much. There's very little time left, but I would ask any Republican who has the nerve to request a meeting with the President of the United States today to talk about California and the fact that people are suffering, and the fact that he came to California and he promised that he was going to do everything that he could to get the emergency money there. I know that asking Republicans to confront the President is a difficult thing for you to do, but somebody have the nerve to do..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine how technological advances are driving transportat...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"It's going to replace those 2010s that Senator Marino talked about. And you know, the California rules that were going to electrify us, if they just focused on getting the 2010 or older trucks off the roads in California, they would have exponentially reduced emissions. They could have done that right now without turning on electricity, which they don't have, and turning our industry into an electric freight"
Testimony MATSUI, DORIS O.
Nuclear Permitting Reform: Legislation to Advance Efficient Licensing
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"And thank you for the witnesses for being here today. I'd like to continue the line of questioning started by my colleague from California regarding my colleague from California regarding nuclear waste. I also have a nuclear power plant that was actually shut down over 30 years ago. It's in Sacramento, California, but the spent fuel is still there because the U.S. government has failed to implement an effective nuclear waste program. And I'm really disappointed that we're having this hearing..."
Testimony SPEAKER_33
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"getting beat up themselves. That's just incredibly unfortunate. I appreciate the question. In that district, California 22, the highest utilization of Medi-Cal in the state of California. And so for hardworking families of the Central Valley and for hardworking families across the state who are beneficiaries of it, what they received back was a paper promise, right? Their member of Congress signed a letter saying, don't hurt my constituents, and raised their hand and said, I'm going to help..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"So as was mentioned, we have about a 6.3 million acre forest in Nevada. It's close to California, but we also looked at California's got about 20 million acres of national forest. There's a single director"
Testimony MULLIN, KEVIN
Where Are We?: Examining Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilit...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"This is also a 30-year-old technology, and newer solutions have shown to address these issues and provide even more precision. Innovative companies have been working on this for years now. I'm proud to have at least one of them in my district in California 15, Zona Space Systems. I recently visited its headquarters in Burlingame, California, and was extremely impressed by what I saw. I've also authored H.R. 4344, the Resilient LEO Act, Low Earth Orbit P&T Act, which calls for a demonstration..."
Testimony SPEAKER_42
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I would take away about $50 billion in trade opportunity. If I were looking to hurt California farmers, I would oversee between a 40 and 50 percent increase in interest rates, labor, fuel, fertilizer, land cost, property taxes. If I were looking to hurt farmers in California, I would recalibrate the USDA around a climate change agenda and a diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda that included supporting grants that supported BIPOC and queer farmers, their words, not mine, in San Francisco for..."
Testimony MCCLINTOCK, TOM
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"D.C. The sheriff of Tulare County, California, testified to our subcommittee that the Sinaloa cartel now operates throughout the state of California, including extensive drug and human trafficking, extortion, and even organized execution squads. He estimates that half of the crime he deals with in his rural county involved illegal aliens, many serving organized criminal"
Testimony JORDAN, JIM
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"The chair now recognizes the ranking member for an opening statement. bill. I yield back, Mr. Chairman. The gentleman yields back without objection. All other opening statements will be included in the record. Chair, I now recognize the gentleman from California to offer an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have an amendment at my desk. Clerk will report. Amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without objection, the amendment in the nature of a substitute..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"There are lawful people who are doing this in a great way, that's providing a great service to the American people, a great product to the American people. But these individuals in California, I think where the gentleman is from, are doing this, and now there are lawyers out there that say, well, you know what, there's some deep pocket somewhere, we can go do this. No, how about go after the bad actors that are doing this? How about state regulators going after the bad actors in California who..."
Testimony SPEAKER_19
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Sufficient support has been demonstrated. The clerk will call the roll. wishing to vote or change their vote gentlemen from New York Mr. Espy at I went from California Mr. Harder I the other gentleman from California Mr. Levin I don't want from North"
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Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"I find this kind of interesting because there is already a memorandum on drilling off the coast of Florida and in the Gulf of America. Already. Until 2032. Already exists. Executive order. Not true in California. But if there's some way we can drag Florida into this debate in California, that would help your cause. But that's not what's happening. I'll tell you what the challenge is. If I was from Florida, I would be a little bit leery about listening to someone from a state whose energy prices..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"to someone from a state whose energy prices are the highest in the country. The highest in the country. That's because of state policies that have done that. No other reason. There is no refining in California. They have the highest gas prices by $2 a gallon over Florida. Kilowatt hours, it is 30.99 cents per kilowatt hour for energy in California. You know what it is in Florida? 15.36 cents per kilowatt hour. Half what it is in the state of California. So quite frankly, in fact, if you want to..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Thank you, gentlemen. I just want to make it clear that he's only speaking for himself when he talks about 6 o'clock and not being able to handle it. There are those of us older than you who can. So to make that point, gentlelady from Maine, Ms. Pingree, is recognized to address the amendment. I thank my colleague from California for submitting this amendment and urge everyone to support it. The public does not support this administration's expansion of offshore drilling. And while this..."
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Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"I thank my good friend from New York. Mr. Chairman, I have tremendous respect for you for your many decades of service. I think the major argument that I heard against what I had to say was that I'm a Californian. Guilty as charged everyone. I am in fact a Californian. I don't always agree with Sacramento on how they make policy. I'm a reasonable and pragmatic person. I'm my own person. I can tell you what my district and our constituents and coastal districts up and California coast what they..."
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Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"but I think in this particular instance you have to evaluate just as you would with any of these land up and we've run the numbers. Don't take it from me. Go and look at the government's own data on this. Doesn't matter who's been in charge. They've run the numbers. They've reached pretty much the same conclusions, which is that if you opened all of this up, it would amount to about one third of one day worth of what you would actually need to use in California. What would that yield in terms..."
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Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"done that, and seen the spills, seen the spills in Huntington Beach, made their way all the way down into the San Diego coast, seen the tar balls wash on shore. Ask anybody from Santa Barbara who saw the spills going back into the 60s what they think of this. And again, ask the Republicans too. Ask our military leaders too. You don't have to take it from me. And if you don't want to California, that's fine. And I wouldn't expect anybody who lives in Florida want to be more like California. But..."
Testimony SPEAKER_38
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"Well, the line that it's in is a very significant environmental reform, environmental review process, and it actually is stronger than the federal NEPA program. The California's had a pilot program available to it for several years in which they would be able to have just one of the two reviews, the CEQA, the California Environmental Program, which is stronger than NEPA, and thereby not having to do"
Testimony SPEAKER_38
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"And it also extends the underlying program from just highways to airports and ports. That's what it is. It's an effort to try to reduce the burden of environmental reviews for California and I think there's two or maybe four other states that have their own environmental programs that are equal to or greater than NEPA, and they would be able to take advantage of this as California has been able to do. Very simple, a little bit of permitting reform, eliminating a duplicate and unnecessary..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"It may very well be that the, I'm sure it is true, I should say, that the cost of gasoline is terribly high in California, as it is in New York. But it may be a good idea to suspend that gas tax, or it may not be, depending on other things in the California budget. That's for Californians to decide. Californians elect their officials. If they don't like what their officials do, they can vote them out. So I very much oppose this amendment because it would substitute the opinions of our opinions..."
Testimony BIGGS, ANDY
“Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"and now I will introduce today's witnesses. Ms. Kozak, Kayleigh Kozak, she is the namesake of Kayleigh's Law, versions of which have been enacted in a number of states and provide protections for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse. She also advocates for other measures aimed at enhancing protections for victims and promoting justice. The Honorable Suzette Martinez-Valladares. Ms. Valladares represents District 23 in the California State Senate, where she serves as the Vice Chair of the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_09
“Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Chairman, Ranking Member and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I'm California State Senator Suzette Valadares and what we're seeing in California should matter nationwide because it's a warning. Over the last several decades, a wave of criminal justice reforms passed by the Democrat supermajority has fundamentally shifted the balance in our system, not towards safety, not towards accountability, but away from survivors and in many cases towards the very..."
Testimony MR. SCOTT FABER, JD
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Thank you for the question. I actually know quite a bit about waxes and coatings because I worked with Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel in California on his bill to define ultra-processed foods and phase them out of California schools. And one of the things we chose to do, the Assembly chose to do, was to exclude waxes and coatings from the kinds of substances that might make foods hyper-palatable. But I also learned"
Hearing Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
GALLAGHER, JAMES "state to local is very important to all of us. So thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I yield back my time. No problem, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Gallagher from California. I want to voice my support for the amendment and the underlying legislation, Mr. Chairman. We know the power of geothermal energy out in California. We have the Geysers Project in Northern California, which has been a great source of renewable power in the North. Many of our municipal jurisdictions rely on that power, and I think it has the great potential to provide much more affordable power in California. And so we do need to have..."
Hearing “Training Activists, Not Physicians: The Impact of DEI on Medical Schools”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
TAKANO, MARK "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I see we have many medical schools from California represented today. I'm sure all of you are aware as administrators from medical schools in California that California excludes race as a consideration for admission. Do you have that understanding, Dr."
Hearing "Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
GRAY, ADAM "Her and I at the end of that conversation respectfully agreed to disagree, I guess, on what those things might be. But, of course, many of those things are things California farmers are facing today. And the United States is the world's largest agricultural exporter. California is a big part of that. I represent California's Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world and certainly in the"
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 "but now when we try to get back to those numbers with better IT, people act like the sky is falling. Yes, and I'd say in relative to California, California at one point in time was producing 25% of the world's oil. It was self-sufficient, and now California itself is a national security risk. 63% on the California website, it's not my number, 63% at the time of this recent conflict was being imported from foreign countries. It had the highest level of dependence on foreign"
Hearing AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepayers
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
MS. WHITNEY MUSE "Certainly. The grid resilience and innovation partnership program had $10.5 billion available through the bipartisan infrastructure law, and some of the prioritized areas that we supported through the grid resilience and the smart grid grants were to deploy grid-enhancing technologies to increase capacity on the grid, to use AI and drone technologies to help with transmission line inspections, AI and machine learning technologies to help accelerate the interconnection processes, without increasing residential rates? Absolutely. In your home state of California, there was an $600 million..."
Hearing “Defending Main Street: Combating CCP Threats to America’s Small Businesses.”
house Small Business Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
MR. TOM LYONS "I do think awareness is a big part of this. I also think that state laws create a discrepancy in being able to actually conduct things like due diligence. And I brought up briefly the California statute, not picking on California. It's just we come across a lot of companies based in California, and the statutes are currently favored towards privacy versus background research on people. And when you're running a critical technology like AI or quantum, where it is a zero-sum game, we need to be able to facilitate that. So I think federal preemption on that issue, but also federal tax credits to..."
Hearing Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U.S. Provider Landscape
house Health Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
BARRAGÁN, NANETTE DIAZ "why when we get data like this, we don't have Congress making sure we're investing in programs like this to save money. It's really frustrating to see that the Medicaid cuts are going to result in more people being on wait lists and less people getting access to care. My mother is in that program. She had to wait six months to get into it, and we've seen the big difference. Mr. Pollack, I want to ask you, in 2021, Sutter Health, the largest hospital system in Northern California, settled a lawsuit for $575 million that alleged the hospital system used its market dominance to stifle..."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE PAMELA BONDI "If Christians want to protest in front of an abortion clinic without being arrested, they will California? We are establishing, as you have heard, a fraud unit. I'm sorry you're having to deal with that in your state, but the Calvary is coming. We have Colin McDonald, who hopefully will be confirmed soon. We're working on Minneapolis. I don't know if you were sitting here when I said that, but California was right up there. I'm sorry to say for both sides of the aisle that California is right up there with fraud. It's out of control, but we are coming to your rescue. Donald Trump is coming to..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
SCHIFF, ADAM B. "I share my colleagues' concern, though, over the deep cuts to food for families in the SNAP program. California is particularly hit hard by these cuts, and delaying the imposition of the cuts but not ameliorating them or giving California a chance to reduce an error rate while states with higher error rates get a break is just not something I can support. It will shift billions of dollars away from California, and we're already a donor"
Hearing Mark-up of: • H.R. 309 (Rep. Nehls), “National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support and Community Outreach Act” • H.R. 1693 (Rep....
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
WESTERMAN, BRUCE "Bird Treaty Amendment Act with an amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by the gentleman from Alaska, Mr. Begich designated Begich 174 ANS. H.R. 8121, to designate the Christianstead Bandstand at the Christianstead National Historic Site, St. Croix, Virgin Islands as the Peter G. Thurland Senior Bandstand with an amendment in the nature or with an amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Neguse designated Neguse No. 1. H.R. 8454, to provide for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain federal land in the state of California and for other purposes with an..."
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
JORDAN, JIM "The gentlelady yields back. A point of order reserved by the gentleman from California. The other gentleman from California."
Hearing Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
JAMES O'KEEFE "Thank you. through? What's that all about? Yes, Senator. One is a California state crime to fraudulently sign in someone else's name to get something on the California ballot initiative. And the other is a federal crime. There's federal jurisdiction where you pay someone in order vote. I mean, have you kind of followed that whole? Yes. In one instance, we looked over the shoulder and a petitioner logged into a website, something called sigvalid.com and accessed currently registered voters using their real names and real addresses. We"
Hearing The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_12 "Thank you, Chairman and Ranking Member, for hosting today's hearing, and thank you, Mr. Vogt, for joining us. As you know, I've long been supporting and championing the Community Development Financial Institution Fund, and in my district, California 48 in Southern California, I saw firsthand the impact of CDFI funds when I visited Vera Sanctuary. This is a licensed residential treatment center that dedicate to helping the victims of human trafficking, and they tell us that they would not exist without the funds from CDFI"
Hearing Subcommittee Markup of Seven Pieces of Legislation
house Environment Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "Look, the bottom line is that people that live, we have the same phenomenon in New Jersey. You have the situation where we have the port of New York and New Jersey and many parts of our state or many towns in our state, and unfortunately what happens is that the people that live there locally are the ones that have the burden of all this pollution, and it is bad. The idea that we would restrict California or any state that might adopt California standards or whatever from doing that I think is a huge mistake, and so I also want to express my"
Hearing FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
GALLAGHER, JAMES "Thank you. This is Northern California, just south of Yuba City, California, Mr. Chairman. I'd love to have you"
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
MCCLINTOCK, TOM "the University of Iowa College of Law. And finally, we have Sheriff Gary Redman, who's been the Sheriff of Amador County, California, since 2021. He's a veteran of the U.S. Air Department and nearly three decades with the Amador County Sheriff's Office. He's a graduate of the Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute and the Federal Bureau of Investigations National Academy held in Quantico, Virginia. On a personal note, I'll add that Sheriff Redman has been a leading advocate in California to sound the alarm over California sanctuary laws, as we'll hear. Sheriff Redman and many of his..."
Hearing Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's Resource Potential"
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_16 "Representative Rivas for five minutes. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for recognizing me. As mentioned, Earth MRI has been extremely successful because of state, private sector, tribal, and university partnerships, especially in my home state of California. Earth MRI has been a tremendous asset to help California identify natural resources, such as mineral deposits, groundwater, and dangerous fault lines. I ask for unanimous consent to enter an"
Hearing "Reviewing Partnerships to Enhance Management of the National Forest System"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
BAIRD, JAMES R. "I just bring that up because we're talking about nature and national forests. And sometimes if you let nature alone, it will take care of itself. But I don't ask you to comment on that because, anyway, my question, Mr. Cole, goes to the role of the universities. And you've worked with the University of California Extension Service. You've also worked with the California Farm Bureau, as well as NACO. So I just would appreciate your thoughts. And we've got about 40-some seconds. I appreciate your thoughts on the importance of these extension services, some of these other, the cooperation with..."
Hearing “From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and Innovation in Powering America’s Small Businesses.”
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
WILLIAMS, ROGER "that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Thank you. The gentleman yields back. I now recognize Mr. Jack from the great state of Georgia for five minutes. Thank you, I now recognize Ms. Simon from California, great state of California, for The gentlelady yields"
Hearing "To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conservation Programs"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
COSTA, JIM "The backlog has many causes, but the USDA cannot cut, reorganize, and reshuffle the local capacity and act surprised, act surprised when farmers are stuck waiting, because that's the condition. When Fresno County, one of the most important agricultural counties in California and in the country, have trouble recruiting an FSA executive director, that tells me Washington isn't making it. It's making it harder for farmers to do. He thought to threaten to close the Fresno County and Kern County offices, two of the top ag counties in California. I don't get it. The Supplemental Disaster Relief..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Measures
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
STEIL, BRYAN "I think my interview, as noted, was accurate. I think you posted it, a member here posted it on their own social media because the interview I gave was accurate. And I think most Americans are shocked as to how California runs their elections. There's a lot of problems with how California runs their elections. If you care about building up Americans' confidence in our elections, to me, and that visit was really about one key principle, it's not the discussion today, but that is a simple principle that the ballots should arrive by the time the polls"
Hearing Legislative field hearing on a Discussion Draft of the “Great American Outdoors Act 250.” (10:00AM local time)
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 12, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "recently gave us, which is local hire authority. We are hiring in the Park Service and making sure that those positions are filled, especially in the field, so that the parks have everyone they need. And the most important thing I want to say is that local hire authority, we've used it already for over 100 people. It allows us to hire from the local communities. And those are often the people who are most passionate about the lands they want to talk about and share the stories with all of I like to use El Portal in California as a quick example. With no offense to Ranking Member Hoffman,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine how technological advances are driving transportation innovation.
senate Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "It's going to replace those 2010s that Senator Marino talked about. And you know, the California rules that were going to electrify us, if they just focused on getting the 2010 or older trucks off the roads in California, they would have exponentially reduced emissions. They could have done that right now without turning on electricity, which they don't have, and turning our industry into an electric freight"
Hearing Nuclear Permitting Reform: Legislation to Advance Efficient Licensing
house Energy Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
MATSUI, DORIS O. "And thank you for the witnesses for being here today. I'd like to continue the line of questioning started by my colleague from California regarding my colleague from California regarding nuclear waste. I also have a nuclear power plant that was actually shut down over 30 years ago. It's in Sacramento, California, but the spent fuel is still there because the U.S. government has failed to implement an effective nuclear waste program. And I'm really disappointed that we're having this hearing today without considering legislation that would advance an effective nuclear waste program. Now, many..."
Hearing H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act; H. Res. 1335 – Condemning actors seeking to...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_33 "getting beat up themselves. That's just incredibly unfortunate. I appreciate the question. In that district, California 22, the highest utilization of Medi-Cal in the state of California. And so for hardworking families of the Central Valley and for hardworking families across the state who are beneficiaries of it, what they received back was a paper promise, right? Their member of Congress signed a letter saying, don't hurt my constituents, and raised their hand and said, I'm going to help protect my constituents. And at the end of the day, all of them voted for this bill that harms our..."
Hearing Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests and Outlook for the 2026 Wildfire Year.”
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "So as was mentioned, we have about a 6.3 million acre forest in Nevada. It's close to California, but we also looked at California's got about 20 million acres of national forest. There's a single director"
Hearing Where Are We?: Examining Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilities in the United States
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MULLIN, KEVIN "This is also a 30-year-old technology, and newer solutions have shown to address these issues and provide even more precision. Innovative companies have been working on this for years now. I'm proud to have at least one of them in my district in California 15, Zona Space Systems. I recently visited its headquarters in Burlingame, California, and was extremely impressed by what I saw. I've also authored H.R. 4344, the Resilient LEO Act, Low Earth Orbit P&T Act, which calls for a demonstration project of this kind of technology in low Earth orbit, which could potentially provide a more powerful..."
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
SPEAKER_42 "I would take away about $50 billion in trade opportunity. If I were looking to hurt California farmers, I would oversee between a 40 and 50 percent increase in interest rates, labor, fuel, fertilizer, land cost, property taxes. If I were looking to hurt farmers in California, I would recalibrate the USDA around a climate change agenda and a diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda that included supporting grants that supported BIPOC and queer farmers, their words, not mine, in San Francisco for food"
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
MR. SCOTT FABER, JD "Thank you for the question. I actually know quite a bit about waxes and coatings because I worked with Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel in California on his bill to define ultra-processed foods and phase them out of California schools. And one of the things we chose to do, the Assembly chose to do, was to exclude waxes and coatings from the kinds of substances that might make foods hyper-palatable. But I also learned"
Hearing “Protecting Our Edge: Trade Secrets and the Global AI Arms Race”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · May 7, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: John Villasenor, University of California, Los Angeles
Hearing "Safeguarding U.S. Agriculture: The Role of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN)"
house Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Annette Jones, California Department of Food and Agriculture
Hearing “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Rich Lyons, University of California, Berkeley
Hearing "Restoring Excellence: The Case Against DEI"
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · May 21, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Shaun Harper, University of Southern California
Hearing HOME 2.0: Modern Solutions to the Housing Shortage
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jul 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Tiffany Bohee, Mercy Housing California
Hearing From Detection to Deflection: Evaluating NASA’s Planetary Defense Strategy
house Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee · May 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Amy Mainzer, University of California, Los Angeles
Hearing The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Delivering for the American Economy – Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 26, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: John Kim, Catalyst California
Hearing “California Fires and the Consequences of Overregulation”
house Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee · Feb 6, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Edward Ring, California Policy Center
Hearing “Sacrificing Excellence for Ideology: The Real Cost of DEI”
house Health Care and Financial Services Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Shaun Harper, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Hearing "Beyond the Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of Antisemitism on American Campuses"
house Education and Workforce Committee · May 7, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Jeffrey Armstrong, California Polytechnic State University