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Hearing “Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Information”
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 48 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO "Well, thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chairman. And like I mentioned, the fact is that the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, after this audit, thanks to the notification from this Committee and at the time Chairwoman Fox, made it very clear that there was a problem with common interest agreements. The issue is whether it's one common interest agreement or one million common interest agreements, the fact is that there was a potential for critical information to be leaked to plaintiff's attorneys. The issue is whether it's one common interest agreement or one million..."
CRS Report
Association Health Plans: Some Key Aspects of the Labor Department’s Proposed Rule
Posts · Feb 9, 2018
Association health plans (AHPs) are in the spotlight due to a recent Labor Department proposed rule that aims to broaden access to this type of health insurance coverage. The proposed rule responds...
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Well, thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chairman. And like I mentioned, the fact is that the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, after this audit, thanks to the notification from this Committee and at the time Chairwoman Fox, made it very clear that there was a problem with common interest agreements. The issue is whether it's one common interest agreement or one million common interest agreements, the fact is that there was a potential for critical information to be..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Sure. A Wage and Hour division staff member who was assigned as an investigator executed an agreement that they did not have the authority to sign. This happened because of no guardrails, the fact that nobody was watching, the fact that the common interest agreements with the potential clients seemed much more important to the last administration than the actual ethical use of them. That's exactly why we recommended establishing clearly defined roles and responsibilities for those who are going..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"and discovery. The Department of Labor, uh, either the assistant secretaries in charge of those divisions or the solicitor of labor, uh, to work in coordination with the secretary of labor to come up with those policies and implement them. Um, but I think that the, the real issue, and I, I just want to quickly refer to one of our investigative files is that there was no guardrails in place and that the people who were executing these common interest agreements weren't even sure as to what a..."
Testimony WALBERG, TIM
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and it's good to see you back, Inspector General D'Asposio. Thank you, Chairman. In its review of the Biden DOL, the OIG identified roughly 48 common interest agreements. However, your report found that, and I quote, SOL did not track or maintain a centralized system or database for common interest agreements or shared information, and, continuing the quote, neither EBSA nor common interest agreements. Given the report's identification of these, I call it deficiencies,..."
CRS Report
Derivatives Trading in U.S. Banking
Resources · Oct 17, 2024
Overview Bank derivative holdings are highly concentrated among large banks, with large banks holding 97.9% of the notional amounts of bank derivative holdings. This level of concentration holds...
CRS Report
Withdrawal of Federal Lands: Analysis of a Common Legislated Withdrawal Provision
Reports · Jan 15, 2021
Lands and interest in lands owned by the United States (i.e., federal lands) have been withdrawn from agency management under various public land laws. Federal land withdrawals typically seek to...
CRS Report
U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council: Background and Issues
Resources · Nov 1, 2024
The U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) is a high-level forum between the United States and European Union (EU) that aims to enhance cooperation on global technology, economic, and trade...
Hearing Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MAST, BRIAN J. "I love that Commerce and State Department are working together. To me, it's very common sense, and the point that I would hone in on is that 60% that you for these commercial officers across the globe are filled by individuals from the State Department. And I think it's very common sense, obviously, anybody, any economic officers coming out of the State Department have just an intrinsic interest in working with everybody across the embassy or the consulate that they're in. They're a part of State"
CRS Report
Common Questions About Postage and Stamps
Reports · Apr 19, 2013
Constituents and interest groups often approach congressional offices with questions about postage and stamps. This report provides brief answers to commonly asked questions and provides sources...
CRS Report
Apportionment and Redistricting Process for the U.S. House of Representatives
Report · May 20, 2026
The census, apportionment, and redistricting are interrelated activities that affect representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressional apportionment (or reapportionment) is the...
Testimony MACKENZIE, RYAN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Without objection, the chair is authorized to call a recess at any time. Today's hearing will examine the Biden-Harris administration's use of common interest agreements to potentially channel confidential investigative information to outside"
Testimony MACKENZIE, RYAN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Initially, the committee's concerns focused on the Employee Benefit Security Administration's use of common interest agreements. The OIG subsequently expanded its review to examine similar practices and missteps within Wage and Hour and the Office of the"
Testimony MACKENZIE, RYAN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"In many cases, DOL shared sensitive investigative information with outside lawyers before lawsuits had even been filed. In other words, it shared information without written common interest agreements. The department lacked basic"
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"helping families with improperly denied healthcare claims, and much, much more. One legally permissible yet rarely used tool by the department during investigations and litigation is called a common interest agreement. I understand today's hearing will focus on a recent inspector general report on such"
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"otherwise known as EBSA, only found 12 investigations where it entered into a common interest agreement over a 15-year period. At that very same"
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"where this particular administration entered into a common interest agreement, which is the issue at hand of this hearing. There were only seven common interest agreements identified at"
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"That represents an incredibly small fraction of the thousands of investigations conducted by EBSA and Wage and Hour over the very same period. But we certainly appreciate the IG's work in identifying ways that the Department of Labor can improve its internal procedures and controls related to the use of common interest agreements. The IG's report made eight process-related"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I am honored to serve as the department's ninth Inspector General. My office initiated this audit after Congress and Acting Secretary Keith Sonderling raised concerns about the department's use of common interest agreements. Common interest agreements are intended to allow parties with a shared interest, I repeat, with a shared interest to exchange certain confidential information under limited circumstances. Common interest agreements are intended to allow parties with a shared interest, I..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Here is what my office found. The Biden-Harris Department of Labor had no department-wide controls governing any of these common interest agreements. There were no written policies, no consistent approval processes, no centralized tracking. In one case, an individual executed a common interest agreement without the authority to even do"
Testimony MACKENZIE, RYAN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"which is an outlandish statement because what we see is that when you have these cases that people become aware of, it shakes confidence in the entire system, and it makes it less likely that people are going to cooperate with the government and go after the bad actors who are supposed to be the targets of these kind of investigations. So I would like to hear from you how the work that the Committee has done in contacting your office, how has that benefited or changed the way that common..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And my office has issued eight recommendations, all of which have been agreed to by the Department of Labor and are currently being implemented by Acting Secretary Keith Sonderling. I know that one of the agencies actually have their common interest agreements on pause until all eight are implemented. So I think that the work that this Committee did to sound the alarm with the potential of this information being utilized against the American worker and used for plaintiff's attorneys will lead..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and absolutely, there could be additional agreements that we were not aware of because, as you mentioned, the Department of Labor under the last administration simply wasn't tracking them, and that's really the problem. There was no protocols or policies in place to track these common interest agreements. It's a significant risk of not having internal controls. If information was shared outside of the common interest agreement framework entirely, we wouldn't know..."
Testimony WALBERG, TIM
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Oops, no harm or foul. Your report includes an example of an individual from a nongovernmental entity that entered into a common interest agreement with DOL in April of 2023. This person, interestingly enough, served as a senior counsel to then-Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Hsu for about eight months before returning to the same nongovernmental entity. Can you provide the committee with more information about that person and the nongovernmental entity you cited in your"
Testimony GROTHMAN, GLENN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Okay. Do you notice any patterns between the ones that we were talking about today, the eight common interest agreements that I guess kind of brings this topic to our attention? So you think it's something that you kind of, you know, one hand washes the other and you set yourself up perhaps for something in the"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I think that the motives have always been that, or as stated, is that it's when the Department of Labor and attorneys' offices could be beneficial to sharing information that one or the other has and makes it more expedient than perhaps going through subpoenas or using the FOIA mechanism. I think that the patterns are the fact that they were entered into with law firms or non-government entities that eventually had seen relationships between the individuals who were signing them and the..."
Testimony GROTHMAN, GLENN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Okay. Is each secretary responsible for establishing guidelines for common interest agreements? And can you further discuss whether there was evidence that, um, you further discuss whether there was evidence that there was non-public information shared at the direction of the leadership? Okay. And it means that there were people maybe entering into common interest"
Testimony GROTHMAN, GLENN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Is each secretary responsible for establishing guidelines for common interest agreements? And can you further discuss whether there was evidence that, um, you further discuss whether there was evidence that there was non-public information shared at the direction of the leadership? Okay. And it means that there were people maybe entering into common interest agreements, but there's no evidence in writing in that,"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"So, I think the Department of Labor has the legal authority to share this information and it doesn't matter who asks first. Common interest still has to exist. Being asked really isn't the"
Testimony MESSMER, MARK B.
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Esposito, for being here today. The June OIG report says the Biden-Harris administration clearly used questionable practices related to common interest agreements. Your office has confirmed serious failures of accountability at the Biden-Harris Department of Labor, which led to the distinct possibility that enforcement information was used to advantage plaintiffs' attorneys in"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"First and foremost, with regards to the legislation, our office would be happy to provide any technical assistance that you need with that. The report's findings do not indicate a definitive need to restrict the use of common interest agreements. Rather, the report highlights the importance for establishing the appropriate guardrails, the oversight, and the internal controls to help ensure that these agreements are used consistently, appropriately, and in accordance with departmental policies..."
Testimony MESSMER, MARK B.
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you. The OIG's report found the officer of the solicitor's regional offices had different approaches in utilizing common interest agreements, including the use of written versus oral agreements. And regional offices have varying opinions regarding who signed common interest agreements. And regional offices have varying opinions regarding who signed common interest"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Sure. So what I can tell you is that the pattern was real. For example, the solicitor in our San Francisco office allowed oral common interest agreements and did not document anything related to the agreements that were being entered. Others used written agreements exclusively, and the signatory practices varied from region to region throughout the United States of"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And with regards to your question about the regions, I just want to read, there was a question asked to someone being investigated and asked if he knows what other offices in labor use common interest agreements. And this is the response, I quote, I can say that the two offices I have worked in, the Plans Benefit Security Division and the New York Regional Solicitor's Offices, use them. I also know as a matter of public record that the San Francisco Regional Solicitor's Office has used them..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you, sir. The only concerns that I've heard is the fact that, from the committee and others on your side of the aisle, that there was a problem, a systemic problem within the common interest agreements, and that is why the audit was conducted, and why there have been recommendations given to the department. I don't agree with the premise that just because it was only a few, that there should, it should be— That you've been able to"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Right. Well, I would say that based on the audit and the investigation and the individuals that were part of the investigation—I'll go back to using the example that I gave to the chairman with Mr. Munir Ahmad, who was special counsel to Julie Hsu and signed off on a common interest agreement with the Yale School, Yale Law School worker in immigration rights and then within six months was working to— I think that there should be accountability, but what comes first is making sure that"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I think that there should be accountability, but what comes first is making sure that these departments and the work that you guys are doing in this—in this committee, that those recommendations are implemented immediately and that this doesn't happen again. But to Chairman McKenzie's point, I think that there is an opportunity to go back and conduct further investigations into these common interest agreements to see if there was some sort of quid pro quo. I do not know of anyone who was..."
Testimony SCOTT, ROBERT C. "BOBBY"
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you. You've talked about the common interest agreements can be valuable. According to your report, you have paused them, you haven't stopped them, is that"
Testimony SCOTT, ROBERT C. "BOBBY"
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Can we find the procedures and controls in previous administrations in writing? Are you aware of any procedures or controls in previous administrations when they were using the common interest agreements? But you're not aware of any procedures or"
Testimony SCOTT, ROBERT C. "BOBBY"
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"But you're not aware of any procedures or controls? You've had a back-and-forth over an employee who was at the Department of Labor and then got a job at a place that was involved in a common interest agreement. What safeguards are there to prevent employees at the Department of Labor from getting jobs at any entity that they may have had oversight responsibilities"
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Unfortunately, today's hearing marked yet another missed opportunity to offer solutions to real problems affecting workers and their families. This was the second hearing, this Congress, on a legal, yet rarely used, labor department practice of using common interest agreements. The IG report made process-focused recommendations, and I repeat, process-focused"
Testimony SPEAKER_05
"Reviewing Partnerships to Enhance Management of the National Forest S...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"We're problem solvers. We share common interests, managing our national forests and taking care of our communities. We have two pictures in front of"
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Hearings to examine the nomination of Darrell Owens, of Pennsylvania, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"But across these differences, we always met in the middle, and emphasized our common interests and family. While working in the first Trump"
Testimony DAVID MORENOFF
Hearings to examine S.465, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Co...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 15, 2026
"That's true that many utilities would have matters both before FERC as well as before the commission at the state level. I suspect that there is a common interest across those levels, certainly the case at FERC, and I know here at the committee on doing everything we can to ensure that rates are just and reasonable. And if this is one of the steps that we can take to promote that result, hopefully the incentives that we're discussing can drive more effort in that direction as well as in the..."
Testimony ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA D.
Member Day to examine legislative priorities.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 19, 2026
"and for your commitment to working together to find common ground in advanced bipartisan legislation. We have many common interests here, including a bipartisan bill that will help lower prices for Americans, invest"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Hybrid Warfare in Europe Against U.S. Interests: Moscow and Beijing’s ...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Dec 16, 2025
"This is not a coincidence, it's a strategy, and this is where China's role becomes especially important. China functions as a crucial enabler of Russia and Moscow's shadow warfare, and these two authoritarian powers share a common interest, weakening U.S. leadership, fracturing Western unity, and creating strategic paralysis across the free world to the extent they're able to do so. Among other forms of support, Chinese-backed and Russian-maligned networks distort policy debates and make..."
Testimony GEN. JOHN "JACK" M. KEANE
Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environmen...
house Armed Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"If Russia wins, so does China, Iran, and North Korea. Their underlying common interest, as the ranking minority stated, is to weaken U.S. leadership and the global order of the United States and like-minded democracies have fostered for almost 80 years. This development cannot be taken lightly and is fundamentally altering the geopolitical"
Hearing "Reviewing Partnerships to Enhance Management of the National Forest System"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_05 "We're problem solvers. We share common interests, managing our national forests and taking care of our communities. We have two pictures in front of"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Darrell Owens, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "But across these differences, we always met in the middle, and emphasized our common interests and family. While working in the first Trump"
Hearing Hearings to examine S.465, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reform the interconnection queue process for the prioritization...
senate Energy Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Transcript
DAVID MORENOFF "That's true that many utilities would have matters both before FERC as well as before the commission at the state level. I suspect that there is a common interest across those levels, certainly the case at FERC, and I know here at the committee on doing everything we can to ensure that rates are just and reasonable. And if this is one of the steps that we can take to promote that result, hopefully the incentives that we're discussing can drive more effort in that direction as well as in the type of new investment we need. Senator, thank"
Hearing Member Day to examine S.297, to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require group health plans and health insurance issuers...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 19, 2026 · Transcript
ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA D. "and for your commitment to working together to find common ground in advanced bipartisan legislation. We have many common interests here, including a bipartisan bill that will help lower prices for Americans, invest"
Hearing Hybrid Warfare in Europe Against U.S. Interests: Moscow and Beijing’s Playbook
house Europe Subcommittee · Dec 16, 2025 · Transcript
SPEAKER_03 "This is not a coincidence, it's a strategy, and this is where China's role becomes especially important. China functions as a crucial enabler of Russia and Moscow's shadow warfare, and these two authoritarian powers share a common interest, weakening U.S. leadership, fracturing Western unity, and creating strategic paralysis across the free world to the extent they're able to do so. Among other forms of support, Chinese-backed and Russian-maligned networks distort policy debates and make democratic systems more vulnerable to both Russian and Chinese"
Hearing Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environment
house Armed Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript
GEN. JOHN "JACK" M. KEANE "If Russia wins, so does China, Iran, and North Korea. Their underlying common interest, as the ranking minority stated, is to weaken U.S. leadership and the global order of the United States and like-minded democracies have fostered for almost 80 years. This development cannot be taken lightly and is fundamentally altering the geopolitical"
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
MURPHY, GREGORY F. "They don't think about the NHL. They don't think about the PGA. You know, nonprofit status now has just exploded in this country, and for some good reasons, but for some other ones that we're now pointing out to. The fact that professional sports franchises are for-profit entities while sports leagues may qualify for tax-exemption status under current rules begs the question. So the justification for the tax-exempt status is that leagues operate as, quote, business leagues that serve as exempt purposes, association of persons having some common business interest. So professional sports..."
Hearing “AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "to comb resumes, to begin to kind of sift out people for that first round. And what they began to find, this particularly became an issue during the pandemic, was at times people who could do the job were unintentionally screened out, which of course for the business created a problem of there's an empty billet of someone who could have done a job, and now that job is not being done. That's one very specific example where not only does that type of bias offend our values, but it also goes against kind of common sense, the interest of the business. So the key is, how do we make sure that we..."
Hearing Hearings to examine challenges and opportunities with implementing the Endangered Species Act.
senate Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
BRIAN YABLONSKI "actually agreed to do it but we were the state of Florida was sued. The agency was sued right away and and Florida ended up backing off of it because of the I think it's interesting, one of the commonalities are large charismatic species, whether I was in Florida dealing with Florida panther or manatee, woke up the next"
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
MORAN, JERRY "I mean, I think we all wish that things were different than they are, but I especially wish things were different than they are in the Ag Committee if the outcome of today is Republicans vote one way and Democrats vote another, that interest ought to lie in the common ground that we all share. that I'm more bipartisan than somebody else is not what I'm trying to suggest, but I'm saying that we all ought to find this way to work"
Hearing Hearings to examine worldwide threats; to be immediately followed by a closed session in SH-219.
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE TULSI GABBARD "Early developers in quantum computers will give countries an extraordinary technological advantage over others to quickly process national security information and break current encryption methodology used to protect sensitive finance, health care, and government information. The global security landscape is volatile and complex, with armed conflict growing more common and posing potential threats against U.S. interests. Strategic competition and regional and smaller powers are becoming more willing to use force to pursue their interests, heightening the risk of"
Hearing Hearings to examine Protecting American Citizenship lll: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits.
senate Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "Did you consider recusing yourself from that particular decision? Does the Florida canons not require you to recuse if one of the parties before you has an interest that could be reasonably concluded by any common citizen to cloud your judgment on that matter? I had only spoken to the"
Hearing Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MRS. CELIA WINSLOW "solution and then ended up being trapped. They didn't realize their credit scores were going to drop, that they wouldn't be able to get future loans. And so something like this, it's an important disclosure mechanism. It's what every other, everyone else in the industry does. You know, before you take out a loan, you get a disclosure right up front that tells you how much you're going to pay each month, what the interest rate is, et cetera. So just bringing some of those common sense things over to the debt settlement industry that now has $10 billion to $14 billion. Yes,"
Hearing H.R.4398, the “Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Accountability Act”; H.R.4805, the “Warrior Impact from Neurological and G-Force...
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_18 "And there's other veterans just like him that are begging for access to the technology and simply being told no. There's no capacity is the most common thing that they're hearing or they just aren't interested. Yes, they already have the authority, but they're not doing"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of mental or physical disability in cases of organ transplants,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
COLLINS, SUSAN M. "save patients' money and also according to the latest assessment from the CBO, save taxpayers $49 million. I find it extremely interesting that the ranking member has proposed nine amendments to this common sense bill. He has not proposed amendments to any other"
Hearing "On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Providers"
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
OMAR, ILHAN "I share that worry with you as well. Every time we hear common sense from the other side, it seems like there is moneyed interest involved in it. So I appreciate that. Thank you. And I yield"
Hearing Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the Abraham Accords
house Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE DANIEL SHAPIRO "They put on the table proposals, not perfect proposals, but proposals that would help end the war and move smartly out in that direction. They see that still as their strategic interest, and they see that as a strategic interest because it includes them in a coalition of U.S.-aligned partners focused on common adversaries and building interdependence and security and prosperity together. However, they have also raised concerns, for example, the Israeli strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, and, of course, this current war that most Gulf states counseled"
Hearing Hearings to examine Haiti 2026, focusing on security and foreign assistance priorities.
senate State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE HENRY WOOSTER "Today, I'll share three updates from the field. First, I will explain how we are countering Haiti's major destabilizers. Second, I will detail U.S. efforts to support the deployment of a new U.N.-authorized international force. Lastly, I will report on U.S. government investments, as well as emerging opportunities to advance U.S. interests and those of Haiti's neighbors in the region. First, let's establish a common operating picture. Haiti is a nettlesome foreign policy problem. Chronic political, economic, and governance dysfunction hinder stability. Yet, setting security conditions that..."
Hearing “A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
LOFGREN, ZOE "That's exactly the gap that the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act is intended to address. The bill is bipartisan and bicameral, and it was crafted really very carefully for more than two years, actually. I engaged with copyright holders, technology experts, service providers, public interest advocates, and after two years of sorting through the various issues, it resulted in that bill commonly known by the unlovely-sounding FADPA. It's grounded in a simple principle that Congress can fight online piracy without sacrificing due process, re-expression, privacy, or the open"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "as being a voice of sober facts and analysis. Politics is not a bad word. It is essential to the governing of a free society. But there needs to be a place at the table, at least internally, for nonpolitical analysis. In the creation of the council, our lawmakers quite deliberately created the Council of Economic Advisors, not the Council of Economic Policymakers. It is imperative that the chair of the council understands this. I do. Regarding the role of the chairman specifically, I see it as facilitating and coordinating such economic analysis within the CEA itself, and working with those..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
PRESSLEY, AYANNA "Our constituents deserve more protection from predatory EWA, not less. This is a common-sense amendment that the federal framework can be a floor, but it should not be a ceiling that hinders states from acting in the best interest of its residents. I urge all members to vote yes on my"
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_19 "when they had total control of this town, absolutely didn't do. They just not just they abdicated the first and most important job of the federal government, which is to provide for the common defense. They didn't secure our border. They didn't enforce our laws. And we had record deluge of drugs, people, crime, gangs, people on the terrorist watch list, people from countries of interest. And it was destroying it was destroying the fabric of this"
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
JORDAN, JIM "they said last September nope we're not gonna honor it they released him to the streets and he killed someone when it could have been easy someone would still be alive today and as I said before be one less angel family in this country if they would simply do the common-sense thing but no they want to expand it and they don't want they want to get they want to put back in this protected areas here's the other thing it's interesting they all defend what happened in Minneapolis when all the when all the protesters and rioters or whatever we want to call them went into the church so they're..."
CRS Report
Bangladesh
Resources · Nov 4, 2024
Bangladesh (East Pakistan until 1971) is a Muslim-majority South Asian nation bordering India and Burma (Myanmar) on the Bay of Bengal. The world’s eighth most populous country, with approximately...
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Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF): Cartel Lite?
Resources · Aug 2, 2018
Background on the GECF From 2013 and 2017, global natural gas production and consumption grew about 9%. However, as part of the overall fuel mix, which rose 5%, the contribution of natural gas has...
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Lawsuits Against the Federal Government: Basic Federal Court Procedure and Timelines
Resources · Dec 22, 2020
Many federal laws and policy initiatives are challenged in court. In recent years, for instance, plaintiffs have brought cases challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s rescission of the...
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Nominee Financial Disclosure During a Presidential Transition
Resources · Jan 2, 2025
Every four years, the United States conducts a presidential election. In instances where a transition from one presidential Administration to another occurs, one of the President-elect’s tasks is to...
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Disney-Fox Transaction
Resources · Jan 19, 2018
On December 14, 2017, the Walt Disney Company (Disney) and 21st Century Fox Inc. (Fox) announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Disney will acquire Fox for $66.1 billion. The...
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The North Atlantic Treaty: U.S. Legal Obligations and Congressional Authorities
Posts · Jan 6, 2025
On July 21, 1949, the Senate passed a resolution giving its advice and consent to the ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty, the multilateral collective security agreement that established the...
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Hospital-Based Emergency Departments: Background and Policy Considerations
Reports · Dec 8, 2014
Hospital-based Emergency Departments (EDs) are required to stabilize patients with emergent conditions regardless of the patients’ ability to pay as a requirement of the Emergency Medical Treatment...
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Antarctica: Overview of Geopolitical and Environmental Issues
Reports · Mar 10, 2021
Geopolitical and environmental developments are increasing international focus on Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Stakeholders contend these developments may have political, economic, and security...
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Social Media: Content Dissemination and Moderation Practices
Reports · Mar 20, 2025
Social media platforms disseminate information quickly to billions of global users. One of the main features of social media is the primacy of user-generated content: users can act as producers and...
Testimony MURPHY, GREGORY F.
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"They don't think about the NHL. They don't think about the PGA. You know, nonprofit status now has just exploded in this country, and for some good reasons, but for some other ones that we're now pointing out to. The fact that professional sports franchises are for-profit entities while sports leagues may qualify for tax-exemption status under current rules begs the question. So the justification for the tax-exempt status is that leagues operate as, quote, business leagues that serve as exempt..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
“AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"to comb resumes, to begin to kind of sift out people for that first round. And what they began to find, this particularly became an issue during the pandemic, was at times people who could do the job were unintentionally screened out, which of course for the business created a problem of there's an empty billet of someone who could have done a job, and now that job is not being done. That's one very specific example where not only does that type of bias offend our values, but it also goes..."
Testimony BRIAN YABLONSKI
Hearings to examine challenges and opportunities with implementing the...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"actually agreed to do it but we were the state of Florida was sued. The agency was sued right away and and Florida ended up backing off of it because of the I think it's interesting, one of the commonalities are large charismatic species, whether I was in Florida dealing with Florida panther or manatee, woke up the next"
Testimony MORAN, JERRY
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"I mean, I think we all wish that things were different than they are, but I especially wish things were different than they are in the Ag Committee if the outcome of today is Republicans vote one way and Democrats vote another, that interest ought to lie in the common ground that we all share. that I'm more bipartisan than somebody else is not what I'm trying to suggest, but I'm saying that we all ought to find this way to work"
Testimony THE HONORABLE TULSI GABBARD
Hearings to examine worldwide threats; to be immediately followed by a...
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Early developers in quantum computers will give countries an extraordinary technological advantage over others to quickly process national security information and break current encryption methodology used to protect sensitive finance, health care, and government information. The global security landscape is volatile and complex, with armed conflict growing more common and posing potential threats against U.S. interests. Strategic competition and regional and smaller powers are becoming more..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine Protecting American Citizenship lll: Denaturalizat...
senate Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Did you consider recusing yourself from that particular decision? Does the Florida canons not require you to recuse if one of the parties before you has an interest that could be reasonably concluded by any common citizen to cloud your judgment on that matter? I had only spoken to the"
Testimony MRS. CELIA WINSLOW
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"solution and then ended up being trapped. They didn't realize their credit scores were going to drop, that they wouldn't be able to get future loans. And so something like this, it's an important disclosure mechanism. It's what every other, everyone else in the industry does. You know, before you take out a loan, you get a disclosure right up front that tells you how much you're going to pay each month, what the interest rate is, et cetera. So just bringing some of those common sense things..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
H.R.4398, the “Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Account...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And there's other veterans just like him that are begging for access to the technology and simply being told no. There's no capacity is the most common thing that they're hearing or they just aren't interested. Yes, they already have the authority, but they're not doing"
Testimony COLLINS, SUSAN M.
Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"save patients' money and also according to the latest assessment from the CBO, save taxpayers $49 million. I find it extremely interesting that the ranking member has proposed nine amendments to this common sense bill. He has not proposed amendments to any other"
Testimony OMAR, ILHAN
"On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Provid...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"I share that worry with you as well. Every time we hear common sense from the other side, it seems like there is moneyed interest involved in it. So I appreciate that. Thank you. And I yield"
Testimony THE HONORABLE DANIEL SHAPIRO
Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the A...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"They put on the table proposals, not perfect proposals, but proposals that would help end the war and move smartly out in that direction. They see that still as their strategic interest, and they see that as a strategic interest because it includes them in a coalition of U.S.-aligned partners focused on common adversaries and building interdependence and security and prosperity together. However, they have also raised concerns, for example, the Israeli strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar,..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE HENRY WOOSTER
Hearings to examine Haiti 2026, focusing on security and foreign assis...
senate Appropriations Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"Today, I'll share three updates from the field. First, I will explain how we are countering Haiti's major destabilizers. Second, I will detail U.S. efforts to support the deployment of a new U.N.-authorized international force. Lastly, I will report on U.S. government investments, as well as emerging opportunities to advance U.S. interests and those of Haiti's neighbors in the region. First, let's establish a common operating picture. Haiti is a nettlesome foreign policy problem. Chronic..."
Testimony LOFGREN, ZOE
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"That's exactly the gap that the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act is intended to address. The bill is bipartisan and bicameral, and it was crafted really very carefully for more than two years, actually. I engaged with copyright holders, technology experts, service providers, public interest advocates, and after two years of sorting through the various issues, it resulted in that bill commonly known by the unlovely-sounding FADPA. It's grounded in a simple principle that Congress can fight online..."
Testimony MAST, BRIAN J.
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"I love that Commerce and State Department are working together. To me, it's very common sense, and the point that I would hone in on is that 60% that you for these commercial officers across the globe are filled by individuals from the State Department. And I think it's very common sense, obviously, anybody, any economic officers coming out of the State Department have just an intrinsic interest in working with everybody across the embassy or the consulate that they're in. They're a part of..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesot...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"as being a voice of sober facts and analysis. Politics is not a bad word. It is essential to the governing of a free society. But there needs to be a place at the table, at least internally, for nonpolitical analysis. In the creation of the council, our lawmakers quite deliberately created the Council of Economic Advisors, not the Council of Economic Policymakers. It is imperative that the chair of the council understands this. I do. Regarding the role of the chairman specifically, I see it as..."
Testimony TITUS, DINA
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"how it functions, how the sections interact, what it's supposed to do, who it's supposed to know, etc. To do that, I believe you should be a career Foreign Service officer. So, my amendment is simple. It requires that only members of the Foreign Service can serve as a DCM at post. Now, there's a carve-out for the Secretary to allow for exceptions, so long as he certifies to Congress on a case-by-case basis that special circumstances merit otherwise. But this is a common-sense amendment, I..."
Testimony PRESSLEY, AYANNA
Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Our constituents deserve more protection from predatory EWA, not less. This is a common-sense amendment that the federal framework can be a floor, but it should not be a ceiling that hinders states from acting in the best interest of its residents. I urge all members to vote yes on my"
Testimony SPEAKER_19
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"when they had total control of this town, absolutely didn't do. They just not just they abdicated the first and most important job of the federal government, which is to provide for the common defense. They didn't secure our border. They didn't enforce our laws. And we had record deluge of drugs, people, crime, gangs, people on the terrorist watch list, people from countries of interest. And it was destroying it was destroying the fabric of this"
Testimony JORDAN, JIM
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"they said last September nope we're not gonna honor it they released him to the streets and he killed someone when it could have been easy someone would still be alive today and as I said before be one less angel family in this country if they would simply do the common-sense thing but no they want to expand it and they don't want they want to get they want to put back in this protected areas here's the other thing it's interesting they all defend what happened in Minneapolis when all the when..."