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Hearing Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 18 transcript matches
CAITRIONA FITZGERALD "quo to continue. Consumers need adequate protections online, and I really do think that the solutions exist to do that in a way that would allow our businesses to thrive but empowered? We need a strong data minimization rule that limits data collection and use. It says to companies, you know, the ADPPA and APRA, limited data collection used to what was necessary for the product or service the consumer is asking for. So that means that companies have So that means that companies have to better align their data practices with what consumers expect. I don't expect my flashlight app to collect my..."
Hearing Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026 · Transcript · 12 transcript matches
FOSTER, BILL "Reform Act, the CFPB has led much of the federal government's efforts to protect Americans' financial data. They've proposed rules from Dodd-Frank to implement open banking that would have given consumers control over their data and increased competition by making it easier for consumers to switch to a different bank. The Bureau was improving oversight over data brokers who gather and share troves of sensitive data on consumers. While I appreciate the focus on data privacy by this committee, Americans would be best serviced by allowing the CFPB and its dedicated staff to continue their..."
Hearing Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's Resource Potential"
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 10 transcript matches
SPEAKER_12 "Earth MRI provides that foundation. Thank you. Yes, sir. This data, this resolution, and it's several different data sets, and again, I am a mapping expert, not a geologist, but, you know, it's hyperspectral imagery, it's 3D LiDAR technology, and this airborne geophysical data. Those data sets together provide that resolution and richness of data that allows us to zero in and target where some of these deposits are, whether in the past technology did not allow that, or helps us better define it, which, again, just provides efficiency if it's chose to go forward and mine and extract this data..."
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Regulation of Data Brokers: Executive Order 14117 on Preventing Access to Americans’ Sensitive Data by Countries of Concern
Posts · May 16, 2024
In February 2024, the Biden Administration issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14117 Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of...
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Federal Data Management: Issues and Challenges in the Use of Data Standards
Reports · Apr 29, 2024
The federal government manages a significant amount of data. Congress expects federal agencies to be effective managers and stewards of the data with which they are entrusted. Sometimes, Congress...
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Minding the Data Gap: NOAA’s Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellites and Strategies for Data Continuity
Reports · Jan 7, 2016
Concerns have been raised in Congress about the possibility of a “data gap” in the polar-orbiting weather satellite coverage. A near-term data gap could occur if the currently operating...
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Preventing Improper Payments: Lessons from Using Data Matching in Pandemic Relief Program Oversight
Resources · Feb 27, 2023
For the past several decades, data matching has enabled the use of government data to identify fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in benefit programs. Data matching is the comparison of different...
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Vehicle Geolocation Data Collection: Issues for the 119th Congress
Report · Jun 30, 2026
Passenger and fleet vehicles collect several types of data, including geolocation data. Vehicle geolocation data support features such as navigation, emergency response services, vehicle tracking...
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Online Consumer Data Collection and Data Privacy
Reports · Oct 31, 2022
Large amounts of consumer data can be collected, processed, and analyzed by operators of websites and mobile applications (apps) and third parties, which are entities other than the website or app...
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Standardizing Federal Data: Categorizing Approaches
Resources · Oct 21, 2024
Congress has at times enacted laws that specifically require federal agencies to use data standards, which establish rules to enhance the usability of data. This In Focus provides an overview of...
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The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: Background, Implementation, and Next Steps
Posts · Oct 24, 2022
On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed and issued the Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (the Data Protection EO or the EO). The Data...
Hearing Hearings to examine on threats and challenges posed to Department of Defense personnel and operations from adversarial access to publicly...
senate Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee · Oct 7, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing H.R. 38, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act; H.R. 60, the Knife Owners’ Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 2184, the Firearm Due Process...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2025 · Request transcript
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NOAA’s Commercial Data Program: Background and Considerations for Congress
Resources · May 30, 2024
Since 1970, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has operated satellites to collect environmental and weather data from space. With the rapid growth of the U.S. commercial space...
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Data Protection and Privacy Law: An Introduction
Resources · Oct 12, 2022
Recent controversy surrounding how third parties protect the privacy of individuals in the digital age has raised national concerns over legal protections of Americans’ electronic data. The current...
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Alternative Data in Financial Services
Resources · Nov 7, 2024
Alternative data generally refers to information used to determine a consumer’s creditworthiness that the national consumer reporting agencies (CRAs)—Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion—have not...
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Google Fined for Violation of EU Data Protection Law
Posts · Feb 22, 2019
In a decision testing what it means to give informed consent to online data collection, a French regulatory body recently fined Google LLC (Google) 50 million euro (approximately 56 million U.S....
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Just earlier this morning, Director, your team posted that Moonshot A.I. conducted large scale covert distillation to develop their newest K3 model. And so a few questions here. How do we balance an open innovation ecosystem while protecting American technology from I.P. threat? And how is OSTP responding to the threat to American A.I. leadership posed by Chinese open source and open weight models? Great. Thanks, Director. Modern research and AI model training runs on data, such as biological..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"We do that in all the public law 280 states. So if tribes are submitting their data, our data doesn't go out to any other agencies other than the federal agencies that we're required to report to. So we wouldn't be sharing their data with a non-federal agency unless the tribes shared that data with them. So we try to protect that data since it is submitted to us and it only goes to the people that were required to share it with like the criminal reporting"
Testimony SPEAKER_12
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Earth MRI provides that foundation. Thank you. Yes, sir. This data, this resolution, and it's several different data sets, and again, I am a mapping expert, not a geologist, but, you know, it's hyperspectral imagery, it's 3D LiDAR technology, and this airborne geophysical data. Those data sets together provide that resolution and richness of data that allows us to zero in and target where some of these deposits are, whether in the past technology did not allow that, or helps us better define..."
Testimony CAITRIONA FITZGERALD
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"quo to continue. Consumers need adequate protections online, and I really do think that the solutions exist to do that in a way that would allow our businesses to thrive but empowered? We need a strong data minimization rule that limits data collection and use. It says to companies, you know, the ADPPA and APRA, limited data collection used to what was necessary for the product or service the consumer is asking for. So that means that companies have So that means that companies have to better..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"I've long said that the core of any comprehensive privacy standard has to begin with strong data minimization. But if the SECURE Data Act contains a provision that claims to offer data minimization, it actually allows companies to do anything they want with consumer data with notice and consent. So my question to Ms. Fitzgerald, and I actually have four, so I'm going to ask you to answer them in a minute or so, if you could. So the first one is, how does the standard for data minimization in..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"Member Ramirez. Yeah, I mean, states and local governments have some of the most sensitive information about individuals, often even more sensitive than commercial providers have. And crucially, in many cases, this information that people have no choice but to provide to state and local governments to participate in getting benefits or to get critical services, it's not a voluntary relationship necessarily in all cases. And the kind of data we're talking about is from medical data to financial..."
Testimony ROBERT CEKADA
“Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relations...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 14, 2026
"Yeah, I think trace data is critical to law enforcement operations, state and local and federal law enforcement every day. But at the same note, I think it's equally critical that we maintain the integrity of that information and keep it for law enforcement purposes. I think there's numerous folks that want to assemble data from those reports and frankly, data is great, right? The only problem with data, and I've seen over 30 years, data can be manipulated to tell different stories with the..."
Testimony FOSTER, BILL
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"Reform Act, the CFPB has led much of the federal government's efforts to protect Americans' financial data. They've proposed rules from Dodd-Frank to implement open banking that would have given consumers control over their data and increased competition by making it easier for consumers to switch to a different bank. The Bureau was improving oversight over data brokers who gather and share troves of sensitive data on consumers. While I appreciate the focus on data privacy by this committee,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"And so I would say several things. First, the core of any data minimization framework should be that the end user has full control over their data and that they're given explicit disclosures, they understand how that data is being interacted with, they have the right to revoke that data, revoke that consent, and they understand what they're getting in exchange for permissioning access to their data, whether it's a budgeting tool or something else. And so fundamentally, that consumer control..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"what we're paying for and what we're achieving and what we need. We want to be able to match to the region in which we need to deliver it. So there is flexibility for us to do that. We will use the same regions. We will have the same boundaries. But we do have the ability to be on that. And what I said and which is what I have right now is my data right now, my utilization data, my cost data, understanding that there is a data lag and there's a claims lag. Providers can bill me six months after..."
Witness Josh Levi
Data Center Coalition · 2 hearings
Witness Zara Perumal
Overwatch Data · 1 hearing
Witness Nicholas Hart
Data Foundation · 1 hearing
Witness Julia Stoyanovich
Tandon School of Engineering, Center for Data Science, Center for Responsible AI, New York University · 1 hearing
Witness Kevin Dayaratna
Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. David Harkey
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Highway Loss Data Institute · 1 hearing
Witness Ms. Irene Parker
NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. David Robinson
Aligned Data Centers · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Steve Boms
Financial Data and Technology Association · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Nick Hart
Data Foundation · 1 hearing
Hearing "Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency."
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_15 "Thank you for the question, Mr. Chairman. So we have, I'd point to just a couple of quick things. First, the Purchaser Business Group on Health, one of our members, did a data demonstration project where they married claims data that employers have access to with the price transparency data as provided through Turquoise, and found that they were able to significantly better understand what they were paying, understand what plan designs would make a difference in terms of their ability to lower costs. What we've seen in the research that we've done in terms of researching with our employers,..."
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“Tracing Papers”: A Comparison of COVID-19 Data Privacy Bills
Posts · Jun 26, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread, many public health authorities are turning to contact tracing—measures to identify, notify, and monitor infected individuals’ contacts—to track potential COVID-19...
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Abortion, Data Privacy, and Law Enforcement Access: A Legal Overview
Posts · Jul 8, 2022
In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, some Members of Congress and commentators have expressed concerns that law enforcement officials may...
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Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Role in Criminal Justice Data Collection and Dissemination
Resources · Jun 15, 2021
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), established in 1979, is an agency within the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP). Its mission is “to collect, analyze, publish, and...
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"those are the big immediate gaps is filling in the parts of the map and looking at those areas of significant potential we haven't looked at yet. But we're proceeding as we With the additional funding, we not only increased the rate of data collection for the types of data we were already collecting, increased the funding we could provide to the state geological surveys and support their work. We could also diversify some of the data types we were collecting. I mentioned aeromagnetic and..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"I'm happy here to talk about the value of pre-competitive geoscience information that EarthMRI provides to sound decision-making for the nation. EarthMRI is transforming our understanding of the subsurface, and it's doing so in three ways, data, tools, and partnerships. I urge you to consider continuing this program and perhaps even expanding its scope. First, data. The data that EarthMRI provides is a public good, non-rival, non-excludable. It crosses many modalities, including geophysics,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. My first question for Dr. Letterer. Alaska has more than a century of accumulated geological field notes, maps, and exploration records, much of it still sitting in paper archives. Your testimony highlights how AI and machine learning can transform that kind of legacy data into modern discoveries. How does EarthMRI's data preservation How does Earth MRI's data preservation work combined with AI and machine learning tools enable us to revisit and unlock value from legacy..."
Testimony TRAHAN, LORI
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"exacerbates. Today, AI can be used to correlate data from across data sets, meaning anyone with access to an AI model can purchase your data from a broker and paint a very intimate picture of your life, from your location to your browsing data and your purchases. Bad actors can infer your sexual orientation, how much money you earn, and where you work, Ms. Fitzgerald, how can AI now draw these kinds of inferences about people who never about people who never knew that their data was collected..."
Testimony TRAHAN, LORI
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Thank you. As you mentioned, it's so critical that data privacy legislation provides Americans a meaningful way to prevent their data from being collected, stored, or sold by data brokers. While the bill requires data brokers to allow Americans to opt out, I have a bill, the DELETE Act, which would give Americans control over their own data by allowing them to force data brokers to delete their data and stop collecting future data through a single opt-out"
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"some of the consensus privacy approach we've seen emerge in the states. They provide consumers access to things like access to data and also the right to delete. You know, these are things that we're seeing in the discussion draft that are a very good start in terms of solidifying consumer rights. One of the other pieces that we've seen also in this discussion draft and we've seen in similar state privacy regimes is a data minimization component, and that data minimization component provides..."
Testimony SPEAKER_23
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"Well no I mean I think at the time right the inspector general's office, for example, audits an activity related to a data set, it never has modification access to the data because then it's clouded the audit trail. So as a basic matter of data security hygiene, you're never supposed to be in a position where you can actually modify the underlying data within a government database, especially a highly sensitive one We're out Can I add a little here? I would, oh, no. Just"
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"particularly as we see in the States, but the FTC can then come in and say that a company's not fulfilling its obligations under an unfairness and deceptiveness claim. But then, we also believe that if you have privacy-conscious consumers who also want to have increased data protections, they have the right to opt-out. They have the right to delete. They have the right to access that data, and that provides baseline protections. I think the concern with starting with an opt-in approach is that..."
Testimony YOUNG, TODD
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"pleased to introduce S4069, the AI-Ready Biodata Standards Act, along with my colleague Senator Lujan, so that the United States can start treating biological data as a national strategic asset. But standardizing biological data and other scientific data and preparing it to be used in AI-enabled sciences is very important, but it's not enough. It's only the first step toward modernizing American innovation. Dr. Atkinson, as Congress contemplates data security, what is our role in ensuring that..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
“AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I think there are really two things that really can be helpful in creating a regulatory environment for AI. One is passing national data privacy legislation. The Secure Data Act is currently in front of the E&C Committee right now. It is legislation that is based in large part on the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, and also along with 19 other states across the country as a model for privacy legislation that would put consumers in charge of their data and give them the right to delete it,..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH
The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"to ensure stable prices and full employment as best we can. Thank you for that. I think there So it's one data point. The reason I create a task force on data is I don't want to overread or cherry-pick data. There might be some that look at this morning's data and say, oh, mission accomplished, everything is swell. That is not my"
Testimony SPEAKER_08
Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances,...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"Beijing does not. It is assembling a single decision advantage architecture, and it is doing so faster than our policy is adapting. The commission has not yet developed its recommendations in this space. That will not happen until our report comes out in November. Speaking now in my personal capacity, I would respectfully urge this committee to act on that integrated view, to place a national security data regime covering geolocation, health, genomic, financial, and telecommunications data on..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances,...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"every data point becomes a new tool that they can use to create either a psychological operation against, and with the advent of AI, and the expansive nature of the different robust tools they have inside the United States. Someone was mentioning Salt Typhoon earlier. They have access to cell phone data. They have access to credit card data. They have access to your health data. Each of these data points collectively provides them with targets of opportunity on how to get involved with"
Testimony BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artific...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"on round two of my questions. And so I'd like to kind of pick up where Ms. Boat left off on privacy and data breaches. And in 2025, 52% of U.S. school districts experienced a cyber security incident. The year prior, a data breach at the company Power School exposed the data of 162 million students and 9.5 million teachers, the largest breach of children's educational data in U.S. history. So my first question is to you, Secretary"
Testimony THE HONORABLE HOWARD LUTNICK
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"I hope to be considered the greatest friend of the lobstermen who are a great asset, and you know I think that they are a great asset to our country. I had the pleasure when I was last over in the United Kingdom of going out and having them serve us Maine lobster in the United Kingdom because it was important because we opened that market. It had never been done before, so this was opening that market for our great lobster fishermen. We promise you that we will use the best data and the most..."
Testimony DUCKWORTH, TAMMY
Hearings to examine how shutdowns threaten air safety, travel, and the...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"I'd have to just refer you to the FAA. My problem is there's like all this different callout data. I've been trying to get a hold of all of the data. And if you guys were getting specific data from the FAA, I want to see that because the FAA has not provided it. And at one point, Secretary Duffy said he was getting 56 retirements a day. That was a number he put out, which I've not seen that backed up anywhere. And if it is, then I would need to know that. I'm just deeply concerned that there is..."
Testimony JARED LYON
Hearings to examine a grateful nation, focusing on maximizing veteran'...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Nov 5, 2025
"Through research funded by Google.org, we're working with state and university leaders to reduce barriers to education and enhance economic opportunity for veterans. Work that better data coordination would strengthen even further. Second, connect that data. The DOD tracks separations and training. VA tracks education benefits. The Department of Education tracks enrollment. The systems don't talk in real time. That leaves Congress and VA flying partially blind on the outcomes. We recommend that..."
Testimony MIKE HUTCHINGS
Hearings to examine a grateful nation, focusing on maximizing veteran'...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Nov 5, 2025
"There is incredible repetition within the support space and duplication of effort. I think there was a great component called out from a cohesive and collaboration perspective of a national veteran strategy to better identify the guidelines and principles and then a national veteran data commons, like Mr. Lyons said, about integrating disparate data sets together, pulsed in with state agency data, with community-based organization data, data mapped, parsed, standardized, to basically have..."
Hearing Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of AI surveillance pricing.
senate Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the functions of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation Hearing: “Modernizing Public Access to Legislative Data and...
house Modernization and Innovation Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2025"; H.R. 9203, "Student...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 1010 (Rep. Leger Fernandez), “Bridging Agency Data Gaps and Ensuring Safety for Native Communities Act” or the...
house Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing the full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 8463, Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act; 2) H.R. 8464, Stopping...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing “Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems: Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, standards, and strategic competition.
senate Space and Science · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
YOUNG, TODD "pleased to introduce S4069, the AI-Ready Biodata Standards Act, along with my colleague Senator Lujan, so that the United States can start treating biological data as a national strategic asset. But standardizing biological data and other scientific data and preparing it to be used in AI-enabled sciences is very important, but it's not enough. It's only the first step toward modernizing American innovation. Dr. Atkinson, as Congress contemplates data security, what is our role in ensuring that our scientific data as a national"
Hearing Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances, and security.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_08 "Beijing does not. It is assembling a single decision advantage architecture, and it is doing so faster than our policy is adapting. The commission has not yet developed its recommendations in this space. That will not happen until our report comes out in November. Speaking now in my personal capacity, I would respectfully urge this committee to act on that integrated view, to place a national security data regime covering geolocation, health, genomic, financial, and telecommunications data on durable statutory footing, to harden the telecommunications and data broker ecosystems that make..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, James Macy, of...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
BRETT MATSUMOTO "I have also worked on projects to support the production offices, mainly the Consumer Price Index Program. This includes work on alternative data projects, most notably a project to replace traditionally collected data with insurance claims data for the medical price indexes. In September 2024, I was promoted to a supervisory position where I oversee a small team of"
Testimony CRANK, JEFF
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"and earth MRI. They have the capacity to not only go out and get the data needed to better understand where our resources are, but to process the data. And one of the key tenets of USGS's mapping programs is that this data is publicly available. Can you share how much of the U.S. has been mapped under earth MRI, and what percentage of that data has been made publicly"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Yes, certainly as technology evolves. But I think one thing I will say for EarthMRI is that this is a solid foundation that the country can do all sorts of studies and benefit from for decades to come. We've been exploring the use of AI to help us do our mineral resource assessments to ingest these large data sets. Obviously, we have the new data from EarthMRI. We have legacy data that goes back from before the USGS was even founded and have been advancing techniques to accelerate the use of..."
Testimony SPEAKER_19
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Earth MRI should be central to the federal government's strategy to de-risk mineral exploration. Other countries have data-sharing frameworks that leverage broad-scale data sets, like Earth MRI, and then require finer-scale private sector data, such as drilling information, to be open access, lowering exploration costs, encouraging investment, and enabling sustainable land management. My research in Greenfields and Brownfields exploration shows that, for example, for the battery minerals, most..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"That's tight enough that you can start to identify individual targets. But to acquire that data at countrywide scale, and even if you exclude it only to magnetics and radiometrics, that's a significant undertaking. When you start adding other data types like airborne electromagnetics, you know, it's certainly a nice to have, but it starts to become more powerful the more data types you have in conjunction."
Testimony CRANK, JEFF
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Yeah. Dr. Letter, your testimony highlights how earth MRI data helps universities and private companies make better investment and research decisions. One of the program's greatest strengths is that this information is publicly available and it can be used by state geological surveys, by academia, and the private sector. As Congress looks to expand earth MRI and potentially accelerate data collection and processing through third-party contractors, should we be concerned about ensuring sensitive..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"They should have the ability to easily opt out across all data brokers and websites selling their data or using it for invasive targeted ads rather than opting out one by one. And they need to know that their data will be kept safe from data breaches and misuse and that they can pursue legal remedies if it's not. They need protections to ensure their data won't be used to discriminate against them. And our nation's kids and teens need the strongest possible protections for their"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"I have fought for years for data minimization standards to shift the burden of protecting Americans' privacy from consumers to the companies that profit off of their data. But the Secure Data Act's so-called data minimization provisions allow companies to collect and use data however they choose, as long as it's disclosed in the fine print. So this is just another notice and consent by a different"
Testimony CAITRIONA FITZGERALD
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Congress shouldn't be passing a privacy law that bakes this unfair system where companies get to dictate the terms into law. The Secure Data Act also fails to adequately protect our most sensitive data, like our location data. Sensitive data should have stronger protection than beyond simply consent because, in practice, that just leads to endless pop-ups that consumers grow numb"
Testimony CAITRIONA FITZGERALD
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"We know what's needed. Strong data minimization, heightened protections for sensitive data, limits on data discrimination, and robust enforcement. The Secure Data Act, unfortunately, doesn't meet the moment, but the solutions do"
Testimony TYLER BRIDEGAN
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"That is it for me, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Yeah. Compared to the GDPR, it is actually conceptually similar. There are similar restrictions in the GDPR about sensitive data and using consent in order to collect and use that data, but that is present in the Secure Data Act. There is a long history—Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, Washington State's most recent My Health, My Data"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"All right. And then the last thing is about preemption. The Secure Data Act contains very broad preemption language. It goes beyond what we saw in APRA and ADPPA and clearly preempts more than state comprehensive data privacy laws. So the question is, under the Secure Data Act, what is the potential scope of state preemption and how might this affect consumers in states that already have strong protections in the law? Thank you so"
Testimony MULLIN, KEVIN
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Texas recently led a suit against an insurance company that used third-party apps to collect trillions of miles worth of location data from over 45 million consumers nationwide and used that information to build what has been described as the world's largest driving behavior database. According to the allegations, insurers then use that data when setting or renewing consumers' insurance premiums. Under the Secure Data Act, even if those allegations are true, the company would have 45 days to..."
Testimony TYLER BRIDEGAN
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Those have mechanisms that can't really be completed in a 30- to 45-day window. You could say your counterparty to the agreement, big company, how do you—and you've sold that data to them. How do you—you can't suddenly void that sale of data, and if that company went on and used that data, that would also be another layer of arguably incurable conduct. I kind of—I have viewed the cure period as really something that goes for more of the facial violations, so not including the right language in..."
Testimony LEE, LAUREL M.
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"One of the major differences between the Secure Data Act and some of the existing privacy frameworks that we've been discussing here today is its requirement that companies obtain affirmative consent before processing sensitive information such as health information, biometric data, or precise geolocation data. During your time enforcing Texas privacy laws, what types of sensitive data abuses concerned you most, and how does an affirmative consent requirement help us prevent those abuses? What..."
Testimony BALDERSON, TROY
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Good afternoon. Last Congress, this committee considered data processing rules or data minimization standards that were equivalent to Europe's burdensome general data protection regulation. According to economic analysis, if the U.S. were to adopt European-style data"
Testimony TYLER BRIDEGAN
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"That is just one category that is an area where there needs to be heightened protections. We have seen that on a bipartisan basis. Illinois, Washington, Texas all have heightened data standards for sensitive data types, and several of them have standalone privacy laws for just those sensitive data types. And so I think it's important to keep in mind and really think through which requirements are actually protecting consumers from privacy harms. And I think California has a long list of—a long..."
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"damages off the hook completely. Meanwhile, credit bureaus and data brokers continue to collect and sell Americans' most sensitive financial information every single day. Without strong guardrails in place, that data can be exploited not just by corporations looking to but by bad actors eager to steal and use this data. Committee Democrats believe Americans should have the right to control their own data. Plain and simple, consumers should decide who gets access to their information and how it..."
Testimony FOSTER, BILL
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"I'd also like to highlight the upcoming NIST activities in standardizing agentic communication, which is coming up in the next month. If we do that right, that will be the next generation of this past simple APIs. Now, the CFPB's rulemaking on personal financial data rights focus not only on consumer consent and access rights for personal financial data, but also the interoperability of information systems and data portability. These frameworks were to be standards-based, going so far as to..."
Testimony SPEAKER_23
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"session just a few weeks ago with our affiliates, and talking about whether their community-based organizations are able to use AI tools, and I'm a big proponent in making sure that our communities are technically caught up, because I think we don't want a world that leaves them behind any more than it already does. And their big concern was data privacy. The reason why their staff feel uncomfortable using artificial intelligence in their work is because they don't know what's going to happen..."
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"attempts from private rights of action. But the other piece is this. When you look at things like data minimization standards like we have in the current draft before us or we see in the consensus privacy bills, they have data minimization standards that say that companies have to have reasonable use of data or here under the current draft, legitimate business"
Testimony BARR, ANDY
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"in open banking. Given that we need to strike this balance between the benefits of data minimization and then the potential cost of data over-minimization, can you tell us what your thoughts are on how we should calibrate data minimization standards to successfully strike that right"
Testimony LOUDERMILK, BARRY
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"But I would also say, if St. Patrick did drive the snakes out, I'm afraid a few of them ended up in Washington, D.C., so ... Again, thank you, Mr. Chairman. spending a lot of my career in data privacy and security. Mr. Taylor, many state data privacy laws contain rights for a consumer to be able to request access to and deletion of their data held by a firm. Could you discuss how these work in practice? Okay. Do you believe adding rights like these to GLBA would afford consumers greater control..."
Testimony LICCARDO, SAM T.
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"what they don't know about how it's being used and uh... i was looking at a twenty twenty one survey from from NORC uh... that uh... found that ninety three percent of fintech app users are not aware that data aggregators are scraping their data how they're using their data i have a lot of fintech"
Testimony DREW ENDY
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"So, to get a good foundation model in biology, we need to have the data, and that data needs to be consistent from the source by which it's gathered, from where it's gathered, and the methods by which it's gathered. And so, you know, the examples where this has worked are with protein structures, right? Sustained public investment in determining the three-dimensional shapes of proteins, how the atoms are positioned, resulted in data for tens of thousands of protein shapes. That data set was..."
Testimony DR. ROBERT ATKINSON
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"identifiable information? I think the most important component is scientific and technical data. They can go to town on that. Personal data is important as well, but if I had to prioritize, I'd do that. I think the university community has been, I don't want to say asleep at the switch, but this is not something they really want to do. This is an imposition on the university community. That's how they look at it, and I think that has to change. There are many, many cases where the Chinese will..."
Testimony SPEAKER_08
Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances,...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"be deemed working with the Chinese military? This has happened recently. So I think that when you have a situation where you have a pharmaceutical giant that has been labeled by the United States government as being part of the military ecosystem, and I think that that's Wu Xi should be included on that list. Older Americans are engaging with digital Sure, I'll continue, and please, anyone add on? Yeah, I think that the danger from data is something that we're just starting to get our arms..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artific...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"Education, Dr. Eric Mackey, as well as my colleague, Dr. Veronique Brown. For the past four years, we partnered with the Alabama Department of Education on what I believe is one of the most ambitious statewide efforts in the country to prepare K-12 and post-secondary learners for an AI-driven economy. Now, Alabama is not a state most people would associate with leading-edge tech education, and that's part of why what's happened there really matters. In recent, in its recent state-of-the-field..."
Testimony ANDY SCHNEIDER
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"So let's separate two things. We're looking, when we track child health enrollment, we are looking at current data from CMS plus what we can get from the state agencies because there's a little data lag between what the states provide and what CMS has. So if you're just looking at the CMS data, between January 2025 and April 2026, the Medicaid child numbers enrollment went down from 30.1 million to 28.2"
Testimony BEN WINTERS
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"My written testimony details more than a dozen legislative and oversight recommendations with specific bills that have already been introduced, but I want to spend a few minutes talking about that today, a few of them, sorry. So one, Congress should hold platforms accountable for spreading, delivering, and targeting scams by passing a bill like the SCAM Act introduced by Senators Moreno and Gallego. Should pass comprehensive data privacy laws, data minimization, and bans on the sale of..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE IRVING DENNIS
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 23, 2026
"We'll get that using AI. We'll convert that information into a data lake, and we'll run that data lake and measure it against structured, unstructured, and open source data to see if there's any conflicts, make sure the dollars are being spent as intended, and also in compliance with the grant agreement. So we're really excited about that. We piloted the program with great success with 10 grantees, and we're hopeful that we'll roll that out this year. I know it'll substantially enhance the..."
Testimony HIRONO, MAZIE K.
An oversight hearing to examine the Federal Regulatory Commission.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"of the applicant? So, one of the concerns now is how much these data centers, and maybe this is something that Commissioner Chang can respond to because I believe you talked about it, but the use of energy by these data centers, and what is FERC doing to make sure that the cost of these data centers do not fall unfairly upon rate payers? I think that the cost shifting is a definite"
Testimony ANDREW VON AH
Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improvin...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"At this point, it's our best option, although there are, and I think the agencies do refer to other sources when they're coordinating to avoid duplicative effort. Yeah, our work would suggest that we want to make sure that the data that we add would be accurate, right? So we did notice in the legislation this notion that it would be developed in concert with agriculture data, existing data, and so that certainly is an important piece of it. We have recommendations, again, for the agencies to..."
Testimony MR. ASAF MEIR
"Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event P...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Our software natively gathers otherwise siloed data sets that are traditionally overlooked. Those include open source intelligence, transactional data, account and KYC data, social sentiment analysis, as well as market events, news, and blockchain data when appropriate. We then combine them in real time with order and trade data in order to employ a holistic pattern recognition behavioral"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Full Committee Markup of Twenty-Nine Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"and on our monthly power bills. And if Congress doesn't act to put sufficient guardrails in place, we may need a moratorium on data centers. The bills before us today are a good start in addressing the impact that data centers have on our power bills, but they don't go far enough to ensure that big tech and other data center owners fully pay for the energy use and demand that they create. And the bills finally put some meat on the bones of Trump's empty promise, through an executive order, that..."
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Dr. Kothari, you don't have to answer this question, but I'm really excited about quantum computing. Do you think there's opportunities? Do you see a future for quantum computing in risk to it as well, but we can't have our head in the sand, and I'm always looking for better data and more accurate data and quicker data as well. Mr. McMaster, strong capital markets. Why are those important to Americans, and more specifically, hardworking Americans, small businesses, those types of things,..."
Testimony DR. RUSH DOSHI
Hearings to examine behind the label, focusing on foreign ownership an...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"On the coordination side, we would need some kind of White House-like body, I think, to bring all the different agencies together to get after this problem. There are many agencies that are involved and all of them have different kinds of data. FDA data, customs and immigration, customs data, excuse me, Department of Commerce data, all of that can be combined to give us a better picture of where our dependencies are. And then coordinated solutions are also going to require some degree of the..."
Testimony FROST, MAXWELL
“Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"as it relates to digital ID becoming mandatory is the risk of widespread data collection and exposing millions of Americans to harm, which is already an issue that this country seeped into many different ways, social media, online, different things like that. Mr. Stanley, how could digital ID systems become a barrier for Americans trying to access services, benefits out of a digital identity infrastructure. Part of my concern, too, is when we look at this administration, we know they've..."
Testimony DR. PATRICIA VALDEZ
Protecting American Innovation: The Federal Research Security Enterpri...
house Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party · Jul 15, 2026
"to be able to assist us when it comes to the National Security Concerns. Right. So we have taken steps to protect the controlled access data, so human data. There's now a restriction on individuals that are located in institutions in China or other foreign countries of concerns can no longer access that data. Human biospecimens cannot be shared with or sent to organizations in China or associated with China. So we"
Testimony KIM, ANDY
Hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congr...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"specifically invested in data centers in particular. I want to just get a sense, do you agree with these underlying economic risks, or do you believe that that analysis is overstating the risks? Yeah, I mean, it's something I'm trying to grapple with, too, so I'm not expecting that you have a fully baked answer right now, but I hope we can work on this together, because I do think when we're looking at that future, trying to think through the data, I'm trying to think through what data is going..."
Testimony DR. CYNTHIA VERST
Maintaining America’s Leadership in Biomedical Innovation: FDA’s Role ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"real-world evidence, life science models, you mentioned digital, digital twins, novel trial designs, which is absolutely critical. In addition, you mentioned wearables. The use of patient-reported outcomes, digital connected devices and reducing, if you will, the burden on the investigators and patients is just incredibly important. And the good news is that those digital data sets actually reduce less time, less burden, less cost in cleaning data. And, in fact, those data can actually be..."
Testimony HAWLEY, JOSH
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"My question to you is, and I realize that the Abortion Reporting System, there's been some talk of moving it to a different component in HHS other than CDC, but historically it's been located in what would be your agency. So if that continues to be the case, would you commit to trying to get as much information, again to collect the data, on the number and circumstances of abortions as is provided for in this system, to collect that data from these states and to work with those states that are..."
Testimony HAWLEY, JOSH
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Ma...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I'm sure the number, based on what we know so far, will be higher this year. And all of that is just based on what we can cobble together without full reporting. My question to you is, and I realize that the Abortion Reporting System, there's been some talk of moving it to a different component in HHS other than CDC, but historically it's been located in what would be your agency. So if that continues to be the case, would you commit to trying to get as much information, again to collect the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_08
H.R. 9641, H.R. 3108, H.R. 9642, H.R. 9468, H.R. 3514, H.R. 9644, and ...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"across all payer types in the Medicare and commercial markets. Section three amends section 1857 of the Social Security Act to require Medicare Advantage plans to provide data to CMS on the supplemental benefits offered to beneficiaries. Section four amends section 1859 of the Social Security Act to require Medicare Advantage plans to provide detailed claims data to CMS through the Encounter Data System. The amendment in the nature of a substitute adds sections three and four to the bill draft...."
Testimony DR. STERLING THOMAS
PACT Act Implementation: Modernizing VA Disability Claims Through Effe...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"Broadly, AI is still in early stages of development and implementation, and rapid deployment without deliberate focus on governance has already led to unintended consequences. Before pouring data science on the problem, we need solid, reliable, ground-truth data and human-in-the-loop to ensure data reliability and application of the technology. GAO has an AI accountability framework, which lays out these and other principles and key"
Testimony SPEAKER_16
H.R.4398, the “Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Account...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"care in relation to suicide prevention, and we plan to begin that work this year. Finally, VA does not support the three draft bills regarding data coordination between VA and HHS. VA agrees with the premise, we should not pay twice for the same services. And VA already has a data matching agreement with CMS towards that goal. However, these bills do not grant new authority, and more importantly, they do not address the core obstacle. Current law limits how VA and HHS can share billing and..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Subcommittee Markup of Eight Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Just a few weeks ago, committee Republicans initiated an investigation insisting that China is somehow the reason that Americans oppose an unlimited buildout of data centers. Well, that's not the case. In fact, when I go home in New Jersey, I talk to constituents who are concerned about data centers. These are real people with real worries, not paid Chinese actors or people unwittingly tricked by the Chinese Communist Party. It's simply not true. The committee has to take more aggressive action..."
Testimony CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
Hearings to examine improving safety across the National Airspace Syst...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"Captain. So there's a sense of agreement here, that more data, better data, and there probably are gaps in the data. So we may be looking at a larger"
Testimony MRS. STEPHANIE MCGARRAH
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Secondly, I would suggest that you allow states to leverage our action plans that are already in place. Heather talked about this from Texas' perspective. Our process took at least four to five months, and I'm regularly talking with citizens in western North Carolina who are sitting in moldy houses. So the four to five month process could have been greatly reduced. Third, make data sharing agreements between federal agencies and CDBGR grantees automatic. It's important that we get the data from..."
Testimony BRETT MATSUMOTO
Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, t...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"I have also worked on projects to support the production offices, mainly the Consumer Price Index Program. This includes work on alternative data projects, most notably a project to replace traditionally collected data with insurance claims data for the medical price indexes. In September 2024, I was promoted to a supervisory position where I oversee a small team of"
Testimony BRETT MATSUMOTO
Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, t...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"potential costs, but just to go through the list, one possibility would be the data from payroll companies. Another possibility would be potentially to use tax withholding data, and a final possibility is to use the data that go into the, that are reported to the state UI systems, and these are the data that are actually already used as part of the benchmarking process, but like I said, there would be challenges for each of those, but those are the avenues. I mean, I could go into more detail..."
Testimony BRETT MATSUMOTO
Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, t...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Certainly, transparency and openness with data users, I think, helps keep the process sort of free from political interference. If the data users can see sort of how the data are constructed, and that there is a reason for the methodological and data decisions that aren't political. And just, I will note, as the, I would be the sole political appointee at the BLS if confirmed, it is important that decisions not be made by me alone on these matters, that they come from the career staff with the..."
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
"We're calling it the American Scientific Cloud. So we're connecting and putting in an accessible format all the data sets, you know, from this particle accelerator and from this light source, to gather the world's largest and most exquisite scientific data set, because AI doesn't make up things on itself. It just learns from existing data. So we are creating an ability to access all these data"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Requ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"And because of this president's illegal war with Iran, gas is now, as we've heard continuously in this hearing, over $4 a gallon in my district. The White House announced its so-called ratepayer protection pledge with a whole lot of fanfare back in March. It sounded good, but guess what? Duke Energy is proposing to raise utility bills in North Carolina up to 18 percent over the next two years, and a lot of that is because of new data centers. Three of the four counties in my district have..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Thank you for the question, Mr. Chairman. So we have, I'd point to just a couple of quick things. First, the Purchaser Business Group on Health, one of our members, did a data demonstration project where they married claims data that employers have access to with the price transparency data as provided through Turquoise, and found that they were able to significantly better understand what they were paying, understand what plan designs would make a difference in terms of their ability to lower..."
Testimony SPEAKER_03
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Off the top of my head, I'm not sure. What I do know is that there are data vendors that block data from flowing to providers. That is a business practice that's a huge problem in terms of data access. My understanding and experience is, by and large, providers want to be able to leverage the data about their patient population to deliver the care that they need, but there might be other challenges about the different data systems that they're using across provider practices that make it very..."
Testimony SPEAKER_19
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"We know that prices are high and variable and are not linked to quality or not linked to things like cost shifting, but instead a key contributor is consolidation and market power. One example comes from the 32BJ Health Fund, which was able to get access to their own claims data and when they looked at their data, they realized that there was one hospital in the network that was particularly and excessively higher priced and so they used their data and actually decided to exclude that hospital..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
"Future of United States Maritime: Review of Fiscal Year 2027 Maritime...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"I appreciate the question. As I had mentioned for an earlier question also in my testimony, we are deploying every tool available to us from a technological standpoint to help enhance and weaponize our staff to do more. Enforcement is very data-driven, so about 60 percent of what we do does involve data. So much of our budget, you know, therefore reflects the need to focus on data, our resources that we are deploying online and able to access that way. So we're strengthening from within and..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"quote, begins actual construction to only require a Clean Air Act permit before constructing emitting units, not other facility components. And what this means is that a data center that relies on gas-polluting generators like those in my community, they'd be able to begin millions of dollars worth of construction without permits, and more importantly, without the public comment period that these permits require. One of the data center companies constructing a data center in my community is..."
Testimony CAROLE HOUSE
Modernizing the BSA for Financial Crime in the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · May 21, 2026
"A few options. That's great. So, besides, I think you can leverage some of this technology to do things like, let's imagine structuring SARs. This was a great opportunity where banks and others have expressed concerns there. FinCEN could publish an attachment format with the column headers of basically the different data fields that they want to help automate, banks being able to export that data and not having to spend time generating narratives. I think that there are some of those..."
Testimony PROFESSOR YESHA YADAV
Task Force on Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economi...
house Financial Services Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"In addition, of course, we have regular, well-known problems with swaps reporting. In the case of swaps, for example, there are well-known issues right now with respect to how to deal with fixing errors in the swap reporting system, trying to reconcile data across multiple swaps data repositories, trying to report data to the CFTC in a timely way. Second of all, our regulatory structure today is just not capable of remedying these"
Testimony GUTHRIE, BRETT
AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepay...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"coming from data centers are raising concerns about affordability in our communities, but we are charting a path to ensure, and as the ranking member said, we can find common ground on that data center growth works for all Americans and not just big tech companies. When done right, research and evidence continue to show that low growth coming from data centers actually lowers costs for communities because new data centers bring needed investment into the grid, modernization while connecting..."
Testimony GUTHRIE, BRETT
AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepay...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"households. These bills enhance the state's important role in planning a more affordable and reliable grid. We're also ensuring that data centers are paying their fair share. Data centers should pay for the load that comes into the data center, so while we may not agree with every provision in the bill, these proposals will foster discussion about how to implement a vision of our system that keeps costs low for households and ensures U.S. leadership in the next generation economy. So I look..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine Department of Defense missile defense activities i...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 27, 2026
"It's really increasing at an ever-increasing rate, and the ability to do integrated battle management and integrated command and control is paramount to the success of these weapon systems going forward. We have, during the operation, we meet with the warfighter every single day. We pull data from the systems every single day and analyze every data source from every weapon system, and we have been feeding that data back to the operators. They have been making tactics changes, technique..."
Testimony MS. ROSA THURNHER
"Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of...
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"them back, and I can't build loyalty. The platform owns that relationship, not the restaurant. In today's economy, data is currency, and that data is being withheld from the very businesses creating the value. Without access to our own customer data, we can't build relationships, make informed decisions, or compete on a level playing field. And then there is visibility. Whether a customer sees my restaurant often depends on whether I am paying for promotions, offering discounts, or meeting..."
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, t...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"and DHS is not able to actually tell the story, and quite frankly, we've asked DHS several times, hey, give us more information, more data on this. One of the things I'd love to know is just that you've been one of us for a long time in this. You know the importance of oversight and what that means on this to be able to get data to members of Congress and to the American people, and so quite frankly, we can see the story as well. So I'm not asking for a pledge because I already know your heart..."
Testimony PALMER, GARY J.
“From Source to Tap: A Hearing to Examine Challenges and Opportunities...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"That's part of my concern is them embedding the ability to interfere with their water systems. Is that a concern for the rural systems? data issues related to oversight Ms Murley and does the EPA data systems interface with state data systems? And reading your testimony, and you commented on it in your testimony about the"
Testimony MR. KIT BREWER
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"toward that elimination or have taken steps to limit it, and I think we should all ask the question, why? That can be an ideological question, that can be based on a faulty assumption that every individual is both capable of transition into that competitive marketplace, and that every individual desires to make that transition. Both of those statements are false, and I appreciate my colleagues' thoughts that data would disagree with that statement, but data is precisely what is missing in this..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artificial intelligence.
senate Children and Families Subcommittee · Jun 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA "on round two of my questions. And so I'd like to kind of pick up where Ms. Boat left off on privacy and data breaches. And in 2025, 52% of U.S. school districts experienced a cyber security incident. The year prior, a data breach at the company Power School exposed the data of 162 million students and 9.5 million teachers, the largest breach of children's educational data in U.S. history. So my first question is to you, Secretary"
Hearing Hearings to examine a grateful nation, focusing on maximizing veteran's success after service.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Nov 5, 2025 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
JARED LYON "Through research funded by Google.org, we're working with state and university leaders to reduce barriers to education and enhance economic opportunity for veterans. Work that better data coordination would strengthen even further. Second, connect that data. The DOD tracks separations and training. VA tracks education benefits. The Department of Education tracks enrollment. The systems don't talk in real time. That leaves Congress and VA flying partially blind on the outcomes. We recommend that VA lead an interagency transition data task force with DOD, Ed, Labor to deliver within 12 months a..."
Hearing An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_20 "We're calling it the American Scientific Cloud. So we're connecting and putting in an accessible format all the data sets, you know, from this particle accelerator and from this light source, to gather the world's largest and most exquisite scientific data set, because AI doesn't make up things on itself. It just learns from existing data. So we are creating an ability to access all these data"
Hearing AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepayers
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GUTHRIE, BRETT "coming from data centers are raising concerns about affordability in our communities, but we are charting a path to ensure, and as the ranking member said, we can find common ground on that data center growth works for all Americans and not just big tech companies. When done right, research and evidence continue to show that low growth coming from data centers actually lowers costs for communities because new data centers bring needed investment into the grid, modernization while connecting baseload energy that keeps the lights on for everybody for 365 days a year. Even more, these..."
Hearing Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the FY2027 Research and Technology Enterprise
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_03 "Just earlier this morning, Director, your team posted that Moonshot A.I. conducted large scale covert distillation to develop their newest K3 model. And so a few questions here. How do we balance an open innovation ecosystem while protecting American technology from I.P. threat? And how is OSTP responding to the threat to American A.I. leadership posed by Chinese open source and open weight models? Great. Thanks, Director. Modern research and AI model training runs on data, such as biological databases and materials data. American leadership in these fields depends on the quality and..."
Hearing Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country”
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "We do that in all the public law 280 states. So if tribes are submitting their data, our data doesn't go out to any other agencies other than the federal agencies that we're required to report to. So we wouldn't be sharing their data with a non-federal agency unless the tribes shared that data with them. So we try to protect that data since it is submitted to us and it only goes to the people that were required to share it with like the criminal reporting"
Hearing “State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnership, and the Resilience of America’s Communities”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_05 "Member Ramirez. Yeah, I mean, states and local governments have some of the most sensitive information about individuals, often even more sensitive than commercial providers have. And crucially, in many cases, this information that people have no choice but to provide to state and local governments to participate in getting benefits or to get critical services, it's not a voluntary relationship necessarily in all cases. And the kind of data we're talking about is from medical data to financial data to your social security number to information about children and their health conditions. And..."
Hearing “Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relationship to the Tiahrt Amendment”
house Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee · May 14, 2026 · Transcript
ROBERT CEKADA "Yeah, I think trace data is critical to law enforcement operations, state and local and federal law enforcement every day. But at the same note, I think it's equally critical that we maintain the integrity of that information and keep it for law enforcement purposes. I think there's numerous folks that want to assemble data from those reports and frankly, data is great, right? The only problem with data, and I've seen over 30 years, data can be manipulated to tell different stories with the same data. And I don't think it's fair to the public who have been victims of crimes or those members..."
Hearing Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversight
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "what we're paying for and what we're achieving and what we need. We want to be able to match to the region in which we need to deliver it. So there is flexibility for us to do that. We will use the same regions. We will have the same boundaries. But we do have the ability to be on that. And what I said and which is what I have right now is my data right now, my utilization data, my cost data, understanding that there is a data lag and there's a claims lag. Providers can bill me six months after the fact. And so the data that I have right now shows that our appropriation for FY 26 is accurate...."
Hearing “AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_18 "I think there are really two things that really can be helpful in creating a regulatory environment for AI. One is passing national data privacy legislation. The Secure Data Act is currently in front of the E&C Committee right now. It is legislation that is based in large part on the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, and also along with 19 other states across the country as a model for privacy legislation that would put consumers in charge of their data and give them the right to delete it, correct it. But at the same time, we also do need a national AI framework as well that prevents a..."
Hearing The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH "to ensure stable prices and full employment as best we can. Thank you for that. I think there So it's one data point. The reason I create a task force on data is I don't want to overread or cherry-pick data. There might be some that look at this morning's data and say, oh, mission accomplished, everything is swell. That is not my"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Commerce.
senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE HOWARD LUTNICK "I hope to be considered the greatest friend of the lobstermen who are a great asset, and you know I think that they are a great asset to our country. I had the pleasure when I was last over in the United Kingdom of going out and having them serve us Maine lobster in the United Kingdom because it was important because we opened that market. It had never been done before, so this was opening that market for our great lobster fishermen. We promise you that we will use the best data and the most precise data to make sure that our decisions are right for America, and they need to be right for the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine how shutdowns threaten air safety, travel, and the economy.
senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
DUCKWORTH, TAMMY "I'd have to just refer you to the FAA. My problem is there's like all this different callout data. I've been trying to get a hold of all of the data. And if you guys were getting specific data from the FAA, I want to see that because the FAA has not provided it. And at one point, Secretary Duffy said he was getting 56 retirements a day. That was a number he put out, which I've not seen that backed up anywhere. And if it is, then I would need to know that. I'm just deeply concerned that there is a nebulous term of the data. And we don't know what that is. And if we want to look towards the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
ANDY SCHNEIDER "So let's separate two things. We're looking, when we track child health enrollment, we are looking at current data from CMS plus what we can get from the state agencies because there's a little data lag between what the states provide and what CMS has. So if you're just looking at the CMS data, between January 2025 and April 2026, the Medicaid child numbers enrollment went down from 30.1 million to 28.2"
Hearing Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, chatbots, and the new frontier of senior fraud.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
BEN WINTERS "My written testimony details more than a dozen legislative and oversight recommendations with specific bills that have already been introduced, but I want to spend a few minutes talking about that today, a few of them, sorry. So one, Congress should hold platforms accountable for spreading, delivering, and targeting scams by passing a bill like the SCAM Act introduced by Senators Moreno and Gallego. Should pass comprehensive data privacy laws, data minimization, and bans on the sale of sensitive data so it's no longer allowed to be able to sell lists of people battling Alzheimer's for..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews,...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 23, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE IRVING DENNIS "We'll get that using AI. We'll convert that information into a data lake, and we'll run that data lake and measure it against structured, unstructured, and open source data to see if there's any conflicts, make sure the dollars are being spent as intended, and also in compliance with the grant agreement. So we're really excited about that. We piloted the program with great success with 10 grantees, and we're hopeful that we'll roll that out this year. I know it'll substantially enhance the control environment, but more importantly, how the funds are being spent to make sure they're being..."
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Federal Regulatory Commission.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
HIRONO, MAZIE K. "of the applicant? So, one of the concerns now is how much these data centers, and maybe this is something that Commissioner Chang can respond to because I believe you talked about it, but the use of energy by these data centers, and what is FERC doing to make sure that the cost of these data centers do not fall unfairly upon rate payers? I think that the cost shifting is a definite"
Hearing Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
ANDREW VON AH "At this point, it's our best option, although there are, and I think the agencies do refer to other sources when they're coordinating to avoid duplicative effort. Yeah, our work would suggest that we want to make sure that the data that we add would be accurate, right? So we did notice in the legislation this notion that it would be developed in concert with agriculture data, existing data, and so that certainly is an important piece of it. We have recommendations, again, for the agencies to sort of continue to feed data to the map and to do it in a more uniform and timely manner, and so..."
Hearing "Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event Prediction Markets"
house Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
MR. ASAF MEIR "Our software natively gathers otherwise siloed data sets that are traditionally overlooked. Those include open source intelligence, transactional data, account and KYC data, social sentiment analysis, as well as market events, news, and blockchain data when appropriate. We then combine them in real time with order and trade data in order to employ a holistic pattern recognition behavioral"
Hearing Full Committee Markup of Twenty-Nine Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 20, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "and on our monthly power bills. And if Congress doesn't act to put sufficient guardrails in place, we may need a moratorium on data centers. The bills before us today are a good start in addressing the impact that data centers have on our power bills, but they don't go far enough to ensure that big tech and other data center owners fully pay for the energy use and demand that they create. And the bills finally put some meat on the bones of Trump's empty promise, through an executive order, that big tech would, quote, pay their fair"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under Secretary,...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
MARSHALL, ROGER "Dr. Kothari, you don't have to answer this question, but I'm really excited about quantum computing. Do you think there's opportunities? Do you see a future for quantum computing in risk to it as well, but we can't have our head in the sand, and I'm always looking for better data and more accurate data and quicker data as well. Mr. McMaster, strong capital markets. Why are those important to Americans, and more specifically, hardworking Americans, small businesses, those types of things, savers, retirees? Thank you for the question, Senator, and I appreciate"
Hearing Hearings to examine behind the label, focusing on foreign ownership and control in America's drug supply chain.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
DR. RUSH DOSHI "On the coordination side, we would need some kind of White House-like body, I think, to bring all the different agencies together to get after this problem. There are many agencies that are involved and all of them have different kinds of data. FDA data, customs and immigration, customs data, excuse me, Department of Commerce data, all of that can be combined to give us a better picture of where our dependencies are. And then coordinated solutions are also going to require some degree of the government"
Hearing “Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
FROST, MAXWELL "as it relates to digital ID becoming mandatory is the risk of widespread data collection and exposing millions of Americans to harm, which is already an issue that this country seeped into many different ways, social media, online, different things like that. Mr. Stanley, how could digital ID systems become a barrier for Americans trying to access services, benefits out of a digital identity infrastructure. Part of my concern, too, is when we look at this administration, we know they've empowered big tech companies like Palantir to create databases of Americans personal data for government..."
Hearing Protecting American Innovation: The Federal Research Security Enterprise
house Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
DR. PATRICIA VALDEZ "to be able to assist us when it comes to the National Security Concerns. Right. So we have taken steps to protect the controlled access data, so human data. There's now a restriction on individuals that are located in institutions in China or other foreign countries of concerns can no longer access that data. Human biospecimens cannot be shared with or sent to organizations in China or associated with China. So we"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
KIM, ANDY "specifically invested in data centers in particular. I want to just get a sense, do you agree with these underlying economic risks, or do you believe that that analysis is overstating the risks? Yeah, I mean, it's something I'm trying to grapple with, too, so I'm not expecting that you have a fully baked answer right now, but I hope we can work on this together, because I do think when we're looking at that future, trying to think through the data, I'm trying to think through what data is going to allow us to understand how exposed we are, what the concerns are. And I guess I would just ask..."
Hearing Maintaining America’s Leadership in Biomedical Innovation: FDA’s Role in Advancing U.S. Drug Development.
house Health Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
DR. CYNTHIA VERST "real-world evidence, life science models, you mentioned digital, digital twins, novel trial designs, which is absolutely critical. In addition, you mentioned wearables. The use of patient-reported outcomes, digital connected devices and reducing, if you will, the burden on the investigators and patients is just incredibly important. And the good news is that those digital data sets actually reduce less time, less burden, less cost in cleaning data. And, in fact, those data can actually be surfaced for early signal detection, thus accelerating development. Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman, I..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and Erica Schwartz, of...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
HAWLEY, JOSH "My question to you is, and I realize that the Abortion Reporting System, there's been some talk of moving it to a different component in HHS other than CDC, but historically it's been located in what would be your agency. So if that continues to be the case, would you commit to trying to get as much information, again to collect the data, on the number and circumstances of abortions as is provided for in this system, to collect that data from these states and to work with those states that are currently holding out and not giving it to actually get the data so that we can know, we can get a..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, James...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
HAWLEY, JOSH "I'm sure the number, based on what we know so far, will be higher this year. And all of that is just based on what we can cobble together without full reporting. My question to you is, and I realize that the Abortion Reporting System, there's been some talk of moving it to a different component in HHS other than CDC, but historically it's been located in what would be your agency. So if that continues to be the case, would you commit to trying to get as much information, again to collect the data, on the number and circumstances of abortions as is provided for in this system, to collect that..."
Hearing H.R. 9641, H.R. 3108, H.R. 9642, H.R. 9468, H.R. 3514, H.R. 9644, and H.R. 9645
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "across all payer types in the Medicare and commercial markets. Section three amends section 1857 of the Social Security Act to require Medicare Advantage plans to provide data to CMS on the supplemental benefits offered to beneficiaries. Section four amends section 1859 of the Social Security Act to require Medicare Advantage plans to provide detailed claims data to CMS through the Encounter Data System. The amendment in the nature of a substitute adds sections three and four to the bill draft. This concludes the technical"
Hearing PACT Act Implementation: Modernizing VA Disability Claims Through Effective Technology
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jul 13, 2026 · Transcript
DR. STERLING THOMAS "Broadly, AI is still in early stages of development and implementation, and rapid deployment without deliberate focus on governance has already led to unintended consequences. Before pouring data science on the problem, we need solid, reliable, ground-truth data and human-in-the-loop to ensure data reliability and application of the technology. GAO has an AI accountability framework, which lays out these and other principles and key"
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_16 "care in relation to suicide prevention, and we plan to begin that work this year. Finally, VA does not support the three draft bills regarding data coordination between VA and HHS. VA agrees with the premise, we should not pay twice for the same services. And VA already has a data matching agreement with CMS towards that goal. However, these bills do not grant new authority, and more importantly, they do not address the core obstacle. Current law limits how VA and HHS can share billing and payment data. VA would welcome working with the Committee on legislation that directly addresses these..."
Hearing Subcommittee Markup of Eight Pieces of Legislation
house Energy Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "Just a few weeks ago, committee Republicans initiated an investigation insisting that China is somehow the reason that Americans oppose an unlimited buildout of data centers. Well, that's not the case. In fact, when I go home in New Jersey, I talk to constituents who are concerned about data centers. These are real people with real worries, not paid Chinese actors or people unwittingly tricked by the Chinese Communist Party. It's simply not true. The committee has to take more aggressive action to ensure that data center developers are held accountable and that consumers aren't left holding..."
Hearing Hearings to examine improving safety across the National Airspace System.
senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE "Captain. So there's a sense of agreement here, that more data, better data, and there probably are gaps in the data. So we may be looking at a larger"
Hearing Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
MRS. STEPHANIE MCGARRAH "Secondly, I would suggest that you allow states to leverage our action plans that are already in place. Heather talked about this from Texas' perspective. Our process took at least four to five months, and I'm regularly talking with citizens in western North Carolina who are sitting in moldy houses. So the four to five month process could have been greatly reduced. Third, make data sharing agreements between federal agencies and CDBGR grantees automatic. It's important that we get the data from these other federal agencies, but it takes months. Again, we have a lot of distrust of government..."
Hearing "Future of United States Maritime: Review of Fiscal Year 2027 Maritime Administration and Federal Maritime Commission Budget Requests"
house Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "I appreciate the question. As I had mentioned for an earlier question also in my testimony, we are deploying every tool available to us from a technological standpoint to help enhance and weaponize our staff to do more. Enforcement is very data-driven, so about 60 percent of what we do does involve data. So much of our budget, you know, therefore reflects the need to focus on data, our resources that we are deploying online and able to access that way. So we're strengthening from within and empowering our staff as we have them today. And with time, you know, just as the maritime space is..."
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
UNKNOWN "quote, begins actual construction to only require a Clean Air Act permit before constructing emitting units, not other facility components. And what this means is that a data center that relies on gas-polluting generators like those in my community, they'd be able to begin millions of dollars worth of construction without permits, and more importantly, without the public comment period that these permits require. One of the data center companies constructing a data center in my community is Meta. And Meta made all sorts of assurances before coming into the"
Hearing Modernizing the BSA for Financial Crime in the 21st Century
house National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
CAROLE HOUSE "A few options. That's great. So, besides, I think you can leverage some of this technology to do things like, let's imagine structuring SARs. This was a great opportunity where banks and others have expressed concerns there. FinCEN could publish an attachment format with the column headers of basically the different data fields that they want to help automate, banks being able to export that data and not having to spend time generating narratives. I think that there are some of those opportunities for allowing for greater automation, ingesting of the raw data files and the authoritative..."
Hearing Task Force on Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economic Prosperity: Examining Derivatives’ Role in the Treasury Market
house Financial Services Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
PROFESSOR YESHA YADAV "In addition, of course, we have regular, well-known problems with swaps reporting. In the case of swaps, for example, there are well-known issues right now with respect to how to deal with fixing errors in the swap reporting system, trying to reconcile data across multiple swaps data repositories, trying to report data to the CFTC in a timely way. Second of all, our regulatory structure today is just not capable of remedying these"
Hearing Hearings to examine Department of Defense missile defense activities in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2027 and the...
senate Strategic Forces Subcommittee · Apr 27, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "It's really increasing at an ever-increasing rate, and the ability to do integrated battle management and integrated command and control is paramount to the success of these weapon systems going forward. We have, during the operation, we meet with the warfighter every single day. We pull data from the systems every single day and analyze every data source from every weapon system, and we have been feeding that data back to the operators. They have been making tactics changes, technique procedure changes within a day of seeing the adversary make a change as we go"
Hearing "Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of Entrepreneurship."
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
MS. ROSA THURNHER "them back, and I can't build loyalty. The platform owns that relationship, not the restaurant. In today's economy, data is currency, and that data is being withheld from the very businesses creating the value. Without access to our own customer data, we can't build relationships, make informed decisions, or compete on a level playing field. And then there is visibility. Whether a customer sees my restaurant often depends on whether I am paying for promotions, offering discounts, or meeting performance metrics that I don't fully control. When I stopped paying for advertising, my sales dropped,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
LANKFORD, JAMES "and DHS is not able to actually tell the story, and quite frankly, we've asked DHS several times, hey, give us more information, more data on this. One of the things I'd love to know is just that you've been one of us for a long time in this. You know the importance of oversight and what that means on this to be able to get data to members of Congress and to the American people, and so quite frankly, we can see the story as well. So I'm not asking for a pledge because I already know your heart on that, but I want to just be able to open that up on how we can actually get more data and..."
Hearing “From Source to Tap: A Hearing to Examine Challenges and Opportunities for Safe, Reliable, and Affordable Drinking Water.”
house Environment Subcommittee · Feb 24, 2026 · Transcript
PALMER, GARY J. "That's part of my concern is them embedding the ability to interfere with their water systems. Is that a concern for the rural systems? data issues related to oversight Ms Murley and does the EPA data systems interface with state data systems? And reading your testimony, and you commented on it in your testimony about the"
Hearing "Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026 · Transcript
MR. KIT BREWER "toward that elimination or have taken steps to limit it, and I think we should all ask the question, why? That can be an ideological question, that can be based on a faulty assumption that every individual is both capable of transition into that competitive marketplace, and that every individual desires to make that transition. Both of those statements are false, and I appreciate my colleagues' thoughts that data would disagree with that statement, but data is precisely what is missing in this space. There is not any data to show that these transitions have been successful, and in fact, the..."
Hearing From Orbit to Operations: How Weather Satellites Support the National Security Mission
house Environment Subcommittee · Jan 13, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Ms. Irene Parker, NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
Hearing Ready for Reuse: Legislative Proposals to Unleash the Potential of America’s Brownfields Sites
house Environment Subcommittee · Mar 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. David Robinson, Aligned Data Centers
Hearing Public Witness Day
house Legislative Branch Subcommittee · Apr 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Nicholas Hart, Data Foundation
Hearing DeepSeek: A Deep Dive
house Research and Technology Subcommittee · Apr 8, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Julia Stoyanovich, Tandon School of Engineering, Center for Data Science, Center for Responsible AI, New York University
Hearing Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 573 (Rep. Yakym), “Studying NEPA’s Impact on Projects Act” • H.R. 4503 (Rep. Johnson), “ePermit Act” • H.R. 4776...
house Natural Resources Committee · Sep 10, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Josh Levi, Data Center Coalition
Hearing “Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Exploitation: A New Era of Risk”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Jul 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Zara Perumal, Overwatch Data
Hearing Looking Under the Hood: The State of NHTSA and Motor Vehicle Safety
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 26, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. David Harkey, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Highway Loss Data Institute
Hearing Member Day
house Legislative Branch Subcommittee · Mar 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Nick Hart, Data Foundation
Hearing “America’s AI Moonshot: The Economics of AI, Data Centers, and Power Consumption”
house Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee · Apr 1, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Josh Levi, Data Center Coalition
Hearing Oversight hearing titled "Unleashing the Golden Age of American Energy Dominance."
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Apr 2, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Kevin Dayaratna, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation
Committee Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee