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Temporary Control of 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) and Related Substances Under the Controlled Substances Act
Legal Sidebar · Jul 17, 2026
On July 1, 2026, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced its intent to temporarily place a chemical found in the kratom plant, 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), and three related...
Testimony CARTER, TROY A.
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"fuel pipe emissions, driving those health crises. Vehicle emission standards have saved families money at a time when the President's reckless war in Iran has sent gas prices skyrocketing. Since the Clean Air Act, vehicles' efficiency requirements took effect. Americans have saved hundreds of billions of dollars in fuel costs, as cars and trucks have become dramatically more fuel-efficient, meaning every trip to the gas station costs less and every tank of gas goes further than would have..."
CRS Report
The Legal Framework for Federal Methane Regulation
Resources · Sep 5, 2023
Methane is a greenhouse gas with 25 times the warming capacity of carbon dioxide. Methane makes up about 11% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Primary sources of methane include...
CRS Report
Small Water Systems: Selected Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Provisions
Reports · Nov 22, 2022
The nation’s public water systems face a range of challenges, including disruptions of safe and reliable water supplies due to cyberattacks or natural hazards, detections of unregulated contaminants...
Hearing Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
KEAN, THOMAS H. "In my home state of New Jersey, I've heard from constituents who have spoken firsthand about the dangers of a product found at gas stations and convenience stores across the country, nitrous oxide"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Cleaning up the transportation sector helps Americans save on fueling costs while cleaning up the air that we breathe and combating the climate crisis. In fact, the average electric vehicle driver pays roughly the equivalent of $1 to $2 per gallon while everyone else is spending over $4 at the gas station right now. At a time when Americans are hurting financially, we should be looking to cut costs for hardworking"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"As I mentioned in my testimony, since February, President Trump's war has caused a massive increase in the price of gasoline. Drivers are dreading the trip to the gas station and calling it paying at the pump. Today on average, gas is over $4.26 per gallon, and diesel is about $5.41 per"
Testimony KEAN, THOMAS H.
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"In my home state of New Jersey, I've heard from constituents who have spoken firsthand about the dangers of a product found at gas stations and convenience stores across the country, nitrous oxide"
Testimony KEAN, THOMAS H.
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"are being sold without restriction to youth and adults who have no knowledge of the dangers associated with the substance that they are inhaling. And that's why today I am sending letters to gas stations, convenience stores, online retailers across the country who have sold nitrous oxide to unsuspecting consumers. Will you agree that the sale of nitrous oxide canisters at gas stations presents a scenario where most consumers are not legitimate culinary businesses? And I share your concern, and..."
Testimony MCCLAIN DELANEY, APRIL
Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"critical legislation that is coming up for consideration this morning. As we learned in our hearing last year on the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotech Seminal Report and their recommendations to Congress, biotechnology stands at a very critical juncture. The policies that we advance today will shape the next century of scientific discoveries and determine whether the U.S. can keep its competitive edge. Most of us never think about weights and measurements, and that's exactly the..."
Testimony MCGARVEY, MORGAN
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"our country by, you guessed it, $95 billion. They are showing you who they are. Believe them. They will do nothing today to make your next trip to the grocery store or gas station less painful. Nothing to make your health insurance premiums cheaper. Nothing for those of you with young kids or aging parents or both, because none of those things benefit Donald Trump. And all the Republicans do here is Donald Trump's bidding. The last 18 months they have hurt. Trump's policies have driven..."
Testimony CASTEN, SEAN
The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"being here today. I want to just first flag that there's an intellectual inconsistency at the heart of your testimony today. You've said multiple times that the CFPB under your predecessor was a political agency, and you've opposed the fact that Congress specifically made CFPB independent to isolate it from political pressures. You can choose one, but not the other. I'm not asking for your opinion on that, because your opinion's wrong. We chose to isolate it from political pressures, and we..."
Testimony SPEAKER_36
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"me. I don't know, Ms. Van Dyne, if you go to a grocery store, prices are up. Go to a gas station, prices are still too high. You go everywhere, the price of everything is too"
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesot...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"benefits, and I would work towards making it for policies or advocate for policies or advise policies which make that most likely to happen. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. you, Senator. Thank you for meeting me in your office. I am very optimistic about the American economy. You mentioned the word resilience. People have quantitatively looked at the size of the current oil shock that we had versus the reaction in market prices. And when I was a teenager, I drove people's cars to the gas..."
Testimony CODY CARBONE
Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"We're already seeing, after the Genius Act passed, cheaper, more competitive payment options for Americans. We're starting to see merchants start to incentivize users like gas stations, incentivize users to pay cash instead of credit, incentivize users to pay with dollar-backed stable"
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine 250 years of Main Street, focusing on retail to re...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"On any given day, Monday through Friday, we have somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 people that commute into Pella on a daily basis to work. And so our local restaurants, our gas stations, our shops have to support all those people. And one of the challenges for us as a community is to continue to be able to, for our large corporations to stay in a community our size, and so it takes all of those small businesses to support our larger"
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
"conversation going. Thank you, Representative. Appreciate your support in these areas. price of gasoline today? It's different in all different districts and in all different gas stations. Just in the U.S., on average. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. today is long-term processes, and the Biden administration would not allow the construction of any reliable economic energy sources. So of course, all the new kit that's coming on the electricity grid, almost all that's coming on today,..."
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"What we need to do is get that standard price out there so then people can have some idea. I just have to bring this up and my team back here is rolling their eyes because we've talked about it before. I pulled into the gas station at Raytheon, Virginia. There's about five or six of them. They have their price posted, but then there's a touch screen. When I pulled into this week, I chose the Shell. They had one of the lowest prices. Then they gave me like four or five different rewards programs..."
Testimony SPEAKER_23
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"a better chance of helping patients understand what it costs. Yeah. I mean, first and foremost, Kroger doesn't exist in South Carolina, so I'm jealous that you had that discount at the gas station. But secondly, I think you're exactly right. Yeah. I think secondly, to your point, the idea is the clinical complexity that goes into all these underlying different data points tied to what is actually on a claim is not a level of information that a patient is going to have access to. You go to the..."
Testimony SMITH, CHRISTOPHER H.
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"who was convicted of the murder, sentenced, but escaped and today lives openly in Portugal. In 1963, George Wright was convicted in connection with a gas station robbery in Walt Township, New Jersey, during which Walter Patterson, a decorated World War II veteran and Bronze Star recipient, was beaten and shot to death. Wright was subsequently sentenced to 15 to 30 years, but in 1970, escaped from Leesburg State Prison, now renamed Bayside State"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"First, while this administration is asking for a 30 percent increase in defense spending to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, their actions have driven up costs across the board. They are disregarding the plight of hardworking Americans who cannot afford an extra $50 to fill up their tank at the gas station as a result of the President's war with Iran. Farmers are suffering. They can't afford the fuel to run their machinery. They can't afford the fertilizer to plant crops in the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_09
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Once again, inflation is eating away at the pocketbooks of the American people. I can tell you this. I'm not going to discuss firefighting with an arsonist. Reclaiming my time. In the 30 seconds I have left, when I was back home in Northeast Philly a couple days ago and at a gas station, people were paying over $4.50 a gallon. They were feeling a lot of things, a lot of"
Testimony BILIRAKIS, GUS M.
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"After years of debate, I'm pleased to see us return to the critical issue and discuss the Secure Data Act, legislation I believe will establish a national standard that protects American consumers and provides much-needed certainty to businesses across the country. Whether it's your favorite restaurant, your hometown newspaper, or the corner gas station, every business, no matter the size, uses digital technology these"
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"This is going to be abandoned technology and it's going to be everywhere because we forced them to use it, or to install it, and nobody's going to be using it. This is going to turn out to be yet another boondoggle done to prop up an industry that taxpayers have been forced to subsidize to the tune of tens of billions of dollars to date. And if we love this so much, I don't know why we're not subsidizing gas stations and diesel and whatever else. I don't know why it has to be just this one. I..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Hearings to examine the American Entrepreneurship for 250 Years: Drivi...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I am really pleased to introduce Amanda Grappone Osmer, who is the President of Grappone Auto Group in Concord, New Hampshire. Her great-grandparents started this business more than 100 years ago with a single gas station in Concord. The family's grown the business to three dealerships in New Hampshire, although she'll give us a little bit more of that history, I think, when she"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Hearings to examine the American Entrepreneurship for 250 Years: Drivi...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Maybe not so much a surprise, I'd have to think more about that question, but what did really strike me in the research was that my great-grandparents, much like the French Canadians, couldn't get a loan to save their lives. And one of the stories I tell at the very end of the book, where they're about to buy the gas station, is the president of the bank, Mr. Dudley, went to their home to shake their hands and to meet them and just to see what's this family all about. And I was like, man, I..."
Testimony HUIZENGA, BILL
Task Force on Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economi...
house Financial Services Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Southwest Michigan is home to the headquarters facilities and even just operations of many major real economy consumer-facing companies, from brand names and food and automakers, medical devices, airlines, gas stations, all, kind of everything is there. When these companies can hedge risk efficiently using derivatives, what does that do to their investment and more likelihood to invest or expand and hire people in my district and in"
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"Does it lower health costs for child with diabetes? Does it make the gas that people put at a gas station into their vehicles more affordable to get to work, or does it make it more"
Testimony OWENS, BURGESS
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"That's exactly what my community did. These are things that many Americans have not been taught. I think it's always important that I bring it up because I lived it. My dad was a World War II vet, was also an educator for 40 years, and also a business owner. That was the community I grew up in. It was a community of businesses everywhere, legacy businesses, where Speed Grocery Store, Perkins Gas Station, Baker's Pharmacy. They had pride in their name. They had pride in passing this legacy down..."
Testimony DAINES, STEVE
Hearings to examine European energy security.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Feb 4, 2026
"back in 2014 when Senator McCain had that famous line about Russia, just a great big gas station masquerading as a country. The more things change, the more things they don't, don't they, in terms of still"
CRS Report
Defense Primer: Military Commissaries and Exchanges
Resources · Nov 21, 2024
The Department of Defense (DOD) offers certain quality-of-life benefits to military members, their families, and retirees. The general purpose of these benefits is to attract, retain, and support...
CRS Report
Congressional Court Watcher: Recent Appellate Decisions of Interest to Lawmakers (December 4–December 10, 2023)
Posts · Dec 11, 2023
The federal courts issue hundreds of decisions every week in cases involving diverse legal disputes. This Sidebar series selects decisions from the past week that may be of particular interest to...
Hearing Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Act's Mobile Source Requirements
house Environment Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
CARTER, TROY A. "fuel pipe emissions, driving those health crises. Vehicle emission standards have saved families money at a time when the President's reckless war in Iran has sent gas prices skyrocketing. Since the Clean Air Act, vehicles' efficiency requirements took effect. Americans have saved hundreds of billions of dollars in fuel costs, as cars and trucks have become dramatically more fuel-efficient, meaning every trip to the gas station costs less and every tank of gas goes further than would have before the standards took effect. Cleaner vehicles mean healthier kids and lower fuel costs. Weakening..."
Hearing "Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency."
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN "What we need to do is get that standard price out there so then people can have some idea. I just have to bring this up and my team back here is rolling their eyes because we've talked about it before. I pulled into the gas station at Raytheon, Virginia. There's about five or six of them. They have their price posted, but then there's a touch screen. When I pulled into this week, I chose the Shell. They had one of the lowest prices. Then they gave me like four or five different rewards programs I could be a part of. I chose the Kroger program and got 10 cents a gallon off. Can we not create..."
CRS Report
Natural Gas Reliability: Issues for Congress
Reports · Jul 15, 2024
The reliability of the U.S. natural gas system is of growing policy interest in Congress. Until recently, natural gas shortages were relatively rare. However, key stakeholders, especially in the...
CRS Report
Congressional Court Watcher: Circuit Splits from May 2026
Legal Sidebar · Jun 10, 2026
The U.S. Courts of Appeals for the thirteen “circuits” issue thousands of precedential decisions each year. Because relatively few of these decisions are ultimately reviewed by the Supreme Court, the...
CRS Report
Electric Vehicle Taxes and the Federal Highway Trust Fund
InFocus · Jul 2, 2026
Policymakers have debated imposing a federal tax on electric vehicles (EVs). Proponents argue that EVs use federally funded roads but do not incur federal fuels taxes. Opponents argue that EVs have...
Hearing Hearings to examine the American Entrepreneurship for 250 Years: Driving Innovation, Growth, and Opportunity.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_07 "Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I am really pleased to introduce Amanda Grappone Osmer, who is the President of Grappone Auto Group in Concord, New Hampshire. Her great-grandparents started this business more than 100 years ago with a single gas station in Concord. The family's grown the business to three dealerships in New Hampshire, although she'll give us a little bit more of that history, I think, when she"
CRS Report
Natural Gas Passenger Vehicles: Availability, Cost, and Performance
Reports · Jan 11, 2012
Higher gasoline prices in recent years and concerns over U.S. oil dependence have raised interest in natural gas vehicles (NGVs). Use of NGVs for personal transportation has focused on compressed...
CRS Report
Natural Gas: A Key Part of the Global Energy Mix
Reports · Jul 26, 2016
The role of natural gas in the U.S. economy has been a major part of the energy policy debate in the 114th Congress. This report briefly explains key aspects of global natural gas markets, including...
CRS Report
Mileage-Based Road User Charges
Reports · Jun 22, 2016
A mileage-based road user charge would involve assessing owners of individual vehicles on a per-mile basis for the distance the vehicle is driven. Currently, federal highway and public transportation...
Hearing Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
MCCLAIN DELANEY, APRIL "critical legislation that is coming up for consideration this morning. As we learned in our hearing last year on the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotech Seminal Report and their recommendations to Congress, biotechnology stands at a very critical juncture. The policies that we advance today will shape the next century of scientific discoveries and determine whether the U.S. can keep its competitive edge. Most of us never think about weights and measurements, and that's exactly the point. When we pull up to a gas station, we don't often wonder whether the number displayed is..."
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
MCGARVEY, MORGAN "our country by, you guessed it, $95 billion. They are showing you who they are. Believe them. They will do nothing today to make your next trip to the grocery store or gas station less painful. Nothing to make your health insurance premiums cheaper. Nothing for those of you with young kids or aging parents or both, because none of those things benefit Donald Trump. And all the Republicans do here is Donald Trump's bidding. The last 18 months they have hurt. Trump's policies have driven inflation higher and made the cost of everything go up. It's relentless. It's exhausting. But while your..."
Hearing The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
CASTEN, SEAN "being here today. I want to just first flag that there's an intellectual inconsistency at the heart of your testimony today. You've said multiple times that the CFPB under your predecessor was a political agency, and you've opposed the fact that Congress specifically made CFPB independent to isolate it from political pressures. You can choose one, but not the other. I'm not asking for your opinion on that, because your opinion's wrong. We chose to isolate it from political pressures, and we chose that in a political process in the best sense of the word. The job we have is political because..."
Hearing H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H.R. 8884 – Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act; H. Res....
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_36 "me. I don't know, Ms. Van Dyne, if you go to a grocery store, prices are up. Go to a gas station, prices are still too high. You go everywhere, the price of everything is too"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "benefits, and I would work towards making it for policies or advocate for policies or advise policies which make that most likely to happen. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. you, Senator. Thank you for meeting me in your office. I am very optimistic about the American economy. You mentioned the word resilience. People have quantitatively looked at the size of the current oil shock that we had versus the reaction in market prices. And when I was a teenager, I drove people's cars to the gas station to wait in line. The shock that we got in 1979 was smaller. The resilience of the American..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
CODY CARBONE "We're already seeing, after the Genius Act passed, cheaper, more competitive payment options for Americans. We're starting to see merchants start to incentivize users like gas stations, incentivize users to pay cash instead of credit, incentivize users to pay with dollar-backed stable"
Hearing Hearings to examine 250 years of Main Street, focusing on retail to research.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "On any given day, Monday through Friday, we have somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 people that commute into Pella on a daily basis to work. And so our local restaurants, our gas stations, our shops have to support all those people. And one of the challenges for us as a community is to continue to be able to, for our large corporations to stay in a community our size, and so it takes all of those small businesses to support our larger"
Hearing An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_20 "conversation going. Thank you, Representative. Appreciate your support in these areas. price of gasoline today? It's different in all different districts and in all different gas stations. Just in the U.S., on average. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. today is long-term processes, and the Biden administration would not allow the construction of any reliable economic energy sources. So of course, all the new kit that's coming on the electricity grid, almost all that's coming on today, is still what was approved under the Biden administration. And yes, it's continued its upward..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
SMITH, CHRISTOPHER H. "who was convicted of the murder, sentenced, but escaped and today lives openly in Portugal. In 1963, George Wright was convicted in connection with a gas station robbery in Walt Township, New Jersey, during which Walter Patterson, a decorated World War II veteran and Bronze Star recipient, was beaten and shot to death. Wright was subsequently sentenced to 15 to 30 years, but in 1970, escaped from Leesburg State Prison, now renamed Bayside State"
Hearing H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "First, while this administration is asking for a 30 percent increase in defense spending to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, their actions have driven up costs across the board. They are disregarding the plight of hardworking Americans who cannot afford an extra $50 to fill up their tank at the gas station as a result of the President's war with Iran. Farmers are suffering. They can't afford the fuel to run their machinery. They can't afford the fertilizer to plant crops in the fields. We are seeing bankruptcies across the farming community, increased suicides as well because of..."
Hearing Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_09 "Once again, inflation is eating away at the pocketbooks of the American people. I can tell you this. I'm not going to discuss firefighting with an arsonist. Reclaiming my time. In the 30 seconds I have left, when I was back home in Northeast Philly a couple days ago and at a gas station, people were paying over $4.50 a gallon. They were feeling a lot of things, a lot of"
Hearing Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
BILIRAKIS, GUS M. "After years of debate, I'm pleased to see us return to the critical issue and discuss the Secure Data Act, legislation I believe will establish a national standard that protects American consumers and provides much-needed certainty to businesses across the country. Whether it's your favorite restaurant, your hometown newspaper, or the corner gas station, every business, no matter the size, uses digital technology these"
Hearing H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "This is going to be abandoned technology and it's going to be everywhere because we forced them to use it, or to install it, and nobody's going to be using it. This is going to turn out to be yet another boondoggle done to prop up an industry that taxpayers have been forced to subsidize to the tune of tens of billions of dollars to date. And if we love this so much, I don't know why we're not subsidizing gas stations and diesel and whatever else. I don't know why it has to be just this one. I don't like any of"
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
HUIZENGA, BILL "Southwest Michigan is home to the headquarters facilities and even just operations of many major real economy consumer-facing companies, from brand names and food and automakers, medical devices, airlines, gas stations, all, kind of everything is there. When these companies can hedge risk efficiently using derivatives, what does that do to their investment and more likelihood to invest or expand and hire people in my district and in"
Hearing Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "Does it lower health costs for child with diabetes? Does it make the gas that people put at a gas station into their vehicles more affordable to get to work, or does it make it more"
Hearing "Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026 · Transcript
OWENS, BURGESS "That's exactly what my community did. These are things that many Americans have not been taught. I think it's always important that I bring it up because I lived it. My dad was a World War II vet, was also an educator for 40 years, and also a business owner. That was the community I grew up in. It was a community of businesses everywhere, legacy businesses, where Speed Grocery Store, Perkins Gas Station, Baker's Pharmacy. They had pride in their name. They had pride in passing this legacy down to their kids. The most important thing they had pride of getting up every single day and going out..."
Hearing Hearings to examine European energy security.
senate Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee · Feb 4, 2026 · Transcript
DAINES, STEVE "back in 2014 when Senator McCain had that famous line about Russia, just a great big gas station masquerading as a country. The more things change, the more things they don't, don't they, in terms of still"
Hearing The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 16, 2026 · Transcript
EVANS, GABE "more expensive electricity in the state of Colorado. You were out at our largest natural gas generating station in the state, in my district, just a few short weeks ago, where we talked about that reliability"
Hearing Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_17 "So it, this proposal actually uniquely does that because it provides the funding for the programming as well as the pay. And as we know, we just had a time where we determined we were going to pay employees, but we weren't going to pay contractors and we weren't going to pay programming. We had a situation where literally in the Coast Guard, for instance, the Coast Guard, the Coast Guard Coasties, they were actually paid, but they couldn't take their ships out because they didn't have gas because that was a contractor that provided the gas for it. They were getting their utilities cut off at..."
Testimony EVANS, GABE
The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"more expensive electricity in the state of Colorado. You were out at our largest natural gas generating station in the state, in my district, just a few short weeks ago, where we talked about that reliability"
CRS Report
Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Siting: FERC Policy and Issues for Congress
Reports · Jun 9, 2022
Growth in U.S. natural gas production has driven the development of new pipelines from producing regions to consuming markets. Over 300,000 miles of transmission pipeline already transport natural...
CRS Report
EV Charging Infrastructure: Frequently Asked Questions
Reports · Jan 14, 2025
This report addresses frequently asked questions related to expanding plug-in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. The first set of questions examines the current availability of EV...
CRS Report
U.S. Energy: Overview and Key Statistics
Reports · Jun 27, 2014
Energy policy has been a recurring issue for Congress since the first major crises in the 1970s. As an aid in policymaking, this report presents a current and historical view of the supply and...
CRS Report
Clean Air Act: A Summary of the Act and Its Major Requirements
Reports · Sep 13, 2022
This report summarizes the Clean Air Act and its major regulatory requirements. The principal statute addressing air quality concerns, the Clean Air Act was first enacted in 1955, with major...
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"So it, this proposal actually uniquely does that because it provides the funding for the programming as well as the pay. And as we know, we just had a time where we determined we were going to pay employees, but we weren't going to pay contractors and we weren't going to pay programming. We had a situation where literally in the Coast Guard, for instance, the Coast Guard, the Coast Guard Coasties, they were actually paid, but they couldn't take their ships out because they didn't have gas..."