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How a Government Shutdown Affects Government Contracts
Posts · Jan 10, 2019
On December 22, 2018, funding lapsed on annual appropriations for certain government agencies, causing a partial government shutdown. This has prompted questions about how the FY2019 partial...
CRS Report
The Constitution and Race-Conscious Government Action: Narrow Tailoring Requirements
Reports · Mar 14, 2023
Constitutional equal-protection principles require that state and federal government actors deny no one “the equal protection of the laws.” Equal-protection claims against government actors allege...
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2960, to develop economic tools to deter aggression by the People's Republic of China against Taiwan, S.2130, to...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Oct 22, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1397, to require the Secretary of State to establish a quantum cooperation program to enhance international...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 5, 2025 · Request transcript
CRS Report
Legal Standards for Government Dismissal of Qui Tam Cases Under the False Claims Act
Posts · Sep 27, 2023
The False Claims Act (FCA) subjects a person to civil penalties and triple damages if he or she submits “a false or fraudulent claim” seeking payment from the federal government. The Attorney General...
CRS Report
Government Coercion of Private Speech: National Rifle Association (NRA) v. Vullo
Posts · Jun 28, 2024
On May 30, 2024, the Supreme Court released its opinion in National Rifle Association (NRA) v. Vullo, a case addressing the First Amendment limitations on coercive government speech. Although the...
CRS Report
Governing the District of Columbia: Overview and Timeline
InFocus · Feb 6, 2026
The U.S. Constitution provides for the creation of a district to serve as the permanent seat of the federal government. Article I, Section 8, clause 17 also grants Congress plenary legislative...
CRS Report
Carson v. Makin: Using Government Funds for Religious Activity
Posts · Jul 6, 2022
When the government decides whether to give public funds to religious entities, that decision can raise constitutional questions under both of the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses. For many years,...
CRS Report
Lindke v. Freed and Government Officials’ Use of Social Media
Posts · Apr 9, 2024
The First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause limits the government’s ability to exclude constituents from public forums, both offline and online. In March 2024, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in...
Testimony SPEAKER_13
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Integrity in elections is indispensable as part of our representative government. Every law passed by Congress, every judge confirmed, every president sworn into office derives their legitimacy from the confidence Americans have in our elections. If Americans lose confidence in elections, they will lose confidence in our government, and even worse, they will lose confidence in their share of this great republic. We celebrate 250 years. We all probably re-read the Declaration of Independence...."
CRS Report
Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Ways of Funding Government: Exploring the Cost to Taxpayers of Spending Uncertainty Caused by Governing Through Continuing Resolutions, Giant Omnibus Spending Bills, and Shutdown Crises
Testimony · Feb 6, 2018
continuing resolution, CR, continuing resolutions, CRs, interim CR, shutdown, funding gap, funding lapse, budget process
Witness Lynne Forbes
South Eastern Council of Governments (SECOG) · 1 hearing
Witness Alissa Czyz
U.S. Government Accountability Office · 2 hearings
Witness Carol Harris
U.S. Government Accountability Office · 6 hearings
Witness Kenneth Patton
U.S. Government Accountability Office · 1 hearing
Witness Sheila Elliot
Local 2328; American Federation of Government Employees · 1 hearing
Witness Michelle Sager
U.S. Government Accountability Office · 1 hearing
Witness Karen Howard
Government Accountability Office · 1 hearing
Witness Nick Stehle
Foundation for Government Accountability · 1 hearing
Witness Lawrence Cunningham
Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware · 1 hearing
Witness Marisol Cruz Cain
U.S. Government Accountability Office · 2 hearings
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.4726, to promote efforts to bring about stability and security in Sudan, S.3984, to authorize a 2-year extension of...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Congressional Budget Office, Government Publishing...
senate Legislative Branch Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing H.J. Res. 142 – Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision...
house Rules Committee · Feb 2, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider H.R.260, to require a strategy to oppose financial or material support by foreign countries and nongovernmental...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jan 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing 1) H.Res. _____, Recommending that the House of Representatives find William J. Clinton in Contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 21, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.291, to establish an interest-bearing account for the non-Federal contributions to the Lower Colorado River...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Dec 17, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.90, to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to finalize and implement certain travel management plans...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Dec 2, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing H.J. Res. 104 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of...
house Rules Committee · Sep 2, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing “The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
CRAIG AARON "personal information? When that happens, here comes Mr. Musk, a government employee, but also the head of a social media company, coming after individual reporters. Those are some of the things that I'm incredibly concerned about. And there are many others who are saying they're going to come after journalists, one thing for the government to express its viewpoints and say, we wish you would do this or we wish you would do that. It's quite another for this kind of merger and full on collusion happening. You know, we were worried about the government. This committee was very worried about the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, focusing on tribal implications and beyond.
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
MARK MACARRO "tribal nations are stakeholders in tribal gaming. We are not shareholders. Third, the CFTC must engage in meaningful consultation with tribal nations. Consultation is not a courtesy. It is a legal and moral obligation the federal government owes to sovereign tribal governments, affirmed time and again through treaties, statute, executive orders, and the government-to-government relationship that defines federal Indian policy. And yet, the CFTC is advancing prediction market products that function like gaming without ever sitting down with the tribes whose economies and legal rights are..."
Hearing the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacists Fight Back [in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans Act]; 2) H.R. 9720,...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_14 "Second, a letter from former inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, John Roth. Third, a letter from Project on Government Oversight. And fourth, a letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, the Government Accountability Project, or GAP, Project on Government Oversight, POGO, Protect Democracy, Public Citizen, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I think the ranking member did a good job of outlining concerns that I share. I will just share one paragraph from Mr. Roth's letter that my Republican..."
CRS Report
Louisiana Court Rules on Government Communications with Social Media Companies
Posts · Jul 26, 2023
On July 4, 2023, a Louisiana federal district court entered a preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden, preventing a number of executive branch agencies and employees from communicating with...
CRS Report
Equal Protection and Race- or Sex-Conscious Government Action: Case Developments
Posts · Sep 12, 2024
A number of federal lawsuits have alleged that certain race- or sex-conscious federal programs are unconstitutional on equal protection grounds. Challenged programs include COVID-19 relief programs,...
CRS Report
Online Content Moderation and Government Coercion
Posts · May 13, 2022
In recent years, there has been growing concern about the power of social media companies to control online speech. Some users have tried to assert that online platforms violated users’...
CRS Report
State and Local Government Debt and COVID-19
Resources · Apr 10, 2020
Debt (often in the form of bonds) represents a promise by the issuer (borrower) to pay interest income to lenders on the principal (the amount of money borrowed) until that principal is repaid. In...
CRS Report
Social Security Coverage of State and Local Government Employees
Report · Apr 8, 2026
Social Security is the single largest federal program in terms of the number of beneficiaries as well as budget. It pays cash benefits to over 70 million beneficiaries each month, and total benefit...
CRS Report
The Federal Government’s Plenary Immigration Power Collides with the Constitutional Right to an Abortion (Part II)
Posts · Nov 27, 2017
This Sidebar is the second in a two-part series discussing the en banc decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (D.C. Circuit) in Garza v. Hargan, affirming a district court’s order...
CRS Report
OSHA Jurisdiction Over Public Schools and Other State and Local Government Entities: COVID-19 Issues
Resources · Sep 13, 2021
As states and their public school systems consider how to provide education to students during the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, they face concerns about the safety and health...
Testimony CRAIG AARON
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"personal information? When that happens, here comes Mr. Musk, a government employee, but also the head of a social media company, coming after individual reporters. Those are some of the things that I'm incredibly concerned about. And there are many others who are saying they're going to come after journalists, one thing for the government to express its viewpoints and say, we wish you would do this or we wish you would do that. It's quite another for this kind of merger and full on collusion..."
Hearing Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, focusing on assessing the United States response.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SHAHEEN, JEANNE "So the scams are actually targeting Chinese citizens in China? Yes. I know, excuse me, one of the places that we know has some of these compounds is Burma or Myanmar, where we don't really have any leverage because of the government there. So how do we work with countries like that, where they may have a government that's either unfriendly to the United States or is a very dysfunctional government? And when we do that, do we get pushback from the government"
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
BRIAN BLASE "I think that it's financial fraud against the federal government, yes. So the key problem with Medicaid is that the more states spend, the more money they get from the federal government. So to set the certain amount that states get and all state spending on top of that comes from the state, that would be an ideal reform. But I'd say a first-order reform is to end the discrimination against the most vulnerable. There shouldn't be the federal government incentivizing states with seven times more money for the able body than traditional enrollees. It's a very mixed bag. I think the information..."
Hearing Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_20 "taxpayer can see how their government is funded. When Congress abandons that system, decision-making becomes more centralized, rank-and-file members have less influence, and closed-door negotiations tend to replace committee work. Those conditions make funding crises more likely and more difficult to resolve. So while we may have differing views on the reforms discussed today, I hope we can all on one fundamental principle. Government shutdowns are reckless, and they do nothing other than create chaos and uncertainty. There is never a circumstance where a shutdown is preferable to keeping the..."
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
DOGGETT, LLOYD "They know that they can get away with anything they want because of the enablers they have here in this Congress. As for tax-exempt or non-government organizations that are the subject of the four bills before us today, authoritarians around the world deplore NGOs, non-government organizations, organizations, because by their very nature, they can't totally control and dominate them. There's nothing in this first bill for the family that's staring a grocery bill that climbs higher every month, nothing for the young family that is priced out of having their first home, nothing for the worker..."
Testimony MARK MACARRO
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"tribal nations are stakeholders in tribal gaming. We are not shareholders. Third, the CFTC must engage in meaningful consultation with tribal nations. Consultation is not a courtesy. It is a legal and moral obligation the federal government owes to sovereign tribal governments, affirmed time and again through treaties, statute, executive orders, and the government-to-government relationship that defines federal Indian policy. And yet, the CFTC is advancing prediction market products that..."
Testimony MILLS, CORY
U.S. Economic Security and Investment Abroad: Assessing Economic Secur...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"which is rightfully so, under Chapter 10 of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement. And I also just want to point out the fact that, you know, the Department of State in Washington and Tegucigalpa meet regularly with both parties to encourage both parties to resolve this impasse. The Department has raised this and other commercial and investment disputes in meetings with President Azura and his team since January of 2026 inauguration. This ongoing dispute remains an..."
Testimony SPEAKER_14
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"has the support of the President, the Speaker, and the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. In 2009, as part of the taxpayer-funded GM bankruptcy, more than 20,000 Delphi salary retirees and employees had their earned health and pension benefits terminated. For many, their pensions were cut dramatically, in some cases by as much as 70 percent. There is no precedent for what happened. The government terminated their pensions as part of a TARP government-funded, government-led GM..."
Testimony MORELLE, JOSEPH D.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Mea...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026
"accurate information. The statutes governing the GPO have seen modest updates over the years, including name change from the original Government Printing Office to the Government Publishing Office, but much of the law still predates the digital era. So the bill further modernizes those statutes, streamlines their operation, and provides public access to government information. I support these efforts, which will help strengthen GPO's capacity and, in turn, Congress' to do its work. Among other..."
Testimony SPEAKER_40
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"So that means if we have $500 trillion, there's not going to be any more unless somebody's going to raise taxes. And that's probably not going to happen. Or we get the our own $500 trillion payable to individuals, not the government, not the state government, not the federal government, not the local government. So you'll make my"
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine Social Security, focusing on a discussion on the f...
senate Budget Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"People weren't living much past 65, and back then, I've seen different numbers, but I think in 1945, there were about 42 workers for every retiree. And Senator Graham said back in 1955, it was 8.6 to 1, and now we're below 3 to 1, okay? So again, so these are just structural problems. Had we actually taken those savings, the money we extract from wages, and put them into something that was an asset to the federal government, because I would argue a U.S. government bond held by the U.S...."
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_13 "Integrity in elections is indispensable as part of our representative government. Every law passed by Congress, every judge confirmed, every president sworn into office derives their legitimacy from the confidence Americans have in our elections. If Americans lose confidence in elections, they will lose confidence in our government, and even worse, they will lose confidence in their share of this great republic. We celebrate 250 years. We all probably re-read the Declaration of Independence. Just governments, the only just governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. You..."
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 · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_40 "So that means if we have $500 trillion, there's not going to be any more unless somebody's going to raise taxes. And that's probably not going to happen. Or we get the our own $500 trillion payable to individuals, not the government, not the state government, not the federal government, not the local government. So you'll make my"
Hearing Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social Security solvency.
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
JOHNSON, RON "Last time I did it, $8 trillion. Do you agree with me that a government bond in the hands of a government organization has no value to the federal government? It's worthless. Because when the trustees return that bond to the Treasury to pay off those"
Hearing “Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
DR. ANTHEA HARTIG "Congress created the Smithsonian Institution in 1846 with an aspirational mission of diffusion and knowledge. Can you imagine the increase in diffusion of knowledge? It is an independent trust instrumentality outside the executive branch of government and is governed by a board of regents that includes all three branches of government and nine citizen regents appointed by a joint resolution of Congress. The Smithsonian takes the concerns raised in the White House Domestic Policy Council's report seriously, and as we continue to fact-check the report, we unwaveringly attest that it does not..."
Hearing Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America First Foreign Policy
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_45 "We respect the sovereign choice of the people of that country. That's a legitimate election. That's who they chose. In those instances in which a democracy and their elected leaders are taking positions that run contrary to the national interests of the United States, it doesn't mean we want to overthrow the government or get rid of the government, because it's democratic government. It simply means we have to engage them in the fact that they are doing things that are irritants to our national interests. You point to some of our companies. Our companies aren't just facing challenges and, you..."
Hearing “Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
ISSA, DARRELL "Well, it appears as though the president of the United States made a statement that either would be a government entity or, like Voice of America and many of these other entities that are government-sponsored, it would be government-sponsored. I think there's been no assertion that this was a for-profit private entity or anything of the sort. Can I share with the ranking member questions of other monies that are not necessarily associated today? And I'm quite candidly willing to participate in all the fact-finding on anything related to money. But the gentleman came here with tremendous..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading the way.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
HUSTED, JON "And one of the lowest unemployment rates we've ever had in the history of our state. And some of the big announced deals that are coming to our state and in the aerospace industry and the chips industry, you name it. And as we celebrate America 250, one of the things that the lessons that I've learned is that when government gets out of the way, businesses do a lot better than when government tries to micromanage, when government tries to regulate outcomes, when government tries tries to micromanage, when government tries to regulate outcomes, when government"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Gregory Carl Cook, to...
senate Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KENNEDY, JOHN "Okay. Well, let's take a public utility. They're heavily regulated by the government. Are they a government actor? Why"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KENNEDY, JOHN "Okay. Well, let's take a public utility. They're heavily regulated by the government. Are they a government actor? Why"
Hearing Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artificial intelligence and transforming communications.
senate Communication, Media, and Broadband · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
ASAD RAMZANALI "Here's one example. Last summer, as cloud code started becoming popular, Anthropic cut off model access to an independent AI startup called Windsurf that also did AI coding. Anthropic was Windsurf's critical supplier, and it became its competitor. That's the conflict of interest. Gatekeepers pick winners and losers instead of consumers, competition, and markets deciding outcomes. Two, shared infrastructure, shared jurisdiction. Telecommunications has always been governed by federal, state, and local governments together. Today's data center build-out has no coherent governance strategy at..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sarah B. Rogers, of New York, to be Chief Executive Officer of the United States Agency for Global Media,...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
JENNIFER CARROLL "So we can see that at least Trinidad and Tobago is committed to working with the United States to increase economic opportunities, increase oil and gas exploration, as well as utilize our assistance to help combat some of those illicit trafficking. The government, as far as the stability, I cannot speak to that, if confirmed, in getting down to the region and having more dialogue with POST as well as the government to find out more about that, but I do know that they have had several emergency orders, which doesn't bode well with regards to the criminal activities that's been occurring for a..."
Hearing “Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MCGARVEY, MORGAN "300,000 individual people. This is what we are talking about, the backbone of the American economy. And they are doing it. They are providing access to expertise in everything from AI and digital commerce to financial management to emerging technologies to just the stuff you have to deal with when you are trying to open up your own business. I have always said there is a difference between government spending and government investment. And when we invest in growing our small businesses, that is not only something we should be doing, but for every dollar we are putting into the SCORE program,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"We had an agreement. We put forward a clean, continuing resolution to fund the government. That is, we said, let's fund the government at what we agreed to fund it last year until we agree on how we're going to fund it this year. The Democrats said no, for the first time ever, and shut the government down. Here were their"
Testimony MASSIE, THOMAS
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"Mr. Schellenberger, can you explain how you traced USAID funding that served as the basis for whistleblower report in 2019, which led to the impeachment of President Trump? Well, I think it's always been known that our government has funded the change in administrations, if we can say it politely, of other governments. But isn't it borderline treason when the taxpayer, when organizations entrusted with protecting our country are now undermining our own government? Mr. Chairman, I see my time..."
Testimony SWALWELL, ERIC
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"words, images, and something that can be conducted by the government? And you would then agree that it's censorship for any government, Democratic or authoritarian, run by a Democrat or a Republican, to bar the press from covering the government when the press reports something the government doesn't like? Take away their credentials? Take away their"
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"describing Trump's false claims that he won the 2020 election. So lots of defamation lawsuits from Trump, a lot of chilling effect, intimidation, silencing, and fear. And if the government can come after CNN and META, then surely the government can come after any American that says something the government, this president, doesn't like. So I was struck by the CNN defamation lawsuit, because Trump sued them for the use of the phrase the big lie in connection with his 2020 election loss"
Testimony SPEAKER_40
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"capitalized federal infrastructure bank. That means none of the money would come from the federal government or from the state government or from the local government. It's all privately financed. The goal would be to provide a framework that enhances financing program for major infrastructure projects while ensuring working oversight and safeguards are against any foreign adversary we"
Testimony SHAHEEN, JEANNE
Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"So the scams are actually targeting Chinese citizens in China? Yes. I know, excuse me, one of the places that we know has some of these compounds is Burma or Myanmar, where we don't really have any leverage because of the government there. So how do we work with countries like that, where they may have a government that's either unfriendly to the United States or is a very dysfunctional government? And when we do that, do we get pushback from the government"
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"Last time I did it, $8 trillion. Do you agree with me that a government bond in the hands of a government organization has no value to the federal government? It's worthless. Because when the trustees return that bond to the Treasury to pay off those"
Testimony CURTIS, JOHN R.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Kevin Lilly, of Texas, ...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"and otherwise would not be able to do it without this bill. So I'd like to thank the committee, the staff, the ranking member, and yourself for making this possible. I'd also like to point out the great Salt Lake and the impending needs there. And I look forward to further discussions with this committee and other members to see how we can save a very, very important asset in the West. It's an environmental issue. It's a standard of living issue. On many, many levels, this is and a very..."
Testimony SPEAKER_14
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Second, a letter from former inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, John Roth. Third, a letter from Project on Government Oversight. And fourth, a letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, the Government Accountability Project, or GAP, Project on Government Oversight, POGO, Protect Democracy, Public Citizen, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I think the ranking member did a good job of..."
Testimony DR. ANTHEA HARTIG
“Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Re...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Congress created the Smithsonian Institution in 1846 with an aspirational mission of diffusion and knowledge. Can you imagine the increase in diffusion of knowledge? It is an independent trust instrumentality outside the executive branch of government and is governed by a board of regents that includes all three branches of government and nine citizen regents appointed by a joint resolution of Congress. The Smithsonian takes the concerns raised in the White House Domestic Policy Council's..."
Testimony WALKINSHAW, JAMES R.
“Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Re...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Thank You mr. chairman I'm actually glad we're having this hearing today of the subcommittee on government efficiency because finally we have abandoned the pretense that this subcommittee has anything to do with government efficiency just like Elon Musk's doge wasn't about efficiency it was an ideological purge of the federal government this assault on the Smithsonian has nothing to do with efficiency it's an ideological effort to quote mr. Gonzales a cultural battle but let's go ahead and talk..."
Testimony SPEAKER_08
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"I vote against them or for them on the basis of what is in them. There's nothing in here that's remotely controversial. And look, we've been through the two longest shutdowns in American history. The longest shutdown of full government, which Senator Schumer and Senate Democrats sprung on us, and to say they control by the Republicans, simply not true because of the filibuster. And that's just the reality. And I don't want to go through that again. I don't want the final part of the campaign..."
Testimony CURTIS, JOHN R.
Business meeting to consider S.4949, to provide for improvements to th...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"and otherwise would not be able to do it without this bill. So I'd like to thank the committee, the staff, the ranking member, and yourself for making this possible. I'd also like to point out the great Salt Lake and the impending needs there. And I look forward to further discussions with this committee and other members to see how we can save a very, very important asset in the West. It's an environmental issue. It's a standard of living issue. On many, many levels, this is and a very..."
Testimony ERNST, JONI
Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing. And I want to thank our witnesses for being here today as well, because a lot of you are deciding to go face-to-face with a lot of the fraudsters that are ripping off our taxpayers, and you're exposing the corruption that the typical mainstream media and our federal government and state governments have been ignoring, and in some cases, actually enabling. So, I've learned the hard way through many, many years of working on fraud,..."
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine the TRICARE pharmacy program.
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Do you think, Dr. Smith, that maybe it is time for DOD to revisit this requirement of vertical integration, and in fact, considering saying, no, you only work for the federal government and there is no vertical integration, that is, you do not own your own pharmacy at the same time that you're trying to manage pharmacy claims for the United States government? pharmacy claims for the United States government. I'm sorry. Maybe I wasn't clear in my question, Dr."
Testimony MARISOL CRUZ CAIN
“Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"You know, you are supposed to be able to get the most updated or whatever information an agency has on you, so you're able to correct it if it's wrong. That process can be easy, or GAO has reported that process can take very long for you to be able to update your information. So if that takes me months to years to get my address updated in a government database, I'm going to fail for that whole year on every government agency that I use login.gov to try to access, which is going to be a very..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Ma...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I want to work with our state partners to understand what are the things that we can do better? What are the things that they need our help on? What are the things that they don't really need our help on? When I was the community-based testing site leader during COVID-19, one of the things I recognized was that there were three types of states. There were states that they needed just the idea, and then once they figured out how to do it, they said, thank you very much, government. There was..."
Testimony HUFFMAN, JARED
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"PL 280 has created disparities in access to federal public safety resources that continue to impact tribal communities. Back in my home, Northern California, I hear directly from tribal leaders all the time about these ongoing challenges. Despite these barriers, tribes continue to lead in efforts to address the MMIP crisis by organizing public safety summits, partnering with law enforcement, supporting survivors, and bringing together tribal leaders, law enforcement officials, state and federal..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE CALEB ORR
More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State an...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"So while commerce has the tools and the advocacy center to work on individual business transactions, the State Department, in addition to lending support to those transactions where it's in our foreign policy interest to do so, the State Department also focuses our economic officers on addressing and changing the policies of foreign governments so that they are more conducive to American exports and helping foreign governments really understand the benefits of changing those policies so that..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"success of the industry. The recently introduced National Commission on Robotics Act, on today's agenda, would kick-start this process. We strongly encourage Congress to promptly pass this bill. While that legislation advances and the Commission gets to work, we cannot let time slip by. In the interim, government should take the following four concrete steps. First, government agencies should adopt and use advanced robotics technologies. Congress should Congress should instruct and fund..."
Testimony FITZGERALD, SCOTT
“The 30,000 Foot View: Competition and Regulation in the U.S. Airline ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"only to its U.S. air carriers. This practice, known as cabotage, creates significant tension between protecting our domestic airlines and promoting competition. As these examples show, the government is still heavily involved in the airline industry. Consumers deserve a system where airlines compete freely and can innovate and grow, not a system where the government consistently puts its thumb on the scale to foreclose competition. Government-imposed barriers destroy competition, leaving..."
Testimony MS. BRENNA JENNY
Safeguarding Federal Research Funds: The False Claims Act's Role in Co...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"cybersecurity obligations can be liable under the FCA. The FCA is an important tool for the government in this context because a grantee's violation of cybersecurity requirements potentially jeopardizes the security of government information and data and the government does not receive the level of security it bargained for. Over the past five"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"in the belief of the work of this committee, of its importance, of its role in the Congress and of the Congress's role in government because there are three branches of government but our role in the government, but our role in providing the"
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
"And so that's a real challenge for communities like us in rural Iowa. Finding a solution for that is something that we as a city, we took that over, but it's very, very expensive for us to do that. And so those are, I think, solutions that we should try to work together from our government to our state government to our federal government to try to work out some way that we can get better response times and take care of the people that live out in our rural"
Testimony MORENO, BERNIE
Hearings to examine the nomination of Hal Duncan, of Texas, to be Depu...
senate Budget Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"I would be remiss if I didn't end by congratulating you on being nominated by the President of the United States. I think if we could clone you and duplicate you all over the government, the government would run even more efficiently. Maybe we could take off another 300,000 permanent government employees. It's people like you that are called to service to work in the federal"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 6917 (Rep. Titus) To take certain land in...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"I mean, you have the stack structure within Interior that's similar to the TTAC, and so the examples are there and it's working well, and so this just would be an extension of that model that's working. Well, I mean, simply put, in a traditional way, it's being in the canoe, right? And if you're in the canoe and everyone's rowing in different directions, you're just going to circle, and that's what we've been doing from a government-to-government perspective, working with the U.S. government..."
Testimony MOYLAN, JAMES C.
Beijing’s Poison Pipeline: The CCP’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Thank you, Madam Chair. this report here. According to China Committee report, the Chinese government directly subsidized the export of at least 17 illegal narcotics that have no legal use. The PRC government even owns multiple fentanyl exporters. And this, of course, is not the behavior of a state that's working in good faith with the United States to crack down on fentanyl trade. So we're talking here about a government that is directly supporting a supply chain of death that kills tens of..."
Testimony JACKSON, JONATHAN L.
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"The issue before us today is not simply about whether a contract can be canceled, the issue is whether the government may induce reliance, encourage participation, and make commitments only to withdraw them after farmers made decisions based upon those promises. When a farmer, as you know, signs a contract, hires workers, purchases equipment and plants crops in reliance upon a government commitment, that commitment becomes more than paperwork, it becomes an obligation of trust. The Constitution..."
Testimony SPEAKER_45
Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America Fi...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"We respect the sovereign choice of the people of that country. That's a legitimate election. That's who they chose. In those instances in which a democracy and their elected leaders are taking positions that run contrary to the national interests of the United States, it doesn't mean we want to overthrow the government or get rid of the government, because it's democratic government. It simply means we have to engage them in the fact that they are doing things that are irritants to our national..."
Testimony SPEAKER_45
Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America Fi...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"I think the other thing you didn't point out is we are not abandoning these countries or these programs. We're entering into compacts, 32 compacts, the majority of them in Africa, in which we go to a country and say, look, rather than force a bunch of NGOs from Northern Virginia on you, we are gonna work with you. We are gonna give the money government to government, and we're gonna work in cooperation with your government to build up your national health system. So not only can you care for..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"If you think the government is infallible, which is not something I usually hear from my friends on this side of the aisle, although I do hear it increasingly more under Donald Trump. But if you think the government is infallible, then great, you don't need due process. If you think the government can make mistakes, and government officials and officers and prosecutors can make mistakes, then you need due process. That's why the framers built it into the"
Testimony ERVIN CARLSON
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 1010 (Rep. Leger Fernandez), “Bridging Ag...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 21, 2026
"and keeping them going. You know, to put this here, for the government to work on a government-to-government basis with the Unitary Buffalo Council and all of the tribes that are part of that, and to get this year as law into the interior or wherever that"
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"communicating that to the hub so that other states become aware of it and can become alert to the possibility that they're gonna suffer the same kind of attack. So that kind of bi-directional information sharing, obviously the private sector has insights and information that the governments are not, they're gonna see things that the government's not, and the federal government has unique visibility into things like nation-state campaigns, what are their objectives, what are they trying to..."
Testimony NORTON, ELEANOR HOLMES
“DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 13, 2026
"from deploying the National Guard to another state or territory or D.C. without consent of the chief executive of that jurisdiction. For over two decades, the Government Accountability Office has maintained a high-risk list to identify critical government programs most vulnerable to war-framed fraud and abuse. The Government Accountability Office added Department of Defense Financial Management to that list in 1995, and it has remained there ever since. Yet, the Trump administration has..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"children you know with disabilities. That is why in our in our budget proposal we have asked for the largest increase you know five hundred million dollars to go into IDEA funding because there are more students who need these. So I think that we've made some incredibly significant accomplishments and we've just begun. I've only I've only been here just a little bit over a year but we're on the road to continue to look at the states and what we need to help them to with their funding to take on..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"children you know with disabilities. That is why in our in our budget proposal we have asked for the largest increase you know five hundred million dollars to go into IDEA funding because there are more students who need these. So I think that we've made some incredibly significant accomplishments and we've just begun. I've only I've only been here just a little bit over a year but we're on the road to continue to look at the states and what we need to help them to with their funding to take on..."
Testimony HAGERTY, BILL
Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be ...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"And while the Fed undertook this social engineering, it also financially engineered a massive footprint in our market. QE provided near unlimited bid for government debt, which, of course, made it easy for us to subsidize more government debt here, subsidize government financing, and it encouraged, frankly, what I view as very reckless federal spending. In each of these examples, we see a clear"
Testimony THE HONORABLE MICHAEL KOZAK
Latin America After the Fall of Maduro
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"Very important. But second, I have to challenge the premises of some of the assertions that you made. The Cuban government imports medicine and food from the United States, has for some time. They get hundreds of millions of dollars of food imports and medicine imports from the U.S. every year. After the recent hurricane in Cuba, the U.S. government has been supplying assistance to the victims of the hurricane. We've done it through the Catholic Church, not through the Cuban government. As I..."
Testimony SESSIONS, PETE
“Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Ru...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Apr 15, 2026
"our prime factors about why this happens, it's also who is responsible for pinpointing these, at what point do we follow up, and who is actually responsible for working to fix the things that we have seen. Is there enough evidence in it for states to aggressively prevent fraud? Do states feel like they can get back to the federal government? Is the federal government listening, or does the federal government turn a blind eye? We are going to vet these ideas, and today we have an opportunity to..."
Testimony SPEAKER_09
Hearings to examine programs for justice-involved veterans.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 15, 2026
"knowledge? I don't believe so. I'd leave that to your classmates to answer. They were smarter than I was then too. Thank you. Yeah, I would say to both government folks, as a former government folk, to please be involved in the process for the National Center with Department of Justice, because this has to be a whole of government approach, and it can't be stovepiped inside DOJ. It has to involve everyone if it's going to work to take care of our"
Testimony ISSA, DARRELL
“Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Well, it appears as though the president of the United States made a statement that either would be a government entity or, like Voice of America and many of these other entities that are government-sponsored, it would be government-sponsored. I think there's been no assertion that this was a for-profit private entity or anything of the sort. Can I share with the ranking member questions of other monies that are not necessarily associated today? And I'm quite candidly willing to participate in..."
Testimony ISSA, DARRELL
“Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"cyber-squatting. You were also very helpful in delineating the fact that there are these entities that aren't quite government, but are government, that have trademarks, one of which is the Voice of America and many other highly recognized U.S. entities which are solely funded by the federal government. I think it's been"
Testimony PETER SCHWEIZER
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"And yet you can find dozens of quotes from senior officials that work for Scheinbaum, other senators. They view mass migration as a tool by which they can advance sovereignty in the United States. And a lot of people are surprised to learn that the Mexican government actually has elected senators and members of their chambers of deputy that serve in their government, but actually live in the United States. And their job is to represent Mexican Americans living in the United States before the..."
Testimony FEENSTRA, RANDY
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Yep. Well, I applaud that. And I thank you for what you're doing. I know a system, a computer system that's, you know, updated and stuff like that can do a lot of these things. Again, more customer service. I've got one more thing. You know, the American workers, we want to protect them. And government, I'm worried about foreign governments and illegal immigrants siphoning off U.S. tax benefits. The Working Families Tax Cut stopped foreign governments from grabbing U.S. tax revenues and closed..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEITH ELLISON
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"And it comes at a cost, Mr. Chairman, to our Constitution. Under the Tenth Amendment, the federal government may not compel or coerce states to enforce immigration laws or any other federal government priorities. And under the First Amendment, the government may not stifle speech or restrict the right of peaceful assembly. Operation Metro Surge routinely violates both these constitutional"
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beij...
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"involves two Trump-branded luxury products projects in Saudi Arabia, probably throwing tens of millions of dollars to the Trump family in exchange for just a brand deal. It involves Saudi government spending billions of dollars in the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner's investment fund, despite the government of Saudi Arabia saying it doesn't believe he's got any investment acumen. It involves also now the new efforts to fundraise for the Ballroom and Freedom 250 through using tax-exempt..."
Testimony SESSIONS, PETE
“Curbing Federal Fraud: Examining Innovative Tools to Detect and Preve...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 13, 2026
"Many of these people work long hours and do things that might take a lot of time, but I want to reiterate that my opinion, and I only have 27 years at this, few times have I seen a staff that I felt like would have been engaged in anything that would be unbecoming to professional conduct. Secondly, I want to acknowledge, and we do this often, because Mr. Mfume and I have oversight over federal government operations, all federal government operations, we have original jurisdiction to, I think..."
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"dollars being spent on DHS propaganda ads on Truth Social, awarding federal contracts to corporations in exchange for campaign contributions, Cash Patel flew his girlfriend around the country on a multimillion-dollar jet that taxpayers paid for, Kristi Noem gave companies she's affiliated with hundreds of millions of tax dollars, then went out and spent another $200 million on two private jets for her travel. For 12 months, this administration has been taking billions of taxpayer dollars from..."
Testimony BRIAN S. WESBURY
Oversight hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's big bank welfare p...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Dec 11, 2025
"And so I want to think about what it really is. The Federal Reserve, at the same time governments during COVID and during 2008, boosted their purchases of government bonds. So the government is issuing a lot of debt. The Federal Reserve is buying it. If banks were forced to buy it, they would have a different risk profile, as Ryan just highlighted, than the"
Testimony THE HONORABLE CASEY MULLIGAN
Hearings to examine Trump's regulatory rollback, focusing on saving Am...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"On the heels of my confirmation, the government was shut down. So while I was able to listen—thank you, Congress, for the excellent funding you gave my office so we could stay open—I was listening like crazy, but it was not until the government reopened. And let me tell you, last Wednesday, the government was still closed. The White House called me at 8 p.m., and they said, Casey, get over here. The government's open tomorrow. The agency's near to hear what the small businesses are telling you...."
Testimony CRUZ, TED
Hearings to examine the nominations of John DeLeeuw, of Texas, Richard...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 6, 2025
"Every Democrat in this body, you can play video after video of them going on TV, intoning a government shutdown is irresponsible, it is reckless, it hurts Americans. They all know that. They've all said that repeatedly. By the way, we had this situation happen earlier this year. In March, government funding expired. And what happened? In March, a handful of Senate Democrats did the responsible thing, and they joined with Republicans in keeping the government open. But then a political problem..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Hearings to examine putting veterans first, focusing on the current VA...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Oct 29, 2025
"That's going to happen to sort of all of us at some point. But what the PACT Act did was allowed people to shift the responsibility for those lifestyle conditions from themselves to the government and blame the government for problems that are not the fault of the government and therefore taxpayers are taking a bath on"
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 4, 2025
"You have also said that you want to traumatize federal employees, civil servants, as if inflicting trauma and creating a culture of fear and doubt will somehow make this government more efficient. Mr. Vogt, be honest. This is never about government efficiency. In fact, an efficient government, a government that capably serves the American people, and proves good government is achievable, is what you fear the"
Hearing “Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
MARISOL CRUZ CAIN "You know, you are supposed to be able to get the most updated or whatever information an agency has on you, so you're able to correct it if it's wrong. That process can be easy, or GAO has reported that process can take very long for you to be able to update your information. So if that takes me months to years to get my address updated in a government database, I'm going to fail for that whole year on every government agency that I use login.gov to try to access, which is going to be a very big barrier for me to get any government benefits that I am eligible for. So that was something that..."
Hearing U.S. Economic Security and Investment Abroad: Assessing Economic Security Zones
house Oversight and Intelligence Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
MILLS, CORY "which is rightfully so, under Chapter 10 of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement. And I also just want to point out the fact that, you know, the Department of State in Washington and Tegucigalpa meet regularly with both parties to encourage both parties to resolve this impasse. The Department has raised this and other commercial and investment disputes in meetings with President Azura and his team since January of 2026 inauguration. This ongoing dispute remains an irritant and is raised regularly. But the U.S. government and the private sector hopefully are looking..."
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_14 "has the support of the President, the Speaker, and the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. In 2009, as part of the taxpayer-funded GM bankruptcy, more than 20,000 Delphi salary retirees and employees had their earned health and pension benefits terminated. For many, their pensions were cut dramatically, in some cases by as much as 70 percent. There is no precedent for what happened. The government terminated their pensions as part of a TARP government-funded, government-led GM bankruptcy and bailout. The government only terminated their pensions. Everyone else had their pensions..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Measures
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
MORELLE, JOSEPH D. "accurate information. The statutes governing the GPO have seen modest updates over the years, including name change from the original Government Printing Office to the Government Publishing Office, but much of the law still predates the digital era. So the bill further modernizes those statutes, streamlines their operation, and provides public access to government information. I support these efforts, which will help strengthen GPO's capacity and, in turn, Congress' to do its work. Among other things, the bill updates the Federal Depository Library Program to more effectively provide free,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine Social Security, focusing on a discussion on the facts and the path forward.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
JOHNSON, RON "People weren't living much past 65, and back then, I've seen different numbers, but I think in 1945, there were about 42 workers for every retiree. And Senator Graham said back in 1955, it was 8.6 to 1, and now we're below 3 to 1, okay? So again, so these are just structural problems. Had we actually taken those savings, the money we extract from wages, and put them into something that was an asset to the federal government, because I would argue a U.S. government bond held by the U.S. government is not an asset to the U.S. government. It's like if you took out a piece of paper and wrote $20..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, Department of the Interior.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
CURTIS, JOHN R. "and otherwise would not be able to do it without this bill. So I'd like to thank the committee, the staff, the ranking member, and yourself for making this possible. I'd also like to point out the great Salt Lake and the impending needs there. And I look forward to further discussions with this committee and other members to see how we can save a very, very important asset in the West. It's an environmental issue. It's a standard of living issue. On many, many levels, this is and a very important role. And what I'm pleased with with the great Salt Lake is it's not my state's not just waiting..."
Hearing H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital Access Act; H. Con. Res. 113 – Establishing the congressional budget for the...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "I vote against them or for them on the basis of what is in them. There's nothing in here that's remotely controversial. And look, we've been through the two longest shutdowns in American history. The longest shutdown of full government, which Senator Schumer and Senate Democrats sprung on us, and to say they control by the Republicans, simply not true because of the filibuster. And that's just the reality. And I don't want to go through that again. I don't want the final part of the campaign this year to be fought over government shutdown. Frankly, I don't think people on either side of the..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.4949, to provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
CURTIS, JOHN R. "and otherwise would not be able to do it without this bill. So I'd like to thank the committee, the staff, the ranking member, and yourself for making this possible. I'd also like to point out the great Salt Lake and the impending needs there. And I look forward to further discussions with this committee and other members to see how we can save a very, very important asset in the West. It's an environmental issue. It's a standard of living issue. On many, many levels, this is and a very important role. And what I'm pleased with with the great Salt Lake is it's not my state's not just waiting..."
Hearing Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
ERNST, JONI "Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing. And I want to thank our witnesses for being here today as well, because a lot of you are deciding to go face-to-face with a lot of the fraudsters that are ripping off our taxpayers, and you're exposing the corruption that the typical mainstream media and our federal government and state governments have been ignoring, and in some cases, actually enabling. So, I've learned the hard way through many, many years of working on fraud, waste, and abuse within the federal government that this type of work doesn't earn you a lot of..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the TRICARE pharmacy program.
senate Personnel Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
WARREN, ELIZABETH "Do you think, Dr. Smith, that maybe it is time for DOD to revisit this requirement of vertical integration, and in fact, considering saying, no, you only work for the federal government and there is no vertical integration, that is, you do not own your own pharmacy at the same time that you're trying to manage pharmacy claims for the United States government? pharmacy claims for the United States government. I'm sorry. Maybe I wasn't clear in my question, Dr."
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
SPEAKER_05 "I want to work with our state partners to understand what are the things that we can do better? What are the things that they need our help on? What are the things that they don't really need our help on? When I was the community-based testing site leader during COVID-19, one of the things I recognized was that there were three types of states. There were states that they needed just the idea, and then once they figured out how to do it, they said, thank you very much, government. There was another group of states that said, well, we just need like resources, personnel, and we're good. 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
HUFFMAN, JARED "PL 280 has created disparities in access to federal public safety resources that continue to impact tribal communities. Back in my home, Northern California, I hear directly from tribal leaders all the time about these ongoing challenges. Despite these barriers, tribes continue to lead in efforts to address the MMIP crisis by organizing public safety summits, partnering with law enforcement, supporting survivors, and bringing together tribal leaders, law enforcement officials, state and federal lawmakers, academic researchers, and victim advocates to identify solutions. Similar work is..."
Hearing More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State and Commerce
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE CALEB ORR "So while commerce has the tools and the advocacy center to work on individual business transactions, the State Department, in addition to lending support to those transactions where it's in our foreign policy interest to do so, the State Department also focuses our economic officers on addressing and changing the policies of foreign governments so that they are more conducive to American exports and helping foreign governments really understand the benefits of changing those policies so that they can have more affordable food, which is a key foreign policy priority that affects the stability..."
Hearing American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "success of the industry. The recently introduced National Commission on Robotics Act, on today's agenda, would kick-start this process. We strongly encourage Congress to promptly pass this bill. While that legislation advances and the Commission gets to work, we cannot let time slip by. In the interim, government should take the following four concrete steps. First, government agencies should adopt and use advanced robotics technologies. Congress should Congress should instruct and fund agencies to deploy advanced mobile robots in the interest of government efficiency and economic..."
Hearing “The 30,000 Foot View: Competition and Regulation in the U.S. Airline Industry”
house Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
FITZGERALD, SCOTT "only to its U.S. air carriers. This practice, known as cabotage, creates significant tension between protecting our domestic airlines and promoting competition. As these examples show, the government is still heavily involved in the airline industry. Consumers deserve a system where airlines compete freely and can innovate and grow, not a system where the government consistently puts its thumb on the scale to foreclose competition. Government-imposed barriers destroy competition, leaving consumers worse off. The most recent example of this was the proposed Spirit-JetBlue merger. In 2023, the..."
Hearing Safeguarding Federal Research Funds: The False Claims Act's Role in Combating Grant Fraud
house Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
MS. BRENNA JENNY "cybersecurity obligations can be liable under the FCA. The FCA is an important tool for the government in this context because a grantee's violation of cybersecurity requirements potentially jeopardizes the security of government information and data and the government does not receive the level of security it bargained for. Over the past five"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "in the belief of the work of this committee, of its importance, of its role in the Congress and of the Congress's role in government because there are three branches of government but our role in the government, but our role in providing the"
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 "And so that's a real challenge for communities like us in rural Iowa. Finding a solution for that is something that we as a city, we took that over, but it's very, very expensive for us to do that. And so those are, I think, solutions that we should try to work together from our government to our state government to our federal government to try to work out some way that we can get better response times and take care of the people that live out in our rural"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Hal Duncan, of Texas, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
senate Budget Committee · Jun 16, 2026 · Transcript
MORENO, BERNIE "I would be remiss if I didn't end by congratulating you on being nominated by the President of the United States. I think if we could clone you and duplicate you all over the government, the government would run even more efficiently. Maybe we could take off another 300,000 permanent government employees. It's people like you that are called to service to work in the federal"
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 6917 (Rep. Titus) To take certain land into trust for the benefit of the Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians. H.R. 8473...
house Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "I mean, you have the stack structure within Interior that's similar to the TTAC, and so the examples are there and it's working well, and so this just would be an extension of that model that's working. Well, I mean, simply put, in a traditional way, it's being in the canoe, right? And if you're in the canoe and everyone's rowing in different directions, you're just going to circle, and that's what we've been doing from a government-to-government perspective, working with the U.S. government for centuries. And so having all of those regulatory bodies speaking the same language in the canoe,..."
Hearing Beijing’s Poison Pipeline: The CCP’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MOYLAN, JAMES C. "Thank you, Madam Chair. this report here. According to China Committee report, the Chinese government directly subsidized the export of at least 17 illegal narcotics that have no legal use. The PRC government even owns multiple fentanyl exporters. And this, of course, is not the behavior of a state that's working in good faith with the United States to crack down on fentanyl trade. So we're talking here about a government that is directly supporting a supply chain of death that kills tens of thousands of Americans per year. And the State Department reported in September that this support is..."
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
JACKSON, JONATHAN L. "The issue before us today is not simply about whether a contract can be canceled, the issue is whether the government may induce reliance, encourage participation, and make commitments only to withdraw them after farmers made decisions based upon those promises. When a farmer, as you know, signs a contract, hires workers, purchases equipment and plants crops in reliance upon a government commitment, that commitment becomes more than paperwork, it becomes an obligation of trust. The Constitution requires from the government, justice requires consistency from government, and democracy requires..."
Hearing H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "If you think the government is infallible, which is not something I usually hear from my friends on this side of the aisle, although I do hear it increasingly more under Donald Trump. But if you think the government is infallible, then great, you don't need due process. If you think the government can make mistakes, and government officials and officers and prosecutors can make mistakes, then you need due process. That's why the framers built it into the"
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 · Transcript
ERVIN CARLSON "and keeping them going. You know, to put this here, for the government to work on a government-to-government basis with the Unitary Buffalo Council and all of the tribes that are part of that, and to get this year as law into the interior or wherever that"
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 "communicating that to the hub so that other states become aware of it and can become alert to the possibility that they're gonna suffer the same kind of attack. So that kind of bi-directional information sharing, obviously the private sector has insights and information that the governments are not, they're gonna see things that the government's not, and the federal government has unique visibility into things like nation-state campaigns, what are their objectives, what are they trying to"
Hearing “DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · May 13, 2026 · Transcript
NORTON, ELEANOR HOLMES "from deploying the National Guard to another state or territory or D.C. without consent of the chief executive of that jurisdiction. For over two decades, the Government Accountability Office has maintained a high-risk list to identify critical government programs most vulnerable to war-framed fraud and abuse. The Government Accountability Office added Department of Defense Financial Management to that list in 1995, and it has remained there ever since. Yet, the Trump administration has proposed a 42 percent increase in defense spending in one and one-half trillion, that is, trillion dollars...."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "children you know with disabilities. That is why in our in our budget proposal we have asked for the largest increase you know five hundred million dollars to go into IDEA funding because there are more students who need these. So I think that we've made some incredibly significant accomplishments and we've just begun. I've only I've only been here just a little bit over a year but we're on the road to continue to look at the states and what we need to help them to with their funding to take on more of these programs and those programs that are federal will stay in the federal government...."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Education.
senate Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "children you know with disabilities. That is why in our in our budget proposal we have asked for the largest increase you know five hundred million dollars to go into IDEA funding because there are more students who need these. So I think that we've made some incredibly significant accomplishments and we've just begun. I've only I've only been here just a little bit over a year but we're on the road to continue to look at the states and what we need to help them to with their funding to take on more of these programs and those programs that are federal will stay in the federal government...."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be a Member and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
HAGERTY, BILL "And while the Fed undertook this social engineering, it also financially engineered a massive footprint in our market. QE provided near unlimited bid for government debt, which, of course, made it easy for us to subsidize more government debt here, subsidize government financing, and it encouraged, frankly, what I view as very reckless federal spending. In each of these examples, we see a clear"
Hearing Latin America After the Fall of Maduro
house Western Hemisphere Subcommittee · Apr 16, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE MICHAEL KOZAK "Very important. But second, I have to challenge the premises of some of the assertions that you made. The Cuban government imports medicine and food from the United States, has for some time. They get hundreds of millions of dollars of food imports and medicine imports from the U.S. every year. After the recent hurricane in Cuba, the U.S. government has been supplying assistance to the victims of the hurricane. We've done it through the Catholic Church, not through the Cuban government. As I mentioned with the chairman, chairwoman, ranking member, I think what the secretary and the president..."
Hearing “Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Run by the States”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Transcript
SESSIONS, PETE "our prime factors about why this happens, it's also who is responsible for pinpointing these, at what point do we follow up, and who is actually responsible for working to fix the things that we have seen. Is there enough evidence in it for states to aggressively prevent fraud? Do states feel like they can get back to the federal government? Is the federal government listening, or does the federal government turn a blind eye? We are going to vet these ideas, and today we have an opportunity to have people who bring real-life examples and ideas, including you will hear today about one state..."
Hearing Hearings to examine programs for justice-involved veterans.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_09 "knowledge? I don't believe so. I'd leave that to your classmates to answer. They were smarter than I was then too. Thank you. Yeah, I would say to both government folks, as a former government folk, to please be involved in the process for the National Center with Department of Justice, because this has to be a whole of government approach, and it can't be stovepiped inside DOJ. It has to involve everyone if it's going to work to take care of our"
Hearing Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and tourists.
senate Constitution Subcommittee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript
PETER SCHWEIZER "And yet you can find dozens of quotes from senior officials that work for Scheinbaum, other senators. They view mass migration as a tool by which they can advance sovereignty in the United States. And a lot of people are surprised to learn that the Mexican government actually has elected senators and members of their chambers of deputy that serve in their government, but actually live in the United States. And their job is to represent Mexican Americans living in the United States before the Mexican government. I would certainly see that as a challenge to our sovereignty. Well, you have the..."
Hearing Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer, Frank J. Bisignano
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
FEENSTRA, RANDY "Yep. Well, I applaud that. And I thank you for what you're doing. I know a system, a computer system that's, you know, updated and stuff like that can do a lot of these things. Again, more customer service. I've got one more thing. You know, the American workers, we want to protect them. And government, I'm worried about foreign governments and illegal immigrants siphoning off U.S. tax benefits. The Working Families Tax Cut stopped foreign governments from grabbing U.S. tax revenues and closed the loopholes that allowed taxpayer-funded benefits to flow, to not flow to illegal immigrants,..."
Hearing An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE KEITH ELLISON "And it comes at a cost, Mr. Chairman, to our Constitution. Under the Tenth Amendment, the federal government may not compel or coerce states to enforce immigration laws or any other federal government priorities. And under the First Amendment, the government may not stifle speech or restrict the right of peaceful assembly. Operation Metro Surge routinely violates both these constitutional"
Hearing Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_16 "involves two Trump-branded luxury products projects in Saudi Arabia, probably throwing tens of millions of dollars to the Trump family in exchange for just a brand deal. It involves Saudi government spending billions of dollars in the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner's investment fund, despite the government of Saudi Arabia saying it doesn't believe he's got any investment acumen. It involves also now the new efforts to fundraise for the Ballroom and Freedom 250 through using tax-exempt structures and accepting money from corporations and possibly foreign corporations with business..."
Hearing “Curbing Federal Fraud: Examining Innovative Tools to Detect and Prevent Fraud in Federal Programs”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jan 13, 2026 · Transcript
SESSIONS, PETE "Many of these people work long hours and do things that might take a lot of time, but I want to reiterate that my opinion, and I only have 27 years at this, few times have I seen a staff that I felt like would have been engaged in anything that would be unbecoming to professional conduct. Secondly, I want to acknowledge, and we do this often, because Mr. Mfume and I have oversight over federal government operations, all federal government operations, we have original jurisdiction to, I think the federal government has great people also. I think the federal government has people who are..."
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026 · Transcript
CROCKETT, JASMINE "dollars being spent on DHS propaganda ads on Truth Social, awarding federal contracts to corporations in exchange for campaign contributions, Cash Patel flew his girlfriend around the country on a multimillion-dollar jet that taxpayers paid for, Kristi Noem gave companies she's affiliated with hundreds of millions of tax dollars, then went out and spent another $200 million on two private jets for her travel. For 12 months, this administration has been taking billions of taxpayer dollars from American people and have been giving it away to their own companies in the form of tax cuts,..."
Hearing Oversight hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's big bank welfare program, focusing on the IORB regime.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Dec 11, 2025 · Transcript
BRIAN S. WESBURY "And so I want to think about what it really is. The Federal Reserve, at the same time governments during COVID and during 2008, boosted their purchases of government bonds. So the government is issuing a lot of debt. The Federal Reserve is buying it. If banks were forced to buy it, they would have a different risk profile, as Ryan just highlighted, than the"
Hearing Hearings to examine Trump's regulatory rollback, focusing on saving Americans $907 billion and counting.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE CASEY MULLIGAN "On the heels of my confirmation, the government was shut down. So while I was able to listen—thank you, Congress, for the excellent funding you gave my office so we could stay open—I was listening like crazy, but it was not until the government reopened. And let me tell you, last Wednesday, the government was still closed. The White House called me at 8 p.m., and they said, Casey, get over here. The government's open tomorrow. The agency's near to hear what the small businesses are telling you. And I went there, and I sat close to— I just wasn't able to finish answering your question, which..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of John DeLeeuw, of Texas, Richard Kloster, of West Virginia, and Michelle A. Schultz, of Pennsylvania, each...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 6, 2025 · Transcript
CRUZ, TED "Every Democrat in this body, you can play video after video of them going on TV, intoning a government shutdown is irresponsible, it is reckless, it hurts Americans. They all know that. They've all said that repeatedly. By the way, we had this situation happen earlier this year. In March, government funding expired. And what happened? In March, a handful of Senate Democrats did the responsible thing, and they joined with Republicans in keeping the government open. But then a political problem developed, which is Chuck Schumer, the Democrat leader in the Senate, almost lost his job. The..."
Hearing Hearings to examine putting veterans first, focusing on the current VA disability system.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Oct 29, 2025 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "That's going to happen to sort of all of us at some point. But what the PACT Act did was allowed people to shift the responsibility for those lifestyle conditions from themselves to the government and blame the government for problems that are not the fault of the government and therefore taxpayers are taking a bath on"
Hearing Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2025 · Transcript
DELAURO, ROSA L. "You have also said that you want to traumatize federal employees, civil servants, as if inflicting trauma and creating a culture of fear and doubt will somehow make this government more efficient. Mr. Vogt, be honest. This is never about government efficiency. In fact, an efficient government, a government that capably serves the American people, and proves good government is achievable, is what you fear the"
Hearing Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biotechnology.
senate Health Care Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
KEVIN OUTTERSON "Public-private partnerships are a way to translate ideas from the university to actual companies that are going to bring it to patients, and the organization that I lead, which was created by BARDA, so created by the U.S. government nine years ago, BARDA, under ASPR, HHS, nine years ago, and we now support really the world's pipeline for antibacterial drugs prevention and diagnostics. About a third of our funding comes from the U.S. government today, and the balance from the G7 governments and large foundations. The key is to de-risk the technology so that it can get into human clinical..."
Hearing Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition and transparency lowers prescription drug costs.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD "has a trust in going to court, in making representation. There is a presumption of regularity when a government lawyer appears before the court. That's the sacred trust that a government lawyer bears. Todd Blanch has betrayed that"
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD "has a trust in going to court, in making representation. There is a presumption of regularity when a government lawyer appears before the court. That's the sacred trust that a government lawyer bears. Todd Blanch has betrayed that"
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 · Transcript
BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD "has a trust in going to court, in making representation. There is a presumption of regularity when a government lawyer appears before the court. That's the sacred trust that a government lawyer bears. Todd Blanch has betrayed that"
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 · Transcript
CASSIDY, BILL "This risks reversing decades of progress made by IDEA, which is fundamentally an education law. It would also weaken the federal support states need to implement IDEA effectively. I'm a conservative. I think smaller government is better government. But I worry that many states will still struggle to meet IDEA's requirements and need federal technical assistance, coordination, and oversight to build the capacity necessary to serve students with disabilities. In the tremendous bureaucracy of HHS, in which we read every day about some crisis or another, is the Department of Ed staff that will be..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act to modify a provision relating to the extension of certain dates for the...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE JEFF GRUBBE "working with the water agencies, this was a means, as a sovereign nation, we have a right to run our own government and one of the primary functions of a government is to collect taxes for the betterment of the community. And when I say community, it's not just the benefit of my tribe and our members, but it's a community that the reservation spans across the three cities. So this is a way, this wasn't a way to increase"
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
MATTHEW F. FERRARO, ESQ. "kinds of scams we've talked about, the romance scams, the impersonation scams. There was a report recently in the New York Times about in China that they're creating thousands of AI avatar doctors who are selling supplements. And oftentimes that is in some sense legal, but you can probably still work with the Chinese government to seek some redress against them, particularly when, as I said in my testimony, when things are illegal without AI, they're illegal with AI. So I think that in some ways this just speaks to the need of an all-of-government response, which would include the State..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
MOODY, ASHLEY "Government operates on behalf of and for the American people. And any time we get close to reporting back to our bosses about what government has done or how it's been abused or how individuals that are employed by the government had acted in their own self-interest or against the interests of the American people, every time we get close, if we start uncovering outrageous fraud, we'll have a hearing. And the tactics have been to not show"
Hearing Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
HUDSON, RICHARD "but our efforts to accomplish this goal has created a web of overlapping and duplicative programs. In 2022, the Government Accountability Office found that the federal government runs over 130 broadband programs across 15 different agencies. This fragmented approach has led to overbuilding and waste, not to mention confusion caused by conflicting requirements and obligations. GAO has recommended a government-wide strategy to better"
Testimony MARK MACARRO
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"strikes at the heart of tribal sovereignty as compacts negotiated in good faith with state governments and at revenue streams that fund the schools and the clinics and the housing that our people rely on. When a federal agency's actions carry that kind of weight for tribal communities, the duty to consult is not optional. It's fundamental. So we implore the CFTC to sit down with tribal leaders before you act, not after. Respect the government-to-government relationship that the Constitution and..."
Testimony JAMIE HUMMINGBIRD
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Federal consultations obligations reinforce the need for caution in policies that have substantial direct effects on tribal nations. The federal tribal relationship or the distribution of power among sovereigns requires meaningful government-to-government consultation. Consultation cannot occur after an agency has already allowed markets to develop in a manner that impairs tribal gaming"
Testimony JAMIE HUMMINGBIRD
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"impairs or limits IGRA, tribal gaming laws, tribal state compacts, or other tribal state and federal gaming protections. Congress must also direct the CFTC to halt the self-certification or approval of sports-related event contracts until the agency completes formal government-to-government consultation with tribal nations and coordinates with the National Gaming Commission and tribal gaming regulatory authorities. Federal financial regulation must never be used to gloss over or erase tribal..."
Testimony RISCH, JAMES E.
Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"As these scam centers evolve to use AI and other technologies to stay ahead of law enforcement, it is more important than ever that we mount an effective response. This will require entire U.S. government working with our international partners to address the pipeline of human trafficking and build complex legal cases against these criminal groups who are often aided and abetted by foreign governments. This issue is not a partisan issue. It is clearly a bipartisan issue. It affects every..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE MICHAEL DESOMBRE
Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"Many of those are actually located outside of China, though, so whether it's in Cambodia, Burma, or Laos, there's Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese individuals running those transnational criminal organizations. But you're absolutely correct that corruption as part of these countries, whether it's in Cambodia, Burma, Laos, others, is clearly one of the challenges, and the involvement of government is something we're very focused on in trying to ensure that we work with those governments to..."
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"they've already got the solution, but they haven't properly defined the problem. So let me, I guess, throw out there the problem we have to deal with is the fact we're $40 trillion in debt heading to $60 trillion. We need to agree on common facts, okay? One of the facts that we have to grapple with is benefits already exceed revenue. But again, we're honoring those benefits, right? When the trust fund runs out, it shouldn't be a calamity. We're just going to have to plus up those benefits, and..."
Testimony PERRY, SCOTT
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"However, in this case, a private entity involved with the government. So the government's a party to it, and I think the government, as the representative of the people, should have the information. My concern, among other things, is it's hard for all of us up here to figure out who's hiding the"
Testimony PERRY, SCOTT
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"information on private contractual agreements. And where they're between private businesses and private entities, that's between them. But when it involves the federal government, as the representatives of the federal government and of the people that pay the taxes and pay for these things, we have not only the right to know, we have the obligation to know what the information is. And so it is my hope that with this, at a minimum, we will have the information so we can figure out who's hiding..."
Testimony LYNCH, STEPHEN F.
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"These people like their protests. You know, you know, there's not a day that goes by that, and I only live, you know, several blocks from here, but when you think about this government and this city is where people come to petition their federal government. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of events in this city every single year that require permitting, that require fees to be collected, because there are costs to"
Testimony HUSTED, JON
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"And one of the lowest unemployment rates we've ever had in the history of our state. And some of the big announced deals that are coming to our state and in the aerospace industry and the chips industry, you name it. And as we celebrate America 250, one of the things that the lessons that I've learned is that when government gets out of the way, businesses do a lot better than when government tries to micromanage, when government tries to regulate outcomes, when government tries tries to..."
Testimony KENNEDY, JOHN
Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"Okay. Well, let's take a public utility. They're heavily regulated by the government. Are they a government actor? Why"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"Again and again, the message has been the same, Mr. Kandu. Please the president and the government will work for you. Cross the president and the government may work against you. That is exactly why the independence of the antitrust division matters even"
Testimony KENNEDY, JOHN
Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"Okay. Well, let's take a public utility. They're heavily regulated by the government. Are they a government actor? Why"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"Again and again, the message has been the same, Mr. Kandu. Please the president and the government will work for you. Cross the president and the government may work against you. That is exactly why the independence of the antitrust division matters even"
Testimony BRIAN BLASE
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"I think that it's financial fraud against the federal government, yes. So the key problem with Medicaid is that the more states spend, the more money they get from the federal government. So to set the certain amount that states get and all state spending on top of that comes from the state, that would be an ideal reform. But I'd say a first-order reform is to end the discrimination against the most vulnerable. There shouldn't be the federal government incentivizing states with seven times more..."
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Senator Kennedy. We'll move on. While we're on the topic, I just want to quick ask Mr. Blaise, do all states comply with the federal government requirements to provide information to the federal government to audit the"
Testimony BRIAN BLASE
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"problematic, most problematic ones are where you get a local health facility that transfers money to the state, the state then uses that as its payment back to the facility and then leverages the federal dollars. So it's a way for states to use the Medicaid financing system to benefit the government-owned providers at the expense of the taxpayer. And you have some examples where, like in California, they do this for their ambulances too, where they'll pay the government ambulance providers more..."
Testimony KEVIN OUTTERSON
Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biote...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Public-private partnerships are a way to translate ideas from the university to actual companies that are going to bring it to patients, and the organization that I lead, which was created by BARDA, so created by the U.S. government nine years ago, BARDA, under ASPR, HHS, nine years ago, and we now support really the world's pipeline for antibacterial drugs prevention and diagnostics. About a third of our funding comes from the U.S. government today, and the balance from the G7 governments and..."
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"has a trust in going to court, in making representation. There is a presumption of regularity when a government lawyer appears before the court. That's the sacred trust that a government lawyer bears. Todd Blanch has betrayed that"
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"has a trust in going to court, in making representation. There is a presumption of regularity when a government lawyer appears before the court. That's the sacred trust that a government lawyer bears. Todd Blanch has betrayed that"
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"has a trust in going to court, in making representation. There is a presumption of regularity when a government lawyer appears before the court. That's the sacred trust that a government lawyer bears. Todd Blanch has betrayed that"
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"This risks reversing decades of progress made by IDEA, which is fundamentally an education law. It would also weaken the federal support states need to implement IDEA effectively. I'm a conservative. I think smaller government is better government. But I worry that many states will still struggle to meet IDEA's requirements and need federal technical assistance, coordination, and oversight to build the capacity necessary to serve students with disabilities. In the tremendous bureaucracy of HHS,..."
Testimony ASAD RAMZANALI
Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artific...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Here's one example. Last summer, as cloud code started becoming popular, Anthropic cut off model access to an independent AI startup called Windsurf that also did AI coding. Anthropic was Windsurf's critical supplier, and it became its competitor. That's the conflict of interest. Gatekeepers pick winners and losers instead of consumers, competition, and markets deciding outcomes. Two, shared infrastructure, shared jurisdiction. Telecommunications has always been governed by federal, state, and..."
Testimony ASAD RAMZANALI
Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artific...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"But it also means pre-deployment testing on AI models so that we know what the threats that are coming look like. I completely agree. Without a fully staffed government that has agencies like CISA, but also the Cyber Safety Review Board, there's many parts of government that need to be strengthened and given the capacity to deal with today's moments. Thank you for that"
Testimony JENNIFER CARROLL
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sarah B. Rogers, of New York, t...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"So we can see that at least Trinidad and Tobago is committed to working with the United States to increase economic opportunities, increase oil and gas exploration, as well as utilize our assistance to help combat some of those illicit trafficking. The government, as far as the stability, I cannot speak to that, if confirmed, in getting down to the region and having more dialogue with POST as well as the government to find out more about that, but I do know that they have had several emergency..."
Testimony REBEKAH JURATA
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sarah B. Rogers, of New York, t...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"I report to Secretary Besson, sir, of the Treasury Department. So the governance structure of the IMF is that you have the Board of Governors and Secretary Besson is the governor on the governing board and meets a couple times a year and they have the overarching setting of the agenda. As U.S. Executive Director to the IMF, I'd be sitting on behalf of the United States on the executive board, which meets very regularly, multiple times a week to entertain and vote on underlying decisions that..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE JEFF GRUBBE
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"working with the water agencies, this was a means, as a sovereign nation, we have a right to run our own government and one of the primary functions of a government is to collect taxes for the betterment of the community. And when I say community, it's not just the benefit of my tribe and our members, but it's a community that the reservation spans across the three cities. So this is a way, this wasn't a way to increase"
Testimony MATTHEW F. FERRARO, ESQ.
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"kinds of scams we've talked about, the romance scams, the impersonation scams. There was a report recently in the New York Times about in China that they're creating thousands of AI avatar doctors who are selling supplements. And oftentimes that is in some sense legal, but you can probably still work with the Chinese government to seek some redress against them, particularly when, as I said in my testimony, when things are illegal without AI, they're illegal with AI. So I think that in some..."
Testimony MOODY, ASHLEY
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Government operates on behalf of and for the American people. And any time we get close to reporting back to our bosses about what government has done or how it's been abused or how individuals that are employed by the government had acted in their own self-interest or against the interests of the American people, every time we get close, if we start uncovering outrageous fraud, we'll have a hearing. And the tactics have been to not show"
Testimony HUDSON, RICHARD
Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improvin...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"but our efforts to accomplish this goal has created a web of overlapping and duplicative programs. In 2022, the Government Accountability Office found that the federal government runs over 130 broadband programs across 15 different agencies. This fragmented approach has led to overbuilding and waste, not to mention confusion caused by conflicting requirements and obligations. GAO has recommended a government-wide strategy to better"
Testimony SPEAKER_20
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"taxpayer can see how their government is funded. When Congress abandons that system, decision-making becomes more centralized, rank-and-file members have less influence, and closed-door negotiations tend to replace committee work. Those conditions make funding crises more likely and more difficult to resolve. So while we may have differing views on the reforms discussed today, I hope we can all on one fundamental principle. Government shutdowns are reckless, and they do nothing other than..."
Testimony SPEAKER_12
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Nearly every president has endeavored to undermine that primacy, but rarely have we seen one go so far as the current administration. President Trump and Budget Director Russ Vought have sought unprecedented control over federal spending, ignoring the Constitution and breaking the law in their efforts to take the power of the purse for themselves. It is their goal, and I believe it is to abolish the appropriations process entirely. Those of you who know me know the depth of my faith in the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"First, we have Senator James Lankford from my home state of Oklahoma. Senator Lankford is the author of the Prevent Government Shutdown Acts, one of the proposed pieces of legislation to address the recurring problem of government shutdowns that we will be examining today. Second, we have our colleague, Representative Tom McClintock of"
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"They know that they can get away with anything they want because of the enablers they have here in this Congress. As for tax-exempt or non-government organizations that are the subject of the four bills before us today, authoritarians around the world deplore NGOs, non-government organizations, organizations, because by their very nature, they can't totally control and dominate them. There's nothing in this first bill for the family that's staring a grocery bill that climbs higher every month,..."
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Well, the gentlewoman is certainly correct that this is a worldwide phenomenon. Wherever there's authoritarian government, wannabe tyrants and kings, they like to suppress non-government organizations. And you will certainly remember that the first foreign leader that President Trump met with before he was inaugurated was Viktor Orban of"
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"disclose nothing about it. If this committee is truly worried about foreign influence through tax-exempt organizations, there's not a clearer case than Trump's jet, a gift of that size from a foreign government to the president's own non-profit, a government that depends on him to protect our military, on their soil and ours. The Chu Amendment makes sure that there is disclosure, and it's not only the"
Testimony MCGARVEY, MORGAN
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"300,000 individual people. This is what we are talking about, the backbone of the American economy. And they are doing it. They are providing access to expertise in everything from AI and digital commerce to financial management to emerging technologies to just the stuff you have to deal with when you are trying to open up your own business. I have always said there is a difference between government spending and government investment. And when we invest in growing our small businesses, that is..."
Testimony FINSTAD, BRAD
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Good. Well, I'm happy to hear that. They have been a huge asset to southern Minnesota. I've seen them in action in communities all over the State, and it's good to hear that they passed the test. So making sure that these centers and programs are funded, it's important to me and the communities that I represent. I'm thankful that the SBA has worked trying to combat waste, fraud, and abuse. What steps can be taken to prevent another funding pause, and how can we here in Congress be helpful? Sir,..."
Hearing "A One Year Update on DoD’s Struggling Background Check System”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Alissa Czyz, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing Oversight Hearing on: “Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Recovery Under PROMESA and the Road Ahead”
house Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee · Jul 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Michelle Sager, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing "USDA's Rural Development: Delivering Vital Programs and Services to Rural America"
house Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee · Sep 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Lynne Forbes, South Eastern Council of Governments (SECOG)
Hearing Oversight: Advancing VA Care Through Artificial Intelligence
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Sep 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing Delivering Quality and Modern Healthcare to Michigan's Veterans and Servicemembers
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jun 12, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing “An Update on DoD’s Struggling Background Check System”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Feb 24, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Alissa Czyz, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing From Reset to Rollout: Can the VA EHRM Program Finally Deliver?
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Feb 24, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing VA Office of Information and Technology Organizational Structure and Priorities
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing “Improving Software Licensing Management”
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · May 19, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing Oversight Hearing on: “Fix Our Forests: Advancing Innovative Technologies to Improve Forest Management and Prevent Wildfires.”
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jun 26, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Karen Howard, Government Accountability Office
Hearing “Bid Protest Reform: Understanding the Problem”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Kenneth Patton, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing “Preparing for the Quantum Age: When Cryptography Breaks”
house Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Marisol Cruz Cain, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing Oversight: “Counting the Money: Preventing Fraud and Abuse in VA’s Bonus Payment Practices for VA Employees”
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Sheila Elliot, Local 2328; American Federation of Government Employees
Hearing Ready, Set, Go-Live: Assessing VA’s EHR Modernization Deployment Readiness
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Dec 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing Reversing the Curse: Rooting Out Waste and Fraud and Restoring the Dignity of Work
house Budget Committee · Jun 25, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Nick Stehle, Foundation for Government Accountability
Hearing Reassessing Sarbanes-Oxley: The Cost of Compliance in Today’s Capital Markets
house Capital Markets Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Lawrence Cunningham, Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware
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