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CRS Report
Drilling in the Great Lakes: Background and Issues
Reports · Jul 29, 2010
Drilling for oil and gas in or under the Great Lakes has generated interest among Great Lakes stakeholders, states, and Congress. Some opposed to drilling are concerned about the potential...
CRS Report
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI)
Resources · Dec 9, 2022
The Great Lakes ecosystem, the largest system of fresh surface water in the world, is an international resource altered by human activities and climate variability. Some alterations have degraded...
CRS Report
The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: Background and Issues
Reports · Sep 30, 2013
The Great Lakes ecosystem is recognized by many as an international natural resource that has been altered by human activities and climate variability. These alterations have led to degraded water...
CRS Report
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway Navigation System: Options for Growth
Reports · Oct 26, 2016
Congress faces infrastructure funding decisions that would support shipping on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway (GLSLS). In the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (H.R. 5303, S. 2848),...
CRS Report
Shipping on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway: An Update
Reports · May 9, 2023
Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway shipping ports iron ore steel coal bulk waterborne freight locks ships navigation army corps of engineers maritime shipyard icebreaker coast guard docks wharfs cruise...
CRS Report
Federal Management of Sea Lampreys in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain
Resources · Sep 25, 2023
The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), sometimes known as the vampire fish (Figure 1), is a parasitic fish species native to the northern Atlantic Ocean and the waters of eastern United States and...
CRS Report
Back to the Future? Lessons from the “Great Inflation”
Resources · Jul 28, 2022
Since April 2021, the U.S. economy has grappled with high inflation, which reached 6.3% in May 2022, as measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index. (For more information, see CRS...
CRS Report
Comparing the Congressional Response to the Great Recession and the COVID-19-Related Recession: Unemployment Insurance (UI) Provisions
Reports · Jul 30, 2020
In response to recent economic recessions, Congress has enacted temporary measures related to Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs and benefits. These temporary federal provisions have included...
Hearing Hearings to examine restoration efforts in the Great Lakes Region, including S.528, to reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Apr 15, 2026 · Request transcript
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine the nominations of Juan Segura, of Virginia, to be...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 18, 2026
"Well, you know, growing up in Iowa, I never had a chance to do vacation in a big family. If we did vacation, it was camping somewhere with a short drive, you know, or going to visit grandparents. So the car trips were an experience, especially with, you know, nine carsick kids. So the first time I got to see the ocean, I saved money and flew to Jamaica. It was the first ocean I ever saw. I got spoiled. That's a great ocean to see, the Caribbean Ocean. And we just kept going back. It's a great,..."
Testimony HUSTED, JON
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"to address that issue. And those coordinated efforts have kept the lamprey under control, but we must always remain vigilant in making sure that that stays true. The Great Lakes are a commercial venue where people get their fresh water, but it's also home of recreational and commercial fishing. A huge economic impact for all of the Great Lakes states. And I bring this up regarding invasive species because the great threat that's out there for the Great Lakes is the invasive carp, which I know..."
Hearing Markup of H.R. 9250 (Rep. Westerman), “Great American Outdoors Act 250”
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
RANDALL, EMILY "Thank you. Thank you so much, Chairman Westerman and Ranking Member Huffman, for your leadership and hard work on bringing forward a bipartisan, bicameral Great American Outdoors Act of 250. The Legacy Restoration Fund established in the Great American Outdoors Act of 2020 provided, as we know, much-needed funding to address decades of deferred maintenance, repair critical infrastructure, and improve visitor access and safety in national parks, wildlife"
Witness Major General Mark Quander
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · 1 hearing
Witness Jerilyn Church
Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board · 1 hearing
Witness Jason Schlender
Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission · 2 hearings
Witness Dr. Marc Gaden
Great Lakes Fishery Commission · 1 hearing
Hearing updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; General Services Administration Capital Investment and Leasing Program...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_11 "I also want to acknowledge Congressman LaMalfa's long and effective service on behalf of the North State in California. He set a strong foundation for advocating for our water, our infrastructure, and rural community needs, and I'm committed to building on that great legacy as I step into this role. I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get to work on aviation, rail, and highway subcommittees, and I want to thank the Chairman and members for this great opportunity. We're just getting started and I'm eager to contribute wherever I"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Arms Control and Nonproliferation in an Era of Great Power Competition
house Europe Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Legislative field hearing on a Discussion Draft of the “Great American Outdoors Act 250.” (10:00AM local time)
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 12, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Full Committee Hearing, “Make Elections Great Again: How to Restore Trust and Integrity in Federal Elections.”
house Committee on House Administration · Feb 10, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing "Hunting and Fishing Access in the Great American Outdoors"
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · Jan 13, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.290, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to upgrade existing emergency communications centers in units of the National...
senate National Parks Subcommittee · Dec 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2082, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify the definition of "production facility" to exclude an...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Oct 29, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing • H.R. 1366 (Rep. Amodei), “Mining Regulatory Clarity Act of 2025” • H.R. 2306 (Rep. Moolenaar), “The Adams Memorial-Great American Heroes Act” •...
house Natural Resources Committee · Sep 17, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony HUSTED, JON
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"east coast and the west coast and the gulf coast. I represent the north coast, the Great Lakes. And as the only member of the committee that represents a Great Lakes state, I'm going to focus my thoughts on the Great Lakes. They have been, the Great Lakes have been vulnerable and resilient over the time period that we have been studying them. When they became open for global commercial trade in 1959, though, we have seen threats"
Testimony HUSTED, JON
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Yeah. Well, thank you, Chairman Capito, and I just want to reiterate the importance of this. It would be devastating to the Great Lakes if this invasive carp was allowed to enter the Great Lakes system, and so please, you and your team, let us know what we can do to support you, but please make it a priority and do everything you can and be innovative to make sure that it is a problem that hopefully we'll never have to contend with in the Great Lakes. Thank"
Testimony DR. AJAY "AJ" P. MALSHE
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"if you can give a tax credit to that, that would increase the investment in the deep tech businesses. But thank you for that question. So thank you for asking, and I would like to acknowledge that I am from the great state of Indiana, from a great state, Purdue University as well, that is a great capital, but I, historically, I came from Ohio State, the Ohio State, Buckeyes, so I do want to acknowledge that. You got two good pedigrees there. Yes, I do want to acknowledge that, but I would like..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE BUDDY ROCHA, JR.
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"And so what it means, though, also to us, as you had asked for, about what this means to the families, it's just so critically important for those generations. And I hope that my great-great-great-grandchildren will be able to live on a reservation. And as of right now, only about 60 percent of our – actually, 55 percent of our tribe is only able to live on a reservation due to the resources that we have capable for expanding our reservation boundaries for"
Testimony SPEAKER_08
From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of How America Invests
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, panel, for being here. This is a great topic, and I'm kind of curious on a couple of your comments, but one of the top priorities of this subcommittee as well as President Trump's SEC has been to make IPOs great again, and we have, of course, we saw an IPO within the last couple of weeks that, of course, was incredible, and, you know, I think it still shows that great innovation, great leadership, companies that have a vision for the future, again, will..."
Testimony HURD, JEFF
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"traditionally took place when you have experienced geologists interpreting large amounts of data. AI seems to have changed that. Can you talk a little bit about how AI has changed that equation? Is it making geologists more productive or is it changing how discoveries are made? comes from AI. Yeah. Got it. Thank you, Dr. Letter. Dr. Hawley, it's great to see you again here. Thanks. Colorado School of Mines is one of the great institutions, not only in our state, of Mines is one of the great..."
Testimony DAINES, STEVE
Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"Our best science today says there are 1,030 bears currently in the Greater Yellowstone, over twice the recovery target. In the Northern Continental Divide, which is not too far from my great-great-great-grandmother Homestead, when she came from Norway to the United States a long time ago, that recovery target is 800 bears. Current best science tells us there are 1,138. I'm not sure why it's 1,138 versus 37 or 39, but they tell me it's"
Testimony SPEAKER_08
Hearings to examine the nominations of Daniel Mack Traynor, of North D...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"but also he has with him Patricia, or better known as Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force retired Patricia. I always call her Lieutenant Colonel, you know, the proper decorum. She's awesome as well, and their children, Mary, Mark, and Joe, and they are, it's just a great family, and I knew Dan's folks really well, too, and they, you know, are fantastic. So this is just, Dan's a great guy, but he's surrounded by great people. It's a privilege to introduce him today, and I will tell you right up front,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 6917 (Rep. Titus) To take certain land in...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"So that would provide, you know, some benefits for our future citizens. We don't consider ourselves members no more because the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, we're not a club, you know, we consider ourselves citizens of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, the Paiute Nation. So we are citizens now. And so I think that will help greatly benefit, you know, the land, that taking in the trust would greatly benefit, you know, and prolong our existence, you know, for our future generations, our grandkids, great..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"They don't care about the employees themselves. There are lawful people who are doing this in a great way, that's providing a great service to the American people, a great product to the American people. But these individuals in California, I think where the gentleman is from, are doing this, and now there are lawyers out there that say, well, you know what, there's some deep pocket somewhere, we can go do this. No, how about go after the bad actors that are doing this? How about state..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"time, 8.30 at night before Memorial Day weekend, to talk about something that's really important back home to West Michigan summers on the lake. That is invasive species like the sea lamprey, which have long threatened the Great Lakes. In just one year, sea lampreys are capable of killing up to 40 pounds worth of native fish. Before sea lamprey control, they killed so many fish that Great Lakes' entire fisheries collapsed along the Great Lakes. Tens of thousands of jobs were lost. Fortunately,..."
Testimony MR. ZACH BOREN
“Career and Technical Education: Developing the Future of Main Street ...
house Small Business Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"have treated that as a flaw, not a feature. We're seeing a number of men drop out of college, not being able to return, and apprenticeships are this great way where men, and research is showing that men really do well when they have that hands-on learning, and it's a great way to get them into a great career that pays really well as well. Yeah, and I just congratulate Wisconsin on being the oldest and one of the most robust apprenticeship states, has done a great job with youth"
Testimony WIED, TONY
“Career and Technical Education: Developing the Future of Main Street ...
house Small Business Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"Like all of you, I feel very strongly about this issue, and I remain committed to supporting CTE in schools in northeastern Wisconsin and, of course, across our nation. Dr. Ganuski, from the great school district of Wallenpaupack, obviously you're doing a great job. And what I'm impressed with is, and you had mentioned the community support, and that is key to building the vocational education, of course, in your district, and you also have great small business support in your area. What advice..."
Testimony OWENS, BURGESS
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"where Speed Grocery Store, Perkins Gas Station, Baker's Pharmacy. They had pride in their name. They had pride in passing this legacy down to their kids. The most important thing they had pride of getting up every single day and going out and working. Now, what happened to that great community that, as I mentioned, from the 40s and 60s led our country to growth in middle class, men metrically from college, men committed to marriage, percentage of entrepreneurs? What happened to that community..."
Testimony NEHLS, TROY E.
“The Monitoring Racket: The Grift that Keeps on Giving”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"that says we're in compliance, and you having the budget authority over this county sheriff, you've got to have the ability to, number one, be a good steward of the funds, right, be a good steward to the taxpayers, and help the sheriff and end this, this overreach, this bureaucracy, and I wish you all the best in that, and hopefully we can continue to be vocal, I think this hearing, great job with this, Mr. Chairman, hopefully this hearing will help this great state, and this great county here..."
Testimony KLOBUCHAR, AMY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Admiral Kevin Lunday, to be Comm...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"We're very proud of it. Over the years, we've put a lot of funding into making it multimodal, and there's all kinds of things shipped back and forth. And that Senator Baldwin and I, as a result of her work on the Great Lakes, have been really focused on the acquisition of a second Coast Guard Great Lakes icebreaker to be used on the Great Lakes and the port. Do you have the resources you need, and can you talk about the importance of"
Testimony PETERS, GARY C.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Admiral Kevin Lunday, to be Comm...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"In our office meeting, Admiral, we talked about a variety of issues, including some of the visits to facilities in Michigan. And what I would like you to talk a little bit about is the Great Lakes Center for Oil Expertise and the concern about oil spills in the Great Lakes and the fact that we still need to learn a lot more about how we deal with oil in freshwater. There's a lot of knowledge regarding that for saltwater, but freshwater presents a unique set of challenges. And when you think..."
Testimony MIKE HUTCHINGS
Hearings to examine a grateful nation, focusing on maximizing veteran'...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Nov 5, 2025
"So one of the beginning steps is inform and educate. It's a broad assumption, but what I've heard anecdotally is either unaware of the support services that were out there, or as even some of the combined arm employees that are veterans have a great career, great benefits, not interested in it. My personal vignette is I had a great transition story on paper where I was hired and offered full-time employment with General Electric a year before I transitioned out of the military. I didn't do..."
Testimony POCAN, MARK
Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025
"The law of the land is you can have same sex marriages. That is the law of the land for 10 years today. So for us to pretend like that was funsies, we can't do that. We don't do that for other things, but we do that because there's a part of your base that bluntly is that bluntly is bigoted and doesn't believe in it, but it doesn't matter. You don't have that prerogative because you took an oath, and yet you're about to vote against your oath of office when you vote for this, saying that people..."
CRS Report
Restoring the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem
Report · Apr 30, 2026
The Great Salt Lake—located in Utah—is the largest saline lake in the United States. The Great Salt Lake supports wetland habitat for shorebirds, migratory birds, and waterfowl. The lake also...
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
HUSTED, JON "to address that issue. And those coordinated efforts have kept the lamprey under control, but we must always remain vigilant in making sure that that stays true. The Great Lakes are a commercial venue where people get their fresh water, but it's also home of recreational and commercial fishing. A huge economic impact for all of the Great Lakes states. And I bring this up regarding invasive species because the great threat that's out there for the Great Lakes is the invasive carp, which I know you know about. I know the president has I know the president has spoken about the issue. And I also..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W. "how we communicate, how we work, and how we live. These new tools, like the ones that came before, come with great power, but also great responsibility. Small, medium, and large organizations alike are feeling the transformative effects of"
Hearing “Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
BURCHETT, TIM "and I recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Before I do so, I just, I'm probably out of order here, but I have some friends of mine from the Tennessee State Senate. I've spent 12 years in that body, and they actually do a lot of great things for the great state of Tennessee. So thank you, gentlemen and lady, for being here. You're very welcome. Good morning. We're here to find out about how a once-proud American institution fell victim to ideological capture and how to rescue it. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History was opened in 1964 to..."
Hearing U.S. Economic Security and Investment Abroad: Assessing Economic Security Zones
house Oversight and Intelligence Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MILLS, CORY "Would anyone else like to comment, or I can move along? Well, American businesses, American innovation, American workers are the greatest in the world. And we're great at putting up bridges, and as Iran is finding out right now, we're also great at taking down bridges. With that, I will recognize another great veteran, a ranger, an infantry officer, an amazing guy, and also from the heartland of America, the great state of Ohio. So I recognize the gentleman from Ohio, Representative Davidson, for five minutes. With that, I will recognize another great veteran, a ranger, an infantry officer,..."
Hearing “From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and Innovation in Powering America’s Small Businesses.”
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
WILLIAMS, ROGER "Gentleman yields back. I now recognize Mr. Muser from the great state of Pennsylvania for five minutes. The gentleman yields back and now recognizes Mr. McGarvey, one of the great catchers of all time, from the great state of Kentucky, for five minutes. The gentleman yields back. I now recognize Ms. King-High from the Great Northern Mariana Islands for five"
CRS Report
The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA): Frequently Asked Questions
InFocus · Apr 14, 2026
What Is the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA)? The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA; P.L. 116-152) established in the U.S. Treasury a new fund—the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration...
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: • H.R. 7332 (Rep. Matsui), “Whale CHARTS Act of 2026” • H.R. 7466 (Rep. Jackson of TX), “SAFE CATTLE Act” • H.R. 8876...
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Request transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_03 "Money in this area is extremely well spent. Preventing sea lamprey in the 1920s, for instance, would have saved Great Lakes tens of billions of dollars in lost fish and control costs, and as such, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission would support funding levels even beyond what are provided in this bill for this important work. Again, I want to thank the committee for considering this important legislation and I look forward to answering"
Hearing Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's Resource Potential"
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
HURD, JEFF "traditionally took place when you have experienced geologists interpreting large amounts of data. AI seems to have changed that. Can you talk a little bit about how AI has changed that equation? Is it making geologists more productive or is it changing how discoveries are made? comes from AI. Yeah. Got it. Thank you, Dr. Letter. Dr. Hawley, it's great to see you again here. Thanks. Colorado School of Mines is one of the great institutions, not only in our state, of Mines is one of the great institutions, not only in our state, but in our country, so SCODIGS. I understand your testimony to say..."
Hearing “Career and Technical Education: Developing the Future of Main Street Success.”
house Small Business Committee · Feb 24, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MR. ZACH BOREN "have treated that as a flaw, not a feature. We're seeing a number of men drop out of college, not being able to return, and apprenticeships are this great way where men, and research is showing that men really do well when they have that hands-on learning, and it's a great way to get them into a great career that pays really well as well. Yeah, and I just congratulate Wisconsin on being the oldest and one of the most robust apprenticeship states, has done a great job with youth"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Admiral Kevin Lunday, to be Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KLOBUCHAR, AMY "We're very proud of it. Over the years, we've put a lot of funding into making it multimodal, and there's all kinds of things shipped back and forth. And that Senator Baldwin and I, as a result of her work on the Great Lakes, have been really focused on the acquisition of a second Coast Guard Great Lakes icebreaker to be used on the Great Lakes and the port. Do you have the resources you need, and can you talk about the importance of"
Hearing United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First Foreign Policy Through Strategic Diplomacy and Burden Sharing
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MCCAUL, MICHAEL T. "Hey, Mike, nothing ever changes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ambassador Walts. Great to see you again. It's great to see a friend and a former colleague in this position. And let me just say, I think you're doing an outstanding job. Reforming the United Nations is quite a daunting task. As Ambassador Bartos, you mentioned your wife questioning your sanity and taking on the job, but I commend you for"
Hearing “Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_05 "You don't have to thank me every time. to other resource partners, and we've talked to our field staff, and as I said, some of the SCORE mentors are tremendous, and they've gotten great credit, but some of them, they're not great, and the organization's working to move them out. No, that's not fraud. Waste is different than fraud and"
Hearing Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio), “Expanding the Fast Track Act of 2026.’’ • H.R. 9640 (Rep. Wittman), “Earth...
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
HURD, JEFF "I appreciate that. With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Kinsella, it's great to have you here. Great to have a Colorado company as part of this panel. Can you, going back to Chairman Westerman's question about how to explain quantum, the way that I've, in my simple mind, trying to think of it or understand it is imagine you're walking across a wooden floor. You can't see beneath it, but you can kind of tell by where you're standing, where the floor feels solid and where it feels hollow. Quantum works"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under Secretary,...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MARSHALL, ROGER "as Undersecretary for International Affairs? Great. Great. My next question for Mr. Brook. Mr. Brook, based upon your years of experience pitching batting practice at the Congressional Baseball Team and spending time in the bullpen with the pitchers, which congressional member had the best curveball in your humble"
Hearing Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnerships
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
JACKSON, RONNY "So far, where are we at with a project like the libido corridor? And my question is, we have a lot of great ideas and we have great plans, but the problem is there are such basic issues that exist in a lot of these countries, in DRC in particular, with regards to corruption and the ongoing conflict and the security issues and stuff there, that, you know, what are we doing to overcome that? Because we can talk about it all day long, but I don't see much being done. I don't see a lot of progress being made, and I just – I mean, I know that"
Hearing The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
VARGAS, JUAN "from him. I understood why my novice master had sent me there, and one of the things he said was really interesting, I never forgot. He said, yeah, people march around, and yeah, they look pretty in their uniform, but you never know how a person's going to react until they're under fire. The reason I say that is, you kind of mentioned it too, in ordinary times it's easy. When the crisis hits, that's when the issue is. That's why if you litigate the past, yeah, okay, you can litigate the past, but the truth of the matter is things happened. The Great Depression, things happened. We were so..."
Hearing H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R. 9504
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BEAN, AARON "If we're going to fix the deficit, which we have to, we have to solve healthcare, and we need to improve healthcare, put patients first of how that goes, and we've had some great debate. We've had great debate in the pharma executives and arena. We need them healthy, we need them competitive, we need to keep our country on the cutting edge of technology, of how they design our"
Hearing "Taking Account: Implementation of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025, Reconciliation, and Force Design 2028."
house Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCHOLTEN, HILLARY J. "Thank you, Mr. Chair and Mr. Ranking Member, and welcome to our witnesses. I'll start by asking a topic that I talk about a lot here, the acquisition of an additional heavy Great Lakes icebreaker. This year was particularly difficult for late and early winter shipping on the Great Lakes with numerous delays. U.S. carriers lost weeks stuck in the ice and couldn't deliver the necessary raw materials that drive American"
Hearing American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GUTHRIE, BRETT "Can you discuss the impact of this requirement, what this requirement is requiring, and the impact on American consumers and workers? Thank you. And one of the, of us hosting the world this summer is all the Europeans who are, most of them visit our great cities, and they're obviously great, so they see that, but now they're out in the towns and suburbs and are just amazed what you hear at the standard of living of America, and so that we need to make sure we understand what we do different than they do and not follow their path. So Mr. Chilson, the United States leads the world in developing..."
Hearing Memorializing our Veterans: Outreach, Upkeep, and Community Partnerships at Veterans Cemeteries
house Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MCGARVEY, MORGAN "An exception, particularly in rural areas, and as you know, especially if you're in southeast Kentucky, it can take a long way to get not a very far distance through the mountains, so appreciate that. Director Lagone, I know you all have great partnerships with the community and get a lot done with funding from the state, and you all do a great job with your cemeteries, but I want to flesh out your recommendations for the Veteran Cemetery Grant Program just a little bit"
Hearing Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Federal Tax Policy in the Multibillion-Dollar Industry
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BOYLE, BRENDAN F. "Frankly, I think it's a topic that's long overdue. And it seems to me listening to this really great conversation and great witnesses over the last two plus hours, we have two different but related issues that we've been talking about. First are all the issues related to college"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_10 "Liz, and our five children, Moira, Celia, Madeline, Joseph, and Lucy, now all outstanding adults who make us both very proud. Liz's love, support, and frankly, patience with me while raising our children has made whatever professional accomplishments I have had possible. My late father and mother would be respectively aged 99 and 96 today, and thus it would be unreasonable for me to regret that they did not live to experience this great honor with me. I nevertheless do regret it. They raised six baby boomers in a time of great societal upheaval, the youngest being me, and were very proud and..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “The Congressional Research Service and the Future of AI-Enabled Policy Analysis”
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN "Thank you very much. Let me join in the thanks. CRS has done a great job during my time here in Congress. And it gets complex sometimes, and I greatly appreciate it. Ms. Sewell mentioned getting help on subject matter particularities or stuff. And last year, I had an experience where we had that, and for the folks watching back home, you know it and we know it, but the committees up here don't always have clear-cut jurisdiction. And so trying to figure out what the subject matter is of your particular committee or subcommittee can sometimes be interesting. I remember I was first here and..."
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_13 "but there's been no serious issue. We've had some threats come up. We've been able to knock it down because of our relationship with FBI, plus ICE, which has HSI, which can investigate, go make the arrest. So we've had a great fan experience. We've got great rapport back from our fan base, even in the fan zones that they have set up for the fans to experience the games that get in. We've had a great time. We do have a tremendous amount of counterfeiting. We're starting to see more human trafficking come in place. Just in Dallas last week, we rescued four kids and one adult female, arrested..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE "I hope anybody listening makes sure that on a visit to Washington you make sure you do that since it is going to be open from nine to nine. It was great. It was great. Recently, the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia vacated the biological opinion that governed the consultations under the Endangered Species Act for coal mining activities in states that have primacy under SMACRA. You and I have already talked about"
Testimony SPEAKER_20
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Yeah, it's really been remarkable how the US Geological Survey has really helped the state surveys work more harmoniously with the tribes. Obviously, state surveys work primarily in their state relationships with tribes, and then the US Geological Survey allows that nation-to-nation relationship, and the managers in the US Geological Survey have worked really hard to build great bridges between the state surveys and the tribes, and Quapaw's a great example of that, where they were invited..."
Testimony ALAN D. PALKOWITZ
Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biote...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"you know, taking the science and moving it forward to a value asset. I'll comment. Thank you, Senator. I think that's a great idea, but I think we have to couple it with not just the, you know, the academic PhD, but coupling it to internships, experiential learning, being able to expose these students to environments that are really going to be reflective of the true work environment they'll be going into and expecting to deliver on commitments of innovation and advancement. So I think that's a..."
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"It is moving so fast. The impact is so great, and we don't have all of the data that we need now, so getting this information is greatly appreciated, and I truly appreciate the interest from so many members. I'm going to scooch out of here. Staff will keep us all honest in terms of when we turn off the lights, but thank"
Testimony HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"how we communicate, how we work, and how we live. These new tools, like the ones that came before, come with great power, but also great responsibility. Small, medium, and large organizations alike are feeling the transformative effects of"
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"What a good idea. Great, great answer too, by the way. Ms."
Testimony BANKS, JIM
Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Thank you to the ranking member. Thank you to all of our panelists and guests, and to our staff for arranging this great hearing, a great conversation. I thought it was a very productive committee hearing today, but I am biased because I chaired"
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"You wrote on January the 26th of 2020, we should be allowed to send our CDC epidemiologists to China to work with them so you could, so they could see the data firsthand. You, you also wrote on February 12th, 2020, that you had great concerns about the World Health Organization because it depends greatly on China, and as you stated, often bows to them. Now this is a really important issue that we've got to resolve for the"
Testimony MORENO, BERNIE
Business meeting to markup S.1759, to allow for the operation of civil...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"First, I'd like to thank your staff. I know sometimes people don't find incredible amounts of persistence as charming as I would want them to, but both of you and the ranking member have been great to work with, your staff have been great to work with. I'd like to enter into the record many letters of support for this bill, including groups as desperate as the UAW, the United Steelworkers, the Teamsters, but also the Alliance for Automotive Innovation. If you're not familiar with that group,..."
Testimony MCCAUL, MICHAEL T.
United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First F...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Hey, Mike, nothing ever changes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ambassador Walts. Great to see you again. It's great to see a friend and a former colleague in this position. And let me just say, I think you're doing an outstanding job. Reforming the United Nations is quite a daunting task. As Ambassador Bartos, you mentioned your wife questioning your sanity and taking on the job, but I commend you for"
Testimony SPEAKER_23
United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First F...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"But thank you for the question. First of all, General, it's great to see you. Fellow Pennsylvanian, so great to see you, and thank you for the question. I would say, I've had a lot of proud moments in my 10 months at"
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"You don't have to thank me every time. to other resource partners, and we've talked to our field staff, and as I said, some of the SCORE mentors are tremendous, and they've gotten great credit, but some of them, they're not great, and the organization's working to move them out. No, that's not fraud. Waste is different than fraud and"
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And so one of my objections would be to try to figure out, how did that happen? How can we help replicate it? Because it's not the federal government's dollars making all the difference. There were great people providing great services and advice and counseling to these heroic small businesses. So that would be one priority. I would say to help the nation re-industrialize, I think manufacturing, food supply, as I mentioned, these are core priorities of the administration. So those would be..."
Testimony HUSTED, JON
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Kevin Lilly, of Texas, ...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"address emerging threats. So many people, I know I'm the only member of the committee that represents a Great Lakes state, so many people rely on their water from the Great Lakes. And I know in Ohio we've had initiatives like H2Ohio which are designed to improve the relationship between the lake and the agricultural community by creating more buffer zones through wetlands and other things that have improved water"
Testimony VASQUEZ, GABE
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Chief Schultz, do you believe that you follow these guiding principles of folks like Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot? Well, that's great, because today I feel like we're traveling back in time and we're facing some of the exact same issues and the exact dilemma that these great leaders once faced. In New Mexico, we pride ourselves on finding a balance between extraction and conservation, because we know with good conservation and management, we can do both. Our public lands define us as a..."
Testimony FLEISCHMANN, CHARLES J. "CHUCK"
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"It was a privilege to serve with you there and in this capacity as well. And I thank you for your efforts. Of course, you know I'm a co-sponsor of this bill. I did want to recognize the other two distinguished guests. Mr. McClintock, a great, great friend. Thank you for your efforts in this regard, and the accolades that you received are well deserved for the way that you have conducted yourself in our"
Testimony BURCHETT, TIM
“Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Re...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"and I recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Before I do so, I just, I'm probably out of order here, but I have some friends of mine from the Tennessee State Senate. I've spent 12 years in that body, and they actually do a lot of great things for the great state of Tennessee. So thank you, gentlemen and lady, for being here. You're very welcome. Good morning. We're here to find out about how a once-proud American institution fell victim to ideological capture and how..."
Testimony FALLON, PAT
“Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Re...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Did you have a new exhibit on Ben Franklin? All right, so on the founding fathers. How about great inventors, great American inventors? Any new exhibits on that? A brand new one for the"
Testimony JACKSON, JONATHAN L.
“Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Re...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"is divisive. There were great people, Senator Charles Sumner is a personal hero, Thaddeus Stevens, he was some of the people that were called the great reconstructionists, if you will, that brought about America. When you cancel out African Americans in American history, you in fact don't tell the whole"
Testimony MS. KIRSTEN GULLICKSON
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and In...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 21, 2026
"those ideas and how we're going to do it. As you know, the CAO has put up that great vendor site, so that's great, but how do we get the—we have so many staff who have great ideas. How do we get them to do it"
Testimony GALLAGHER, JAMES
Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"state to local is very important to all of us. So thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I yield back my time. No problem, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Gallagher from California. I want to voice my support for the amendment and the underlying legislation, Mr. Chairman. We know the power of geothermal energy out in California. We have the Geysers Project in Northern California, which has been a great source of renewable power in the North. Many of our municipal jurisdictions rely on that power, and I think it has..."
Testimony BUDD, TED
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Blunt-Rochester, thanks for your patience. You are recognized. Thank you. Great questions. It's been a great panel. We appreciate your expertise that you've brought today and your testimony as well. I think we all have some questions for the record that we're going to leave with"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Legislative Hearing on: • H.R. 7332 (Rep. Matsui), “Whale CHARTS Act o...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Money in this area is extremely well spent. Preventing sea lamprey in the 1920s, for instance, would have saved Great Lakes tens of billions of dollars in lost fish and control costs, and as such, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission would support funding levels even beyond what are provided in this bill for this important work. Again, I want to thank the committee for considering this important legislation and I look forward to answering"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Legislative Hearing on: • H.R. 7332 (Rep. Matsui), “Whale CHARTS Act o...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"and collaboration among the states need to happen. So what we learned in a study called the Great Lakes Mississippi River Interbasin Study is that the Great Lakes could give as good as it can get in terms of the movement of invasive species. In other words, what appears in one region of the country is very likely to move to another region of the country. Invasive species move, they invade, they move around, and a local problem becomes"
Testimony HURD, JEFF
Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio),...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"I appreciate that. With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Kinsella, it's great to have you here. Great to have a Colorado company as part of this panel. Can you, going back to Chairman Westerman's question about how to explain quantum, the way that I've, in my simple mind, trying to think of it or understand it is imagine you're walking across a wooden floor. You can't see beneath it, but you can kind of tell by where you're standing, where the floor feels solid and..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio),...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"state surveys bring to the table is local expertise. We have pretty well established connections with industry and academics within our states, and we have just a practical aspect to our work focused on outcomes. USGS brings expertise that an individual state survey could never have. Geophysics, geochemistry, people who can determine how old rocks are. They just bring a lot of resources to the table that we can use to leverage the on-the-ground work we're doing. I think we have great..."
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"as Undersecretary for International Affairs? Great. Great. My next question for Mr. Brook. Mr. Brook, based upon your years of experience pitching batting practice at the Congressional Baseball Team and spending time in the bullpen with the pitchers, which congressional member had the best curveball in your humble"
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"it out there. Does anybody else want to talk about quantum computing with me? Anybody else have an opinion, what the opportunities are? I'm just really excited, probably more excited about this than even AI. Anybody working on this? Mr. Brooke, go ahead. I would just say how exciting it is, technologies. Great. Anybody else? Okay. You should work for my messaging team. That's a great coming back to Working Family Tax Cuts. So Mr. Chairman, you're just in time for me to yield back. You missed..."
Testimony BANKS, JIM
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Mr. Sonderling, thank you for your leadership. You've done a great job in your current role. You're going to be a great secretary. But can you talk for a minute about illegal immigration? It's illegal to hire illegals. Yet, tens of millions of illegals still find jobs in"
Testimony WARNER, MARK R.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to ...
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me just echo what you said at the beginning of this hearing in terms of the great loss we all feel on both sides of the aisle of the passing of our friend Lindsey Graham. And as we commented yesterday, he was not on this committee, but he sure as hell was on this committee on many times. Mr. Clayton, Jay, it's good to see you again. It was great to have the opportunity to meet your wife, Gretchen, in the ante room. And I'm going to start with where the..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH
Hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congr...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"After 63 months of inflation above the Fed's target, it struck me that any new leader should arrive at this organization and look to the very best minds that we could find. There's a lot of great ones at the Fed, but there's a lot of great ones that aren't even in economics profession. I reached out to 15 people who I have known and trusted with a diversity of views to see whether they would take the most important questions that are going to be the determinants of monetary policy and the..."
Testimony WESLEY WILCOX
Committee on House Administration Elections Subcommittee Hearing:“Elec...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 15, 2026
"You know, you mentioned our logic and accuracy, the testing prior to an election, post-election audits. You know, if we could get the general public to come see some of those things, it would be great, but now I've got 1,200 people last time that signed up that wanted, eagerly wanted to come see what we were doing, so I think it's a great opportunity for us. Thank you, Ranking Member"
Testimony HUSTED, JON
Business meeting to consider S.4949, to provide for improvements to th...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"address emerging threats. So many people, I know I'm the only member of the committee that represents a Great Lakes state, so many people rely on their water from the Great Lakes. And I know in Ohio we've had initiatives like H2Ohio which are designed to improve the relationship between the lake and the agricultural community by creating more buffer zones like"
Testimony HIMES, JAMES A.
States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"So what can we do? What can we do to make classified? I understand the challenges, but what can we do to make it? You don't even know what you don't know, right? And I'm being oblique about this, but what's the solution to that? Great, great suggestion. Thank you. That's exactly what I'm looking for. One last question because I don't have a lot of time left, but the flip side of, if you see something, say something and have really mobilizing here is that we're going to see an analogy to what we..."
Testimony JACKSON, RONNY
Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnersh...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"So far, where are we at with a project like the libido corridor? And my question is, we have a lot of great ideas and we have great plans, but the problem is there are such basic issues that exist in a lot of these countries, in DRC in particular, with regards to corruption and the ongoing conflict and the security issues and stuff there, that, you know, what are we doing to overcome that? Because we can talk about it all day long, but I don't see much being done. I don't see a lot of progress..."
Testimony BELL, WESLEY
Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnersh...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Are the DOJ records inaccurate? That's great. That's great. You didn't have a"
Testimony THE HONORABLE TAYLOR JORDAN
A Review of the Office of Space Commerce’s Mission Authorization Propo...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"In this process for the Office of Space Commerce, we are not looking to take away any statutory obligations or regulations from other space regulators like the FAA or the FCC. The one-stop shop is a great idea, and we want to make sure that we have the ability to ask questions on their behalf, but we need a process that works. And we're really excited to test out our framework and our process with some great use cases to work out any kinks in the system and then deliver that back and showcase..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Ma...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you. Senator, it was great to meet you, and I just wanted to say for the record, I did listen to Wagon Wheel, great banjo playing, so thank you for the recommendation. Senator, I did not know about what you just described happening in Denver. You have my commitment, if I am confirmed as a CDC director, to look into that with your staff and with the folks at the"
Testimony ROUZER, DAVID
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"of various perspectives throughout the course of the hearing here. So no more questions for me. But I do want to thank you. This has been, I think, a really great and exhaustive hearing with a lot of really good information shared and so greatly appreciate that. The committee now stands"
Testimony THE HONORABLE TODD BLANCHE
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"That's exactly what we're focused on, Senator. We have great prosecutors, Senator, and great agents. Yes, that's"
Testimony JEFFREY KESSLER
FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"and that's why the President's budget doesn't request an increase for OICTS. I look forward to continuing the great work, the great collaboration that BIS has done with this committee, and working with you all to make sure that BIS has the tools and the staff and the resources that it needs to keep America safe and to sustain our national and economic"
Testimony KIM, YOUNG
More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State an...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Given these sustained personnel losses, how can Commerce credibly argue that it has the capacity to meet the growing demand for commercial diplomacy and effectively support American businesses overseas? Like I said, this is in no way criticism of the work that you're doing, which I believe is no way criticism of the work that you are doing which I believe it's doing a great great job but I just wanted to make sure that you know you are supporting our efforts to strengthen the commercial..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN
Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"the conversation that we had in his office prior to my hearing, where he got to know me. It was a long conversation. He took the opportunity to get to know me. He questioned me with great seriousness and great knowledge about my record as Solicitor General, including particularly the various terrorism issues that that office had dealt with over the time I was Solicitor"
Testimony SPEAKER_11
updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; Gene...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I also want to acknowledge Congressman LaMalfa's long and effective service on behalf of the North State in California. He set a strong foundation for advocating for our water, our infrastructure, and rural community needs, and I'm committed to building on that great legacy as I step into this role. I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get to work on aviation, rail, and highway subcommittees, and I want to thank the Chairman and members for this great opportunity. We're just getting started..."
Testimony ROUZER, DAVID
updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; Gene...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"All these provisions will help protect homes, businesses, and communities throughout my district while strengthening resilience for the long term. I especially want to thank the Chairman, the Ranking Member, the Subcommittee Chairman, and the Subcommittee Ranking Member for their great leadership to produce, yet again, another great WERDA bill holding true to the biannual process that has served this nation so well. I urge my colleagues to support this critical legislation and I yield"
Testimony SCHOLTEN, HILLARY J.
updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; Gene...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"This is essential for communities like Grand Haven, Michigan, where potential dredging delays have risked local jobs and potential detrimental impacts on our supply chain. The bill additionally looks after our Great Lakes communities by adjusting wage rates for employees at the Sioux Locks, reauthorizing the Great Lakes Commission in tackling invasive species and plants. Finally, the bill reauthorizes FEMA's High Hazard Potential Dam Program, which is particularly important after Michigan's..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; Gene...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. I rise in support of the Water Resources Development Act of 2026. I want to start by thanking Chairman Graves and Ranking Member Larson for their leadership on this bipartisan legislation. Army Corps projects are especially critical to the Great Lakes' maritime economy. The Great Lakes generate $3.1 trillion in gross domestic product and employ roughly 25.8 million people. The Port of Duluth Superior and the Sioux Locks transport millions of tons of American mine taconite..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"a bit about Senator Graham. And I did this this morning as well, but you provided me with a—I talked this morning about exactly what you talked about. First, I want to say that the entire court wants to send its condolences to Senator Graham's family and all his colleagues and friends in the Senate and elsewhere. All of us have been through the Judiciary Committee and most of us through the Judiciary Committee while Senator Graham sat on it, and there is a great deal of affection throughout the..."
Testimony MILLS, CORY
U.S. Economic Security and Investment Abroad: Assessing Economic Secur...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Would anyone else like to comment, or I can move along? Well, American businesses, American innovation, American workers are the greatest in the world. And we're great at putting up bridges, and as Iran is finding out right now, we're also great at taking down bridges. With that, I will recognize another great veteran, a ranger, an infantry officer, an amazing guy, and also from the heartland of America, the great state of Ohio. So I recognize the gentleman from Ohio, Representative Davidson,..."
Testimony MR. MICHAEL HOLLOMON II
U.S. Economic Security and Investment Abroad: Assessing Economic Secur...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"and I applaud it. Sure. I think a great example of that would be the Lobito Corridor that goes into Angola from the Great River region, Congo area. So a logistics corridor is anywhere you're taking the first principle fundamental material, which we all want to talk about, the end-use product, the battery, the computer. But how does it get there? It's got to come out of the ground somewhere in the world. It has to get first mined, then processed originally, either an ore or a concentrate, loaded..."
Testimony WILLIAMS, ROGER
“AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"The gentleman yields back. I now recognize Ms. McIver from the great state of New Jersey for five minutes. I yield back. Gentlelady yields back. I now recognize Ms. King-Hines from the Northern Mariana Islands, the Great Nor- the Great Islands, for five minutes. The gentlelady yields back. I now recognize Mr. Tran from the great state of California for five"
Testimony VARGAS, JUAN
The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"from him. I understood why my novice master had sent me there, and one of the things he said was really interesting, I never forgot. He said, yeah, people march around, and yeah, they look pretty in their uniform, but you never know how a person's going to react until they're under fire. The reason I say that is, you kind of mentioned it too, in ordinary times it's easy. When the crisis hits, that's when the issue is. That's why if you litigate the past, yeah, okay, you can litigate the past,..."
Testimony CASTEN, SEAN
The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chair Warsh, nice to see you here. Welcome. I want to start with just a purely academic question for you, just on economic theory, but with some context. You talked to Dr. Foster about your experience in the 2008 downturn. I was not here in 2008, but I remember in 2020 when former Chair Bernanke came in as someone who had some experience steering through a crisis. I remember we had this meeting in March of 2020 saying, we've never seen unemployment spike this quickly..."
Testimony BEAN, AARON
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"If we're going to fix the deficit, which we have to, we have to solve healthcare, and we need to improve healthcare, put patients first of how that goes, and we've had some great debate. We've had great debate in the pharma executives and arena. We need them healthy, we need them competitive, we need to keep our country on the cutting edge of technology, of how they design our"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"There's no reason. These are American taxpayer dollars, and I tell you, probably the only person on the dais here that's been involved in an active role, being in part of hospital administration when I was chief of staff is—I had a great hospital system, a great nonprofit hospital system that does a fantastic job, but we have some bad actors, and unless, as I said in my opening comments, part of our job is oversight, and when we have bad actors—you guys talk about the billionaires and all this..."
Testimony SCHOLTEN, HILLARY J.
"Taking Account: Implementation of the Coast Guard Authorization Act o...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chair and Mr. Ranking Member, and welcome to our witnesses. I'll start by asking a topic that I talk about a lot here, the acquisition of an additional heavy Great Lakes icebreaker. This year was particularly difficult for late and early winter shipping on the Great Lakes with numerous delays. U.S. carriers lost weeks stuck in the ice and couldn't deliver the necessary raw materials that drive American"
Testimony SCHOLTEN, HILLARY J.
"Taking Account: Implementation of the Coast Guard Authorization Act o...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"when the American people can expect answers. This is obviously a huge deal, not just for the Great Lakes, but for the entire country that relies on the Great Lakes economy. These delays have been costly, and at a time when the affordability crisis is absolutely crippling American families, it's essential. OK, we'll await your response on that one"
Testimony GUTHRIE, BRETT
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Can you discuss the impact of this requirement, what this requirement is requiring, and the impact on American consumers and workers? Thank you. And one of the, of us hosting the world this summer is all the Europeans who are, most of them visit our great cities, and they're obviously great, so they see that, but now they're out in the towns and suburbs and are just amazed what you hear at the standard of living of America, and so that we need to make sure we understand what we do different..."
Testimony VEASEY, MARC A.
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Yeah. Just like with these data centers. I mean, the way that people think about mergers and the way people think about antitrust could certainly change greatly if they feel that there are prospects for their kids and themselves being able to have some upward mobility changes greatly. Dr. Eisler, as memory chip supply tightens, the concern is not just whether these companies can build the next generation of AI products, but whether families can afford the everyday technology they rely on. How..."
Testimony MCGARVEY, MORGAN
Memorializing our Veterans: Outreach, Upkeep, and Community Partnershi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"An exception, particularly in rural areas, and as you know, especially if you're in southeast Kentucky, it can take a long way to get not a very far distance through the mountains, so appreciate that. Director Lagone, I know you all have great partnerships with the community and get a lot done with funding from the state, and you all do a great job with your cemeteries, but I want to flesh out your recommendations for the Veteran Cemetery Grant Program just a little bit"
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Memorializing our Veterans: Outreach, Upkeep, and Community Partnershi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"That one's a little more, a little harder to answer because I don't know their ins and outs of all the procedures, and I really don't know the other states' needs. I think they're doing a great job prioritizing, and I know for Kentucky, they're doing a great job answering us back on why we didn't get selected or we did get selected. Yes,"
Testimony LANDSMAN, GREG
Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"before but have you submitted your list of permitting reform recommendations to That would be great. Yeah I would we'll follow up. Great. Okay thank"
Testimony BOYLE, BRENDAN F.
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Frankly, I think it's a topic that's long overdue. And it seems to me listening to this really great conversation and great witnesses over the last two plus hours, we have two different but related issues that we've been talking about. First are all the issues related to college"
Testimony MILLER, MAX L.
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"I remember drill instructors educating us on where things should go and if we should put money in Navy Federal or Paris Island Federal Credit Union, whatever it may have been. That's just the reality of where we are. I think I've had a great education in this country, but not one educator, and I have a college degree and that's great. It's not what got me here. I believe the Marine Corps didn't work, I think, but it's very scary. So given the reality, I want to move past the if and get to the..."
Testimony THOMPSON, GLENN
"Reviewing Partnerships to Enhance Management of the National Forest S...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Thank you, Chairman. Well, good morning, everyone. And I want to thank Chairman Newhouse and Ranking Member Salinas for holding this subcommittee hearing today on the importance of partnerships for the health of our nation's forests. I'd like to add my thoughts to the chairman, taking a moment to recognize our great friend, Doug LaMolf. Doug certainly would have many thoughts and insights into today's discussion. He's a great friend, chairman, and he is missed. With that also, I'd like to..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesot...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Liz, and our five children, Moira, Celia, Madeline, Joseph, and Lucy, now all outstanding adults who make us both very proud. Liz's love, support, and frankly, patience with me while raising our children has made whatever professional accomplishments I have had possible. My late father and mother would be respectively aged 99 and 96 today, and thus it would be unreasonable for me to regret that they did not live to experience this great honor with me. I nevertheless do regret it. They raised..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesot...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Could have been so much easier. There's great community colleges in Ohio, or I went to the book. I went to the library. They have this great book. It's called Supply and Demand for Dummies. It's"
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “The Congres...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 25, 2026
"Thank you very much. Let me join in the thanks. CRS has done a great job during my time here in Congress. And it gets complex sometimes, and I greatly appreciate it. Ms. Sewell mentioned getting help on subject matter particularities or stuff. And last year, I had an experience where we had that, and for the folks watching back home, you know it and we know it, but the committees up here don't always have clear-cut jurisdiction. And so trying to figure out what the subject matter is of your..."
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “The Congres...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 25, 2026
"over the EPA. But if the water was in the mine, it was ours. But if it was outside on the ground, it was somebody else's. So I took on a new task at the beginning of 2025, taking over the environment, chair of the Environment Subcommittee of Energy and Commerce. And I'm like, okay, what exactly can I go after, or what do I have to keep my hands off of because it's not mine? And CRS did a great job of putting together a paper explaining all the jurisdictions and some of the history of the..."
Testimony WILLIAMS, ROGER
“From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and I...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Gentleman yields back. I now recognize Mr. Muser from the great state of Pennsylvania for five minutes. The gentleman yields back and now recognizes Mr. McGarvey, one of the great catchers of all time, from the great state of Kentucky, for five minutes. The gentleman yields back. I now recognize Ms. King-High from the Great Northern Mariana Islands for five"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
“From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and I...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"and we're making it simpler, and we're already seeing the flow through in the record numbers that we had last year. And funds are very happy with the improvements that we've made, and we look to make more in the market? Thank you for the question. Great, great topic. And in terms of how I think about the various priorities that we have, obviously we've talked about getting the policy directive updated, getting our report out, improving our data analysis. Commercialization is huge. You know,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
“From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and I...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"California's 12th District. Yeah, yeah. You did all that homework, so. No, we did, we did, and I wrote them out so they would stick in my mind now, and I'm gonna pull them up so I can talk about it. Now, it wasn't exhaustive. It was just, it was, it was Ciber or SPIC Investments, and or funds, but. You can send them to me. No, oh great, but no, but they're great. I mean, there's, I'm not gonna say all the names, but there's a Ciber success story, and I've actually engaged with this company...."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"but there's been no serious issue. We've had some threats come up. We've been able to knock it down because of our relationship with FBI, plus ICE, which has HSI, which can investigate, go make the arrest. So we've had a great fan experience. We've got great rapport back from our fan base, even in the fan zones that they have set up for the fans to experience the games that get in. We've had a great time. We do have a tremendous amount of counterfeiting. We're starting to see more human..."
Testimony CISCOMANI, JUAN
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Unfortunately, not everybody did, but I'm happy that we've gotten through that, and we hope never to have to do that again. You have a very important mission as a representative of a border district in Southern Arizona. The work of your department is deeply personal to me and the priority of my office. I'd love to host you in Arizona sometime soon, and there's some gyms there that I think you may enjoy there as well. But I want to start off with one question. It's going to be more of a broader..."
Testimony KIM, YOUNG
Implementing an America First Approach in the East Asia and Pacific Re...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Thank you. To that end, I have to concur that this administration has made great strides with great initiatives like Pax Silica, Project Vault. What we're trying to do through our Dominance Act is to codify it so that we can ensure our allies and partners that there is a durability going"
Testimony RANDALL, EMILY
Markup of H.R. 9250 (Rep. Westerman), “Great American Outdoors Act 250...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Thank you. Thank you so much, Chairman Westerman and Ranking Member Huffman, for your leadership and hard work on bringing forward a bipartisan, bicameral Great American Outdoors Act of 250. The Legacy Restoration Fund established in the Great American Outdoors Act of 2020 provided, as we know, much-needed funding to address decades of deferred maintenance, repair critical infrastructure, and improve visitor access and safety in national parks, wildlife"
Testimony KAREN HEDLUND
Hearings to examine the nominations of Thomas B. Chapman, of Maryland,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"I am also honored today to be joined by my fellow board members, Chairman Fuchs and Vice Chairman Schultz, whom I have had a great, great pleasure of working closely with over the last four years. My experience in serving on the board since January of 2022 has been one of the most"
Testimony CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
Hearings to examine the nomination of Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Ass...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"I hope anybody listening makes sure that on a visit to Washington you make sure you do that since it is going to be open from nine to nine. It was great. It was great. Recently, the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia vacated the biological opinion that governed the consultations under the Endangered Species Act for coal mining activities in states that have primacy under SMACRA. You and I have already talked about"
Testimony KEVIN LILLY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Ass...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Madam Chairman. That's a great question and yes, I have spent a great deal of time with Director Nesvig as well as the Fish and Wildlife staff and other staff members within the Department of the Interior. I think that the fundamental reality is that many things, while well intended, become subject to the unintended consequences of their own action. I think that is reflective in the Endangered Species"
CRS Report
Fiscal Policy and Recovery from the COVID19 Recession
Reports · Feb 1, 2021
The economic contraction that began in February 2020 differs from previous contractions, including the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of 2007-2009. It was caused in large part...
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Juan Segura, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Western Hemisphere Affairs) and to be a...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 18, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "Well, you know, growing up in Iowa, I never had a chance to do vacation in a big family. If we did vacation, it was camping somewhere with a short drive, you know, or going to visit grandparents. So the car trips were an experience, especially with, you know, nine carsick kids. So the first time I got to see the ocean, I saved money and flew to Jamaica. It was the first ocean I ever saw. I got spoiled. That's a great ocean to see, the Caribbean Ocean. And we just kept going back. It's a great, the beaches are great. My family and I, our kids are big swimmers. We like to swim in the ocean. We..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading the way.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
DR. AJAY "AJ" P. MALSHE "if you can give a tax credit to that, that would increase the investment in the deep tech businesses. But thank you for that question. So thank you for asking, and I would like to acknowledge that I am from the great state of Indiana, from a great state, Purdue University as well, that is a great capital, but I, historically, I came from Ohio State, the Ohio State, Buckeyes, so I do want to acknowledge that. You got two good pedigrees there. Yes, I do want to acknowledge that, but I would like to highlight something to your questions, that deep technology businesses, I know Indiana is growing..."
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 BUDDY ROCHA, JR. "And so what it means, though, also to us, as you had asked for, about what this means to the families, it's just so critically important for those generations. And I hope that my great-great-great-grandchildren will be able to live on a reservation. And as of right now, only about 60 percent of our – actually, 55 percent of our tribe is only able to live on a reservation due to the resources that we have capable for expanding our reservation boundaries for"
Hearing From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of How America Invests
house Capital Markets Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, panel, for being here. This is a great topic, and I'm kind of curious on a couple of your comments, but one of the top priorities of this subcommittee as well as President Trump's SEC has been to make IPOs great again, and we have, of course, we saw an IPO within the last couple of weeks that, of course, was incredible, and, you know, I think it still shows that great innovation, great leadership, companies that have a vision for the future, again, will attract a lot of capital into it, and I want to ask Mr. Quadman, in your view, how has the dominance..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, to be an Assistant Secretary, Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
DAINES, STEVE "Our best science today says there are 1,030 bears currently in the Greater Yellowstone, over twice the recovery target. In the Northern Continental Divide, which is not too far from my great-great-great-grandmother Homestead, when she came from Norway to the United States a long time ago, that recovery target is 800 bears. Current best science tells us there are 1,138. I'm not sure why it's 1,138 versus 37 or 39, but they tell me it's"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Daniel Mack Traynor, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Angela...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "but also he has with him Patricia, or better known as Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force retired Patricia. I always call her Lieutenant Colonel, you know, the proper decorum. She's awesome as well, and their children, Mary, Mark, and Joe, and they are, it's just a great family, and I knew Dan's folks really well, too, and they, you know, are fantastic. So this is just, Dan's a great guy, but he's surrounded by great people. It's a privilege to introduce him today, and I will tell you right up front, he's a man of great integrity, intellect, and deep faith in our Constitution. He understands the..."
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_03 "So that would provide, you know, some benefits for our future citizens. We don't consider ourselves members no more because the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, we're not a club, you know, we consider ourselves citizens of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, the Paiute Nation. So we are citizens now. And so I think that will help greatly benefit, you know, the land, that taking in the trust would greatly benefit, you know, and prolong our existence, you know, for our future generations, our grandkids, great grandkids. And then as far as going for, you know, helping out the surrounding areas, again, like I..."
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
UNKNOWN "They don't care about the employees themselves. There are lawful people who are doing this in a great way, that's providing a great service to the American people, a great product to the American people. But these individuals in California, I think where the gentleman is from, are doing this, and now there are lawyers out there that say, well, you know what, there's some deep pocket somewhere, we can go do this. No, how about go after the bad actors that are doing this? How about state regulators going after the bad actors in California who are employing people and not doing it according to..."
Hearing H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "time, 8.30 at night before Memorial Day weekend, to talk about something that's really important back home to West Michigan summers on the lake. That is invasive species like the sea lamprey, which have long threatened the Great Lakes. In just one year, sea lampreys are capable of killing up to 40 pounds worth of native fish. Before sea lamprey control, they killed so many fish that Great Lakes' entire fisheries collapsed along the Great Lakes. Tens of thousands of jobs were lost. Fortunately, coordinated efforts have reduced the sea lamprey population by over 90% and rehabilitated the Great..."
Hearing "Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026 · Transcript
OWENS, BURGESS "where Speed Grocery Store, Perkins Gas Station, Baker's Pharmacy. They had pride in their name. They had pride in passing this legacy down to their kids. The most important thing they had pride of getting up every single day and going out and working. Now, what happened to that great community that, as I mentioned, from the 40s and 60s led our country to growth in middle class, men metrically from college, men committed to marriage, percentage of entrepreneurs? What happened to that community when the Great Society, the war on poverty, which really was a war on work, happened? Everything..."
Hearing “The Monitoring Racket: The Grift that Keeps on Giving”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Feb 13, 2026 · Transcript
NEHLS, TROY E. "that says we're in compliance, and you having the budget authority over this county sheriff, you've got to have the ability to, number one, be a good steward of the funds, right, be a good steward to the taxpayers, and help the sheriff and end this, this overreach, this bureaucracy, and I wish you all the best in that, and hopefully we can continue to be vocal, I think this hearing, great job with this, Mr. Chairman, hopefully this hearing will help this great state, and this great county here in Arizona. I yield. Thank you, sir. I agree with what you just stated, Mr. Fry. I think Mr. Garcia,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine a grateful nation, focusing on maximizing veteran's success after service.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Nov 5, 2025 · Transcript
MIKE HUTCHINGS "So one of the beginning steps is inform and educate. It's a broad assumption, but what I've heard anecdotally is either unaware of the support services that were out there, or as even some of the combined arm employees that are veterans have a great career, great benefits, not interested in it. My personal vignette is I had a great transition story on paper where I was hired and offered full-time employment with General Electric a year before I transitioned out of the military. I didn't do anything with the VA originally, right? I'm fine, I'm all set, great health care, great benefits with..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee Allocations
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025 · Transcript
POCAN, MARK "The law of the land is you can have same sex marriages. That is the law of the land for 10 years today. So for us to pretend like that was funsies, we can't do that. We don't do that for other things, but we do that because there's a part of your base that bluntly is that bluntly is bigoted and doesn't believe in it, but it doesn't matter. You don't have that prerogative because you took an oath, and yet you're about to vote against your oath of office when you vote for this, saying that people can break the law and not give my husband the benefits should something happen to me. So I just..."
Hearing Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biotechnology.
senate Health Care Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
ALAN D. PALKOWITZ "you know, taking the science and moving it forward to a value asset. I'll comment. Thank you, Senator. I think that's a great idea, but I think we have to couple it with not just the, you know, the academic PhD, but coupling it to internships, experiential learning, being able to expose these students to environments that are really going to be reflective of the true work environment they'll be going into and expecting to deliver on commitments of innovation and advancement. So I think that's a great platform, but I think it can be enhanced even further by thinking about creative ways to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, focusing on tribal implications and beyond.
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
MURKOWSKI, LISA "It is moving so fast. The impact is so great, and we don't have all of the data that we need now, so getting this information is greatly appreciated, and I truly appreciate the interest from so many members. I'm going to scooch out of here. Staff will keep us all honest in terms of when we turn off the lights, but thank"
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
LANKFORD, JAMES "You wrote on January the 26th of 2020, we should be allowed to send our CDC epidemiologists to China to work with them so you could, so they could see the data firsthand. You, you also wrote on February 12th, 2020, that you had great concerns about the World Health Organization because it depends greatly on China, and as you stated, often bows to them. Now this is a really important issue that we've got to resolve for the"
Hearing Business meeting to markup S.1759, to allow for the operation of civil supersonic flight in the national airspace system under certain conditions,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MORENO, BERNIE "First, I'd like to thank your staff. I know sometimes people don't find incredible amounts of persistence as charming as I would want them to, but both of you and the ranking member have been great to work with, your staff have been great to work with. I'd like to enter into the record many letters of support for this bill, including groups as desperate as the UAW, the United Steelworkers, the Teamsters, but also the Alliance for Automotive Innovation. If you're not familiar with that group, that's a group that represents all auto manufacturers that do business here in America. I'd..."
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
HUSTED, JON "address emerging threats. So many people, I know I'm the only member of the committee that represents a Great Lakes state, so many people rely on their water from the Great Lakes. And I know in Ohio we've had initiatives like H2Ohio which are designed to improve the relationship between the lake and the agricultural community by creating more buffer zones through wetlands and other things that have improved water"
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. Forest Service"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
VASQUEZ, GABE "Chief Schultz, do you believe that you follow these guiding principles of folks like Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot? Well, that's great, because today I feel like we're traveling back in time and we're facing some of the exact same issues and the exact dilemma that these great leaders once faced. In New Mexico, we pride ourselves on finding a balance between extraction and conservation, because we know with good conservation and management, we can do both. Our public lands define us as a people in New Mexico and as a state. But unfortunately, we're being"
Hearing Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
FLEISCHMANN, CHARLES J. "CHUCK" "It was a privilege to serve with you there and in this capacity as well. And I thank you for your efforts. Of course, you know I'm a co-sponsor of this bill. I did want to recognize the other two distinguished guests. Mr. McClintock, a great, great friend. Thank you for your efforts in this regard, and the accolades that you received are well deserved for the way that you have conducted yourself in our"
Hearing Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation Hearing: “Modernizing Public Access to Legislative Data and...
house Modernization and Innovation Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
MS. KIRSTEN GULLICKSON "those ideas and how we're going to do it. As you know, the CAO has put up that great vendor site, so that's great, but how do we get the—we have so many staff who have great ideas. How do we get them to do it"
Hearing Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
GALLAGHER, JAMES "state to local is very important to all of us. So thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I yield back my time. No problem, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Gallagher from California. I want to voice my support for the amendment and the underlying legislation, Mr. Chairman. We know the power of geothermal energy out in California. We have the Geysers Project in Northern California, which has been a great source of renewable power in the North. Many of our municipal jurisdictions rely on that power, and I think it has the great potential to provide much more affordable power in California. And so we do need to have..."
Hearing Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, standards, and strategic competition.
senate Space and Science · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
BUDD, TED "Blunt-Rochester, thanks for your patience. You are recognized. Thank you. Great questions. It's been a great panel. We appreciate your expertise that you've brought today and your testimony as well. I think we all have some questions for the record that we're going to leave with"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
BANKS, JIM "Mr. Sonderling, thank you for your leadership. You've done a great job in your current role. You're going to be a great secretary. But can you talk for a minute about illegal immigration? It's illegal to hire illegals. Yet, tens of millions of illegals still find jobs in"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence.
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
WARNER, MARK R. "Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me just echo what you said at the beginning of this hearing in terms of the great loss we all feel on both sides of the aisle of the passing of our friend Lindsey Graham. And as we commented yesterday, he was not on this committee, but he sure as hell was on this committee on many times. Mr. Clayton, Jay, it's good to see you again. It was great to have the opportunity to meet your wife, Gretchen, in the ante room. And I'm going to start with where the Chairman started. And I have addressed this before, but the process we've gone through to get you before..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH "After 63 months of inflation above the Fed's target, it struck me that any new leader should arrive at this organization and look to the very best minds that we could find. There's a lot of great ones at the Fed, but there's a lot of great ones that aren't even in economics profession. I reached out to 15 people who I have known and trusted with a diversity of views to see whether they would take the most important questions that are going to be the determinants of monetary policy and the determinants of the economy next five years and see if they could sharpen their pencils and do their best..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Elections Subcommittee Hearing:“Election Observation: Best Practices and Congress’s Role”
house Elections Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
WESLEY WILCOX "You know, you mentioned our logic and accuracy, the testing prior to an election, post-election audits. You know, if we could get the general public to come see some of those things, it would be great, but now I've got 1,200 people last time that signed up that wanted, eagerly wanted to come see what we were doing, so I think it's a great opportunity for us. Thank you, Ranking Member"
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
HUSTED, JON "address emerging threats. So many people, I know I'm the only member of the committee that represents a Great Lakes state, so many people rely on their water from the Great Lakes. And I know in Ohio we've had initiatives like H2Ohio which are designed to improve the relationship between the lake and the agricultural community by creating more buffer zones like"
Hearing States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
HIMES, JAMES A. "So what can we do? What can we do to make classified? I understand the challenges, but what can we do to make it? You don't even know what you don't know, right? And I'm being oblique about this, but what's the solution to that? Great, great suggestion. Thank you. That's exactly what I'm looking for. One last question because I don't have a lot of time left, but the flip side of, if you see something, say something and have really mobilizing here is that we're going to see an analogy to what we saw in the CT world, right? Where Sikhs are getting approached because they may be Al-Qaeda or..."
Hearing A Review of the Office of Space Commerce’s Mission Authorization Proposal
house Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE TAYLOR JORDAN "In this process for the Office of Space Commerce, we are not looking to take away any statutory obligations or regulations from other space regulators like the FAA or the FCC. The one-stop shop is a great idea, and we want to make sure that we have the ability to ask questions on their behalf, but we need a process that works. And we're really excited to test out our framework and our process with some great use cases to work out any kinks in the system and then deliver that back and showcase how that one-stop shop can work. But again, I just want to be very clear. We're not going to be..."
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 "Thank you. Senator, it was great to meet you, and I just wanted to say for the record, I did listen to Wagon Wheel, great banjo playing, so thank you for the recommendation. Senator, I did not know about what you just described happening in Denver. You have my commitment, if I am confirmed as a CDC director, to look into that with your staff and with the folks at the"
Hearing "Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Americans"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
ROUZER, DAVID "of various perspectives throughout the course of the hearing here. So no more questions for me. But I do want to thank you. This has been, I think, a really great and exhaustive hearing with a lot of really good information shared and so greatly appreciate that. The committee now stands"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE TODD BLANCHE "That's exactly what we're focused on, Senator. We have great prosecutors, Senator, and great agents. Yes, that's"
Hearing FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
JEFFREY KESSLER "and that's why the President's budget doesn't request an increase for OICTS. I look forward to continuing the great work, the great collaboration that BIS has done with this committee, and working with you all to make sure that BIS has the tools and the staff and the resources that it needs to keep America safe and to sustain our national and economic"
Hearing More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State and Commerce
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
KIM, YOUNG "Given these sustained personnel losses, how can Commerce credibly argue that it has the capacity to meet the growing demand for commercial diplomacy and effectively support American businesses overseas? Like I said, this is in no way criticism of the work that you're doing, which I believe is no way criticism of the work that you are doing which I believe it's doing a great great job but I just wanted to make sure that you know you are supporting our efforts to strengthen the commercial diplomacy training that state is already doing where the FCS is not present. So just wanted to clarify that..."
Hearing Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN "the conversation that we had in his office prior to my hearing, where he got to know me. It was a long conversation. He took the opportunity to get to know me. He questioned me with great seriousness and great knowledge about my record as Solicitor General, including particularly the various terrorism issues that that office had dealt with over the time I was Solicitor"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Supreme Court of the United States.
senate Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN "a bit about Senator Graham. And I did this this morning as well, but you provided me with a—I talked this morning about exactly what you talked about. First, I want to say that the entire court wants to send its condolences to Senator Graham's family and all his colleagues and friends in the Senate and elsewhere. All of us have been through the Judiciary Committee and most of us through the Judiciary Committee while Senator Graham sat on it, and there is a great deal of affection throughout the entire court for Senator Graham, a great deal of affection and respect. I want to add, though, my..."
Hearing “AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
WILLIAMS, ROGER "The gentleman yields back. I now recognize Ms. McIver from the great state of New Jersey for five minutes. I yield back. Gentlelady yields back. I now recognize Ms. King-Hines from the Northern Mariana Islands, the Great Nor- the Great Islands, for five minutes. The gentlelady yields back. I now recognize Mr. Tran from the great state of California for five"
Hearing Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
LANDSMAN, GREG "before but have you submitted your list of permitting reform recommendations to That would be great. Yeah I would we'll follow up. Great. Okay thank"
Hearing "Reviewing Partnerships to Enhance Management of the National Forest System"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
THOMPSON, GLENN "Thank you, Chairman. Well, good morning, everyone. And I want to thank Chairman Newhouse and Ranking Member Salinas for holding this subcommittee hearing today on the importance of partnerships for the health of our nation's forests. I'd like to add my thoughts to the chairman, taking a moment to recognize our great friend, Doug LaMolf. Doug certainly would have many thoughts and insights into today's discussion. He's a great friend, chairman, and he is missed. With that also, I'd like to acknowledge Chairman Newhouse as the new subcommittee chair and Representative Valadao as a new member of..."
Hearing Implementing an America First Approach in the East Asia and Pacific Region
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
KIM, YOUNG "Thank you. To that end, I have to concur that this administration has made great strides with great initiatives like Pax Silica, Project Vault. What we're trying to do through our Dominance Act is to codify it so that we can ensure our allies and partners that there is a durability going"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Thomas B. Chapman, of Maryland, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, Edward Eppler,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
KAREN HEDLUND "I am also honored today to be joined by my fellow board members, Chairman Fuchs and Vice Chairman Schultz, whom I have had a great, great pleasure of working closely with over the last four years. My experience in serving on the board since January of 2022 has been one of the most"
Hearing Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies – American Indian and Alaska Native Public Witness (Day 1, Morning Session)
house Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Mar 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Jason Schlender, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
Hearing American Indian and Alaska Native Public Witness Hearing
house Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Feb 27, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Jason Schlender, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
Hearing Oversight Hearing - State of the Civil Works Program
house Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Feb 25, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Major General Mark Quander, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
CRS Report
Tariffs and Federal Finances: A Thumbnail History
Posts · Jan 10, 2025
Tariffs and other customs charges were the largest source of federal revenues in the 18th and 19th centuries. Tariffs are taxes on imported goods. This Insight offers a brief history of U.S. tariff...
CRS Report
Discretionary Budget Authority by Subfunction: An Overview
Reports · Mar 21, 2024
This report provides a graphical overview of historical trends in discretionary budget authority (BA) from FY1977 through FY2023, preliminary estimates for FY2024 spending, and the levels reflecting...
CRS Report
U.S. District Court Vacates Gray Wolf Delisting Rule
Posts · Feb 18, 2022
On February 10, 2022, a district court vacated and remanded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS’s) rule (the “delisting rule”) that delisted—that is, removed from the list of endangered and...
CRS Report
Distribution of Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Expenditures
Resources · Sep 10, 2020
As Congress deliberates on authorization legislation for Army Corps of Engineers water resource projects (House-passed H.R. 7575, Senate-reported S. 3591), it is considering how to direct the use of...