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Hearing Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the functions of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Request transcript · 3 transcript matches
MURKOWSKI, LISA "Pretty simple. The loans have to be approved by the state. The state agency lender offers one or more loans with interest rates and fees that are at least as favorable as the Federal Direct Plus loan. Students must first be advised that they must exhaust all federal education loans prior to accepting a state agency lender's loan, and then the fourth guardrail is students are informed of the interest rate, the fees, borrower benefits of the federal education loans. What we are effectively doing is recognizing that many families need to find money beyond the federal grants and loans to pay for..."
CRS Report
Freedom of Information Act Fees for Government Information
Resources · Jun 29, 2022
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) establishes a presumption that information in the possession of executive branch agencies and departments of the U.S. federal government is accessible to the...
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Protecting Classified Information and the Rights of Criminal Defendants: The Classified Information Procedures Act
Reports · Aug 31, 2016
A criminal prosecution involving classified information may cause tension between the government’s interest in protecting classified information and the criminal defendant’s right to a...
Hearing “Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Information”
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
MACKENZIE, RYAN "Well, that's important, and we appreciate the eight recommendations you've offered and that they have been accepted by the Trump administration. I think that's critically important to tighten up the controls that were abused in the last administration, taking confidential information, sharing it with outside stakeholders who should not have been in receipt of that kind of confidential information. It seems like not have been in receipt of that kind of confidential information. an ethical breach, pretty serious, one that again should not be downplayed by anybody. Your report also found that..."
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 · 6 transcript matches
TORRES, NORMA J. "reconciliation pursuant to Title II of H.con.res.14. Try finding that. Try finding out how Congress voted on it, and you will click through a page after page, and this is a piece of legislation that significantly impacts millions of people, good or bad. They need to be able to find information about this legislation. If you need to know exactly what to search for, you'll likely give up before finding any information. There are 625 publicly available websites within the house.gov umbrella alone. Having so many different places to get information creates unique challenges. Many Americans simply..."
CRS Report
The Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA)
Resources · Nov 6, 2024
The Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), enacted in 1980, establishes uniform procedures for federal courts to determine the admissibility and manage the admission of classified information...
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Defense Primer: Operations in the Information Environment
Resources · Nov 29, 2024
Information as a Joint Function In 2017, Joint Publication (JP) 1 Doctrine of the Armed Forces of the United States was updated to establish information as the seventh joint function of the military,...
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The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): An Introduction
Resources · Dec 22, 2023
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), codified at 5 U.S.C. § 552, provides the public a right to access federal agency information. Subject to enumerated exemptions and exclusions, agencies must...
Hearing Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
DANIEL CASTRO "picture? There's not. You're exactly right. It's just pockets of activity, but no information sharing? There's no real ownership right now over who's going to be responsible for that and why they can and should be collaborating. There's also no direction that they should be working, I think, with the private sector to share that information. So that information collected about one activity that's illegal and harmful is shared with another branch of government, because often these are organized criminal networks. And state's attorneys generals table? They often have insight into, obviously,..."
Hearing “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
RASKIN, JAMIE "There's nothing new about that work, but now Todd Blanch and the Trump DOJ in Alabama have twisted and corrupted this proud history of cooperation with law enforcement to bring an 11 count criminal indictment against the SBLC, claiming that it was defrauding its own donors. This is amazing, given not only that the SBLC donors and supporters cherish and prize the group precisely for its ability to get information in this way to stop hate crimes, but also incredible because the FBI itself uses the exact same practices for its own investigative work, spending in the neighborhood of not $3 or $4..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.93, to amend the Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal blooms,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Feb 5, 2025 · Request transcript
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Congress and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Resources · Jan 9, 2023
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 5 U.S.C. §552) is often referred to as the embodiment of “the people’s right to know” about the activities and operations of government. It established a...
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Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information
Reports · May 11, 2023
High-profile leaks and disclosures of protected government information have prompted frequent congressional interest in the criminal penalties for disclosing government secrets. In one recent case, a...
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Chief Information Officers (CIOs): Agency Roles and Responsibilities
Reports · Aug 1, 2024
In the course of fulfilling their missions, federal agencies constantly consume, create, use, and store information from a variety of sources, media formats, and technology platforms. In response to...
Testimony CASTEN, SEAN
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"schizophrenia. We are at a point right now where that schizophrenia is starting to cross the line. Last year, CISA's acting director uploaded sensitive information into CHAT-GPT. That information in CHAT-GPT was then in their public servers. We have received information in our office that information that CHAT-GPT is using in OSHA files in air permitting rules is allowing it to hoover up company confidential information so you can now use these tools to get information that people thought was..."
Witness Mr. Scott Algeier
Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center · 1 hearing
Hearing Hearings to examine S.749, to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend increased dependency and indemnity compensation paid to surviving...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing H.R. 1736, (Mr. Pfluger) the “Generative AI Terrorism Risk Assessment Act”; H.R. 2212, (Mr. Mackenzie) the “DHS Intelligence Rotational Assignment...
house Homeland Security Committee · Sep 3, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.854, to amend title 31, United States Code, to establish the Life Sciences Research Security Board, S.855, to...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 30, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: “H.R. 984, To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide timely equitable...
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing the Full Committee to continue considering the following: 1) H.Res. 187, Of inquiry requesting the President to transmit certain information to...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Apr 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing the Full Committee to Consider the Following: 1) H.R. 1295, the Reorganizing Government Act of 2025; 2) H.R. 1210, the Protecting Taxpayers’...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 25, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.28, to require the disclosure of a camera or recording capability in certain internet-connected devices, S.97, to...
senate Mar 12, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing “State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnership, and the Resilience of America’s Communities”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_01 "There is certainly that informal information sharing going on in a way that we're all Americans and we're going to make sure we're all protected, regardless of state borders, and we recognize that those threats don't necessarily follow certain judicial jurisdictions, excuse me. And so, with that, I think the relationships and coordinations that happen informally are often more timely and more valuable. It's not to say we don't need the other coordination, because everyone has more formalized areas of information gathering that's being provided, but those informal networks that have already..."
Hearing Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capital.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
MR. CANTRELL DUMAS "Disclosure and transparency is vital for confidence in investment. Less information leaves ordinary investors in the dark. What we need is better information in order for investors to have the same amount of information as the sophisticated investors have. Without that, there'll be information gap between the sophisticated investors and ordinary"
Hearing States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
MR. MICHAEL SENA "support investigations, as well as coordinating operations. We support a nationwide architecture that provides analysis and information sharing that complements federal entities and information-sharing partners, such as the FBI's Counterintelligence Task Force, Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Homeland Security Task Forces, DHS's Office of Intelligent Analysis, real-time crime centers, high-intensity drug trafficking areas, and the Regional Information Sharing System. Fusion centers provide something that is irreplaceable, the ability to fuse local operational context with federal intelligence..."
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The Paperwork Reduction Act and Federal Collections of Information: A Brief Overview
Resources · Apr 17, 2024
Congress enacted the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) in 1980 and reauthorized it in 1995 (codified at 44 U.S.C. §§3501-3521) in part to address a concern that the federal government was requiring...
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Site Visits, Information Gathering, and Oversight by Members of Congress
Legal Sidebar · Nov 21, 2025
Several disputes have arisen in the 119th Congress surrounding access by Members of Congress to federal buildings. On several occasions, Members have been denied entry to various agency offices, and...
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Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. United States: Fifth Amendment Takings Claims for Alleged Disclosures of Trade Secrets and Confidential Information
Posts · Apr 8, 2024
On January 18, 2024, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims denied, in part, the government’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Vanda) for alleged disclosure of...
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Protection of Health Information Under HIPAA and the FTC Act: A Comparison
Posts · Jul 28, 2022
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade, and holding that the U.S. Constitution does not confer a right to abortion....
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Private Health Information and Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs)
Resources · Apr 30, 2021
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) maintain statewide electronic databases of prescriptions dispensed for controlled substances (i.e., prescription drugs of abuse that are subject to...
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Hospital Ownership: Medicare Sources of Information
Resources · Dec 12, 2024
Congress’s understanding of hospital ownership is crucial in exercising its legislative and oversight role with respect to health care costs, quality, and access. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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Nonprofit Donor Information Disclosure
Posts · Aug 1, 2019
UPDATE: On July 30, 2019, the United States District Court for the District of Montana set-aside as unlawful IRS Revenue Procedure 2018-38, which is the subject of this post. The Revenue Procedure...
Testimony GUTHRIE, BRETT
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"and we're gonna make sure if you're the most vulnerable, you're gonna be taken care of, and that's our task, and I will yield back. Thank you. So, first for Director Baseri, Newark has failed to provide certain information response to the committee's letter. For example, you have not provided simple information such as all the state's designated risk levels for Medicaid-only providers types. Also note that you only provided the basic information that was requested about the frequency of on-site..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"There is certainly that informal information sharing going on in a way that we're all Americans and we're going to make sure we're all protected, regardless of state borders, and we recognize that those threats don't necessarily follow certain judicial jurisdictions, excuse me. And so, with that, I think the relationships and coordinations that happen informally are often more timely and more valuable. It's not to say we don't need the other coordination, because everyone has more formalized..."
Witness Stephen Ezell
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation · 2 hearings
Witness Matthew Reisman
Center for Information Policy Leadership · 1 hearing
Witness Charles Worthington
Office of Information & Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 hearing
Witness Eddie Pool
Office of Information and Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 hearing
Witness Jack Galvin
Office of Information and Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 hearing
Witness Timoth Puetz
Office of Information and Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 hearing
Witness Devon Beard
Office of Information and Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 hearing
Witness Michael Scudder
Information Technology Committee Chair of the Judicial Conference of the United States · 1 hearing
Witness Cherri Waters
Office of Information and Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 hearing
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 · Request transcript
Testimony CASTEN, SEAN
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"in your opening remarks this gentleman at DOJ who said that he had God-level access to Social Security information data. It should be noted that he also said that if he's ever convicted, he expects to be pardoned. I assume it's a he, might be a she. This was a whistleblower report, which means that that DOJ employee is looking for indemnification, and I'm sure he would love to have state-level preemption if he can move to a state where he gets the right coverage. Let's assume the worst case...."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"professionals to ICE, and even the FBI cybersecurity staff have been stretched thin. There are real consequences when the federal government guts the personnel and the resources that we have dedicated to identifying cybersecurity risks and mitigating them. And that's why this subcommittee hearing is so important, because state and local governments store significantly personally identifiable information about people in our communities, information about our schoolchildren, to those receiving..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"Each of these episodes meant real people were unable to renew a driver's license, to obtain a birth certificate, or otherwise to engage with local services on which they depend. Cyber intrusions can also mean that people's most sensitive information, social security numbers, financial data, medical information, information about their children, is exposed to criminal actors and foreign adversaries, leading to risks such as identity theft, financial fraud, harassment, and takeover of email and..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"we're talking about AI. The dangers that AI poses are not only that it enables or makes easier intrusions, but it also enables for the use of this data in more pernicious ways. You can more easily draft authentic sounding phishing emails to conduct fraud and engage in other kinds of impersonation using AI in ways that you couldn't before. And so, you know, all of that is critical. And, you know, foreign actors want that information. Sometimes they're criminal in nature and they want the..."
Testimony MR. CANTRELL DUMAS
Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capi...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"Disclosure and transparency is vital for confidence in investment. Less information leaves ordinary investors in the dark. What we need is better information in order for investors to have the same amount of information as the sophisticated investors have. Without that, there'll be information gap between the sophisticated investors and ordinary"
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Servic...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"But pharmacies don't have this information, so they can't comply. This bill addresses that gap by requiring drug manufacturers to provide information about API suppliers and other key steps in the supply chain so that pharmacies know where the products they provide to patients come from. Having this information provided through a drug label will also help fill gaps in FDA's information. Right now, FDA knows how much API gets imported every"
Testimony MACKENZIE, RYAN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Well, that's important, and we appreciate the eight recommendations you've offered and that they have been accepted by the Trump administration. I think that's critically important to tighten up the controls that were abused in the last administration, taking confidential information, sharing it with outside stakeholders who should not have been in receipt of that kind of confidential information. It seems like not have been in receipt of that kind of confidential information. an ethical..."
Testimony DANIEL CASTRO
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"picture? There's not. You're exactly right. It's just pockets of activity, but no information sharing? There's no real ownership right now over who's going to be responsible for that and why they can and should be collaborating. There's also no direction that they should be working, I think, with the private sector to share that information. So that information collected about one activity that's illegal and harmful is shared with another branch of government, because often these are organized..."
Testimony DANIEL CASTRO
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"and consumers benefit when they know who it is that's actually speaking to them. Transparency in this information is critical so that they can be informed consumers and understand what information they're receiving and whether or not it's trustworthy. I think it's a great step forward. I think we wanna look comprehensively at all the different"
Testimony TORRES, NORMA J.
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and In...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 21, 2026
"reconciliation pursuant to Title II of H.con.res.14. Try finding that. Try finding out how Congress voted on it, and you will click through a page after page, and this is a piece of legislation that significantly impacts millions of people, good or bad. They need to be able to find information about this legislation. If you need to know exactly what to search for, you'll likely give up before finding any information. There are 625 publicly available websites within the house.gov umbrella alone...."
Testimony BICE, STEPHANIE I.
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and In...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 21, 2026
"phrase that jumps out at me is garbage in, garbage out. When you're looking at these large language models, if you are feeding it full of maybe not necessarily misinformation, but not completely accurate information, then what you're getting out of it is not going to be accurate. So I always think about the fact that we live in a day and age where we have more access to information, particularly legislative information, than we've ever had in any time in this country's history. But people are..."
Testimony MR. CARL KENNEDY
"Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event P...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"So to suggest that we're—by looking only at the CFTC's employee numbers, that that's the only sort of part of the analysis I think is misleading. Looking at the cooperation and the collaboration between multiple regulators, including the exchanges which are regulators, I think is a better assessment of the capabilities of these markets to enforce and surveil. Yes, there are. As I mentioned in my opening statement and a couple of times, that exchanges and the brokers that provide access to..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"Sure. Great. So the focus of the bill is to stop an individual from being able to profit off of insider information. So that core concept of what is the bill's goal, I think, is really the pandemic, because I think that's actually a very relevant discussion point inside of this. The point of the predisclosure is that it prevents the individual from being able to profit off of that sale because the information is now publicly available. So if an individual is in a leadership role, say they're..."
Testimony MR. MICHAEL SENA
States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"support investigations, as well as coordinating operations. We support a nationwide architecture that provides analysis and information sharing that complements federal entities and information-sharing partners, such as the FBI's Counterintelligence Task Force, Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Homeland Security Task Forces, DHS's Office of Intelligent Analysis, real-time crime centers, high-intensity drug trafficking areas, and the Regional Information Sharing System. Fusion centers provide..."
Testimony MR. MICHAEL SENA
States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Well, over the years, you know, systems have been developed at the federal level, and I call them silos of excellence because, you know, they are not connected to each other. Out of design, out of coordination, out of who the audience that they believe should be in those areas. So just between DHS and the FBI, we have the Homeland Security Information Network at DHS as well as the Homeland Security DAD Network for classified information. On the FBI side, they have, and I should also mention on..."
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"They are the investigators that Congress has hired, basically, to be able to put in these different agencies and be able to do oversight. The problem is, they have the same access to data that Mr. Shirley has. When we get reports back from them, they're written very general many times, and there's not specifics, and we're not really able to highlight this kind of information, getting the practical information out. So the problem is not GAO and the Inspector General. It's getting the data and..."
Testimony MR. DAN PETRIE
Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnersh...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"DRC has a unit set up within their government where they are trying to make progress in this regard. So, we do engage with the government, although we are not working there currently. With MCC, we're not just measuring outputs. We're measuring outcomes, and every single one of our projects is independently evaluated, including going back years after the fact and assessing whether we actually delivered on what we said we would. That information is actually then made public, the good, the bad,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_16
H.R. 9641, H.R. 3108, H.R. 9642, H.R. 9468, H.R. 3514, H.R. 9644, and ...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"For example, the enhanced information must be in plain English, deliverable in real time, searchable by the individual, provide information such as estimates of costs for specific items or services, both by provider, a provider in network, out of network, specific drug pricing information for individual pharmaceuticals, including historical information, and also requires that the plan provide a summary data file of costs by service and trends in pricing for those services. Failure to comply..."
Testimony HAGERTY, BILL
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"It's not hyperbole to say that attacks of this nature can be a matter of life and death. Sealed court documents can include information about confidential informants and classified national security information, not to mention social security numbers, sensitive medical records, and trade secrets that would be essential to our economic dominance. The risk of insecure and unreliable electronic court records is not a risk that we can"
Testimony MILLER-MEEKS, MARIANNETTE
Subcommittee Markup of Six Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The clerk will report the amendment. favor of the amendment to H.R. 9084, the Department of Energy Nuclear Transparency Act. This amendment reflects suggested clarifications provided by both the Department of Energy's technical assistance and by testimony in our legislative hearing. This amendment adds to the information that may be withheld from disclosure to include classified and otherwise security sensitive information, information that..."
Testimony LUTTRELL, MORGAN
PACT Act Implementation: Modernizing VA Disability Claims Through Effe...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"Why can't we have, like I don't know who your counterpart is, sir, Mr. Arifsi, in the Department of Defense, Department of War, and say, okay, hey, look, there is no doubt that when you leave the service, you're going to be a veteran, and we are having so much trouble inside the VA collecting all this information, this clean information to push this information through for veterans and their benefits. Can't you tee that up for us? Because of the struggle that we have with employees, the..."
Testimony MR. GREGG ORTO
PACT Act Implementation: Modernizing VA Disability Claims Through Effe...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"What about the program of conferences of assistance for family caregivers, the caregiver program? If they want to do an appeal, there's nothing in VBMS for that. So these are folks who have now been denied the caregiver program. So we're doing the forensics, okay, can you give me some information about that? Maybe we can go into the VA's Capri system to try to find, and that's case by case, to try to find information so that we can build an appeal or see if that's viable to do. So we are going..."
Testimony FOSTER, BILL
Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"and were trying to figure out what happened on the parts that they regulate. And so having real-time data is absolutely crucial, or near real-time data is absolutely crucial to figuring out what's going on here. So we need that. And ultimately, if you're going to, there's a large class of market manipulation where you have to know the true identities of the people involved in it to find various frauds, things like front-running, things like wash trades. There is not an alternative. Things like..."
Testimony MR. GARY REDMAN
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Yes, sir. So we're able to share some limited information. The gentleman that I call a gentleman, the suspect that was arrested in my jurisdiction for the lewd acts with a child, that information under SB 54 that I provided to them was not legally able to provide that information. Thank you. So we don't spend a whole lot of resources on any type of immigration"
Testimony CLOUD, MICHAEL
“Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Some up to six states that we know of. This is of the state sharing information. I would think that those states not sharing information, that potentially the problem's worse and maybe that's not why they're sharing information. Who"
Testimony FRANK BISIGNANO
Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Better output, less errors, quicker responses to clients. And so I think the only way to do it is look at a balanced scorecard and make sure we have the right resource allocation and a technology roadmap to change it. We're not modernizing, we're transforming. Yeah. I mean, it's called PI, payment information exchange, and the first day I was here, I didn't know what they meant by PI, but we learned it real quick. We've expanded it, we've had more information coming into it, and we changed the..."
Testimony HOUCHIN, ERIN
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"would think. But the precondition of transparency is connected to every other issue and every other answer. You cannot have a competitive market when one side of the table can hide the price. That's why legislation like the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act is so important. Transparency only works if it is complete, accurate, and enforceable. By requiring hospitals, insurers, and other health care entities to publicly disclose pricing information in a standardized format, and by imposing..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"There's nothing new about that work, but now Todd Blanch and the Trump DOJ in Alabama have twisted and corrupted this proud history of cooperation with law enforcement to bring an 11 count criminal indictment against the SBLC, claiming that it was defrauding its own donors. This is amazing, given not only that the SBLC donors and supporters cherish and prize the group precisely for its ability to get information in this way to stop hate crimes, but also incredible because the FBI itself uses..."
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Thank you. It sounds to me like SPLC's informant program has been essential and that SPLC has worked with law enforcement to keep our community safe. And yet, shortly after the indictment was announced, And yet, shortly after the indictment was announced, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch falsely claimed on Fox News that the DOJ had, quote, no information, unquote, that suggests that SPLC shared information collected through its informant program with federal law enforcement. This was..."
Testimony SPEAKER_03
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"There are many examples, Congresswoman Ross, and certainly oftentimes this results in allegations and indictments. But there are many cases, including the information provided by paid informants and oftentimes testimony at trial that also comes directly from informants. Great. Thank you, Ms."
Testimony JORDAN, JIM
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Thank you, Representative. Mr. Bangert, a government-paid informant and a law enforcement-paid informant is different than a private sector-paid informant, wouldn't you agree? I mean, Ms. McCord said, oh, she went this long thing. I forget who was asking the"
Testimony JORDAN, JIM
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"But the idea that, oh, this is just fine, particularly when the private entity doesn't tell their donors what they're doing, would you agree with that? That's not the same as the FBI paying an informant for valuable information or local law enforcement paying an informant. Different animals,"
Testimony NEAL, RICHARD E.
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"So, Mr. Secretary, were you or any employee of Treasury informed of the settlement that the Attorney General entered into with the plan of the fund? Again, Congressman, can agree upon this. There were 400,000 taxpayers that had their tax information leaked when Charles Littlejohn released that information. We all agree no citizen should have their taxpayer information leaked. That's a clear violation. But if we follow the logic of what has been proposed, then the suggestion would be that these..."
Testimony SEAN DUFFY
Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2026
"We want the deliverable, and does it make economic sense as well? And so we'll ask for information from the project sponsor, and then we'll analyze that, and not to shock anybody, but sometimes people fudge information to us, and we have to go through and suss out the truth of the information that was submitted to make a determination. First I appreciate the committee's work in making sure it's 200 million for truck"
Testimony HIRONO, MAZIE K.
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When you were before this committee earlier, you were asked information about who's been fired, who's been retired, et cetera, et cetera. We did not get that information from you, and subsequent to that, I think a number of us wrote letters to you asking for this information, and you had a department that had around 70,000 employees. Is that correct? So that's a lot of employees, and so my question remains, how many people have been"
Testimony BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"proposed a rollback of the 2024 Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule, which would undercut the risk management practices that make it easier for the public to find out information about chemical facilities in their communities. It's my understanding as well, there was a website, one of your websites, the RMP website, and it had a part of the page that said how to access risk management plan information, really just a way for people to get information. But right now, it says..."
Testimony MR. ROBERT WESTBROOKS
“Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Ru...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Apr 15, 2026
"That's why we're seeing these international, what's the repercussions? These bad, these international fraud rings are literally buying personal information for the cost of a Happy Meal on the dark web because of these hacking of government systems. So that's the thing that concerns me as much as fraud is the information of personal, protection of personal information. Thank"
Testimony RAMIREZ, DELIA C.
“Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the...
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"administration and this committee irresponsibly defended private interests having access to our information and I want to make sure that I make this clear. What they are doing with your information should scare you. There are corporations that have your information because TSA leadership is releasing that information under the guise of protecting us against domestic terrorism. This is exactly why not one more dollar for ICE, not one more dollar for CBP and we have to fund TSA but not at the..."
Testimony LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAMES ADAMS
Hearings to examine worldwide threats; to be immediately followed by a...
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Senator, thanks for the question. With regards to commercially available information and publicly available information, the purchases that this agency, that my agency makes, is in alignment with the Constitution and protects U.S. persons' information. All of the purchasing of commercially available information by the agency is passed through legal channels and is in complete compliance with"
Testimony LARSON, JOHN B.
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"a no So, Mr. Chairman, would you commit to subpoenaing this information? I would think that everybody on this committee would want to know when your personal data and information is being poured over by outside groups that are unaccountable, have never been vetted, and are in these agencies currently, and have this information that they have given to outside sources. I'd also like, Mr. Chairman, to get the whistleblower before us as"
Testimony HORSFORD, STEVEN
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"So with your IRS hat on, why should the taxpayer trust you to protect their most sensitive information when you weren't able to do it over the SSA? So it's not accurate that millions of Americans' personal, identifiable information, including Social Security information and other vital information, was leaked by DOJ? Yes or"
Testimony FROST, MAXWELL
“Curbing Federal Fraud: Examining Innovative Tools to Detect and Preve...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 13, 2026
"information in a master database? Yeah, thank you. I know there's many different things that are being done to make sure data is kept safe when people query information or when information goes from agency to agency, but part of the reason I have this concern is because it's also dependent on the conduct of the administration and different things that are going on. For instance, under President Trump and back when Elon Musk was more involved and Doge was going on, they conducted attacks on our..."
Hearing Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CASTEN, SEAN "schizophrenia. We are at a point right now where that schizophrenia is starting to cross the line. Last year, CISA's acting director uploaded sensitive information into CHAT-GPT. That information in CHAT-GPT was then in their public servers. We have received information in our office that information that CHAT-GPT is using in OSHA files in air permitting rules is allowing it to hoover up company confidential information so you can now use these tools to get information that people thought was safely protected inside datasets. And I guess, Mr. Bombs, is it technically possible to use an AI..."
Hearing H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital Access Act; H. Con. Res. 113 – Establishing the congressional budget for the...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_11 "Sure. Great. So the focus of the bill is to stop an individual from being able to profit off of insider information. So that core concept of what is the bill's goal, I think, is really the pandemic, because I think that's actually a very relevant discussion point inside of this. The point of the predisclosure is that it prevents the individual from being able to profit off of that sale because the information is now publicly available. So if an individual is in a leadership role, say they're the chair of the Intelligence Committee of the House or the Senate, that individual may have..."
Hearing PACT Act Implementation: Modernizing VA Disability Claims Through Effective Technology
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jul 13, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
LUTTRELL, MORGAN "Why can't we have, like I don't know who your counterpart is, sir, Mr. Arifsi, in the Department of Defense, Department of War, and say, okay, hey, look, there is no doubt that when you leave the service, you're going to be a veteran, and we are having so much trouble inside the VA collecting all this information, this clean information to push this information through for veterans and their benefits. Can't you tee that up for us? Because of the struggle that we have with employees, the Department of War doesn't have that"
Hearing Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer, Frank J. Bisignano
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
LARSON, JOHN B. "a no So, Mr. Chairman, would you commit to subpoenaing this information? I would think that everybody on this committee would want to know when your personal data and information is being poured over by outside groups that are unaccountable, have never been vetted, and are in these agencies currently, and have this information that they have given to outside sources. I'd also like, Mr. Chairman, to get the whistleblower before us as"
Hearing Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition and transparency lowers prescription drug costs.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KLOBUCHAR, AMY "The floodgates were open to some extent. Some information was finally passed along to the state, but it is unclear if they have all the information that they need. Minnesotans deserve transparency and accountability, and not just for the"
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KLOBUCHAR, AMY "The floodgates were open to some extent. Some information was finally passed along to the state, but it is unclear if they have all the information that they need. Minnesotans deserve transparency and accountability, and not just for the"
Hearing Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of AI surveillance pricing.
senate Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KLOBUCHAR, AMY "The floodgates were open to some extent. Some information was finally passed along to the state, but it is unclear if they have all the information that they need. Minnesotans deserve transparency and accountability, and not just for the"
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD "everyone appearing before an authority like this one. It should be respected and the reason that Dr. Fauci has invoked it in the words of his attorney, quote, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci appeared at least a dozen times for congressional hearings in the Senate alone in answer to questions about the very issues on which you purport to seek information. He has been thoroughly transparent and consistent in providing factual information to Congress and he is deeply familiar with the processes and protocols of sharing information with the legislative branch. And then,..."
Hearing Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee · Jul 17, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
JASON SOMENSATTO "And so when you have something with more uniform infrastructure and information available to a regulator, it's a lot more information to glean that maybe it wasn't the case that any one business was underwater, but now we know the credit exposure to each business and can manage that risk better. Yeah, I think it kind of comes in layers, right? I think going back to what Mr. Timmons said, it's very difficult to project ahead what the future of technology looks like, other than we know it's going to drastically change things over"
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 · 2 transcript matches
KEITH SONDERLING "We're launching the AI Action Work Hub, which is allowing us now to enter into MOUs with both tech developers and companies who are deploying this to, number one, see what the real impacts are, see how these programs are being designed to backtrack that, number one, into the education system, but more importantly, to make sure that American workers and students have those baseline skills they need, because right now, you have kids in high school, you have kids in middle school who think they're not going to have a job, and you have employees who think they're going to lose their jobs, so the..."
Testimony MR. CANTRELL DUMAS
Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capi...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"The answer should be clear. More information—the answer should be clear information, not less. Second, we should be cautious about placing private market investments and digital assets in workers' retirement"
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capi...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So this is a hearing about making capital markets stronger. Let's start with some recent market news. On Saturday, President Trump's social media company began offering faster access to his social media posts to investors who pay up to $100,000 a month. That's over a million dollars a year per investor. So let me ask all of our witnesses here, raise your hand if you believe that President Trump selling information about our economy and foreign policy to Wall Street..."
Testimony MR. CANTRELL DUMAS
Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capi...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"AI has the potential to have certain biases, right? So we just need to, for Congress, just need to understand AI, provide certain guardrails, provide some type of protection, and inform investors or people who look to AI for investment advice to be some type of disclosure, some type of information, letting them know that AI could be wrong. A great question. So I actually have, you know, I'm an investor and if my fund is going to China without proper disclosure or information, I"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"into these common interest agreements. Courts will often only find that the common interest protection applies to communications when counsel is either present, involved in, or directing such communications and by not involving the solicitor in any attempt to share information under a common interest agreement, the Department of Labor risks waiving privilege protecting information shared if it even applies in the first place. I mean really what it comes down to is this is all pretty basic. When..."
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"In fact, those people, those employees that are covered by these health plans under EBSA, they can get help from EBSA if they have a dispute with an insurance company, right? Absolutely. So, you know, employer-sponsored plans covered by EBSA are required to report data on claims payment policies and practices. But in 2016, the OIG reported that EBSA lacks the ability to protect plan participants from claims because it does not have the necessary information to do so. Because of this, health..."
Testimony WALBERG, TIM
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"It's also my understanding that many of the cases in which information was provided to outside parties remain open enforcement actions. If DOL shares non-public information about a company with a law or advocacy group like this gentleman, and these cases without following a unified procedure, could you discuss whether DOL should alert the company that it has shared this information? Thank you. My time has"
Testimony FINE, RANDY
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And so I understand that the people who did this, were they political appointees or were they generally—the political appointees you'd expect to generally leave, right? We've got President Trump coming in, the Biden people would leave, but the staff people you wouldn't think leave. So were the people who did this staff or political appointees? So these law firms that got this information that they frankly never should have happened, remember, let's understand the Biden-Harris administration is..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I am not aware, but I will say that from reviewing the audit and the investigation, there were not complaints in previous information of critical information being shared by the department with plaintiff's attorneys. I only started at the Department of Labor in January 2026, and I can only give you the proper answer to what we found while conducting this audit and"
Testimony GUTHRIE, BRETT
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"to trust. Our existing consumer protection laws, including the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Consumer Product Safety Act, are often up for meeting these challenges. However, when there are clear gaps in the existing framework, Congress has a responsibility to examine where the targeted legislative action is needed to protect American families from scams, American families from scams, unfair practices, and dangerous products. The bills before us today address gaps in our consumer..."
Testimony HOUCHIN, ERIN
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"frustrating when we have constituents that call and say, well, I put my name in the database, and it seems to go not much further than that. Mr. Castro, you write that effective prevention depends on identifying patterns across complaints, across marketplaces and payment systems, and other sources of information that no single agency sees on its own. And you recommend the task of data collection and information sharing. So I want to start with you. Is there any entity in the federal government..."
Testimony BILIRAKIS, GUS M.
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"on the internet when you purchase a product. I believe that the consumer has a right to know where it's coming from. So anyway, I thought this was a very productive hearing and we'll continue to work on this issue. So I appreciate the witnesses for being here. Thanks for all the information you've given us, very valuable information, and we'll move forward with these bills. I'd like to thank our witnesses for being here today. Members have additional, if they have additional written questions,..."
Testimony BICE, STEPHANIE I.
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and In...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 21, 2026
"in the People's House. It's one thing for us to reach out to our constituents, but another thing for them to reach out to the House or Congress and find information and answers to their questions. We really need to think about the user journey and what that looks like. They will probably begin with a search engine query that directs them to house.gov or congress.gov, but once they get to those sites, is it easy for them to find what they're looking for? Is information presented in a way that..."
Testimony BICE, STEPHANIE I.
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and In...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 21, 2026
"know or don't about Congress? And, are the search tools and the sites powered by AI so that the queries don't have to contain specific words or phrases? I'm afraid the answer to all of these questions is no. Before the hearing today, I spent some time on both sites to get a sense of what constituents would experience, and my overall impression was that they'd likely be overwhelmed with the amount of information on both the home landing pages and frustrated by the search tool capabilities. This..."
Testimony MS. KIRSTEN GULLICKSON
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and In...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 21, 2026
"Congress is not only a lawmaking institution, it is one of the nation's most important information institutions. And today, how we organize it, connect it, and deliver that information matters just as much as the information itself. Public access, as you both said, is ultimately about trust, and people should not need expert-level knowledge of our procedures or our structure to understand congressional"
Testimony SPEAKER_11
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"The exception that you correctly note, what we call the spousal exception, so if that income is earned in the ordinary course, that is allowed. So if your spouse works for Coca-Cola and they give 1,000 shares of stock to every employee at that pay grade, your spouse would be able to earn that. And again, that goes back to the core concept here. The focus on this is not to prevent ownership of private assets. Sure. The focus on this is to prevent an individual member from profiting off of..."
Testimony MR. MICHAEL SENA
States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Cyber and criminal networks are also increasingly blending with CI threats. From North Korean IT worker schemes, Chinese narcotics money laundering networks, to unauthorized drone activity over sensitive infrastructure. To strengthen our national CI posture, I respectfully recommend establishing a national CI information sharing framework that revitalizes the program manager for the information sharing environment and the suspicious activity reporting standards for counterintelligence. Adding..."
Testimony MR. JAY MOSELY
States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"The Alabama Fusion Center is not an investigative agency. We don't duplicate the work of the FBI or the intelligence community. Our mission is simple, to get the right information to the right people at the right time so they can make informed decisions. But information sharing doesn't begin with"
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"We see members of the Cabinet, would-be members of the Cabinet, with personal holdings who are trying to explain their relationship with the crypto bunch. Judges may ultimately make the decision on this. That's why nominees will be asked some important questions. Insider trading boost. Did you read about truth social? For $100,000 a month, just $1.2 million a year, we're going to give you the edge on information, official information from this administration. You may get 30 seconds. Maybe..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"We see members of the Cabinet, would-be members of the Cabinet, with personal holdings who are trying to explain their relationship with the crypto bunch. Judges may ultimately make the decision on this. That's why nominees will be asked some important questions. Insider trading boost. Did you read about truth social? For $100,000 a month, just $1.2 million a year, we're going to give you the edge on information, official information from this administration. You may get 30 seconds. Maybe..."
Testimony KLOBUCHAR, AMY
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"The floodgates were open to some extent. Some information was finally passed along to the state, but it is unclear if they have all the information that they need. Minnesotans deserve transparency and accountability, and not just for the"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"ran to the jail cell and met with her for two days, insulting every single Epstein victim that had been asking for a meeting for years. And after two days of meetings, did we get information that led to an indictment? No. Did we get information that led to new opens of investigations? No. Did we get one more conviction? No. What did we get? That a convicted sex offender was able to leave her confinement and go to the cushiest prison in our land that by Bureau of Prison Law, by DOJ law, is a..."
Testimony KLOBUCHAR, AMY
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"The floodgates were open to some extent. Some information was finally passed along to the state, but it is unclear if they have all the information that they need. Minnesotans deserve transparency and accountability, and not just for the"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"ran to the jail cell and met with her for two days, insulting every single Epstein victim that had been asking for a meeting for years. And after two days of meetings, did we get information that led to an indictment? No. Did we get information that led to new opens of investigations? No. Did we get one more conviction? No. What did we get? That a convicted sex offender was able to leave her confinement and go to the cushiest prison in our land that by Bureau of Prison Law, by DOJ law, is a..."
Testimony KLOBUCHAR, AMY
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"The floodgates were open to some extent. Some information was finally passed along to the state, but it is unclear if they have all the information that they need. Minnesotans deserve transparency and accountability, and not just for the"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"ran to the jail cell and met with her for two days, insulting every single Epstein victim that had been asking for a meeting for years. And after two days of meetings, did we get information that led to an indictment? No. Did we get information that led to new opens of investigations? No. Did we get one more conviction? No. What did we get? That a convicted sex offender was able to leave her confinement and go to the cushiest prison in our land that by Bureau of Prison Law, by DOJ law, is a..."
Testimony BRIAN BLASE
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"So the key problem with Medicaid is that the more states spend, the more money they get from the federal government. So to set the certain amount that states get and all state spending on top of that comes from the state, that would be an ideal reform. But I'd say a first-order reform is to end the discrimination against the most vulnerable. There shouldn't be the federal government incentivizing states with seven times more money for the able body than traditional enrollees. It's a very mixed..."
Testimony SARAH B. ROGERS
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sarah B. Rogers, of New York, t...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"These defectors risked torture and risked death, fleeing toward a freedom they'd only heard existed here, and they heard it from us. That's a great honor. And it's also evidence that Voice of America and our grantees, RFERL, OCB, MBN, RFA, and OTF, can be indispensable instruments of American foreign policy. Free people tend to choose America, and the truth sets people free. That's why delivering truthful information behind the Iron Curtain helped defeat Soviet communism. And in today's..."
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Pretty simple. The loans have to be approved by the state. The state agency lender offers one or more loans with interest rates and fees that are at least as favorable as the Federal Direct Plus loan. Students must first be advised that they must exhaust all federal education loans prior to accepting a state agency lender's loan, and then the fourth guardrail is students are informed of the interest rate, the fees, borrower benefits of the federal education loans. What we are effectively doing..."
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"That concludes consideration of S2511. We'll now begin consideration of S3097, the Health Information Privacy Reform Act. I thank Senator Hassan for co-sponsoring, ensuring that patients have robust privacy protections in place is essential to take full advantage of modern technology. Currently, Americans have few legal protections and control over their health information captured by devices. My bill would create a framework so that health data that is not covered by HIPAA is subject to robust..."
Testimony CLERK
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"The ayes have it. The bill is agreed to. We favorably report as amended. Our next is S3097, the Health Information Privacy Reform Act. And we will now move to final passage as amended. I move to favorably report S3097 as amended. Again, this is the Health Information Privacy Reform Act. The clerk shall call the roll. Mr. Chairman. Senator Collins. Could I suggest a voice vote? Is there any objection? We can't. We can't. Okay. The clerk shall call the roll. Senator Paul. Not"
Testimony MS. CAROL ROGERS
Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Harvard's project on workforce has surveys looking at the uptake of AI, particularly generative AI, and they're finding that 62 percent of adults between the ages of 18 to 64, which is kind of our prime training and education workforce, are using generative AI, and workers in that population are reporting spending about 6.5 percent of their work hours a week using it. That's kind of hard information. It's useful information. We'd like to see more like that. My center recently published findings..."
Testimony MATTHEW F. FERRARO, ESQ.
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"And so I do think that your strategy bill is a good one, because I think it would solve a lot of those issues. It would put the FBI in charge, as you said, that then they can be responsible, they can be called before this committee to give testimony, they can offer reports. It would solve information gaps by directing that they share information, and of course, it could help align incentives to help address this very hydra-headed"
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"everyone appearing before an authority like this one. It should be respected and the reason that Dr. Fauci has invoked it in the words of his attorney, quote, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci appeared at least a dozen times for congressional hearings in the Senate alone in answer to questions about the very issues on which you purport to seek information. He has been thoroughly transparent and consistent in providing factual information to Congress and he is deeply familiar..."
Testimony DAVIS, DANNY K.
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Yet, a deeper dive reveals that the bill, as drafted, would essentially compel non-profits to ask for and report on the nationality of donors, among other items of information as determined in the future by the Secretary of the Treasury, which is information currently not required or collected. The legislative changes mandated by this bill will do nothing more than increase the"
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"So when a smoke is detected, that information goes immediately to dispatch, which enables us, the Forest Service, or other firefighting agencies to dispatch crews to those sites. So that is a very unique technology. There's also satellite technologies available to identify where smoke is coming from. So whether it's satellites, whether it's lighter information that's being used, or whether it's cameras, there's a lot of information that's able to detect fires sooner, and then dispatch crews..."
Testimony BICE, STEPHANIE I.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight o...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026
"I would like you to submit to this committee a list of all of the 603 reviews that have happened in the past two years of all of the exhibits in your museum and the revisions that have been made to any of the exhibits per the requirements of the 603 review. Which is why I'm confused as to why the answer to your question yesterday would not have been, sure, I'm happy to provide that information, rather than, no, I need to get my general counsel legal to look at the information before I provide..."
Testimony HIGGINS, CLAY
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The Integrity Committee has acted against the legal interest of the United States, even interfering with litigation before an adjudicator with exclusive jurisdiction. The Integrity Committee has abused its authority by obtaining privileged information, listen to this America, by compulsion, and then disclosing that information outside the executive branch without consent or court allowance. The Integrity Committee has unlawfully expanded its jurisdiction by examining an inspector general's..."
Testimony DR. JULIA PHILLIPS
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"We never saw the budget that was submitted to Congress. And we were not informed about other things that the board had engaged on in the past having to do with serious science issues, facility operations, and things like that that are arguably the role of the board to keep an eye on. And it was impossible to get a good amount of that information. It was hard to tell where that block was coming from. My personal opinion is it was likely not coming from within NSF itself, but it"
Testimony FOUSHEE, VALERIE P.
Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"This amendment ensures appropriate procedures are in place in accordance with all relevant laws to ensure that sensitive information is safeguarded against improper release. It preserves information sharing while preventing controlled, unclassified information and other protected material from being inadvertently published online. I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense amendment and with that, Mr. Chairman, I yield"
Testimony SESSIONS, PETE
Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Are you aware of this Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center, FCIC? That is awesome because I believe that this is the kind of circumstance, intelligence centered data, gathering of information, sharing of information. Do you have any problems with them sending you information, you taking referrals from them or you to"
Testimony MILLER, MARY E.
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"and this ANS, which makes technical and clarifying changes to the underlying bill. This bill strengthens consent requirements to ensure that parents and students are fully informed before disclosing sensitive information through school-administered surveys and evaluations. The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, or PPRA, prohibits educational institutions that receive federal funding from requiring students to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation without the parent's consent should..."
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and th...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"So, Ambassador Kozak, public reporting indicates that the department approved a license allowing Vectis Global to provide defense services to the Haitian government in connection with the reported $52 million security agreement. So can you at least confirm that the department issued that authorization? So is it that you don't have the information or you're not allowed to share the information? So do you"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio),...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"the word is mapping. This is essentially plural. We are not bringing one map to the problem, we're bringing multiple maps to the problem. So the 3D hydrography map is important for many things. So there's been discussions of permitting here today. Without an understanding of where surface water goes, there's not going to be any permitting. It's incredibly important to have that surface information, understanding topography, hydrology, mineralogy, elemental distributions. It's bringing..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"There are literally billions of dollars going out in taxpayer funds for this very purpose, and it's going out through NGOs, and it's literally documented out there. And when we talk about the actual numbers, I have the numbers from 2026 in terms of what we're dealing with in terms of relief granted for the children in question. And I said, well, I don't want to look at 2026 because it might be said, well, the Trump administration is being too harsh. I asked for the information from 2024 to go..."
Testimony JASON SOMENSATTO
Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 17, 2026
"And so when you have something with more uniform infrastructure and information available to a regulator, it's a lot more information to glean that maybe it wasn't the case that any one business was underwater, but now we know the credit exposure to each business and can manage that risk better. Yeah, I think it kind of comes in layers, right? I think going back to what Mr. Timmons said, it's very difficult to project ahead what the future of technology looks like, other than we know it's going..."
Testimony MS. RANDI ABERNETHY
Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 17, 2026
"get transparent, sufficient, and accurate information. They need to have, you know, enough information to make informed decisions and to ensure there's no fraud or manipulation. That should be no different, whether it's a traditional security or a tokenized asset or a digital"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenic...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Justice as victims' names to be redacted prior to the release. In that first release, I found my name in two places. In that next release in January, my name appeared again, but this time the redactions were so far worse. The files displayed not only my name, but my phone number, my former addresses, where I worked, and other identifying information. When my name appeared in the third file release, it became difficult to believe that this was not intentional. Despite my lawyer repeatedly..."
Testimony KEITH SONDERLING
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"We're launching the AI Action Work Hub, which is allowing us now to enter into MOUs with both tech developers and companies who are deploying this to, number one, see what the real impacts are, see how these programs are being designed to backtrack that, number one, into the education system, but more importantly, to make sure that American workers and students have those baseline skills they need, because right now, you have kids in high school, you have kids in middle school who think they're..."
Testimony KEITH SONDERLING
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"And that's all we can do at the Department of Labor is give that transparency for the fiduciaries at the company who are negotiating this on the best behalf of their employer. They've never been armed with information about what they're paying on these formulary lists. And now, for the first time, they're going to have that information, which will lower health care costs and allow providers to provide that medication at a much fairer price. We are working very hard on"
Testimony PETERS, GARY C.
Hearings to examine the nomination of David Cummins, of Virginia, to b...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Thank you for coming by the office earlier to talk about a number of issues. Sir, in January, Acting Administrator McNeil acknowledged TSA's information sharing with ICE during a hearing, but despite that testimony and ongoing requests from my Homeland Security staff, TSA has either been unable or unwilling to provide details or a briefing about what information is actually being shared. So my question for you, sir, is if confirmed, do I have your commitment to provide my staff with this..."
Testimony COLLINS, SUSAN M.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to ...
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I was a co-author of the legislation that created the Director of National Intelligence along with Senator Joe Lieberman, Congresswoman Jane Harman, and Congressman Pete Hoekstra in the House. And it came about following hearings that we had and extensive analysis of a failure of the more than 18 intelligence agencies to share vital information, information that perhaps could have allowed the dots to be connected and the horrific terrorist attack of 9-11 to have been discovered and"
Testimony DR. REBECCA KEISER
Protecting American Innovation: The Federal Research Security Enterpri...
house Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party · Jul 15, 2026
"We do focus quite a bit on the fact that this is a joint responsibility, and the fact is that the community, as well, needs to take on these efforts. Now, a lot of the information in research security is publicly available information, and a lot of what is good research security are good practices overall in research, and looking at your partnerships, looking at your collaborations carefully, and a lot of that doesn't require additional"
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Last February, at least three of Elon Musk's employees from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, entered the CFPB headquarters and requested access to sensitive CFPB information, including internal staff records, competitive industry data, and personally identifiable consumer information. The release of this data to inexperienced, untrained, and unvetted individuals raises serious concerns about its impact on law enforcement, consumer privacy, and the protection of..."
Hearing State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight Deficiencies.
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
GUTHRIE, BRETT "and we're gonna make sure if you're the most vulnerable, you're gonna be taken care of, and that's our task, and I will yield back. Thank you. So, first for Director Baseri, Newark has failed to provide certain information response to the committee's letter. For example, you have not provided simple information such as all the state's designated risk levels for Medicaid-only providers types. Also note that you only provided the basic information that was requested about the frequency of on-site visits and yearly improper payment and recovery efforts the day before. Why have you been unable to..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for hospital and insurer price transparency, S.4189, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
CASSIDY, BILL "But pharmacies don't have this information, so they can't comply. This bill addresses that gap by requiring drug manufacturers to provide information about API suppliers and other key steps in the supply chain so that pharmacies know where the products they provide to patients come from. Having this information provided through a drug label will also help fill gaps in FDA's information. Right now, FDA knows how much API gets imported every"
Hearing "Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event Prediction Markets"
house Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
MR. CARL KENNEDY "So to suggest that we're—by looking only at the CFTC's employee numbers, that that's the only sort of part of the analysis I think is misleading. Looking at the cooperation and the collaboration between multiple regulators, including the exchanges which are regulators, I think is a better assessment of the capabilities of these markets to enforce and surveil. Yes, there are. As I mentioned in my opening statement and a couple of times, that exchanges and the brokers that provide access to customers have to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act anti-money laundering and know your customer rules...."
Hearing Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
LANKFORD, JAMES "They are the investigators that Congress has hired, basically, to be able to put in these different agencies and be able to do oversight. The problem is, they have the same access to data that Mr. Shirley has. When we get reports back from them, they're written very general many times, and there's not specifics, and we're not really able to highlight this kind of information, getting the practical information out. So the problem is not GAO and the Inspector General. It's getting the data and the information from them in the rawest form. They could have done this same thing that Mr. Shirley..."
Hearing Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnerships
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
MR. DAN PETRIE "DRC has a unit set up within their government where they are trying to make progress in this regard. So, we do engage with the government, although we are not working there currently. With MCC, we're not just measuring outputs. We're measuring outcomes, and every single one of our projects is independently evaluated, including going back years after the fact and assessing whether we actually delivered on what we said we would. That information is actually then made public, the good, the bad, and the ugly, so that we can learn. American taxpayers understand they're getting the bang for their..."
Hearing H.R. 9641, H.R. 3108, H.R. 9642, H.R. 9468, H.R. 3514, H.R. 9644, and H.R. 9645
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_16 "For example, the enhanced information must be in plain English, deliverable in real time, searchable by the individual, provide information such as estimates of costs for specific items or services, both by provider, a provider in network, out of network, specific drug pricing information for individual pharmaceuticals, including historical information, and also requires that the plan provide a summary data file of costs by service and trends in pricing for those services. Failure to comply with providing this information is subject to penalty under the"
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
HAGERTY, BILL "It's not hyperbole to say that attacks of this nature can be a matter of life and death. Sealed court documents can include information about confidential informants and classified national security information, not to mention social security numbers, sensitive medical records, and trade secrets that would be essential to our economic dominance. The risk of insecure and unreliable electronic court records is not a risk that we can"
Hearing Subcommittee Markup of Six Pieces of Legislation
house Energy Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
MILLER-MEEKS, MARIANNETTE "Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The clerk will report the amendment. favor of the amendment to H.R. 9084, the Department of Energy Nuclear Transparency Act. This amendment reflects suggested clarifications provided by both the Department of Energy's technical assistance and by testimony in our legislative hearing. This amendment adds to the information that may be withheld from disclosure to include classified and otherwise security sensitive information, information that otherwise would be protected from disclosure under FOIA security exemptions. This amendment also adds..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
FOSTER, BILL "and were trying to figure out what happened on the parts that they regulate. And so having real-time data is absolutely crucial, or near real-time data is absolutely crucial to figuring out what's going on here. So we need that. And ultimately, if you're going to, there's a large class of market manipulation where you have to know the true identities of the people involved in it to find various frauds, things like front-running, things like wash trades. There is not an alternative. Things like market manipulation based on insider information, you need to know who they are. The personal..."
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
MR. GARY REDMAN "Yes, sir. So we're able to share some limited information. The gentleman that I call a gentleman, the suspect that was arrested in my jurisdiction for the lewd acts with a child, that information under SB 54 that I provided to them was not legally able to provide that information. Thank you. So we don't spend a whole lot of resources on any type of immigration"
Hearing “Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
CLOUD, MICHAEL "Some up to six states that we know of. This is of the state sharing information. I would think that those states not sharing information, that potentially the problem's worse and maybe that's not why they're sharing information. Who"
Hearing Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the Commissioner of Social Security, Frank J. Bisignano
house Social Security Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
FRANK BISIGNANO "Better output, less errors, quicker responses to clients. And so I think the only way to do it is look at a balanced scorecard and make sure we have the right resource allocation and a technology roadmap to change it. We're not modernizing, we're transforming. Yeah. I mean, it's called PI, payment information exchange, and the first day I was here, I didn't know what they meant by PI, but we learned it real quick. We've expanded it, we've had more information coming into it, and we changed the interval that, in fact, the information comes. So it's a daily exchange, it's a way that we get..."
Hearing "Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency."
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
HOUCHIN, ERIN "would think. But the precondition of transparency is connected to every other issue and every other answer. You cannot have a competitive market when one side of the table can hide the price. That's why legislation like the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act is so important. Transparency only works if it is complete, accurate, and enforceable. By requiring hospitals, insurers, and other health care entities to publicly disclose pricing information in a standardized format, and by imposing consequences for those who fail to comply, this bill would help hold industry participants accountable while..."
Hearing Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
NEAL, RICHARD E. "So, Mr. Secretary, were you or any employee of Treasury informed of the settlement that the Attorney General entered into with the plan of the fund? Again, Congressman, can agree upon this. There were 400,000 taxpayers that had their tax information leaked when Charles Littlejohn released that information. We all agree no citizen should have their taxpayer information leaked. That's a clear violation. But if we follow the logic of what has been proposed, then the suggestion would be that these 400,000 people would be Okay. Okay. So, let me go back to part of the statistical data that's been..."
Hearing Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
SEAN DUFFY "We want the deliverable, and does it make economic sense as well? And so we'll ask for information from the project sponsor, and then we'll analyze that, and not to shock anybody, but sometimes people fudge information to us, and we have to go through and suss out the truth of the information that was submitted to make a determination. First I appreciate the committee's work in making sure it's 200 million for truck"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Interior.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
HIRONO, MAZIE K. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When you were before this committee earlier, you were asked information about who's been fired, who's been retired, et cetera, et cetera. We did not get that information from you, and subsequent to that, I think a number of us wrote letters to you asking for this information, and you had a department that had around 70,000 employees. Is that correct? So that's a lot of employees, and so my question remains, how many people have been"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Environmental Protection Agency.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA "proposed a rollback of the 2024 Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule, which would undercut the risk management practices that make it easier for the public to find out information about chemical facilities in their communities. It's my understanding as well, there was a website, one of your websites, the RMP website, and it had a part of the page that said how to access risk management plan information, really just a way for people to get information. But right now, it says the page is being updated, and it's been that way for a while. So I'm not sure if you're familiar with..."
Hearing “Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Run by the States”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Transcript
MR. ROBERT WESTBROOKS "That's why we're seeing these international, what's the repercussions? These bad, these international fraud rings are literally buying personal information for the cost of a Happy Meal on the dark web because of these hacking of government systems. So that's the thing that concerns me as much as fraud is the information of personal, protection of personal information. Thank"
Hearing “Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the DHS Shutdown on Americans”
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
RAMIREZ, DELIA C. "administration and this committee irresponsibly defended private interests having access to our information and I want to make sure that I make this clear. What they are doing with your information should scare you. There are corporations that have your information because TSA leadership is releasing that information under the guise of protecting us against domestic terrorism. This is exactly why not one more dollar for ICE, not one more dollar for CBP and we have to fund TSA but not at the expense of giving more money for corruption. With that I yield back. The gentlelady yields back. I now..."
Hearing Hearings to examine worldwide threats; to be immediately followed by a closed session in SH-219.
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAMES ADAMS "Senator, thanks for the question. With regards to commercially available information and publicly available information, the purchases that this agency, that my agency makes, is in alignment with the Constitution and protects U.S. persons' information. All of the purchasing of commercially available information by the agency is passed through legal channels and is in complete compliance with"
Hearing “Curbing Federal Fraud: Examining Innovative Tools to Detect and Prevent Fraud in Federal Programs”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jan 13, 2026 · Transcript
FROST, MAXWELL "information in a master database? Yeah, thank you. I know there's many different things that are being done to make sure data is kept safe when people query information or when information goes from agency to agency, but part of the reason I have this concern is because it's also dependent on the conduct of the administration and different things that are going on. For instance, under President Trump and back when Elon Musk was more involved and Doge was going on, they conducted attacks on our federal data systems and cybersecurity, and this is public information. They brought unsecured..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "We see members of the Cabinet, would-be members of the Cabinet, with personal holdings who are trying to explain their relationship with the crypto bunch. Judges may ultimately make the decision on this. That's why nominees will be asked some important questions. Insider trading boost. Did you read about truth social? For $100,000 a month, just $1.2 million a year, we're going to give you the edge on information, official information from this administration. You may get 30 seconds. Maybe that's all you need to punch the right button on the computer and make a fortune. $100,000 a month. Was..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Gregory Carl Cook, to...
senate Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "We see members of the Cabinet, would-be members of the Cabinet, with personal holdings who are trying to explain their relationship with the crypto bunch. Judges may ultimately make the decision on this. That's why nominees will be asked some important questions. Insider trading boost. Did you read about truth social? For $100,000 a month, just $1.2 million a year, we're going to give you the edge on information, official information from this administration. You may get 30 seconds. Maybe that's all you need to punch the right button on the computer and make a fortune. $100,000 a month. Was..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
BRIAN BLASE "So the key problem with Medicaid is that the more states spend, the more money they get from the federal government. So to set the certain amount that states get and all state spending on top of that comes from the state, that would be an ideal reform. But I'd say a first-order reform is to end the discrimination against the most vulnerable. There shouldn't be the federal government incentivizing states with seven times more money for the able body than traditional enrollees. It's a very mixed bag. I think the information that states provide is often incomplete and the federal government..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sarah B. Rogers, of New York, to be Chief Executive Officer of the United States Agency for Global Media,...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
SARAH B. ROGERS "These defectors risked torture and risked death, fleeing toward a freedom they'd only heard existed here, and they heard it from us. That's a great honor. And it's also evidence that Voice of America and our grantees, RFERL, OCB, MBN, RFA, and OTF, can be indispensable instruments of American foreign policy. Free people tend to choose America, and the truth sets people free. That's why delivering truthful information behind the Iron Curtain helped defeat Soviet communism. And in today's information war, truth remains America's best tool. As multiple administrations have agreed, USAGM must..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
MS. CAROL ROGERS "Harvard's project on workforce has surveys looking at the uptake of AI, particularly generative AI, and they're finding that 62 percent of adults between the ages of 18 to 64, which is kind of our prime training and education workforce, are using generative AI, and workers in that population are reporting spending about 6.5 percent of their work hours a week using it. That's kind of hard information. It's useful information. We'd like to see more like that. My center recently published findings comparing high and low AI exposed occupations in our state, meaning that they have tasks in those..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, chatbots, and the new frontier of senior fraud.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
MATTHEW F. FERRARO, ESQ. "And so I do think that your strategy bill is a good one, because I think it would solve a lot of those issues. It would put the FBI in charge, as you said, that then they can be responsible, they can be called before this committee to give testimony, they can offer reports. It would solve information gaps by directing that they share information, and of course, it could help align incentives to help address this very hydra-headed"
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
DAVIS, DANNY K. "Yet, a deeper dive reveals that the bill, as drafted, would essentially compel non-profits to ask for and report on the nationality of donors, among other items of information as determined in the future by the Secretary of the Treasury, which is information currently not required or collected. The legislative changes mandated by this bill will do nothing more than increase the"
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. Forest Service"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
TOM SCHULTZ "So when a smoke is detected, that information goes immediately to dispatch, which enables us, the Forest Service, or other firefighting agencies to dispatch crews to those sites. So that is a very unique technology. There's also satellite technologies available to identify where smoke is coming from. So whether it's satellites, whether it's lighter information that's being used, or whether it's cameras, there's a lot of information that's able to detect fires sooner, and then dispatch crews quicker to protect communities and put fires"
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight of the Smithsonian: Radical Revisionism at the National Museum of American...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
BICE, STEPHANIE I. "I would like you to submit to this committee a list of all of the 603 reviews that have happened in the past two years of all of the exhibits in your museum and the revisions that have been made to any of the exhibits per the requirements of the 603 review. Which is why I'm confused as to why the answer to your question yesterday would not have been, sure, I'm happy to provide that information, rather than, no, I need to get my general counsel legal to look at the information before I provide it to the board or to a committee. The board that oversees your"
Hearing the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacists Fight Back [in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans Act]; 2) H.R. 9720,...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
HIGGINS, CLAY "The Integrity Committee has acted against the legal interest of the United States, even interfering with litigation before an adjudicator with exclusive jurisdiction. The Integrity Committee has abused its authority by obtaining privileged information, listen to this America, by compulsion, and then disclosing that information outside the executive branch without consent or court allowance. The Integrity Committee has unlawfully expanded its jurisdiction by examining an inspector general's actions as a private citizen far outside its original"
Hearing Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, standards, and strategic competition.
senate Space and Science · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
DR. JULIA PHILLIPS "We never saw the budget that was submitted to Congress. And we were not informed about other things that the board had engaged on in the past having to do with serious science issues, facility operations, and things like that that are arguably the role of the board to keep an eye on. And it was impossible to get a good amount of that information. It was hard to tell where that block was coming from. My personal opinion is it was likely not coming from within NSF itself, but it"
Hearing Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
FOUSHEE, VALERIE P. "This amendment ensures appropriate procedures are in place in accordance with all relevant laws to ensure that sensitive information is safeguarded against improper release. It preserves information sharing while preventing controlled, unclassified information and other protected material from being inadvertently published online. I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense amendment and with that, Mr. Chairman, I yield"
Hearing Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
SESSIONS, PETE "Are you aware of this Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center, FCIC? That is awesome because I believe that this is the kind of circumstance, intelligence centered data, gathering of information, sharing of information. Do you have any problems with them sending you information, you taking referrals from them or you to"
Hearing H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents Opt-in Protection Act"; H.R. 8747, "K-12 AI Literacy and Readiness Act of...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
MILLER, MARY E. "and this ANS, which makes technical and clarifying changes to the underlying bill. This bill strengthens consent requirements to ensure that parents and students are fully informed before disclosing sensitive information through school-administered surveys and evaluations. The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, or PPRA, prohibits educational institutions that receive federal funding from requiring students to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation without the parent's consent should such a survey or evaluation ask for sensitive information about the"
Hearing Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and the Path Ahead
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY "So, Ambassador Kozak, public reporting indicates that the department approved a license allowing Vectis Global to provide defense services to the Haitian government in connection with the reported $52 million security agreement. So can you at least confirm that the department issued that authorization? So is it that you don't have the information or you're not allowed to share the information? So do you"
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
SPEAKER_17 "the word is mapping. This is essentially plural. We are not bringing one map to the problem, we're bringing multiple maps to the problem. So the 3D hydrography map is important for many things. So there's been discussions of permitting here today. Without an understanding of where surface water goes, there's not going to be any permitting. It's incredibly important to have that surface information, understanding topography, hydrology, mineralogy, elemental distributions. It's bringing everything together into one place so that we can make informed decisions such that capital investment is..."
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "There are literally billions of dollars going out in taxpayer funds for this very purpose, and it's going out through NGOs, and it's literally documented out there. And when we talk about the actual numbers, I have the numbers from 2026 in terms of what we're dealing with in terms of relief granted for the children in question. And I said, well, I don't want to look at 2026 because it might be said, well, the Trump administration is being too harsh. I asked for the information from 2024 to go back to the Biden information. And I look at the data from second quarter 2024, the last year of the..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenico, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "Justice as victims' names to be redacted prior to the release. In that first release, I found my name in two places. In that next release in January, my name appeared again, but this time the redactions were so far worse. The files displayed not only my name, but my phone number, my former addresses, where I worked, and other identifying information. When my name appeared in the third file release, it became difficult to believe that this was not intentional. Despite my lawyer repeatedly contacting the DOJ seeking protection, my information continued to be exposed. And it's not just my name,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of David Cummins, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
PETERS, GARY C. "Thank you for coming by the office earlier to talk about a number of issues. Sir, in January, Acting Administrator McNeil acknowledged TSA's information sharing with ICE during a hearing, but despite that testimony and ongoing requests from my Homeland Security staff, TSA has either been unable or unwilling to provide details or a briefing about what information is actually being shared. So my question for you, sir, is if confirmed, do I have your commitment to provide my staff with this"
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
COLLINS, SUSAN M. "I was a co-author of the legislation that created the Director of National Intelligence along with Senator Joe Lieberman, Congresswoman Jane Harman, and Congressman Pete Hoekstra in the House. And it came about following hearings that we had and extensive analysis of a failure of the more than 18 intelligence agencies to share vital information, information that perhaps could have allowed the dots to be connected and the horrific terrorist attack of 9-11 to have been discovered and"
Hearing Protecting American Innovation: The Federal Research Security Enterprise
house Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
DR. REBECCA KEISER "We do focus quite a bit on the fact that this is a joint responsibility, and the fact is that the community, as well, needs to take on these efforts. Now, a lot of the information in research security is publicly available information, and a lot of what is good research security are good practices overall in research, and looking at your partnerships, looking at your collaborations carefully, and a lot of that doesn't require additional"
Hearing The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
WATERS, MAXINE "Last February, at least three of Elon Musk's employees from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, entered the CFPB headquarters and requested access to sensitive CFPB information, including internal staff records, competitive industry data, and personally identifiable consumer information. The release of this data to inexperienced, untrained, and unvetted individuals raises serious concerns about its impact on law enforcement, consumer privacy, and the protection of confidential supervisory information. Furthermore, the trillionaire Elon Musk, who led DOGE, may have gained..."
Hearing Examining Policies to Enhance Seniors’ Access to Breakthrough Medical Technologies
house Health Subcommittee · Sep 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Stephen Ezell, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Hearing Unlocking the Next Generation of AI in the U.S. Financial System for Consumers, Businesses, and Competitiveness
house Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee · Sep 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Matthew Reisman, Center for Information Policy Leadership
Hearing Advancing America’s Interests at the World Trade Organization’s 14th Ministerial Conference
house Trade Subcommittee · Mar 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Stephen Ezell, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Hearing VA Office of Information and Technology Organizational Structure and Priorities
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Timoth Puetz, Office of Information and Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Hearing “Fiscal Accountability and Oversight of the Federal Courts”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Michael Scudder, Information Technology Committee Chair of the Judicial Conference of the United States
Hearing Oversight: Advancing VA Care Through Artificial Intelligence
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Sep 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Charles Worthington, Office of Information & Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Hearing “Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems: Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Scott Algeier, Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center
Committee Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Subcommittee
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Committee Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation Subcommittee
house Armed Services Committee