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Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 22 transcript matches
CORNYN, JOHN "by an IRS contractor, Charles Littlejohn, who was appropriately convicted of a crime for doing that. President Trump and his family were definitely victims of a crime there. But it happened back in 2020, and the lawsuit wasn't brought until 2026. So with the two-year statute of limitations, it seems to me that that was something I know that was the subject of pleading in the complaint and attempt to avoid the two-year statute of limitations, but that struck me as unusual. But let's talk a little bit about the settlement agreement and 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 · 7 transcript matches
CORNYN, JOHN "This past Sunday, Senator Tillis and I came to an agreement after numerous meetings with the Department of Justice and Mr. Blanch on an agency interpretative guidance document that reaffirms what Mr. Blanch said in his sworn testimony in front of the committee. This document will help limit the substance and scope of the audit protection to the defendants in the lawsuit, the IRS, and the Treasury. And it limits it to the parties to the audit settlement. It limits the parties to the audit settlement to the plaintiffs, the people who brought the lawsuit, and no one else. And importantly, it was..."
Hearing Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition and transparency lowers prescription drug costs.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
CORNYN, JOHN "This past Sunday, Senator Tillis and I came to an agreement after numerous meetings with the Department of Justice and Mr. Blanch on an agency interpretative guidance document that reaffirms what Mr. Blanch said in his sworn testimony in front of the committee. This document will help limit the substance and scope of the audit protection to the defendants in the lawsuit, the IRS, and the Treasury. And it limits it to the parties to the audit settlement. It limits the parties to the audit settlement to the plaintiffs, the people who brought the lawsuit, and no one else. And importantly, it was..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
CORNYN, JOHN "This past Sunday, Senator Tillis and I came to an agreement after numerous meetings with the Department of Justice and Mr. Blanch on an agency interpretative guidance document that reaffirms what Mr. Blanch said in his sworn testimony in front of the committee. This document will help limit the substance and scope of the audit protection to the defendants in the lawsuit, the IRS, and the Treasury. And it limits it to the parties to the audit settlement. It limits the parties to the audit settlement to the plaintiffs, the people who brought the lawsuit, and no one else. And importantly, it was..."
Hearing The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
CASTEN, SEAN "some of the pain you have created on our society, because since you have come in, the CFPB has voluntarily dismissed more than 20 enforcement cases that would have returned $3.5 billion to consumers who were ripped off or defrauded. Examples of a couple of those. These are all on the CFPB websites. You abandoned a lawsuit against a bank that mistreated seniors and disabled customers. A disabled woman who had tried to get a replacement card on the CFPB website that this left her unable to pay her rent and forced her to take out an $800 loan. You eliminated an order against a credit union that..."
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Google and Competition: Concerns Beyond the DOJ’s Lawsuit
Resources · Dec 2, 2020
On October 20, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 11 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Google LLC under Section 2 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. § 2). The lawsuit alleges that...
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The Facebook Antitrust Lawsuits and the Future of Merger Enforcement
Posts · Feb 16, 2021
In December 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a group of 46 state attorneys general (state AGs) filed separate antitrust lawsuits against Facebook. Both lawsuits challenge the same...
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Class Action Lawsuits: An Introduction
Resources · Sep 13, 2024
The general rule in American litigation is that lawsuits are brought only on behalf of the named parties. The class action mechanism is an exception to that rule that permits one or more “named...
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Foreign Sovereign Immunity and COVID-19 Lawsuits Against China
Posts · May 15, 2020
Putative classes of plaintiffs have launched at least five class action lawsuits against the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) for losses in the United States associated...
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The Feres Doctrine: Congress, the Courts, and Military Servicemember Lawsuits Against the United States
Posts · Apr 5, 2023
The Supreme Court’s 1950 decision in Feres v. United States generally bars individuals from pursuing tort lawsuits against the United States for injuries arising from active-duty military service,...
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Smith v. Spizzirri: Supreme Court to Consider Whether Federal Courts May Dismiss a Lawsuit Subject to Arbitration
Posts · Mar 4, 2024
In Smith v. Spizzirri, the Supreme Court will consider whether Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) permits federal trial courts to dismiss a lawsuit, rather than stay the case, when all of...
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Huawei v. United States: The Bill of Attainder Clause and Huawei’s Lawsuit Against the United States
Posts · Mar 14, 2019
On March 6, 2019, Chinese electronics manufacturing and telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. (Huawei) filed a lawsuit against the United States, challenging the constitutionality of a law...
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Is a TSA Screener a “Law Enforcement Officer”? Court Allows Lawsuit Against United States to Proceed
Posts · Nov 19, 2019
According to a complaint that air traveler Nadine Pellegrino filed in 2009 against the United States in federal court, several Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) working for the Transportation...
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“Tester” Lawsuits Under the Americans with Disabilities Act
Posts · Jan 24, 2024
This term, the Supreme Court granted review in Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, a case asking whether “testers” (people who seek to identify legal violations but do not necessarily intend to patronize...
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Commerce Department Announces Citizenship Question on 2020 Census and Lawsuits Filed
Posts · Apr 6, 2018
On March 26, 2018, the Commerce Department, which houses the U.S. Census Bureau, announced that the 2020 decennial census questionnaire will include a citizenship question. Thereafter, the State of...
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Supreme Court to Address State Court Jurisdiction over Federal Securities Lawsuits
Posts · Oct 16, 2017
This term the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund, a case that may “shift the jurisdictional landscape for securities class actions.” The...
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Clarifying “Gibberish”: Supreme Court Holds That State Courts Can Hear Securities Act Lawsuits
Posts · Mar 29, 2018
On March 20, in a case watched closely by the securities bar, the Supreme Court addressed the implications of the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (SLUSA)—a statute that Justices...
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Lawsuits Against the Federal Government: Basic Federal Court Procedure and Timelines
Resources · Dec 22, 2020
Many federal laws and policy initiatives are challenged in court. In recent years, for instance, plaintiffs have brought cases challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s rescission of the...
Testimony SPEAKER_18
Hearings to examine the nominations of Bradford Pentony Wilson, of New...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"Have you received any information in the capacity that you've been serving in of either waste, fraud and abuse for these repeated and failed lawsuits or any complaint of any kind for the weaponization of the Department of Justice against people like myself? I mean, I guess the question is, do you believe that, you know, going after the president's opponents and filing failed lawsuit after failed lawsuit after failed lawsuit qualifies for waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars in general? So..."
Hearing “A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
MR. STEVE FRANCIS "That changes the economics of infringement. Without this tool, rights holders are forced to file dozens or even hundreds of nearly identical lawsuits against anonymous defendants who have moved assets and simply reappear under new identities faster than the courts can reach a judgment. Schedule A is one of the few law enforcement tools capable of matching the speed, scale, and anonymity of today's online infringers while preserving judicial efficiency and due"
Hearing “Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Information”
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MACKENZIE, RYAN "that confirmed what many in the employee benefits community had long suspected. DOL was sharing confidential information with class-action law firms to support private lawsuits. The committee immediately requested that the DOL-OIG investigate this"
Hearing H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Condemning prosecution policies that give preferential treatment to foreign...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
RASKIN, JAMIE "not climate change, targeting the transgender community for disparagement and ridicule. Does the White House not understand that everybody gets this cruel game? Even though the GOP House already passed a bill to criminalize doctors for providing gender-affirming care, now they're back with H.R. 7651, which creates a federal private right of action to allow federal civil lawsuits against medical providers, doctors, and facilities for providing gender-affirming care to minors, even the most common kinds of gender-affirming care, which have nothing to do with surgery and everything to do with..."
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"This past Sunday, Senator Tillis and I came to an agreement after numerous meetings with the Department of Justice and Mr. Blanch on an agency interpretative guidance document that reaffirms what Mr. Blanch said in his sworn testimony in front of the committee. This document will help limit the substance and scope of the audit protection to the defendants in the lawsuit, the IRS, and the Treasury. And it limits it to the parties to the audit settlement. It limits the parties to the audit..."
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"general. He should be rejected for five broad reasons. The first is he has used the Department of Justice to enrich the president of the United States, and that is not the job of an attorney This was a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump, not as a private citizen. He had every opportunity to bring this lawsuit in between his first term and his second term, but he did not do so. In fact, he waited so long that the statute of limitations ran on that potential claim. He waited — no, he waited until he..."
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"This past Sunday, Senator Tillis and I came to an agreement after numerous meetings with the Department of Justice and Mr. Blanch on an agency interpretative guidance document that reaffirms what Mr. Blanch said in his sworn testimony in front of the committee. This document will help limit the substance and scope of the audit protection to the defendants in the lawsuit, the IRS, and the Treasury. And it limits it to the parties to the audit settlement. It limits the parties to the audit..."
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"general. He should be rejected for five broad reasons. The first is he has used the Department of Justice to enrich the president of the United States, and that is not the job of an attorney This was a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump, not as a private citizen. He had every opportunity to bring this lawsuit in between his first term and his second term, but he did not do so. In fact, he waited so long that the statute of limitations ran on that potential claim. He waited — no, he waited until he..."
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"This past Sunday, Senator Tillis and I came to an agreement after numerous meetings with the Department of Justice and Mr. Blanch on an agency interpretative guidance document that reaffirms what Mr. Blanch said in his sworn testimony in front of the committee. This document will help limit the substance and scope of the audit protection to the defendants in the lawsuit, the IRS, and the Treasury. And it limits it to the parties to the audit settlement. It limits the parties to the audit..."
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"general. He should be rejected for five broad reasons. The first is he has used the Department of Justice to enrich the president of the United States, and that is not the job of an attorney This was a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump, not as a private citizen. He had every opportunity to bring this lawsuit in between his first term and his second term, but he did not do so. In fact, he waited so long that the statute of limitations ran on that potential claim. He waited — no, he waited until he..."
Testimony WYDEN, RON
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"This was an illegal executive action, and you were already acting as a deputy secretary when the sweetheart deal was announced. So it is getting harder and harder to reconcile these various statements that you're making now. Does the deal still stand as of today? statute. We're not asking that you get in to 6103 privacy issues. On this committee, we've got a lot of privacy hawks, but we want to understand the process, and I will tell you what you said to me in the office yesterday is pretty..."
Testimony MS. JAMIE SIMPSON
“Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I do. I think one of the things that's important to bear in mind with this idea of repetitive lawsuits that Professor Carrier just mentioned is that courts have a lot of doctrines specifically to deal with repetitive lawsuits, issue preclusion, claim preclusion. And if they're not dismissing those cases on these grounds, it means these cases aren't truly duplicative. It means someone is going to court with a different enough property right that it's worth pursuing. I think this goes back to an..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"and willful misconduct and to punish companies for intentional causing harm. It still allows people, this legislation that bill, it still allows people to file lawsuits and also recover damages for injuries and lost income called compensatory damages. It still allows people to even get punitive damages if the company does not meet the federal standard when the trailer is manufactured and does not preclude lawsuits. The current situation is unattainable. If this trend continues, we could have..."
Testimony HARSHBARGER, DIANA
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"It's H.R. 2300, and this legislation addresses a very urgent threat to the domestic supply of specialized cow milk-based preterm infant formula, which are products used in hospitals under physician supervision to sustain premature infants and which have been on the market for more than four decades, and over the past couple of years, there's been a surge in litigation targeting the only two manufacturers of these products, and so these lawsuits attempt to link the formula to necrotizing..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sheria Akins Clarke, to be Unit...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and before I make a statement about this morning's business, I want to call the attention of the Judiciary Committee to a ruling yesterday in New Mexico where the Attorney General there filed a lawsuit, civil lawsuit, under New Mexico law against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram for endangering children with their content on social media. There isn't a parent or grandparent alive who isn't fearful of what the hell these kids are looking at all day long and what's happening..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on feder...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and before I make a statement about this morning's business, I want to call the attention of the Judiciary Committee to a ruling yesterday in New Mexico where the Attorney General there filed a lawsuit, civil lawsuit, under New Mexico law against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram for endangering children with their content on social media. There isn't a parent or grandparent alive who isn't fearful of what the hell these kids are looking at all day long and what's happening..."
Testimony MORENO, BERNIE
Business meeting to consider S.1682, to direct the Consumer Product Sa...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"They are a total disgrace. Quite frankly, I hope that what somebody does is files a wage and hour lawsuit against the Democrat senators because if I owned a business, Mr. Chairman – which I did, my colleague did as well – if we did not pay our employees for one hour that they were entitled to, we would suffer a wage and hour lawsuit. So to the 260,000 employees of DHS, sue the hell out of the Democrats today for not paying you, for being hypocrites, not showing up for work, and yet still..."
Testimony SEWELL, TERRI A.
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"That's even more money out of their pocket. While Trump and his family are expecting a $10 billion windfall from the IRS from their lawsuit, if Trump is successful in his lawsuit, he will take $10 million, no, billion with the B, from taxpayer funds. Sir, do you know how many times larger that number is over the average American person who gets a refund of"
Testimony HERN, KEVIN
Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beij...
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"Tax advantages have allowed nonprofits to underwrite coordinated campaigns, politicize the courts, and impose costs on defendants without direct accountability. Just as nonprofit tax exemptions can directly incentivize lawfare for profit, third-party litigation funders' preferential tax treatment turns lawsuits into tax-advantaged asset class, leading to predatory and frivolous lawsuits that overburden the courts and raise prices. Both sectors bypass normal"
Testimony MARISOL GARCIA
Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"become an excuse to avoid investing in our public schools. Last year, we won a lawsuit, an eight-year lawsuit, over chronic school underfunding and the Republicans in our state have already said they will appeal that. Roughly"
Testimony CRAIG AARON
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"mean, if we talked about repeatedly in this hearing, we need free speech for everyone. We need to protect free expression. And so if Elon Musk is doing something, this committee should be as concerned about it. If Elon Musk and Donald Trump are colluding to pressure media companies, they should be just as concerned. I would argue more concerned, given the evidence, than they have been in the many hearings covered here about low-level employees message to news organizations? Yes, I mean, I think..."
Testimony LOFGREN, ZOE
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"being abused. Well, it's it's not just what you've said in December, ABC agreed to settle a $16 million lawsuit by Mr. Trump and his foundations. And then just last month, made a paid 25 million to settle what honestly, as a lawyer seemed to me a pretty ridiculous four year old lawsuit. Just last July, Mr. Trump threatened to throw Mark Zuckerberg in jail. And then after he"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under Secretary,...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
WYDEN, RON "This was an illegal executive action, and you were already acting as a deputy secretary when the sweetheart deal was announced. So it is getting harder and harder to reconcile these various statements that you're making now. Does the deal still stand as of today? statute. We're not asking that you get in to 6103 privacy issues. On this committee, we've got a lot of privacy hawks, but we want to understand the process, and I will tell you what you said to me in the office yesterday is pretty hard to reconcile with what I've just been hearing this morning. Now, let me move on. Career IRS..."
Hearing “The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CRAIG AARON "mean, if we talked about repeatedly in this hearing, we need free speech for everyone. We need to protect free expression. And so if Elon Musk is doing something, this committee should be as concerned about it. If Elon Musk and Donald Trump are colluding to pressure media companies, they should be just as concerned. I would argue more concerned, given the evidence, than they have been in the many hearings covered here about low-level employees message to news organizations? Yes, I mean, I think the message the administration is sending is pay up and get in line. I mean, they've repeatedly,..."
Hearing Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MRS. CELIA WINSLOW "balances swell with interest and late fees, credit scores collapse, collection calls, and lawsuits follow. For this, settlement companies charge 15 to 25% of the consumer's"
Hearing Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the FY2027 Research and Technology Enterprise
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BEGICH, NICHOLAS J. "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Director, the Department of Energy's Climate Working Group was disbanded after lawsuits alleged it violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, or FACA. Congress exempted the National Academies from FACA decades"
Hearing Hearings to examine the TRICARE pharmacy program.
senate Personnel Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
WARREN, ELIZABETH "process. And one lawsuit, that's where I got to look for data, alleges it's $17 that Express Scripts gets every time they fill a prescription. Let's look at the cost from the perspective of military"
Hearing H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R. 9504
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
DOGGETT, LLOYD "Take note that 35 federal judges, 35 from both political parties, appointed by presidents of both parties, went to court to challenge this wretched settlement as the fraud that it truly is. Singling out the very addendum that bars the government pursuing claims against the president and his family as an extraordinary benefit handed over for nothing in return, special treatment in a lawsuit that the president never formally asked for this type of relief. A federal judge has taken these allegations serious enough to reopen the case and order the president to answer. And former IRS and Justice..."
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MS. SARAH PIERCE "This administration has threatened funding, filed lawsuits, and accused entire jurisdictions of protecting criminals. ICE's tactics have deepened this trust"
Hearing Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
LOUDERMILK, BARRY "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I speak today in support of my bill, H.R. 5775, the Fair Credit Reporting Act Liability Harmonization Act. This bill amends the civil liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act to cap statutory damages in class action lawsuits, eliminate punitive damages, and limit attorney's fees. Together, these reforms would help curb abusive litigation practices while preserving strong consumer protections and effective dispute resolution"
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School Employee Discrimination Lawsuits and Title IX: Supreme Court Grants Review
Legal Sidebar · May 22, 2026
The Supreme Court has granted a petition seeking review of a case about how two different federal laws that both ban sex discrimination—one in the workplace, the other in schools—relate to one...
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The Department of Justice’s First Lawsuit Enforcing a Presidential Order Under Section 721 of the Defense Production Act
Legal Sidebar · May 29, 2026
On July 8, 2025, President Trump issued an order prohibiting a 2020 acquisition of Jupiter Systems, LLC (Jupiter), by Suirui International, a subsidiary of Suirui Group Co., Ltd. (Suirui). Suirui is...
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Bradford Pentony Wilson, of New Jersey, to be Archivist of the United States, Hal Duncan, of Texas, to be...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_18 "Have you received any information in the capacity that you've been serving in of either waste, fraud and abuse for these repeated and failed lawsuits or any complaint of any kind for the weaponization of the Department of Justice against people like myself? I mean, I guess the question is, do you believe that, you know, going after the president's opponents and filing failed lawsuit after failed lawsuit after failed lawsuit qualifies for waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars in general? So generally, you'd be disbarred for doing it, or it would be under investigation if you were a..."
Hearing “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MS. JAMIE SIMPSON "I do. I think one of the things that's important to bear in mind with this idea of repetitive lawsuits that Professor Carrier just mentioned is that courts have a lot of doctrines specifically to deal with repetitive lawsuits, issue preclusion, claim preclusion. And if they're not dismissing those cases on these grounds, it means these cases aren't truly duplicative. It means someone is going to court with a different enough property right that it's worth pursuing. I think this goes back to an even more fundamental point that civil litigation is, especially in this space, it's"
Hearing H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "and willful misconduct and to punish companies for intentional causing harm. It still allows people, this legislation that bill, it still allows people to file lawsuits and also recover damages for injuries and lost income called compensatory damages. It still allows people to even get punitive damages if the company does not meet the federal standard when the trailer is manufactured and does not preclude lawsuits. The current situation is unattainable. If this trend continues, we could have juries in different states that are in essence creating different benchmarks or standards for punitive..."
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
HARSHBARGER, DIANA "It's H.R. 2300, and this legislation addresses a very urgent threat to the domestic supply of specialized cow milk-based preterm infant formula, which are products used in hospitals under physician supervision to sustain premature infants and which have been on the market for more than four decades, and over the past couple of years, there's been a surge in litigation targeting the only two manufacturers of these products, and so these lawsuits attempt to link the formula to necrotizing enterocolitis, but the federal health agencies and neonatology experts agree there's no conclusive evidence..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sheria Akins Clarke, to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Kathleen S....
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and before I make a statement about this morning's business, I want to call the attention of the Judiciary Committee to a ruling yesterday in New Mexico where the Attorney General there filed a lawsuit, civil lawsuit, under New Mexico law against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram for endangering children with their content on social media. There isn't a parent or grandparent alive who isn't fearful of what the hell these kids are looking at all day long and what's happening to them as a"
Hearing Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on federalism, sanctuary cities, and the rule of law.
senate Constitution Subcommittee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and before I make a statement about this morning's business, I want to call the attention of the Judiciary Committee to a ruling yesterday in New Mexico where the Attorney General there filed a lawsuit, civil lawsuit, under New Mexico law against Meta, Facebook, and Instagram for endangering children with their content on social media. There isn't a parent or grandparent alive who isn't fearful of what the hell these kids are looking at all day long and what's happening to them as a"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1682, to direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a consumer product safety standard for certain...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
MORENO, BERNIE "They are a total disgrace. Quite frankly, I hope that what somebody does is files a wage and hour lawsuit against the Democrat senators because if I owned a business, Mr. Chairman – which I did, my colleague did as well – if we did not pay our employees for one hour that they were entitled to, we would suffer a wage and hour lawsuit. So to the 260,000 employees of DHS, sue the hell out of the Democrats today for not paying you, for being hypocrites, not showing up for work, and yet still getting paid and"
Hearing Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer, Frank J. Bisignano
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
SEWELL, TERRI A. "That's even more money out of their pocket. While Trump and his family are expecting a $10 billion windfall from the IRS from their lawsuit, if Trump is successful in his lawsuit, he will take $10 million, no, billion with the B, from taxpayer funds. Sir, do you know how many times larger that number is over the average American person who gets a refund of"
Hearing Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
HERN, KEVIN "Tax advantages have allowed nonprofits to underwrite coordinated campaigns, politicize the courts, and impose costs on defendants without direct accountability. Just as nonprofit tax exemptions can directly incentivize lawfare for profit, third-party litigation funders' preferential tax treatment turns lawsuits into tax-advantaged asset class, leading to predatory and frivolous lawsuits that overburden the courts and raise prices. Both sectors bypass normal"
Hearing Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026 · Transcript
MARISOL GARCIA "become an excuse to avoid investing in our public schools. Last year, we won a lawsuit, an eight-year lawsuit, over chronic school underfunding and the Republicans in our state have already said they will appeal that. Roughly"
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
BOOKER, CORY A. "In June, the Supreme Court gave Bayer their liability shield. Holding the EPA approval of a label gives giant pestified manufacturers permanent immunity from lawsuits about their failure to warn people about the known health risks of their products. The single ruling wiped out tens of thousands of active court cases brought by American citizens with cancer and other diseases who were seeking justice in the"
Hearing Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act to modify a provision relating to the extension of certain dates for the...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE JEFF GRUBBE "after World War II. With annual groundwater pumping far exceeding the aquifer's ability to recharge naturally, water levels in the upper valley wells dropped 50 to 100 feet between the 50s and 70s, substantially increasing the cost of accessing water. We estimate the loss of 174,000 acre-feet of groundwater in storage beneath the reservation lands between 1936 and 2009. To protect the tribe's water from further depletion and to preserve it for the future, in 2013, Ahwa Kalente filed a lawsuit against two local water districts, the Coachella Valley Water District and the Desert Water Agency,..."
Hearing “False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
CROCKETT, JASMINE "He gave Trump and his sons a super pardon that gives them lifelong protection from any investigation, audit, lawsuit, or prosecution by any federal agency for any violation of federal law. He created the $2 billion fund to pay January 6th insurrectionists for attacking the"
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
DOGGETT, LLOYD "Corporations with billions of dollars riding on the administration's decisions have pledged at least $63 million to Trump's library, with the total value of gifts pouring in approaching half a billion dollars. Paramount, for example, routed $16 million into that library after a phony Trump lawsuit. This is the very same company that Trump is relying upon to muzzle CNN just as it muzzled CBS. This is a deal that would hand also at the same time Gulf sovereign wealth funds"
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 "Now, you've heard the IGA and the AGA point to statements Calshi made in earlier litigation, suggesting that the industry itself once conceded sports betting doesn't belong on these markets. But what one company has argued in one lawsuit doesn't change what the Commodity Exchange Act expressly requires. Congress wrote broad commodity and swap definitions on"
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "There were 26,000 unaccompanied kids across the country who faced losing an attorney under the dreadful circumstances. As all of my colleagues have just described so eloquently. There was a group, and I'm not familiar with the group, but I certainly applaud them, CLSEPA versus HHS, which brought a lawsuit on behalf of 11 legal services groups and co-counseled with the Justice Action Center and Gibson Dunn and the Immigrant Defenders Law Center to challenge this totally unprecedented and unlawful termination in federal court, U.S. District Court in California. And a federal judge issued a..."
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
STUTZMAN, MARLIN A. "Northeast Indiana, a lot of rural communities, we have a lot of underserved areas that are underserved by major internet providers. And we've spent billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing broadband in this country, unfortunately with not so much to show for it. Can you tell us how rural Americans, especially Hoosiers watching at home, how your network can benefit them? and help their neighbors. You mentioned the lawsuit by the Biden administration in your testimony. If the Clarity Act had been law, do you think that frivolous enforcement action would been categories in the other. What a huge..."
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
SPEAKER_07 "What would have happened if you didn't pay them? Well, you were. You'd probably get into a wage and hour lawsuit. That would probably be filed by my Democrat"
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
HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD "He received a jet from Qatar and we had to spend $400 million of taxpayer money to retrofit that jet. He instructed his lawyers and the Department of Justice to enter into a sham lawsuit and settlement against the IRS. None of that gives you ethical"
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_20 "So it readmitted, they artificially inflated their medical spending metrics. So this aggressive data gaming and vertical integration strategies actually ultimately triggered the Department of Criminal Justice investigation and a million dollar fraud lawsuit from the Massachusetts Attorney General. So I am glad that this is a bipartisan exercise. It is sad that we had what was, I thought, again, a good program by the federal government meant to save money but also keep patients at home, keep them healthier. But as usual, they're now finding industries, especially now with our health insurance..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and Erica Schwartz, of...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_09 "so that it's not taken over by people who are ideologically inclined and looking to file a lawsuit, not looking to prevent"
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, James...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_09 "so that it's not taken over by people who are ideologically inclined and looking to file a lawsuit, not looking to prevent"
Hearing “AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_18 "You know, I think examples of that are we have a good base in about 20 states for data privacy legislation, but we see other states that are operating on the margins and trying to take more extreme approaches to regulation. We've seen those states, for example, craft legislation with the intent of only having their state attorneys general regulate to provide some certainty. Unfortunately, we've seen instances where the trial bar, for example, has gotten creative and used laws never designed for consumer privacy to have gotcha lawsuits for basic things like collecting cookies. So if you're an..."
Hearing “Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of American Youth Sports”
house Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
MS. KATHERINE VAN DYCK, J.D. "Unfortunately, yes, our federal antitrust enforcement mechanism right now is pretty anemic. DOJ has only filed, I think, one lawsuit in the first year of its administration, and staff are reportedly being encouraged to avoid long investigations and trials. Youth sports, I think, is a really good example of why that sort of approach is so dangerous. When we aren't focused on what's happening today, it becomes very hard to unwind down the"
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"It is a very challenging balance to strike, to be sure. The tax lawsuit that was filed by President Trump and his son and the Trump Organization in January of 2026 was what prosecutors called unparalleled in the IRS's history. A contractor with Bose Hamilton got the job at the IRS for the express purpose of"
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"this unsigned statement that only says that it's restating DOJ's interpretation is meaningless. And that interpretation, according to this unsigned document, And that interpretation, according to this unsigned document, is that the order only has any effect, including on any release of claims, on the name parties in the lawsuit referenced in the order. But let's look at the name parties in"
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"It is a very challenging balance to strike, to be sure. The tax lawsuit that was filed by President Trump and his son and the Trump Organization in January of 2026 was what prosecutors called unparalleled in the IRS's history. A contractor with Bose Hamilton got the job at the IRS for the express purpose of"
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"this unsigned statement that only says that it's restating DOJ's interpretation is meaningless. And that interpretation, according to this unsigned document, And that interpretation, according to this unsigned document, is that the order only has any effect, including on any release of claims, on the name parties in the lawsuit referenced in the order. But let's look at the name parties in"
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"It is a very challenging balance to strike, to be sure. The tax lawsuit that was filed by President Trump and his son and the Trump Organization in January of 2026 was what prosecutors called unparalleled in the IRS's history. A contractor with Bose Hamilton got the job at the IRS for the express purpose of"
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"this unsigned statement that only says that it's restating DOJ's interpretation is meaningless. And that interpretation, according to this unsigned document, And that interpretation, according to this unsigned document, is that the order only has any effect, including on any release of claims, on the name parties in the lawsuit referenced in the order. But let's look at the name parties in"
Testimony WYDEN, RON
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"So, are you saying that some mid-level Treasury official interfered to block IRS's legal opinion on something this sensitive? I do not know, Senator. Okay. So, basically, you are answering all of the questions. In fact, I'll ask one more, and then we'll sum it up. Three days before Trump filed his lawsuit, Treasury abruptly canceled the contracts with Booz Allen, the contractor, whose employees leaked the tax returns. This timing is hard, again, to reconcile as a coincidence. Were you involved..."
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"In June, the Supreme Court gave Bayer their liability shield. Holding the EPA approval of a label gives giant pestified manufacturers permanent immunity from lawsuits about their failure to warn people about the known health risks of their products. The single ruling wiped out tens of thousands of active court cases brought by American citizens with cancer and other diseases who were seeking justice in the"
Testimony THE HONORABLE JEFF GRUBBE
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"after World War II. With annual groundwater pumping far exceeding the aquifer's ability to recharge naturally, water levels in the upper valley wells dropped 50 to 100 feet between the 50s and 70s, substantially increasing the cost of accessing water. We estimate the loss of 174,000 acre-feet of groundwater in storage beneath the reservation lands between 1936 and 2009. To protect the tribe's water from further depletion and to preserve it for the future, in 2013, Ahwa Kalente filed a lawsuit..."
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"He gave Trump and his sons a super pardon that gives them lifelong protection from any investigation, audit, lawsuit, or prosecution by any federal agency for any violation of federal law. He created the $2 billion fund to pay January 6th insurrectionists for attacking the"
Testimony MRS. CELIA WINSLOW
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"balances swell with interest and late fees, credit scores collapse, collection calls, and lawsuits follow. For this, settlement companies charge 15 to 25% of the consumer's"
Testimony JOHN BREYAULT
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Second, the Main Event Ticketing Act modernizes the 2016 BOTS Act and closes dangerous enforcement loopholes. Look no further than the FTC's landmark lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster as proof of why this bill is needed. The FTC's complaint exposed how the Ticketmaster"
Testimony MACKENZIE, RYAN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"that confirmed what many in the employee benefits community had long suspected. DOL was sharing confidential information with class-action law firms to support private lawsuits. The committee immediately requested that the DOL-OIG investigate this"
Testimony MACKENZIE, RYAN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The report also found DOL failed to protect confidential investigative information and couldn't even keep track of what was shared or with whom. In many cases, DOL shared sensitive investigative information with outside lawyers before lawsuits had even been filed. In other words, it shared information without written common interest"
Testimony MACKENZIE, RYAN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And as this hearing has shown, during previous, the previous administration, DOL failed to protect confidential investigative information. It did not screen for conflicts of interest by DOL personnel and shared sensitive information with outside lawyers before lawsuits even began. That's not how government should"
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Corporations with billions of dollars riding on the administration's decisions have pledged at least $63 million to Trump's library, with the total value of gifts pouring in approaching half a billion dollars. Paramount, for example, routed $16 million into that library after a phony Trump lawsuit. This is the very same company that Trump is relying upon to muzzle CNN just as it muzzled CBS. This is a deal that would hand also at the same time Gulf sovereign wealth funds"
Testimony BEGICH, NICHOLAS J.
Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. Director, the Department of Energy's Climate Working Group was disbanded after lawsuits alleged it violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, or FACA. Congress exempted the National Academies from FACA decades"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The president was spreading misinformation to the public about a $52 billion program that Texas businesses, and I'm from Texas, are eligible for. And while the president was inventing those fake DEI requirements, administration officials were behind closed doors renegotiating chips agreements for companies that are connected to the administration. A lawsuit from Intel shareholders alleged that a Commerce Department official told Intel that that was not a negotiation, and Intel should consider..."
Testimony MR. CARL KENNEDY
"Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event P...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Now, you've heard the IGA and the AGA point to statements Calshi made in earlier litigation, suggesting that the industry itself once conceded sports betting doesn't belong on these markets. But what one company has argued in one lawsuit doesn't change what the Commodity Exchange Act expressly requires. Congress wrote broad commodity and swap definitions on"
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"There were 26,000 unaccompanied kids across the country who faced losing an attorney under the dreadful circumstances. As all of my colleagues have just described so eloquently. There was a group, and I'm not familiar with the group, but I certainly applaud them, CLSEPA versus HHS, which brought a lawsuit on behalf of 11 legal services groups and co-counseled with the Justice Action Center and Gibson Dunn and the Immigrant Defenders Law Center to challenge this totally unprecedented and..."
Testimony STUTZMAN, MARLIN A.
Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 17, 2026
"Northeast Indiana, a lot of rural communities, we have a lot of underserved areas that are underserved by major internet providers. And we've spent billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing broadband in this country, unfortunately with not so much to show for it. Can you tell us how rural Americans, especially Hoosiers watching at home, how your network can benefit them? and help their neighbors. You mentioned the lawsuit by the Biden administration in your testimony. If the Clarity Act had been..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Hearings to examine the nomination of David Cummins, of Virginia, to b...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"What would have happened if you didn't pay them? Well, you were. You'd probably get into a wage and hour lawsuit. That would probably be filed by my Democrat"
Testimony HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"He received a jet from Qatar and we had to spend $400 million of taxpayer money to retrofit that jet. He instructed his lawyers and the Department of Justice to enter into a sham lawsuit and settlement against the IRS. None of that gives you ethical"
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"by an IRS contractor, Charles Littlejohn, who was appropriately convicted of a crime for doing that. President Trump and his family were definitely victims of a crime there. But it happened back in 2020, and the lawsuit wasn't brought until 2026. So with the two-year statute of limitations, it seems to me that that was something I know that was the subject of pleading in the complaint and attempt to avoid the two-year statute of limitations, but that struck me as unusual. But let's talk a..."
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"agreement remains as it was originally, but I hear what you're saying. Is the settlement agreement enforceable as a contract by the parties? Well, yes, it's an enforceable document. But just to be clear, the President of the United States, who was a plaintiff in this lawsuit, has not agreed in writing to delete the Weaponization Fund, and there's no guarantee that he or one of the other plaintiffs might raise that issue by way of a lawsuit, has not agreed in writing to delete the Weaponization..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE TODD BLANCHE
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Well, Senator, the plaintiffs have no power over the fund. The fund was administered solely by the five commissioners and through the Department of Justice, so no, they don't have any power with respect to the fund at all. I suppose they could bring a lawsuit, and then we would litigate it, but even if we were litigating it, there's no fund, so the results of such litigation, whatever it would be, wouldn't be a revival of the"
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"First of all, does this purport to release parties or people who were not parties to the lawsuit? Well, it says here"
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"affiliates, or subsidiaries, they weren't a party to the lawsuit, were they? Did you talk to the president about the"
Testimony THE HONORABLE TODD BLANCHE
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"as respect to any potential audits, even if they existed, were the plaintiffs and the lawsuit. No, I did"
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Did you discuss it with him? And this was a lawsuit brought?"
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Sure. And this lawsuit was brought against the IRS and Treasury, yet this release purports to apply to defendants or other agencies or departments. So does this release apply to, let's"
Testimony CORNYN, JOHN
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"But let me turn, since I only have a few minutes left, Senator Grassley raised the issue of the Mefeprestone lawsuit. And just to be clear, you understand the difference between the morning-after pill and Mefeprestone, don't"
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"even kill political dissidents, including evangelical Christians, would you not? And last week, the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit alleging that the Trump administration has adopted a policy of collaborating with the Islamic Republic of Iran to provide details about asylum applicants. This is the United States government providing information regularly and frequently to the Iranian government about Iranian nationals who are seeking asylum here in the United"
Testimony THE HONORABLE TODD BLANCHE
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"That's not our policy, Senator. We would never send somebody home to be tortured. That's not what the American people would expect of us. That's certainly not what President Trump does. So I'm not familiar with the lawsuit you're talking about, but there's no such policy. I haven't known nothing about the lawsuit. I haven't known nothing about the lawsuit. When you say commit to investigate allegations, we don't do that. But certainly, if the lawsuit needs to be answered and part of that..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE TODD BLANCHE
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I'm telling you there is no such policy. When I see the lawsuit, I'm just not familiar with it. We will, of course, do what's appropriate. That it would be wrong, meaning it would be wrong to send somebody home to be"
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"In 2017, more than 10,000 9-11 victims filed suit against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. That lawsuit is heading to trial. Information was promised by President Trump in September of 2019. Will you commit to meet with those families and provide the information they need for their"
Testimony HIRONO, MAZIE K.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Since last year, DOJ has sued 30 states seeking their voter lists. Fourteen of those lawsuits have been resolved by federal judges. Mr. Blanch, did any of those 14 federal court judges from across the country agree"
Testimony HIRONO, MAZIE K.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"You also championed a slush fund for the president's allies who attacked police officers on January 6th. From the beginning, we all knew that that's what this fund was for, but now we have findings of fact from a federal judge concluding that the fund came out of a fake lawsuit filed solely to lend an air of legitimacy to the president's attempt to compensate his insurrectionist allies. You played a key role in attempting to perpetuate this fraud on American taxpayers, and you oversaw the..."
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"But you have no idea who that is? And did you debate with them the statute of limitations, which clearly would preclude the president's claim, this $10 billion lawsuit? And you did you reject the statute of limitations"
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"doesn't matter. Who rejected the 25 defenses the IRS had to this sham lawsuit? Who rejected"
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine the TRICARE pharmacy program.
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"process. And one lawsuit, that's where I got to look for data, alleges it's $17 that Express Scripts gets every time they fill a prescription. Let's look at the cost from the perspective of military"
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine the TRICARE pharmacy program.
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"So there's a big difference in what the customer is actually paying on the cheaper drugs. Now, in addition to the customer's copay, we've just done, there's a federal government copay, maybe $17, that's the best I can tell from the lawsuit, on every prescription filled. So that means a $3 prescription, that is it costs $3, can earn Express Fees $31, a $14 copay from the customer, from our service member, and then a $17 administrative"
Testimony CASTEN, SEAN
The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"some of the pain you have created on our society, because since you have come in, the CFPB has voluntarily dismissed more than 20 enforcement cases that would have returned $3.5 billion to consumers who were ripped off or defrauded. Examples of a couple of those. These are all on the CFPB websites. You abandoned a lawsuit against a bank that mistreated seniors and disabled customers. A disabled woman who had tried to get a replacement card on the CFPB website that this left her unable to pay..."
Testimony TLAIB, RASHIDA
The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. Director Vought, is it true or false that your agency has dismissed and terminated more than 40 lawsuits and settlements against predatory companies? Are you friends with Capital"
Testimony TLAIB, RASHIDA
The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"They put him in office. I actually don't contest that like you all do. Now, is it true these cases and others dropped lawsuits could have returned hundreds of millions of dollars to consumers? I'd like to insert into the record, Director, vote. A memo, Chairman, from the Protect Borrowers, the Consumer Federation of America, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, because I want the American people to see all the lawsuits you filed. You didn't file. You actually decided not to pursue..."
Testimony TLAIB, RASHIDA
The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Are you friends with them? Do you work for them? I'm saying this because you dropped all these lawsuits. These lawsuits didn't come out of thin air. These lawsuits didn't come out of thin"
Testimony SPEAKER_20
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
"So it readmitted, they artificially inflated their medical spending metrics. So this aggressive data gaming and vertical integration strategies actually ultimately triggered the Department of Criminal Justice investigation and a million dollar fraud lawsuit from the Massachusetts Attorney General. So I am glad that this is a bipartisan exercise. It is sad that we had what was, I thought, again, a good program by the federal government meant to save money but also keep patients at home, keep..."
Testimony SPEAKER_09
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"so that it's not taken over by people who are ideologically inclined and looking to file a lawsuit, not looking to prevent"
Testimony SPEAKER_09
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Ma...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"so that it's not taken over by people who are ideologically inclined and looking to file a lawsuit, not looking to prevent"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"not climate change, targeting the transgender community for disparagement and ridicule. Does the White House not understand that everybody gets this cruel game? Even though the GOP House already passed a bill to criminalize doctors for providing gender-affirming care, now they're back with H.R. 7651, which creates a federal private right of action to allow federal civil lawsuits against medical providers, doctors, and facilities for providing gender-affirming care to minors, even the most..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"state laws already provide a remedy for those patients. For example, just earlier this year, a jury in New York awarded a young woman $2 million in damages for a double mastectomy she received as a teenager as part of gender-affirming care that she was undergoing. The plaintiff in the case accused her medical providers of failing to obtain her adequate consent about the risks of the surgery before she agreed to undergo the procedure, and she further claimed that the doctors deviated from the..."
Testimony ONDER, ROBERT F.
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"have a live son or a dead daughter? But if gender denying treatments are half as wonderful as my Democrat colleagues seem to think they are, then they should have no problem with this bill either, because all this bill does is gives those parents and their families the opportunity to sue for damages if they are harmed. And if there are no damages, no lawsuit. Now Representative Raskin cited some information about low rates of desistance, transgender identifying individuals returning to identify..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
“AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"You know, I think examples of that are we have a good base in about 20 states for data privacy legislation, but we see other states that are operating on the margins and trying to take more extreme approaches to regulation. We've seen those states, for example, craft legislation with the intent of only having their state attorneys general regulate to provide some certainty. Unfortunately, we've seen instances where the trial bar, for example, has gotten creative and used laws never designed for..."
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"Take note that 35 federal judges, 35 from both political parties, appointed by presidents of both parties, went to court to challenge this wretched settlement as the fraud that it truly is. Singling out the very addendum that bars the government pursuing claims against the president and his family as an extraordinary benefit handed over for nothing in return, special treatment in a lawsuit that the president never formally asked for this type of relief. A federal judge has taken these..."
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"And that second, in addition to the slush fund, is his immunity agreement. He brought a $10 billion lawsuit against himself over the fact that there was disclosure of some of his tax returns. That was done by a government contractor named Charles Littlejohn, who unlawfully disclosed the tax returns of thousands of Americans, including the president's. It was"
Testimony MS. KATHERINE VAN DYCK, J.D.
“Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of Amer...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Unfortunately, yes, our federal antitrust enforcement mechanism right now is pretty anemic. DOJ has only filed, I think, one lawsuit in the first year of its administration, and staff are reportedly being encouraged to avoid long investigations and trials. Youth sports, I think, is a really good example of why that sort of approach is so dangerous. When we aren't focused on what's happening today, it becomes very hard to unwind down the"
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"This administration has threatened funding, filed lawsuits, and accused entire jurisdictions of protecting criminals. ICE's tactics have deepened this trust"
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"safe and prevents the kinds of things we're hearing about today? As well as concerns about how much they would have to pay in lawsuits if what they do is actually unconstitutional. Why is it dangerous to have policies in place? This gets at the community trust piece. Why is it dangerous to have policies in place that prevent huge swaths of the community, both undocumented folks as well as family members or friends of undocumented people who may live in the same household, from feeling secure..."
Testimony MR. STEVE FRANCIS
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"That changes the economics of infringement. Without this tool, rights holders are forced to file dozens or even hundreds of nearly identical lawsuits against anonymous defendants who have moved assets and simply reappear under new identities faster than the courts can reach a judgment. Schedule A is one of the few law enforcement tools capable of matching the speed, scale, and anonymity of today's online infringers while preserving judicial efficiency and due"
Testimony MR. STEVE FRANCIS
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And something we have seen is a very useful tool, our Schedule A litigation. This allows a rights holder to file a lawsuit and join all these anonymous foreign sellers online in an effort to recover some of the losses to them. As it relates to the SHOP SAFE Act, you know, from a consumer's perspective, I can answer it that way. I would, as a consumer, expect to understand where the origin of these products came"
Testimony ROSS, DEBORAH K.
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thank you so much. I do want to pick up on something that the chairman asked about the output, because we've been focusing a lot on the input, and we've had this anthropic lawsuit. And I took copyright law when I was in – and I had great – I had David Lang at Duke University who taught me copyright law. It was so much fun. We started with Ansel Adams. But I want to talk about the output, because I know that the Copyright Office is coming up with rules for what is produced and whether or not..."
Testimony MR. SEAN ASTIN
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And the people we have the contracts with don't seem to be doing anything about it. And that's not actually true. Yesterday, a lawsuit was filed, and so we're looking forward to it. But we're on the business end of a lot of this stuff, and we don't have a lot of control. So we do the best we can to negotiate the best deals that we can. And then we hope that the companies we're in business with advocate for the protection of their"
Testimony LOUDERMILK, BARRY
Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I speak today in support of my bill, H.R. 5775, the Fair Credit Reporting Act Liability Harmonization Act. This bill amends the civil liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act to cap statutory damages in class action lawsuits, eliminate punitive damages, and limit attorney's fees. Together, these reforms would help curb abusive litigation practices while preserving strong consumer protections and effective dispute resolution"
Testimony LOUDERMILK, BARRY
Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Truth in Lending Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act permits unlimited damages, including punitive damages in class action lawsuits. In practice, this structure creates incentives for costly litigation and settlements, even where alleged violations are technical in nature and lack concrete consumer"