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Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026 · Transcript · 9 transcript matches
SCANLON, MARY GAY "Americans who the White House says are engaged in domestic terrorism. Those lists could include Americans who have not committed any acts of terrorism but simply disagree with this administration, people like Renee Good and Alex Pretty, and your list may include clergy, elected officials, and members of indivisible groups across the country, and those lists likely don't include Proud Boys or Oath Keepers who were actually convicted. Americans have never tolerated political demagogues who use the government to punish people on an enemies list. It brought down McCarthy. It brought down Nixon...."
Hearing FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
BARR, ANDY "As you and I have discussed, legislation that I've been working on for years, the new screening for outbound investment was made part of the NDAA, it is now law, the Coins Act, as it's Security Review Commission for many, many years. So we now have this new interagency tool to screen outbound investment. And one of the requirements that it imposes on commerce is, as well as Treasury and the Department of War, is an alignment of these lists. So you manage the entity list, there's the 1260H list at the Pentagon, there's the CMIC list at Treasury, and the idea is that we shouldn't allow U.S...."
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Lesser Prairie Chicken Listing Under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
Reports · Jul 21, 2023
On November 25, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) listed two populations of the lesser prairie chicken (LPC) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act (ESA; 16 U.S.C. §§1531 et seq.)....
Hearing “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
MOORE, BARRY "Montgomery, Alabama, one of the most important cities in the history of civil rights movement. But Montgomery is not a shield. The civil rights movement is not a fundraising costume. And Alabama donors are not an ATM. That history belongs to the men and women who marched, who prayed, who suffered, and changed this country. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has opened a civil investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center under the Alabama Consumer Protection Act. The subpoena asks a straightforward question. When Alabama donors gave money to fight hate, were they told the truth..."
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Listed Chemicals and Federal Regulation of Controlled Substance Precursors
Resources · Jan 19, 2023
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) regulates pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical drugs and other substances that pose a risk of abuse and dependence. The CSA authorizes the manufacture,...
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Patent Listing in FDA’s Orange Book
InFocus · Jan 21, 2026
For over 40 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has maintained a resource formally titled Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations. This frequently updated...
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The Gray Wolf Under the Endangered Species Act (ESA): A Case Study in Listing and Delisting Challenges
Reports · Nov 25, 2020
Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or the Act; 16 U.S.C. §§ 1531-1544), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (together, the Services)...
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U.S. District Court Holds U.S. Citizen Can Challenge His Inclusion on “Kill List”
Posts · Jul 10, 2018
In a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the court held that a U.S. citizen who could allege sufficient facts to credibly demonstrate he is being targeted by the U.S....
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Direct Listings, an Alternative to Stock-based Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
Resources · Sep 21, 2020
Introduction An initial public offering, or IPO, refers to the initial time that a private company offers its shares of stock to the general public to raise capital. After an IPO, the company’s...
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.29, to make daylight saving time permanent, S.191, to require the Secretary of Transportation to modify certain...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Apr 30, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony MOORE, BARRY
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Montgomery, Alabama, one of the most important cities in the history of civil rights movement. But Montgomery is not a shield. The civil rights movement is not a fundraising costume. And Alabama donors are not an ATM. That history belongs to the men and women who marched, who prayed, who suffered, and changed this country. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has opened a civil investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center under the Alabama Consumer Protection Act. The subpoena asks a..."
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American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics
Reports · Jul 29, 2020
This report provides U.S. war casualty statistics. It includes data tables containing the number of casualties among American military personnel who served in principal wars and combat operations...
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Women in Congress, 1917-2022: Service Dates and Committee Assignments by Member, and Lists by State and Congress
Reports · Oct 13, 2022
In total 400 women have been elected or appointed to Congress, 260 Democrats and 140 Republicans. These figures include six nonvoting Delegates, one each from Guam, Hawaii, the District of Columbia,...
Hearing A New Beginning for Colombia
house Western Hemisphere Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
TITUS, DINA "I just want to ask you about the military strikes in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. The administration notified Congress in October 2025 that the president had determined the U.S. is a non-international conflict with cartels that he's designated as terrorist organizations. Now, these designated terrorist organizations are not on the public list, the public foreign terrorist organization or specialty designated global terrorist list. Those are separate, distinct, classified lists. But apparently, there's another list, kind of a secret list of 24 organizations. Only a handful of them..."
Hearing Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain
house Health Subcommittee · Feb 11, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
JOYCE, JOHN "they saw that the higher cost drug received more volume. Honestly, it seems insane that given the PBM mission of lowering drug costs, your companies, Mr. Marin, would seemingly prefer to keep prices high. Now to be fair here, I've heard from employers and the broker consultant companies that they work with to design their PBM RFPs that they often build in rebate guarantees as part of their pharmaceutical contracts. I am concerned that these rebate guarantees, especially considering the aforementioned Umera example, shift drug pricing behavior and incentivize manufacturers to launch at higher..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee Allocations
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_07 "Okay. Two and a half years. Okay. Who's trying to figure out who doesn't want their names on there? Is that somebody at the Capitol Police? Is there somebody that the speakers put in place? What do we do? Or we just kind of wait until the phone rings? So it sounds like you're trying to get a list of names. I am not trying to get a list. I'm trying to figure out who is getting the list to make sure that their name isn't on there. Because the last thing we want is to chisel the names in there. And then somebody comes up and says, I don't want their name on there. Seems to me we should figure it..."
Testimony TITUS, DINA
A New Beginning for Colombia
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I just want to ask you about the military strikes in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. The administration notified Congress in October 2025 that the president had determined the U.S. is a non-international conflict with cartels that he's designated as terrorist organizations. Now, these designated terrorist organizations are not on the public list, the public foreign terrorist organization or specialty designated global terrorist list. Those are separate, distinct, classified lists. But..."
Testimony BARR, ANDY
FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"As you and I have discussed, legislation that I've been working on for years, the new screening for outbound investment was made part of the NDAA, it is now law, the Coins Act, as it's Security Review Commission for many, many years. So we now have this new interagency tool to screen outbound investment. And one of the requirements that it imposes on commerce is, as well as Treasury and the Department of War, is an alignment of these lists. So you manage the entity list, there's the 1260H list..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE DAVID STEINER
Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"And I'm not trying to be obtuse here, but reviewing, I'm not sure what you mean by reviewing. No, we don't review the voter list. So the voter list for us is like a manifest, right? And so the state gives us the list of voters that they want ballots to go to, and then they give us the ballots. We match the ballots with the list, and we can tell the state, yes, all the ballots that you say are going to the right people are going, or no different ballots are going, or maybe you missed some..."
Hearing Business meeting to markup S.737, to require certain interactive computer services to adopt and operate technology verification measures to ensure...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Request transcript
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
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.4668, to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of, and provide protections for, student athletes and to...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 18, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Darrell Owens, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight with Secretaries of State: List Maintenance and Eligibility Verification.”
house Committee on House Administration · Apr 16, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Catherine Dillon, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary (Educational and Cultural Affairs),...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Apr 15, 2026 · Request transcript
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 · Apr 14, 2026 · Request transcript
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 · Request transcript
Hearing Member Day to examine S.297, to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require group health plans and health insurance issuers...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 19, 2026 · Request transcript
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The Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) List
InFocus · Sep 11, 2025
Congress has shown recurring interest in the administration of the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)—one of several terrorism-related lists that the U.S. government...
Hearing • H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025” • H.R. 2317 (Rep. Amodei), “Northern Nevada Economic...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
HUFFMAN, JARED "This bill, H.R. 6251, puts a for-sale sign on the Marine Mammal Protection Act by selling it out to a few wealthy international trophy hunters. It allows these folks to import decades-old polar bear trophies into the United States, undermining hard-fought protections for threatened marine mammals and setting a dangerous precedent for future environmental protection rollbacks. The polar bear is protected under both the MMPA and the Endangered Species Act. Prior to its 2008 listing, the Department of Interior permitted imports of polar bear trophies from Canada, provided the hunts were legal...."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE BRIAN NESVIK "There were areas that we had to focus on cutting, and we have to rely heavier on our state, and we have to rely heavier on our state, tribal partners, other private partners, non-governmental organizations, conservation groups, other folks to help in these areas because our fiscal reality indicates that we can't continue to spend at the current level that we are. Well, thank you. Certainly appreciate the question, Senator. So first, I would just highlight that, you know, on the endangered species list, and you alluded to this, there are species that are imperiled and need help and investment..."
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY "Well, you know what? My colleague didn't add Alex Pretty to the list. Renee Good to the list. Be"
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U.S. District Court Vacates Gray Wolf Delisting Rule
Posts · Feb 18, 2022
On February 10, 2022, a district court vacated and remanded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS’s) rule (the “delisting rule”) that delisted—that is, removed from the list of endangered and...
Testimony MR. LUIS MENDEZ
A New Beginning for Colombia
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"decapitate them. So we're working with Department of Treasury, we're working with different entities in this Department of State to take that issue on. Thank you for that, Congresswoman. In the remit of the WHA office, we don't manage that list. I haven't seen that list. I don't have visibility on that list. Again, I would point you to our counterterrorism bureau for a response 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
"When I was Chairman of Homeland Security and Government Affairs, I put out a report describing the system and some of its challenges, including the broken redress process. It's easy to get on a list, really hard to get off of a list, and if you've been wrongly put on that list, you should have that opportunity to make that happen. Since then, however, there have been reports that individuals who participate in First Amendment protest activities, like protests, are receiving additional screening..."
Testimony TILLIS, THOMAS
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenic...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"really because of the way that they're being adjudicated they're not being successful. It just seems to me that we're like shooting you know shoot ready aim on on some prosecutions and I'm not only talking about the current Trump administration. I'm going back to the Obama era. Do you agree with me that there seems to be a trend that each administration we seem to be upping it of late. that's okay Mr. Ashcroft I'm gonna live up to my promise to yield back some time. My point I'm a management..."
Testimony HUFFMAN, JARED
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"This bill, H.R. 6251, puts a for-sale sign on the Marine Mammal Protection Act by selling it out to a few wealthy international trophy hunters. It allows these folks to import decades-old polar bear trophies into the United States, undermining hard-fought protections for threatened marine mammals and setting a dangerous precedent for future environmental protection rollbacks. The polar bear is protected under both the MMPA and the Endangered Species Act. Prior to its 2008 listing, the..."
Testimony LANCE REED
Committee on House Administration Elections Subcommittee Hearing:“Elec...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 15, 2026
"Yeah, so we're prepared in that, especially when we've got before election day, let's use that specifically, where the appointment lists have to come before 11 days before election day. We take that list from the different committees, we compile it all into one list, and then that way we're able to provide that to all of our polling locations. That gives our, what we call precinct election officials, our booth workers, the ability to know who's actually allowed to be in their polling place, so..."
Testimony TILLIS, THOMAS
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Mack Traynor, o...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"really because of the way that they're being adjudicated they're not being successful. It just seems to me that we're like shooting you know shoot ready aim on on some prosecutions and I'm not only talking about the current Trump administration. I'm going back to the Obama era. Do you agree with me that there seems to be a trend that each administration we seem to be upping it of late. that's okay Mr. Ashcroft I'm gonna live up to my promise to yield back some time. My point I'm a management..."
Testimony MR. MARK CRUZ
Hearings to examine the nomination of Mark Cruz, of Oregon, to be Dire...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Senator, thank you. I really enjoyed our conversation, and specifically about my visits to your state. When I walked in, in my current capacity as senior advisor, one of the areas I wanted to look at was our construction program, because there's no more direct signal of one's commitment to health than a modern, clean, safe facility. And when I saw that IHS had eight projects on their 1993 list, my jaw dropped. And unfortunately, Gallup Indian Medical Center is one of those projects on that..."
Testimony RICKETTS, PETE
Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting i...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026
"Do you know the reason why we should get them, um, mark up on this? Uh, China's civil military fusion strategy ensures commercial breakthroughs immediately, uh, immediately advance, uh, the PLA and it eliminates the boundary between civilian technology and military end uses. By law of Beijing asks companies must hand over any technology to the military. The Pentagon understands this is a massive challenge. It just expanded a list of Chinese military companies, the, uh, 1260H list, and added..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE BRIAN NESVIK
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"There were areas that we had to focus on cutting, and we have to rely heavier on our state, and we have to rely heavier on our state, tribal partners, other private partners, non-governmental organizations, conservation groups, other folks to help in these areas because our fiscal reality indicates that we can't continue to spend at the current level that we are. Well, thank you. Certainly appreciate the question, Senator. So first, I would just highlight that, you know, on the endangered..."
Testimony ROY, CHIP
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"a, you know, filming child porn in Stafford, Virginia, obscene, mature of a minor. I mean, I just go list after list after list of people who were released into the United States, into our communities, into our streets, and that's what we're dealing"
Testimony TIFFANY, THOMAS P.
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"how many countries does your department currently list as recalcitrant? That's question one. Question two. Have you notified the State Department of those countries status? And let me set the questions up a little bit before you answer them. So question one is how many are listed as recalcitrant and have you notified the State Department? So at the end of the Biden administration, they had listed 13 countries as being recalcitrant, which means they were delaying sending where they were delaying..."
Testimony JOYCE, JOHN
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Pr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"they saw that the higher cost drug received more volume. Honestly, it seems insane that given the PBM mission of lowering drug costs, your companies, Mr. Marin, would seemingly prefer to keep prices high. Now to be fair here, I've heard from employers and the broker consultant companies that they work with to design their PBM RFPs that they often build in rebate guarantees as part of their pharmaceutical contracts. I am concerned that these rebate guarantees, especially considering the..."
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"Americans who the White House says are engaged in domestic terrorism. Those lists could include Americans who have not committed any acts of terrorism but simply disagree with this administration, people like Renee Good and Alex Pretty, and your list may include clergy, elected officials, and members of indivisible groups across the country, and those lists likely don't include Proud Boys or Oath Keepers who were actually convicted. Americans have never tolerated political demagogues who use..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025
"Okay. Two and a half years. Okay. Who's trying to figure out who doesn't want their names on there? Is that somebody at the Capitol Police? Is there somebody that the speakers put in place? What do we do? Or we just kind of wait until the phone rings? So it sounds like you're trying to get a list of names. I am not trying to get a list. I'm trying to figure out who is getting the list to make sure that their name isn't on there. Because the last thing we want is to chisel the names in there...."
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United States v. Benson: Sixth Circuit Denies Federal Demand for State Voter Registration List
Legal Sidebar · Jul 14, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested election records—including statewide voter registration lists (SVRL) with detailed voter data—from the majority of states and, in some cases, has...
Hearing Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE DAVID STEINER "And I'm not trying to be obtuse here, but reviewing, I'm not sure what you mean by reviewing. No, we don't review the voter list. So the voter list for us is like a manifest, right? And so the state gives us the list of voters that they want ballots to go to, and then they give us the ballots. We match the ballots with the list, and we can tell the state, yes, all the ballots that you say are going to the right people are going, or no different ballots are going, or maybe you missed some"
Hearing Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GUTHRIE, BRETT "communications networks serve as a stark reminder that these threats are real and ongoing and shows the lengths to which our adversaries will go to undermine our interests and then threaten our homeland. Given those risks, any legislation effort to amend the covered list administered by the FCC warrants careful consideration by the committee. That's why today we'll be considering the GARD Act, legislation that would add humanoid and quadruped robots linked with certain CCP-linked robotics companies to the covered list. I appreciate the work of the sponsors of the bill and the opportunity to..."
Hearing Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
DANIEL CASTRO "Consumers shopping on these platforms often shoulder more responsibility for evaluating unfamiliar sellers, identifying counterfeit listings, and avoiding unsafe products when they receive them, frequently without realizing that the protections available to them on those platforms differ from leading U.S. online marketplaces. Third, existing enforcement remains too reactive to change marketplace behavior. After we published our report, many of the specific counterfeit listings we identified were removed, but follow-up research found additional counterfeit, for example, over-the-counter..."
Hearing “Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream”
house Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BURLISON, ERIC "Let the record show that the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. Thank you. You can sit down. All right. You all probably know the drill. Each of you will have five minutes for a statement. During that time, you'll see a list of witnesses, and you'll see a list of witnesses go to yellow, in which you have one minute left. When it goes to red, your time is expired. And with that, I now recognize Mr. Pinto for his opening"
Hearing “The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MATT TAIBBI "That's propaganda, not journalism. Bourgeault also once said that to fight bad content, we need to work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists, and, quote, really need to focus our ad dollars toward what she called the good news. Again, if you don't know, the fastest way to erode trust in media is by having government sponsor exclusion"
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U.S. Geological Survey’s Critical Minerals List
InFocus · Jan 7, 2026
Multiple Congresses and Administrations have considered and developed policies to make U.S. critical mineral supply chains more resilient. In 2020, Congress amended its minerals policies, defined the...
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Voter Registration Records and List Maintenance for Federal Elections
Report · May 19, 2026
Each state except North Dakota requires voter registration as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections. The accuracy of voter registration records is often considered important for election...
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Critical Mineral Resources: National Policy and Critical Minerals List
Report · Jan 8, 2026
According to a 2008 National Research Council report, a critical mineral is a nonfuel mineral that is essential for use and faces considerable supply chain vulnerabilities. Demand for these...
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Second Trump Administration Releases First Unified Agenda, Listing Upcoming Regulations
Legal Sidebar · Sep 4, 2025
On September 4, 2025, the second Trump Administration released the Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The Unified Agenda, which is published twice a year, is a...
Testimony SPEAKER_15
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Mr. Roy— Congressman Roy, we take no pleasure in listing any group, and we wish the list was empty, but we have the constitutional right to express our"
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Catholics for their political and religious beliefs and that the org discriminates against anyone with traditional or Christian views. I think those are lies. So speaking of lies for the record, President Fair, do you maintain a domestic terrorist list? We do not. Okay, so Dr. King, for example, is not on this non-existent list. Is that true? That is true. I'm not sure what list she's referring to. Okay, is she on a hate map? No. Okay, so per usual, the facts are being to tackle hate groups and..."
Testimony HARRIS, MARK
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"As of this morning, FRC is still listed on the hate map. Why is it still up there and do you have any plans to take it down? Well, I think it's despicable that FRC was placed on the hate list in the first place and that it still remains on that list over 10 years after the attack on those individuals. I also want to bring to the attention quickly, someone in this room this morning who has been personally impacted by your so-called hate map, Rosalynn Hansen, who serves as the chapter chair of..."
Testimony SALAZAR, MARIA ELVIRA
A New Beginning for Colombia
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Okay now Mr. Mendez I would like to ask you about you know President Petro the outgoing president called President Trump recently and asked him to lift to the United States sanctions that this government has imposed on him. Petro is on the list of the OFAC. OFAC for different type of misconducts so we will not go into that and not only to be he is on the OFAC list but also his visa to come to the United States has been revoked. What is the State Department advising the president to do to allow..."
Testimony JEFFREY KESSLER
FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I see those companies as playing an important role in the strategy of China to develop its indigenous AI industry. So I believe these companies are on the 1260H list, YMTC is on the entity list. So, you know, obviously these companies, Alibaba and Tencent, also on the 1260H"
Testimony JEFFREY KESSLER
FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"It was approximately the same. As far as the entity list goes, what I think is important is enforcing the list. We have a robust list, but it's important to enforce it. We have added 140 entities to the entity list, and we will continue to add entities to the entity list when we as an administration think that it's appropriate to do"
Testimony MILLER, MAX L.
FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I'm sure it's going to be, you know, a little bit longer, shouldn't be too much longer. Under your leadership, has BIS looked into this problem and do you believe that an expansion of BIS authority to list U.S. incorporated entities affiliated with foreign adversarial companies on the entities list is necessary? Yeah, thank you very"
Testimony JEFFREY KESSLER
FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"individual countries, but we do have dozens of, at least dozens, of staff members who are focused on country group D5 countries and enforcement issues there. Thanks for the question. I mean, I, obviously, we spend a lot of time on enforcement issues related to the entity list. As I mentioned, you know, one of the priorities has been to make licensing more effective as regards companies that are on the entity list, why we shouldn't be rubber stamping license applications for exports to companies..."
Testimony PETERS, GARY C.
Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Oregon is completely vote by mail. If they say, no, we control the list, the states control the list, we're not going to give it... This is a different issue. This will be a lot different issue. You're telling these states either give the federal government this information, trust the federal government, trust the Trump administration, we'll take good care of these. And if you don't do it, you can't mail absentee ballots. You're going to make a decision that people cannot vote by mail. That's..."
Testimony HUFFMAN, JARED
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"a sense of normalcy, a sense of business as usual in a Congress that has simply melted down in dysfunction, canceling session days, failing to pass, must pass a long list, an ever-growing list of must-pass legislation, and sending us home for days, even weeks at a time. While there is a lot of work that we should be doing and a huge part of that work consists of oversight, back in May, I laid out the priorities committee Democrats and I want to see happen and what a responsible Congress would..."
Testimony RICKETTS, PETE
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"As Chairman of the Water, Fisheries, and Wildlife Subcommittee, I hosted a hearing on ESA and found that a greater focus on species recovery and transparency is critical to reforming a law that has too often failed to meet its conservation objectives. Since the ESA was enacted in 1973, only 57 of the more than 1700 listed species have been delisted. That's roughly three percent of the species ever listed as endangered or threatened have been recovered. That does not sound like a very successful..."
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Pr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"What we've heard is that there have been situations in the past where because the PBM gets paid and we changed some of that last week, but because the PBM gets paid on the list price, they've gone to company A with the manufacturer and said, we have company A producing this, but there's also company B. If company A doesn't raise their price, we're going to stick with company B. We're going to take you off of our formulary. once the Company A agrees to that, they can then go do the same thing to..."
Testimony JOYCE, JOHN
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Pr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"alternatives might be available. Mr. Marin, can you explain what a rebate guarantee is? Do you feel that the guarantees that the rebates have play a role in PBMs placing preferential treatment of high list prices over lower list price drugs? Does that generate a greater rebate"
Testimony VEASEY, MARC A.
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Pr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"listed have cheaper generics available elsewhere. Let me give you an example. Tocosin, a drug that is used to treat irregular heartbeats. It's listed price is $672. Trump listed at $336. That's half price. So that sounds good, right? Well, the generic equivalent is actually available through cost plus drugs for $10. You can likely get it through your insurer for cheaper too. Professor out of pocket for a brand name prescription drug through Trump RX for a drug that has a cheaper generic..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"you okay? I loved the torture video. Only after members of Congress demanded that we see the unredacted files did the world learn the name of this individual, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulaim, the chairman and CEO of a company that had financial ties to President Trump's business and personal ties to Trump's advisor, Steve Bannon. Second, the survivors were not similarly protected, also in violation of the law. Here is another email titled Epstein Victim List. We have blurred the names of the survivors..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"What a massive cover-up this has been and continues to be. Donald Trump made the release of the Epstein files the center of his political campaign because he thought it would benefit him. Then you got into office, Attorney General, claimed to have a client list only to then say that there was no list. Your deputy, Todd Blanche, met alone with Elaine Maxwell and transferred her to a minimum security"
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"holding beliefs that the White House disagrees with is not a crime and the statute defining domestic terrorism requires criminal acts, not just thoughts and ideas. That's why legal experts, nonprofit leaders, religious freedom and civil rights advocates immediately raised the alarm that the new presidential directive was a politically motivated attack on civil society designed to silence those who disagree with the administration. So, Ms. Bondi, section 3 of that memo directed you as Attorney..."
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"will you commit to providing this committee with any list of organizations that you have recommended be designated as domestic terrorist organizations? We will comply with the law in all matters. Will you commit to provide this committee with your list of entities that you recommend be designated as domestic terrorist organizations? I'm not going to commit to anything to you because you won't let me answer questions. Okay, well then we do understand that your current position is that you have a..."
Testimony MASSIE, THOMAS
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"want that to get away. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Behind me, I have three documents from the DOJ production that are emblematic of the massive failure of the DOJ to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. To my right is an email that was sent by the victim's lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to redact, or sorry, a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released this email in the document production. Literally the worst thing you..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE PAMELA BONDI
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"from Kentucky is recognized. May I respond very briefly to her statement? have that kind of accountability? I believe Wexner's name was listed more than 4,000 times. Yeah, I already told you that. This is where he's listed as a co-conspirator. Can I finish my answer? Come on, let me finish my answer. We corrected that within 40 minutes. He was already, you're acting like everybody's trying to cover up Wexner's"
Testimony MOSKOWITZ, JARED
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"apparently. It's been 12 months since you gave Republican influencers part one of the Epstein files. You said the list was on your desk and a memo came out and said that there was no list. Phase two of the binders never happened. The President of the United States says the Epstein thing is a"
Testimony SCHMIDT, DEREK
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"They were prosecuted by my state's prosecutors. They are serving time in my state's prisons and if and when they ever get out, the United States has said they need to be sent out of this country because of what they did. There's a list. You're holding up photos, General. There's a list on the Department of Homeland Security's website. It has about 280, 290 people like that in my state of Kansas. And you know what? We haven't made headlines like"
Testimony CASE, ED
Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025
"And it maintains a high risk area list. And it's a very instructive list. Let's just go down this list. It's got a number of areas that we should focus on. Improving the delivery of federal disaster"
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025
"Well, just a couple questions for you, though. So what is the process that's in place to identify which of these officers don't want their name be identified in? Well, you have to ask. I thought when you said there are officers who don't want their name on the list, someone had inquired, and they'd said, I don't want my name on the list. So who is doing that? What is that process, and how is it moving"
Testimony VALADAO, DAVID G.
Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025
"Because that's not my place to say who is asking for this. My spot here is to say that they have asked not to be mentioned. If you list everyone else, I think by a simple elimination of all the names that are on the list, you'll know who the people I get that. But the letter of the law specifically says right here that it has to list every single person in every single"
Testimony KEN BENTSEN
Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capi...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"In addition, public companies enjoy broader access to capital markets for follow-on equity offerings and debt issuance. While the market value of U.S. listed equities has increased more than fivefold over the past quarter century, the number of publicly listed companies has moved in the opposite direction. The U.S. public company universe has contracted from approximately 7,200 firms to 5,500 firms over the same period, a decline of nearly 25%. Whereas U.S. averaged 459 IPOs annually during the..."
Testimony YOUNG, TODD
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"and the latest updates, AI solutions, precision agriculture, all these, it takes capital to purchase these things to run a modern farm productively and get that productivity that's essential to family farm operations. Did I list all the major technologies or would you like to add anything to the list that we, that this small business technological advancement act might assist in financing? Well, thank you, and we will certainly keep that in mind on that initiative and on others. So we're now..."
Testimony GUTHRIE, BRETT
Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improvin...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"communications networks serve as a stark reminder that these threats are real and ongoing and shows the lengths to which our adversaries will go to undermine our interests and then threaten our homeland. Given those risks, any legislation effort to amend the covered list administered by the FCC warrants careful consideration by the committee. That's why today we'll be considering the GARD Act, legislation that would add humanoid and quadruped robots linked with certain CCP-linked robotics..."
Testimony GUTHRIE, BRETT
Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improvin...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Since then, foreign-made, this is the Routers Act, foreign-made routers and drones have been added to the covered list. Okay. I guess that wrong. So since then, the foreign-made routers and drones have been added to the covered list. Are there any lessons learned that we should be considering as the Guard Act goes through the legislative process? And for example, how should we think about balancing naming specific entities of concern versus entire categories of products and services?"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"That's actually an idea that could actually get accomplished. Let me just list a few of them to you. We've given you the full list of these. And Mr. Chairman, I'd like to ask unanimous consent that the full record of the letters we've received so far be put in the"
Testimony DANIEL CASTRO
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Consumers shopping on these platforms often shoulder more responsibility for evaluating unfamiliar sellers, identifying counterfeit listings, and avoiding unsafe products when they receive them, frequently without realizing that the protections available to them on those platforms differ from leading U.S. online marketplaces. Third, existing enforcement remains too reactive to change marketplace behavior. After we published our report, many of the specific counterfeit listings we identified..."
Testimony DANIEL CASTRO
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The U.S. platforms are taking these issues of counterfeit and dangerous goods incredibly seriously. They want to make sure that a product that a seller is trying to list that's fraudulent that is detected before it's even listed, so it doesn't get out there to the consumer. If a product is listed, that they're paying a lot of attention to make sure that if they're getting signals back from consumers that something's wrong, that they're notifying that, flagging it, and taking it"
Testimony PAUL, RAND
Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Servic...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Most people are sort of directed where they're going to buy their drugs. Listing and having people list that it came from China I don't think changes anything. I think it's also important to know that there's a lot that comes from China and there's a lot that comes from"
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Congress mandated this list to give financial institutions a roadmap on the types of crimes to focus their Bank Secrecy Act compliance efforts. Benson issued his first list in 2021, and your agency is completing the rulemaking that will tell banks and others how they are expected to use this list. The last list has eight priorities, am I"
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Legislative Hearing on: • H.R. 7332 (Rep. Matsui), “Whale CHARTS Act o...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Good afternoon, Chairwoman Hageman, Ranking Member Hoyle, and distinguished members of the committee. My name is Nate Pamplin, and I'm the Director of External Affairs with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. We appreciate the opportunity to provide remarks about pinniped predation, and express our support for HR 9621, and we thank Representatives Baumgartner and Randall for leading this legislation. At WDFW, we collaborate with numerous partners and take a comprehensive approach to..."
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Well, you know what? My colleague didn't add Alex Pretty to the list. Renee Good to the list. Be"
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"There was also a requirement that these agents not be masked and that they be, in fact, identifiable as federal agents. But none of those things have been enacted, and I would defer to the chairman or someone else who might have a more top of mind list of recollection of the very short list. These were elements that every other law enforcement agency in the country is held to because they are things that do keep all of our populations"
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"So, then, folks had to file an injunction. And so all of these legal service providers that you all are talking about, you know, they had waiting lists upon waiting lists of kids that they couldn't help because of all of these shenanigans with this administration that you all are trying to co-sign, you're double downing on the co-signing with this bill. But the value proposition, the value proposition is, are you okay with sending a child, regardless of their circumstance, into a courtroom..."
Testimony PETE HEGSETH
Hearings to examine a review of the President's supplemental funding r...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Senator, I think by Congress finding the ability to meet up to, close to the totality of $1.5 trillion means we're not making the kind of tradeoffs this department has made now for decades. Those are the types of things, construction, maintenance, that fall off when tradeoffs occur, and so you dig the hole even deeper. What this budget does, first of all, it fully funds the UPL list, which is the unfunded priority list of PACOM, a priority theater, and then it gets at every single substandard..."
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Hearings to examine the national security strategy and the western hem...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Think about this. A declaration of war tells the enemy, listen, if you associate with Al-Qaeda, we're coming after you, if it's a public declaration of war. But if you do a listing of secret organizations against whom the president authorized his military action, and you keep it classified, you don't make it public, you know, who's to know I'm getting on a boat and, boy, this boat happens to be on a secret list and the military can attack it, you give no notice to anyone that they should..."
Testimony BEN BURR
Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"Yes, they absolutely would. Many of those also have the same—they're on the list of the FAST-41 industries that are allowed to go through this permitting process, and we think that makes everything fair to allow recreation to also be on that list. I was not aware of that, but we will look into"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Their counties were named sanctuary jurisdictions simply because they had strong policies on upholding states' rights and rejecting unfunded federal mandates, and strong policies against conscripting state and local officers to execute federal duties. Stunned by this response, DHS removed the list days after it was published because a list of sanctuary jurisdictions defying the feds could not possibly include so many conservative sheriffs from red counties who drew a strict line around on how..."
Testimony TYLER SADWITH
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"conceal their illicit activity is a top priority for California. We collect comprehensive disclosure, ownership and control interest information from every provider applying. We check those against federal and state exclusionary database lists. We also check those lists for subcontractors of those providers and other business entities that they have a significant business relationship with. These processes have been in place in California, they're not new, and yes, we did collaborate with the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"We ask you to respond to those in a timely manner. I want to thank you for being here today. I know it probably wasn't tops on your list of things to do on a Thursday, but in total fairness, probably wasn't tops on anybody's list, but it had to be done, so mandatory fund, check that box for everybody for today. You have asked that your opening statement be included in the record. It will"
Testimony FRANKEL, LOIS
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"another review, another group of qualified leaders. 31 officers selected for promotion to admiral. The Navy looked at their records and said, they earned it. But once again, Hickess stepped in and he removed nine. He removed nine. Every woman on the list removed. Two black officers removed. Not one woman remained. And just like in the Army list, no finding of misconduct, no finding of failure, no finding that they could not"
Testimony KEVIN LILLY
Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"and by the way, sir, I think that the estimates that I have heard, the cost to the American people for this litigious action is close to a quarter of a billion dollars that the American taxpayers have had to pay dealing with this listing, delisting, listing, delisting saga. And so, yes, sir, I am very much supportive of working in any way that we can with the Secretary through 4D rules, et cetera, in order to make this a reasonable process and a transparent"
Testimony SPEAKER_18
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"where we are considering zero conservation bills that are priorities for my members. My colleagues on the Democratic side of the dais have a long and growing list of priorities that continue to be left off of the list of bills to be voted on by the committee, many of which have received bipartisan support in this committee in the"
Testimony TRAHAN, LORI
Full Committee Markup of 16 Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · May 21, 2026
"It's like writing a lot of protect a house from a storm and carefully naming the windows and the garage and the back porch, but not mentioning the front door. Now, I am not accusing anyone in this room of trying to wipe out the Massachusetts law, but intentions aren't what end up in front of a judge. The words are. And when Congress writes down a list of what it's protecting and the most important item is left off that list, I think the lawyers notice, courts notice, and a few years from now a..."
Testimony SCOTT CAMERON
Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Centu...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 20, 2026
"And he said, look, if you have ideas for projects that would involve federal investment with non-federal cost share that would help alleviate the situation in Colorado, give me a list. And he said, preferably a list that all seven of you agree to. Well, such a list has not manifested itself. We've gotten bits and pieces. That having been said, it's pretty clear that more water recycling is part of the future of Colorado, more desal is the future of Colorado, and in a few limited instances, more..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"One of the key points of my bill is transparency. Transparency in the information that must be submitted in a grass notice, the scientific data that is relied upon for the grass listing, and through the opportunity for public comment. So it would require an affirmative response from the agency and allow FDA to revoke grass listing if there is public information about the safety of the substance. So let me just ask Mr. Faber, what do you think about this"
Testimony CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"in critical for your state right now. Yeah, thank you. Let me jump back to the the permitting and solar projects. Are you willing to process solar and wind project permits? Yes. Okay. So prior to the injunction there was a news reports indicating that some projects had begun moving through the permitting process but your department didn't share a list of those. Are you willing to give us a list of those that have already started moving through that process of solar and That would be helpful..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Hearings to examine Biden Health Officials and COVID-19 Vaccine Safety...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Senator Hall, there's, I think it's an Oxfam study that shows trillions of dollars transferred to not just pharma, but the big box stores. It's all the little guys that got shut down. The big guys did phenomenally well. But I do want Dr. Jablonski to answer your question in terms of, because I think he missed his opening testimony. He listed all of the tests that they did not do in the approval process. Can you quick read that list again? Then they hit all kinds of things. And by the way, if..."
Testimony JORDAN, JIM
“From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Cri...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"Two days later, in Michigan, activists vandalized the Family Life Services Pregnancy Center. And I have actually, I think it's like 10 pages. We did a list of this back during the leak and the Dobbs opinion. I have 10 pages just listing churches, crisis pregnancy centers that were attacked. And do you remember some of the groups that were attacking these churches and crisis pregnancy centers, Mr. Farrar? Yeah, Jane's Revenge, Ruth Sent"
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Closed hearings to examine the posture of United States Special Operat...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"Well, I think it's important to put that on the record, because obviously, if there is information about the veracity of this, it should come out. One of the things that I think can be a little confusing in this instance that could have led to confusion in this in this circumstance is, as far as I know, Southern Spear is a military operation carried out against targets connected to organizations, the list of whom are still classified. Is that correct? I think that the operations authorized by..."
Testimony PRESSLEY, AYANNA
Mitigation and Multiple Loss Properties: Factors Influencing the High ...
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"color and low-income neighborhoods face repeated instances of flooding, threatening safety, stability, and affordability. What are some of the contributing factors? Thank you. I would add to that list systemic divestment, structural racism, a lack of affordable housing to that list. When we say communities of color and low-income neighborhoods are overexposed to flood risk, this is what we mean. Families and workers in places like Chelsea and Dorchester are living on the edge of an economic and..."
Testimony SHAHEEN, JEANNE
Hearings to examine sunshine week, focusing on bringing secret governm...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Mar 18, 2026
", they didn't do that. In fact, the 13 largest contracts on that list are all inaccurate. Can I ask each of you if you have looked at the list that Doge has posted, and do you have any comments on the accuracy of that list? And what it means when we provide inaccurate information to the public? Mr."
Testimony LUMMIS, CYNTHIA M.
Hearings to examine challenges and opportunities with implementing the...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Being from Wyoming, I know how helpless people can feel when Washington makes decisions to list a species as endangered or threatened, and then that species never comes off the In my office, we call those zombie listings, because even if recovery goals are met, they remain on the list. A perfect example is the grizzly bear. You know, the original goals when grizzly bears were listed back in 1975 was a target of 70, excuse me, 500"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"Here's an issue about sanctuary cities in the Trump administration. DHS, Mr. Chair, you might like this one, DHS in May put out a list of sanctuary cities, and they included 34 Virginia communities, cities, and counties on that list. It provoked laughter in"
Testimony UNKNOWN
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Well, what I'd suggest, Ms. Mace, Congresswoman Mace, is that in order to sort of deal with the transparency issue, I'd like transparency too, but that we go forward with the Garcia amendment so we're focusing only on members, but we ask whoever it is we're asking to provide the total amount of money that had been paid out for I'm fine with that and I actually have that list. I have that list by year, but I'm good with that amendment. If you want to do an amendment to the amendment, I'm fine..."
Testimony MORENO, BERNIE
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"These are elected representatives that make outrageous statements. And I would like to enter a list, a four-page list, of current sitting members of Congress that have made absolutely outrageous comments, analogizing Customs and Border Patrol agents and ICE agents to the Gestapo, to a secret police. So without objection I'd like to enter that into And I think the second piece I'd like to enter into the record is just some pretty outrageous"
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Opportunities with VHA Reorganization
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"And our workers now have a purpose. And our workers know what they're doing, and they've actually improved. And I'm proud of that. And I'm not going to take nameless names and programs that have been gutted, supposedly, that have not been given a chance to answer to. This is an issue, though, that we have that is the heart problem of where we are. In this town, it's throw money and people and everything gets better. And that's just not the way it is. 14 percent over 6. It actually is worse in..."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine veteran health and healing through adaptive sports...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 4, 2026
"This is simply a technical fix to get it right. The language that was intended to be an example list ended up becoming an exhaustive list. And so veterans across the country were running into barriers when it came to making an adaptive van instead of a vehicle. And so the way those facilities interpreted that understanding, again, I just want to stress that this is just a technical"
Testimony GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E.
Hearings to examine truth in drug labeling.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jan 29, 2026
"In several of the testimonies today, there have been mentions of the data that is collected by the Customs and Border Protection and the Food and Drug Administration when pharmaceuticals are imported into the U.S. However, what is required to be listed on the label by CPB is different than what's required to be listed on the label by FDA. There also have been allusions to country of origin disclosures being voluntary provided rather than mandated by the current CPB"
Testimony HUSTED, JON
Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"the interesting thing about both of these schools are? There's huge waiting lists. There's waiting lists. If you give people the choice and you create an amazing opportunity for them, it's a, guess what happens? Parents"
Testimony BURLISON, ERIC
“Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"Let the record show that the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. Thank you. You can sit down. All right. You all probably know the drill. Each of you will have five minutes for a statement. During that time, you'll see a list of witnesses, and you'll see a list of witnesses go to yellow, in which you have one minute left. When it goes to red, your time is expired. And with that, I now recognize Mr. Pinto for his opening"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
“Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"They're kind of stuck there and it puts them in a terrible situation. So, you know, regarding Section 8 vouchers and funding for them, right now, if you live in New York City, you can't even get on the wait list. The wait list itself for Section 8 is closed. Time limits are based under the assumption that the folks who are working and most folks who can work are working. It's just they're working minimum wage jobs that don't pay them enough, do not have regular hours. Many of these folks also..."
Testimony SPEAKER_23
“Oversight of the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith”
house Judiciary Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"thank the chairman mr. Smith how many members of Congress or the Senate did a specific number is this the complete list right here let me ask you this am I on this list did you target my records and subpoena my phone toll records my became special counsel well staff would put this up on the screen thankful for the great staff who discovered the email where I learned for the first time a few weeks ago that my phone records were indeed targeted we called AT&T and"
Testimony THE HONORABLE KRISTIN ROBBINS
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"journalistic stories on this. And I think the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general and all of the agency heads have looked the other way. Yes, we gave them a list in February of last year of 72 childcare centers we thought were problematic that should be investigated. And to my knowledge, they didn't do anything with the list we provided. All the time. They're"
Testimony TILLIS, THOMAS
Hearings to examine ensuring fair access to banking, focusing on polic...
senate Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee · Dec 16, 2025
"point. One of the things that I've said, if you want to charter a bank to serve, you know, I could, I'm not gonna list the topic, but list an unseemly market that happens to be a legal market and that's all you want to focus on, I have"
Testimony TILLIS, THOMAS
Hearings to examine S.342, to amend title 38, United States Code, to a...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Dec 10, 2025
"have an influx and covered veterans, then we're going to have to deal with funding. But if they're not getting the subsidy on the exchange, there may be a source of funding that we should talk about. So I think it would be helpful for us to get that regardless of what occurs, because I'm always looking for veterans to get the best care that they can. And I believe that's through the VA when given the option if they're eligible for it. Ms. Devlin, you covered, I think, about eight or ten of the..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE CASEY MULLIGAN
Hearings to examine Trump's regulatory rollback, focusing on saving Am...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"There are regulations in both categories, and in fact, working together like Congress did on the Congressional Review Act, small businesses are very thankful for that. That gives them more durability and more certainty going forward. You know, a top one is a little bit hard. We just put out on our website, advocacy.sba.gov, a most wanted list, and there's not just one on there, but it's a fairly short list. These are the ones we heard most from the small businesses, and often in a dollar"
Testimony LUNDAY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Admiral Kevin Lunday, to be Comm...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"But we need an additional $35 million to complete that analyze and select phase and move toward that acquisition. I just released our FY26 unfunded priorities list, and that includes a request for that additional funding on the unfunded priorities list. Well, Senator, one of the biggest challenges that we face is we have to keep the commerce"
Testimony ELIZABETH H. CURDA
Hearings to examine putting veterans first, focusing on the current VA...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Oct 29, 2025
"organization where efforts to bring about positive change can face strong headwinds. As a result of this situation, we put VA's Disability Compensation Program on our high-risk list. This is a list of programs GAO considers to be high-risk because there's significant waste, mismanagement, or a need for broad-based"
Testimony LEVIN, MIKE
Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Requests for the Army Corps of Engineers (Civi...
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2025
"Mr. Cameron, back in February, DOJ published a list of agency offices whose leases were to be terminated. The Bureau of Reclamation Southern California Area Office, which provides water management support throughout Southern California, including in my district, was and is, I just checked the list again, on that list, along with hundreds of other facilities across the nation. The Southern California Area Office administers several essential programs that assist with conservation and efficiency..."
Testimony MATT TAIBBI
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"That's propaganda, not journalism. Bourgeault also once said that to fight bad content, we need to work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists, and, quote, really need to focus our ad dollars toward what she called the good news. Again, if you don't know, the fastest way to erode trust in media is by having government sponsor exclusion"
Testimony CRAIG AARON
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"Well, I think it's very concerning, Congresswoman, the idea that in order to receive government funding to do scientific research, to provide health care, to provide community services, that you have to read from an approved list of words, or if you use one of the words that's on the banned list, you could lose your entire funding. You could have to fire your staff. You could have to get rid of essential programs simply to push, speaking of ideology, an ideological agenda. I think that's very,..."
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. "When I was Chairman of Homeland Security and Government Affairs, I put out a report describing the system and some of its challenges, including the broken redress process. It's easy to get on a list, really hard to get off of a list, and if you've been wrongly put on that list, you should have that opportunity to make that happen. Since then, however, there have been reports that individuals who participate in First Amendment protest activities, like protests, are receiving additional screening and"
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
TILLIS, THOMAS "really because of the way that they're being adjudicated they're not being successful. It just seems to me that we're like shooting you know shoot ready aim on on some prosecutions and I'm not only talking about the current Trump administration. I'm going back to the Obama era. Do you agree with me that there seems to be a trend that each administration we seem to be upping it of late. that's okay Mr. Ashcroft I'm gonna live up to my promise to yield back some time. My point I'm a management consultant. I'm not an attorney. I'm not a prosecutor. I'm not a law enforcement officer but I deal..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Elections Subcommittee Hearing:“Election Observation: Best Practices and Congress’s Role”
house Elections Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
LANCE REED "Yeah, so we're prepared in that, especially when we've got before election day, let's use that specifically, where the appointment lists have to come before 11 days before election day. We take that list from the different committees, we compile it all into one list, and then that way we're able to provide that to all of our polling locations. That gives our, what we call precinct election officials, our booth workers, the ability to know who's actually allowed to be in their polling place, so that that way if they have somebody show up that isn't on the list, they can then contact us to..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Mack Traynor, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
TILLIS, THOMAS "really because of the way that they're being adjudicated they're not being successful. It just seems to me that we're like shooting you know shoot ready aim on on some prosecutions and I'm not only talking about the current Trump administration. I'm going back to the Obama era. Do you agree with me that there seems to be a trend that each administration we seem to be upping it of late. that's okay Mr. Ashcroft I'm gonna live up to my promise to yield back some time. My point I'm a management consultant. I'm not an attorney. I'm not a prosecutor. I'm not a law enforcement officer but I deal..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Mark Cruz, of Oregon, to be Director of the Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
MR. MARK CRUZ "Senator, thank you. I really enjoyed our conversation, and specifically about my visits to your state. When I walked in, in my current capacity as senior advisor, one of the areas I wanted to look at was our construction program, because there's no more direct signal of one's commitment to health than a modern, clean, safe facility. And when I saw that IHS had eight projects on their 1993 list, my jaw dropped. And unfortunately, Gallup Indian Medical Center is one of those projects on that list. And I asked the basic question, why has it taken 33 years to clear this list? And what is the plan..."
Hearing Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting innovation, affordability and American dominance.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026 · Transcript
RICKETTS, PETE "Do you know the reason why we should get them, um, mark up on this? Uh, China's civil military fusion strategy ensures commercial breakthroughs immediately, uh, immediately advance, uh, the PLA and it eliminates the boundary between civilian technology and military end uses. By law of Beijing asks companies must hand over any technology to the military. The Pentagon understands this is a massive challenge. It just expanded a list of Chinese military companies, the, uh, 1260H list, and added several prominent consumer technology titans. The list restored membership maker, uh, restored..."
Hearing H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act; H. Res. 1335 – Condemning actors seeking to...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026 · Transcript
ROY, CHIP "a, you know, filming child porn in Stafford, Virginia, obscene, mature of a minor. I mean, I just go list after list after list of people who were released into the United States, into our communities, into our streets, and that's what we're dealing"
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
TIFFANY, THOMAS P. "how many countries does your department currently list as recalcitrant? That's question one. Question two. Have you notified the State Department of those countries status? And let me set the questions up a little bit before you answer them. So question one is how many are listed as recalcitrant and have you notified the State Department? So at the end of the Biden administration, they had listed 13 countries as being recalcitrant, which means they were delaying sending where they were delaying or completely refusing to accept return of their nationals when we attempt to deport them. You..."
Hearing Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capital.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
KEN BENTSEN "In addition, public companies enjoy broader access to capital markets for follow-on equity offerings and debt issuance. While the market value of U.S. listed equities has increased more than fivefold over the past quarter century, the number of publicly listed companies has moved in the opposite direction. The U.S. public company universe has contracted from approximately 7,200 firms to 5,500 firms over the same period, a decline of nearly 25%. Whereas U.S. averaged 459 IPOs annually during the 1990s, the average since 2020 has fallen to just"
Hearing Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading the way.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
YOUNG, TODD "and the latest updates, AI solutions, precision agriculture, all these, it takes capital to purchase these things to run a modern farm productively and get that productivity that's essential to family farm operations. Did I list all the major technologies or would you like to add anything to the list that we, that this small business technological advancement act might assist in financing? Well, thank you, and we will certainly keep that in mind on that initiative and on others. So we're now coming to a close, again, I want to thank our witnesses for being here with us"
Hearing Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_17 "That's actually an idea that could actually get accomplished. Let me just list a few of them to you. We've given you the full list of these. And Mr. Chairman, I'd like to ask unanimous consent that the full record of the letters we've received so far be put in the"
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
PAUL, RAND "Most people are sort of directed where they're going to buy their drugs. Listing and having people list that it came from China I don't think changes anything. I think it's also important to know that there's a lot that comes from China and there's a lot that comes from"
Hearing Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
WATERS, MAXINE "Congress mandated this list to give financial institutions a roadmap on the types of crimes to focus their Bank Secrecy Act compliance efforts. Benson issued his first list in 2021, and your agency is completing the rulemaking that will tell banks and others how they are expected to use this list. The last list has eight priorities, am I"
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: • H.R. 7332 (Rep. Matsui), “Whale CHARTS Act of 2026” • H.R. 7466 (Rep. Jackson of TX), “SAFE CATTLE Act” • H.R. 8876...
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_05 "Good afternoon, Chairwoman Hageman, Ranking Member Hoyle, and distinguished members of the committee. My name is Nate Pamplin, and I'm the Director of External Affairs with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. We appreciate the opportunity to provide remarks about pinniped predation, and express our support for HR 9621, and we thank Representatives Baumgartner and Randall for leading this legislation. At WDFW, we collaborate with numerous partners and take a comprehensive approach to recover ESA-listed salmon. One area that hinders our ability is unchecked pinniped predation. The..."
Hearing Hearings to examine a review of the President's supplemental funding request of June 24, 2026.
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
PETE HEGSETH "Senator, I think by Congress finding the ability to meet up to, close to the totality of $1.5 trillion means we're not making the kind of tradeoffs this department has made now for decades. Those are the types of things, construction, maintenance, that fall off when tradeoffs occur, and so you dig the hole even deeper. What this budget does, first of all, it fully funds the UPL list, which is the unfunded priority list of PACOM, a priority theater, and then it gets at every single substandard barrack that we have across the department. We're funding the military construction in a way that..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the national security strategy and the western hemisphere.
senate Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
KAINE, TIM "Think about this. A declaration of war tells the enemy, listen, if you associate with Al-Qaeda, we're coming after you, if it's a public declaration of war. But if you do a listing of secret organizations against whom the president authorized his military action, and you keep it classified, you don't make it public, you know, who's to know I'm getting on a boat and, boy, this boat happens to be on a secret list and the military can attack it, you give no notice to anyone that they should conform their behavior in such a way that they're not subject to being hit by a U.S. drone strike or..."
Hearing Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming, as the...
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript
BEN BURR "Yes, they absolutely would. Many of those also have the same—they're on the list of the FAST-41 industries that are allowed to go through this permitting process, and we think that makes everything fair to allow recreation to also be on that list. I was not aware of that, but we will look into"
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "Their counties were named sanctuary jurisdictions simply because they had strong policies on upholding states' rights and rejecting unfunded federal mandates, and strong policies against conscripting state and local officers to execute federal duties. Stunned by this response, DHS removed the list days after it was published because a list of sanctuary jurisdictions defying the feds could not possibly include so many conservative sheriffs from red counties who drew a strict line around on how much of their locally raised tax revenues and resources they should have to spend carrying out the..."
Hearing State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight Deficiencies.
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
TYLER SADWITH "conceal their illicit activity is a top priority for California. We collect comprehensive disclosure, ownership and control interest information from every provider applying. We check those against federal and state exclusionary database lists. We also check those lists for subcontractors of those providers and other business entities that they have a significant business relationship with. These processes have been in place in California, they're not new, and yes, we did collaborate with the Center for Program Integrity at"
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "We ask you to respond to those in a timely manner. I want to thank you for being here today. I know it probably wasn't tops on your list of things to do on a Thursday, but in total fairness, probably wasn't tops on anybody's list, but it had to be done, so mandatory fund, check that box for everybody for today. You have asked that your opening statement be included in the record. It will"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
FRANKEL, LOIS "another review, another group of qualified leaders. 31 officers selected for promotion to admiral. The Navy looked at their records and said, they earned it. But once again, Hickess stepped in and he removed nine. He removed nine. Every woman on the list removed. Two black officers removed. Not one woman remained. And just like in the Army list, no finding of misconduct, no finding of failure, no finding that they could not"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, to be an Assistant Secretary, Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
KEVIN LILLY "and by the way, sir, I think that the estimates that I have heard, the cost to the American people for this litigious action is close to a quarter of a billion dollars that the American taxpayers have had to pay dealing with this listing, delisting, listing, delisting saga. And so, yes, sir, I am very much supportive of working in any way that we can with the Secretary through 4D rules, et cetera, in order to make this a reasonable process and a transparent"
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including post-2026 operations negotiations.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_18 "where we are considering zero conservation bills that are priorities for my members. My colleagues on the Democratic side of the dais have a long and growing list of priorities that continue to be left off of the list of bills to be voted on by the committee, many of which have received bipartisan support in this committee in the"
Hearing Full Committee Markup of 16 Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
TRAHAN, LORI "It's like writing a lot of protect a house from a storm and carefully naming the windows and the garage and the back porch, but not mentioning the front door. Now, I am not accusing anyone in this room of trying to wipe out the Massachusetts law, but intentions aren't what end up in front of a judge. The words are. And when Congress writes down a list of what it's protecting and the most important item is left off that list, I think the lawyers notice, courts notice, and a few years from now a judge could look at that gap and conclude that Washington meant to push aside the will of three out..."
Hearing Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Century”
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
SCOTT CAMERON "And he said, look, if you have ideas for projects that would involve federal investment with non-federal cost share that would help alleviate the situation in Colorado, give me a list. And he said, preferably a list that all seven of you agree to. Well, such a list has not manifested itself. We've gotten bits and pieces. That having been said, it's pretty clear that more water recycling is part of the future of Colorado, more desal is the future of Colorado, and in a few limited instances, more water storage may be"
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "One of the key points of my bill is transparency. Transparency in the information that must be submitted in a grass notice, the scientific data that is relied upon for the grass listing, and through the opportunity for public comment. So it would require an affirmative response from the agency and allow FDA to revoke grass listing if there is public information about the safety of the substance. So let me just ask Mr. Faber, what do you think about this"
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
CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE "in critical for your state right now. Yeah, thank you. Let me jump back to the the permitting and solar projects. Are you willing to process solar and wind project permits? Yes. Okay. So prior to the injunction there was a news reports indicating that some projects had begun moving through the permitting process but your department didn't share a list of those. Are you willing to give us a list of those that have already started moving through that process of solar and That would be helpful because I will tell you I've met with many developers and are struggling to figure out how to advance..."
Hearing Hearings to examine Biden Health Officials and COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals.
senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "Senator Hall, there's, I think it's an Oxfam study that shows trillions of dollars transferred to not just pharma, but the big box stores. It's all the little guys that got shut down. The big guys did phenomenally well. But I do want Dr. Jablonski to answer your question in terms of, because I think he missed his opening testimony. He listed all of the tests that they did not do in the approval process. Can you quick read that list again? Then they hit all kinds of things. And by the way, if you really want to know the"
Hearing “From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Criminal Law”
house Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
JORDAN, JIM "Two days later, in Michigan, activists vandalized the Family Life Services Pregnancy Center. And I have actually, I think it's like 10 pages. We did a list of this back during the leak and the Dobbs opinion. I have 10 pages just listing churches, crisis pregnancy centers that were attacked. And do you remember some of the groups that were attacking these churches and crisis pregnancy centers, Mr. Farrar? Yeah, Jane's Revenge, Ruth Sent"
Hearing Closed hearings to examine the posture of United States Special Operations Command and United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
KAINE, TIM "Well, I think it's important to put that on the record, because obviously, if there is information about the veracity of this, it should come out. One of the things that I think can be a little confusing in this instance that could have led to confusion in this in this circumstance is, as far as I know, Southern Spear is a military operation carried out against targets connected to organizations, the list of whom are still classified. Is that correct? I think that the operations authorized by the president can be carried out against organizations on a list of DTOs, designated terrorist..."
Hearing Mitigation and Multiple Loss Properties: Factors Influencing the High Cost of Flooding
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
PRESSLEY, AYANNA "color and low-income neighborhoods face repeated instances of flooding, threatening safety, stability, and affordability. What are some of the contributing factors? Thank you. I would add to that list systemic divestment, structural racism, a lack of affordable housing to that list. When we say communities of color and low-income neighborhoods are overexposed to flood risk, this is what we mean. Families and workers in places like Chelsea and Dorchester are living on the edge of an economic and climate disaster. In fact, in East Boston alone, two-thirds of buildings facing future flooding are..."
Hearing Hearings to examine sunshine week, focusing on bringing secret government spending to light, including S.766, to require an annual report of...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
SHAHEEN, JEANNE ", they didn't do that. In fact, the 13 largest contracts on that list are all inaccurate. Can I ask each of you if you have looked at the list that Doge has posted, and do you have any comments on the accuracy of that list? And what it means when we provide inaccurate information to the public? Mr."
Hearing Hearings to examine challenges and opportunities with implementing the Endangered Species Act.
senate Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
LUMMIS, CYNTHIA M. "Being from Wyoming, I know how helpless people can feel when Washington makes decisions to list a species as endangered or threatened, and then that species never comes off the In my office, we call those zombie listings, because even if recovery goals are met, they remain on the list. A perfect example is the grizzly bear. You know, the original goals when grizzly bears were listed back in 1975 was a target of 70, excuse me, 500"
Hearing Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_17 "Here's an issue about sanctuary cities in the Trump administration. DHS, Mr. Chair, you might like this one, DHS in May put out a list of sanctuary cities, and they included 34 Virginia communities, cities, and counties on that list. It provoked laughter in"
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "Well, what I'd suggest, Ms. Mace, Congresswoman Mace, is that in order to sort of deal with the transparency issue, I'd like transparency too, but that we go forward with the Garcia amendment so we're focusing only on members, but we ask whoever it is we're asking to provide the total amount of money that had been paid out for I'm fine with that and I actually have that list. I have that list by year, but I'm good with that amendment. If you want to do an amendment to the amendment, I'm fine with that. And I have a spreadsheet,"
Hearing An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript
MORENO, BERNIE "These are elected representatives that make outrageous statements. And I would like to enter a list, a four-page list, of current sitting members of Congress that have made absolutely outrageous comments, analogizing Customs and Border Patrol agents and ICE agents to the Gestapo, to a secret police. So without objection I'd like to enter that into And I think the second piece I'd like to enter into the record is just some pretty outrageous"
Hearing Opportunities with VHA Reorganization
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 11, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "And our workers now have a purpose. And our workers know what they're doing, and they've actually improved. And I'm proud of that. And I'm not going to take nameless names and programs that have been gutted, supposedly, that have not been given a chance to answer to. This is an issue, though, that we have that is the heart problem of where we are. In this town, it's throw money and people and everything gets better. And that's just not the way it is. 14 percent over 6. It actually is worse in some areas. And I could go list by list by everybody. You had some that would increase 30 percent in..."
Hearing Hearings to examine veteran health and healing through adaptive sports.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "This is simply a technical fix to get it right. The language that was intended to be an example list ended up becoming an exhaustive list. And so veterans across the country were running into barriers when it came to making an adaptive van instead of a vehicle. And so the way those facilities interpreted that understanding, again, I just want to stress that this is just a technical"
Hearing Hearings to examine truth in drug labeling.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jan 29, 2026 · Transcript
GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E. "In several of the testimonies today, there have been mentions of the data that is collected by the Customs and Border Protection and the Food and Drug Administration when pharmaceuticals are imported into the U.S. However, what is required to be listed on the label by CPB is different than what's required to be listed on the label by FDA. There also have been allusions to country of origin disclosures being voluntary provided rather than mandated by the current CPB"
Hearing Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026 · Transcript
HUSTED, JON "the interesting thing about both of these schools are? There's huge waiting lists. There's waiting lists. If you give people the choice and you create an amazing opportunity for them, it's a, guess what happens? Parents"
Hearing “Oversight of the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith”
house Judiciary Committee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_23 "thank the chairman mr. Smith how many members of Congress or the Senate did a specific number is this the complete list right here let me ask you this am I on this list did you target my records and subpoena my phone toll records my became special counsel well staff would put this up on the screen thankful for the great staff who discovered the email where I learned for the first time a few weeks ago that my phone records were indeed targeted we called AT&T and"
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE KRISTIN ROBBINS "journalistic stories on this. And I think the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general and all of the agency heads have looked the other way. Yes, we gave them a list in February of last year of 72 childcare centers we thought were problematic that should be investigated. And to my knowledge, they didn't do anything with the list we provided. All the time. They're"
Hearing Hearings to examine ensuring fair access to banking, focusing on policy levers and legislative solutions.
senate Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee · Dec 16, 2025 · Transcript
TILLIS, THOMAS "point. One of the things that I've said, if you want to charter a bank to serve, you know, I could, I'm not gonna list the topic, but list an unseemly market that happens to be a legal market and that's all you want to focus on, I have"
Hearing Hearings to examine S.342, to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize an individual who is awarded the Purple Heart for service in the...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Dec 10, 2025 · Transcript
TILLIS, THOMAS "have an influx and covered veterans, then we're going to have to deal with funding. But if they're not getting the subsidy on the exchange, there may be a source of funding that we should talk about. So I think it would be helpful for us to get that regardless of what occurs, because I'm always looking for veterans to get the best care that they can. And I believe that's through the VA when given the option if they're eligible for it. Ms. Devlin, you covered, I think, about eight or ten of the bills on the list that I have before me. Do you have a formal position that you've communicated to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine Trump's regulatory rollback, focusing on saving Americans $907 billion and counting.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE CASEY MULLIGAN "There are regulations in both categories, and in fact, working together like Congress did on the Congressional Review Act, small businesses are very thankful for that. That gives them more durability and more certainty going forward. You know, a top one is a little bit hard. We just put out on our website, advocacy.sba.gov, a most wanted list, and there's not just one on there, but it's a fairly short list. These are the ones we heard most from the small businesses, and often in a dollar"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Admiral Kevin Lunday, to be Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
LUNDAY "But we need an additional $35 million to complete that analyze and select phase and move toward that acquisition. I just released our FY26 unfunded priorities list, and that includes a request for that additional funding on the unfunded priorities list. Well, Senator, one of the biggest challenges that we face is we have to keep the commerce"
Hearing Hearings to examine putting veterans first, focusing on the current VA disability system.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Oct 29, 2025 · Transcript
ELIZABETH H. CURDA "organization where efforts to bring about positive change can face strong headwinds. As a result of this situation, we put VA's Disability Compensation Program on our high-risk list. This is a list of programs GAO considers to be high-risk because there's significant waste, mismanagement, or a need for broad-based"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Requests for the Army Corps of Engineers (Civil Works) and the Bureau of Reclamation
house Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 21, 2025 · Transcript
LEVIN, MIKE "Mr. Cameron, back in February, DOJ published a list of agency offices whose leases were to be terminated. The Bureau of Reclamation Southern California Area Office, which provides water management support throughout Southern California, including in my district, was and is, I just checked the list again, on that list, along with hundreds of other facilities across the nation. The Southern California Area Office administers several essential programs that assist with conservation and efficiency strategies, water recycling and desalination programs, and other watershed management"