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Hearing Converging Criminal Enterprises: Chinese Money Laundering Networks and Cartel Financing in the U.S. Financial System
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
MEUSER, DANIEL "known as CMLNs, and how they enable cartel drug trafficking. I appreciate my ranking member, Mr. Green, for being here as well. Importantly, CMLNs also finance scam centers and other fraud against Americans. So this directly ties in with this Committee's other oversight work. These networks are not comprised of petty criminals. They are professional money launderers who move billions through our financial system. Today, Chinese money laundering networks are the dominant money laundering partner for drug cartels. These groups offer near instant transfers, charge fees low enough to undercut..."
CRS Report
Telegraphs, Steamships, and Virtual Currency: An Analysis of Money Transmitter Regulation
Reports · Aug 20, 2020
Money transmission is an age-old practice. What started as a way of sending money to a person across the country via telegraph networks has evolved into a complex world of electronic payments on a...
CRS Report
Virtual Currencies and Money Laundering: Legal Background, Enforcement Actions, and Legislative Proposals
Reports · Apr 3, 2019
Law enforcement officials have described money laundering—the process of making illegally obtained proceeds appear legitimate—as the “lifeblood” of organized crime. Recently, money launderers have...
CRS Report
Foreign Money and U.S. Campaign Finance Policy
Resources · Mar 25, 2019
Introduction Federal campaign finance law and regulation prohibits foreign money in U.S. elections. The public record reveals little evidence that foreign money has intruded into U.S. campaigns...
Hearing Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
DAVIDSON, WARREN "disappointing that the rulemaking does not address CTR and SARS thresholds, and we hope to do so in the final rule, this effort is a welcome attempt to shift away from check-the-box defensive compliance to recenter AML on true risk. Now, I would like to turn to the Corporate Transparency Act. Under the Biden Administration, implementation followed the same pattern of growing the haystack of reports rather than finding the money, the laundering needle. FinCEN issued overly broad rules that treated every mom-and-pop shop around the country as a potential money launder, forcing disclosure of..."
CRS Report
Time Is Time, but Money Is Money
Posts · May 26, 2020
Introduction In United States v. Saccoccia, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (First Circuit) recently refused to vacate a 1993 judgment ordering Stephen Saccoccia—who is...
Hearing Oversight: “Counting the Money: Preventing Fraud and Abuse in VA’s Bonus Payment Practices for VA Employees”
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Following the Money: Tools and Techniques to Combat Fraud
house National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee · Apr 1, 2025 · Request transcript
CRS Report
Money Laundering in the U.S. Real Estate Sector
Resources · Jan 4, 2022
Global Trends and Domestic Concerns Money laundering and other financial crimes in the real estate sector take many forms and continue to challenge real estate, financial institution, law...
CRS Report
Trade-Based Money Laundering: Overview and Policy Issues
Reports · Jun 22, 2016
Trade-based money laundering (TBML) involves the exploitation of the international trade system for the purpose of transferring value and obscuring the true origins of illicit wealth. TBML schemes...
Testimony MEUSER, DANIEL
Converging Criminal Enterprises: Chinese Money Laundering Networks and...
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"known as CMLNs, and how they enable cartel drug trafficking. I appreciate my ranking member, Mr. Green, for being here as well. Importantly, CMLNs also finance scam centers and other fraud against Americans. So this directly ties in with this Committee's other oversight work. These networks are not comprised of petty criminals. They are professional money launderers who move billions through our financial system. Today, Chinese money laundering networks are the dominant money laundering partner..."
CRS Report
Medicaid’s Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration Program
Resources · May 26, 2021
Overview The Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration Program (42 U.S.C. 1396a note) authorizes the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to award competitive grants to states...
CRS Report
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN): Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 Implementation and Beyond
Report · Mar 20, 2026
On January 1, 2021, Congress passed the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA) as Division F of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY2021 (P.L. 116-283)....
CRS Report
Money Market Mutual Funds: A Financial Stability Case Study
Resources · Mar 24, 2020
A money market mutual fund (MMF) is a mutual fund that under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 2a-7 can invest only in high-quality, short-term debt securities, such as U.S. Treasury...
CRS Report
Money Market Mutual Funds: Policy Concerns and Reform Options
Reports · Nov 17, 2022
A money market mutual fund (MMF) is a mutual fund that, under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 2a-7, can invest only in high-quality short-term securities. MMFs are considered safe...
Hearing Oversight hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's big bank welfare program, focusing on the IORB regime.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Dec 11, 2025 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
PAUL, RAND "including periods where short-term Treasury yields were actually below the interest on reserve balance rates. When this happens, the Fed loses money and taxpayers underwrite the losses. It's somewhat of a crazy notion to even imagine an organization that actually has the ability to print and create currency losing money, but the Fed has been losing money for the last couple years. The Fed is supposed to send its profits to the Treasury. The interest on reserve balance system, though, however, has led to two years of operating losses, where instead of the money going back to the Treasury, the..."
Hearing "Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Americans"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_17 "mitigation, especially up front? Well, I'm going to take advantage, since we have the International Code Council here, is states that have strong building codes and build for the environment have less losses. States that don't have strong building codes, and everybody says, well, it's red tape, but we know that the stronger it is, and this comes from the state of Alabama, the more you invest and they use a program that the Institute of Business Home Safety does, Fortify, where they build above the code, the homes have done better. They've documented it and it saves them money, but I always..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
BRIAN BLASE "Quote, we collect the tax from the hospital, we put it up as a match for federal money, and then we give it back to the hospitals. To be clear, this is not a tax. It is legalized money laundering mechanism for shifting costs from states to Washington while generating windfalls for politically powerful providers. In 2011, then Vice President Joe Biden called provider taxes a, quote, scam and said they should be eliminated. Senator Durbin has called them a charade. The Simpson-Bowles Commission, set up by President"
Hearing Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, chatbots, and the new frontier of senior fraud.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
DEBORAH DEL MASTRO "go down that she shouldn't have seen, and that his boss was Mexican drug cartel, and his boss told boss was Mexican drug cartel and his boss told him to take her and he says his boss doesn't care who he kills and that he wants $20,000 for the return of my daughter or he will sell her for what's between her legs and he will kill me, my family, and my daughter if I don't do this, if I don't come up with the money. Now we don't have that money. We just don't. So I'm incredulous with my jaw dropped. I couldn't speak to my husband. I quickly got dressed. I have him on the phone the entire time and..."
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annu...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"How much, on average, did Toyota's customers get scammed out of? So, Mr. Vogt, Toyota had already agreed that they had cheated people out of money and agreed to pay the money back. And I'm asking you, when you took the action to say to Toyota, you keep the money and let all those people who got cheated just go suck air. When that happened, how much was each of those people, how much had they been cheated out of? I assume you had looked at the file and knew what it was that you were letting..."
Testimony HIRONO, MAZIE K.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Jules Hurst III, of Virginia, t...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"DOD obligated more than $2 billion in non-reimbursed funds and over $2 billion in reimbursable funds, which still hasn't been paid, to the Department of Homeland Security. And so, as part of fiscal responsibility, do you intend to get this money back from DHS, and do you anticipate giving more money, reimbursable or not, to DHS? Because they have their own huge pot of money that this Congress just appropriated without any guardrails on their activity, and they are in the process of killing more..."
Testimony DAVIDSON, WARREN
Task Force on Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economi...
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 12, 2026
"Okay. Well, thank you for that. I mean, obviously, the Fed has been working on a central bank digital currency, both in Boston and New York, and San Francisco is literally hiring people to write code to develop a central bank digital currency. So hopefully you guys become aware of that, because it's work that has been ongoing for quite a long time. And, you know, when you talk about accountability and autonomy with cash flow, how do the banks make money? So if you look at the-you know, we talk..."
Testimony SMITH, ADAM
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"is even calculating. We're not willing to do that. I'm not willing to do that. I'll be honest. I don't think we should make those cuts, but since we're not willing to make those cuts, continuing to drive up the amount of money spent on defense, and if you throw in the $350 billion that is planned in the next reconciliation package, you're looking at a nearly 50 percent increase in the defense budget at a time when, without question, the greatest threat to our long-term national security is our..."
Testimony SEAN DUFFY
Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2026
"The rating for the buildings at the Merchant Marine Academy are an F. deplorable the way these kids are living They didn't have hot water for four months. They did a dishwasher that didn't work. So they're eating off paper plates and plastic forks. And so one of the problems that the committee had, and I think this is fair, is you'd sent money and the money wasn't being invested and spent. And the point you made to me was, hey, why are we going to give you more money if you can't spend the..."
Testimony TUBERVILLE, TOMMY
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"This bill that I'm putting out is a basic idea. It's going to cause problems with somebody but at the end of the day, we got to start somewhere, folks. Or we're going to lose it. We're going to lose Olympic sports. We're going to lose women's sports because there's not going to be any money. It's going to be club sports. I got news for y'all. It's coming. The money's not going to be there. You can forget about Title IX. You can have all the lawsuits you want. If the money's not there, it's not..."
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Hearings to examine preventing fraud in child care assistance programs...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"we are here to serve. And when we say federal funds, let's not be abstract. We're talking about our money. If you're watching this, your money, your neighbor's money, money that could have been used to plan for your child's future, could have been used for a night"
Testimony PAUL, RAND
Oversight hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's big bank welfare p...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Dec 11, 2025
"including periods where short-term Treasury yields were actually below the interest on reserve balance rates. When this happens, the Fed loses money and taxpayers underwrite the losses. It's somewhat of a crazy notion to even imagine an organization that actually has the ability to print and create currency losing money, but the Fed has been losing money for the last couple years. The Fed is supposed to send its profits to the Treasury. The interest on reserve balance system, though, however,..."
Testimony BRIAN S. WESBURY
Oversight hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's big bank welfare p...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Dec 11, 2025
"over how the money is used. And that's a system that's a free market system of dealing with insurance. Right now we have government insurance on banking deposits and that can lead to really Yeah, there's a number of ways that the amount of money doesn't always equal the amount of inflation and its productivity. We never know where the money can go. And there are countries that are dollarized. They completely use dollars. And so that money is out of the system. And that means money growth..."
CRS Report
Foreign Assistance: Where Does the Money Go?
Reports · Aug 8, 2024
Congress provided $66.1 billion in foreign assistance appropriations in FY2023. In allocating foreign assistance and overseeing agencies’ execution of those funds, some Members of Congress have...
CRS Report
Money for Something: Music Licensing in the 21st Century
Reports · Feb 23, 2021
Songwriters and recording artists are generally entitled to receive compensation for (1) reproductions, distributions, and public performances of the notes and lyrics they create (the musical works),...
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
DOGGETT, LLOYD "Now, I'm the last person in this room to defend secrecy in politics. This committee knows that the corrosive flood of money, of anonymous corporate and billionaire money that's coursing through the dark money 501c4s and into our elections. If the majority really wanted a genuine transparency bill, that money should also be its"
Hearing Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social Security solvency.
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
CASSIDY, BILL "Or we'll increase taxes by 40 percent. Boy, won't that gut the ability to save money for retirement for the American people. Or we'll just borrow lots of money and destroy our country's credit rating. And every year we wait, it gets"
Testimony MS. LIANA ROSEN
Converging Criminal Enterprises: Chinese Money Laundering Networks and...
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"companies to facilitate laundering schemes. Congress has an important role in shaping the U.S. response to CMLNs, especially in the context of ongoing counter-narcotics policy efforts to combat fentanyl-related trafficking through a follow-the-money approach. Legislation passed in recent Congresses reflects consistent policy interest in anti-money laundering and sanctions-focused policy solutions, including the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, the Fentanyl Sanctions Act, the Fend-Off Fentanyl..."
Testimony MR. JOHN CASSARA
Converging Criminal Enterprises: Chinese Money Laundering Networks and...
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"It is an honor for me to be here. According to Mr. Ron Paul, a respected international anti-money laundering authority, he says, and I quote, anti-money laundering legislation is the least effective of any anti-money, anti-crime measure anywhere,"
Testimony MR. JOHN CASSARA
Converging Criminal Enterprises: Chinese Money Laundering Networks and...
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Increasingly, money is no longer money in the conventional sense of the term. Chinese money launderers are experts at money transfer without money movement. The dirty money increasingly stays in"
Testimony MR. JOHN CASSARA
Converging Criminal Enterprises: Chinese Money Laundering Networks and...
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Things are different today. We still have those tools. We still get 25 million pieces of financial intelligence, but from what you just described where money stays in place, money transfer without money movement or swaps and exchanges, the money no longer"
Testimony SEAN DUFFY
Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2026
"But if you just need a little extra help, we're offering that to the young people who are there to get them through, and that can be helpful on the washout rate. Just a little extra time that you can give to someone can make a big difference for a great air traffic controller. Yes. So you all sent a pot of money, and I could walk through how that money is being spent. But all of the locations for the Olympics are going to receive money. Obviously, Los Angeles is going to get a lot more, just..."
Testimony DONALD KOHN
Oversight hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's big bank welfare p...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Dec 11, 2025
"You did not set a goal of profit for the Federal Reserve. As interest rates come down, as interest rates come down, the amount of money they're paying the banks will come down and their port and the money they're earning on their portfolio comes out much more slowly because it's a longer term portfolio. So they're already, they're already making money. Because the funding markets were being disrupted because reserves had dropped low enough that the banks weren't arbitraging back and forth in..."
Testimony DONALD KOHN
Oversight hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's big bank welfare p...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Dec 11, 2025
"you would see it in the bond market, and you don't see it. I think it's the amount of money, the M2 money supply is the amount of money people want to hold at the current interest rate. In these zero interest rate"
Testimony WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"There's an account. You've got to check the money out. If you get the money back, you've got to check the money back. There's an administrative"
Testimony WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"There's an account. You've got to check the money out. If you get the money back, you've got to check the money back. There's an administrative"
Testimony WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"There's an account. You've got to check the money out. If you get the money back, you've got to check the money back. There's an administrative"
Testimony ARMSTRONG, ALAN
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Thank you very much. Oh, thank you. Is owed $136 million. And nobody disagrees with that, except there's no funding for it. And that, I fundamentally agree with your point. If we owe money, we owe money. And we shouldn't be talking about, if you owed me money, and you told me, wait a second, I have to go back to my wife and figure this out, how I'm going to pay you. I would say, tough, you owe me the money. So I fully support you on that. And I appreciate that the First Nations here are..."
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Now, I'm the last person in this room to defend secrecy in politics. This committee knows that the corrosive flood of money, of anonymous corporate and billionaire money that's coursing through the dark money 501c4s and into our elections. If the majority really wanted a genuine transparency bill, that money should also be its"
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"that we would send kids into a courtroom and claim somehow we don't have the money to pay for this, where we've all talked about all the ways in which this administration is wasting taxpayer money. We haven't even talked about the Qatari jet that has sent us back hundreds of millions of dollars that the president can't even use at this point because it's not safe. So it's not a question of money and when we have the money. It's where the money is being"
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"that community pool might not exist if I hadn't bought a fair number of shares in it back in 1991, and I will confess, I sold a share this year, sold is a loose term, gave one to my youngest son when he turned 18, one of the shares that I own. So I understand there may be people doing big-time stuff, but there's also a lot of people, if that's a private placement, there's a lot of people who are doing things in their community where they've got a little community pool or some other thing that's..."
Testimony SPEAKER_23
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"And there's no way to track that. And to your point, you only make the money if you sell at a price that's higher than what you bought it at. So you can only make the money, and it's true, you can lose money, too, but you get to control the timing of when that happens if you're not required to divest, right? I mean, so that's, and by the way, if you already own stock and there's a"
Testimony GROTHMAN, GLENN
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"These limits would prevent students and parents from over borrowing while saving over $44 billion, and I have run into my district. These people who have over borrowed for graduate degrees and are just stuck, and I think the only reason you want to give them more money is to prop up some of the people who make their money teaching and administering these degrees, who, like I said, they're making money on people offering a service that doesn't have value. Additionally, one big beautiful bill..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"mitigation, especially up front? Well, I'm going to take advantage, since we have the International Code Council here, is states that have strong building codes and build for the environment have less losses. States that don't have strong building codes, and everybody says, well, it's red tape, but we know that the stronger it is, and this comes from the state of Alabama, the more you invest and they use a program that the Institute of Business Home Safety does, Fortify, where they build above..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"government as the first payee. I appreciate it, and with little time I have, we talked, and I know you're, I think I know your position on separating FEMA from the Department of Homeland, but can you speak to the importance of having an independent inspector general to keep FEMA honest about its fine, but I mean, yeah, get the money out the door, but that means, that doesn't mean that just because we're getting the money out the door, because there's a disaster, that we just throw money away..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"here's what the thing requires. They have to get an engineer or architect of license in their state to put in their estimate of what that is. Because everybody's afraid, well, it won't be enough money or there'll be things they discovered later. I said, well, that's why you got them putting their seal on there. Because they have insurance. If they didn't get it right, that's where you get your money, not the taxpayer. We agree to it, 75 percent of them. We issue it. We put it in SmartLink. It..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"It has more impact than people realize. It isn't the money. The Stafford Act didn't run out of money. There was money there. They transferred it, but it didn't run out. They moved staff around. The issue was, I think,"
Testimony SALAZAR, MARIA ELVIRA
More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State an...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"But I'm asking you something very simple. We have never seen those reports produced by KPMG, which is the one that is responsible to make sure that whatever money we send to Del C.'s interim government goes to the schools and the roads and the hospitals that she's supposedly claiming that that money is going to. Right? It's our money going to her hands. So, can we see their report? Because KPMG is responsible to make sure that that money gets to the right"
Testimony WOMACK, STEVE
Oversight Hearing - Office of Management and Budget
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Would it include a sense of urgency? Yes. It's a supplemental request, wasn't covered previously, but this is an emerging issue. For example, a lot of that money, most of that money, two-thirds of that money was Pentagon spending in response to Epic Fury, replenishing some of these accounts, so that is a sense of urgency, is it not? Yes, Congressman. Okay, so there are two, not to be terribly parochial with THUD, but there were two items in that supplemental that affect my subcommittee, and I..."
Testimony SEWELL, TERRI A.
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"what do you think is a long-term impact on young players by not having, you know, advocates work on their behalf? We're talking a lot about the SCORE Act, and there's another bill over on the Senate side, and in lost in all of this is that the universities benefit by getting, you know, reduced liability or no liability, and the players, yes, they get to play, they get to get money, but they don't get to get those, that money withheld, and so so many of them, the example you gave an SEC player..."
Testimony MR. CHRIS FLOYD
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"So the impact will hit both the company and deciding what movies to make and how often to make them, and it will impact, so that impacts the workers and how many people get hired and paid. It also impacts people like Mr. Ashton's group who are, who have already made a movie. What happens is when someone streams it and pays for it legitimately, we automatically share a portion of those revenues with the Screen Actors Guild, with the directors, with all those people who worked on the movie...."
Testimony JOHNSON, JULIE
“Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"You don't have enough money? Do you have too little money or too much money or just enough money? Do you have a surplus in your"
Testimony TIMMONS, WILLIAM R.
“Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"It saved 20 percent. We spend one and a half trillion dollars on social safety nets. Twenty percent of that is a lot of money. And over a 10-year budget window, it's two plus trillion dollars. So, and again, that's not money that – it's money that we can put to better use because it's people that need it. And so I think that we need to get the TABS Act on the floor, and we need to get it passed because giving states the ability to get a better picture of an individual's"
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"It just doesn't make any sense to me. So if you couldn't get any more money out of the government, all right, and we didn't let you borrow more money, because if you borrow more money, ultimately, you know what that's going to happen. The Postal Office, I've been up here seven years, it never makes"
Testimony HOYER, STENY H.
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"He did not. Mr. Chairman, I'm going to vote against this bill, but I'm going to argue that we certainly need to spend money. We need to spend the money on industrialization. We need to spend money on acquisition. And we need to spend money on"
Testimony TILLIS, THOMAS
Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"you know what but last time I checked a lot of the banks still give you one or two passes but when it becomes a chronic problem at what point are you expected to actually know how much is in your bank account before you write a check? That's what this is. It's nothing more than that. It's financial literacy. I'll put money into financial literacy. I'll put money into real-time don't write this check because you're about to get money and you've over you've gone over the customary limit that..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
Hearings to examine the nominations of Bradford Pentony Wilson, of New...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"something that you're really concentrating on to eliminate the waste and fraud that we've been seeing. The stats I used yesterday was at a minimum $250 billion per year in GAO, up to a trillion dollars according to LexisNexis. I mean, and it's impossible to prosecute that and recover those funds. You have to prevent them from going out to the front end. So can you, first of all, just address the accusations of partisan allocation of grant money. Elections matter, and obviously you're going to..."
Testimony MORENO, BERNIE
Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting i...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026
"But my point being that this is, I think, where the anger comes from. Why would a company that's a multi-trillion dollar company need any money? There was a situation in Ohio. Carlisle Group came in, built the data center in Akron, and we gave them four and a half million dollars. Like, why? And I've said to David Rubenstein at Carlisle, give them money back. You don't need the money. And if you need the money, you have a shitty business model. That's the problem. So number two, start with this..."
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
"Yes, certainly. So I think this is a time when looking for places like we may not have looked before, like additional, you know, states have the same issue as we do in the federal government. They have to look at how much money they take in and how much money they spend, and when that's lopsided, they've got to make adjustments. And what I would tell states is, is that this is a time when there's not going to be as much federal money, because our priority is to reduce government spending...."
Testimony MR. DAVID LUCKEY
Beijing’s Poison Pipeline: The CCP’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Thank you for the question, Representative Moylan. I'd just focus on the fact that, while I haven't done specific research on this recently, it's perceived that most of the traffickers of these precursor chemicals that are being used to produce illicit fentanyl are not large organizations. It's not major criminal organizations. And, in fact, it's likely very small, single-person or single-family-run organizations. So the challenge is far greater than it might first appear, which makes..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I won't ask for consistency because I know we are Congress, but we talked about this is a bill that spends money, therefore we don't do things that don't spend money. This is over 50 things that don't spend money trying to take out of the bill. But there is one that I really think, you know, sometimes when we put things in, we don't look at them all that closely. There was a bill introduced by Representative Tom Tiffany from Wisconsin to designate the Apostle Islands..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"no longer met department priorities. Can you just talk us through in one minute what that was and what capability or capacity is lost with the elimination of that council? Yes, sir. In short, appreciated Mr. Littrell's line of questioning and his concern that sometimes everything sounds like it's going to cost money, cost money, cost money. I would submit to my colleagues that one of the most cost effective things we can do at the federal government level is play that convening role. There is..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ADAM TELLE
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · May 20, 2026
"There's sufficient funding in the budget to stay on track to fully restore the Everglades five years ahead of schedule. This is one of the biggest projects that's happening in the United States of America right now. That's new money? This new money that's requested and it's going to be in addition to other money that's been provided and of course future needs that will come to you in future fiscal years. Sorry to interrupt. Yes, sir. No problem. Most importantly, and Chairman Kennedy mentioned..."
Testimony HEINRICH, MARTIN
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"this administration would cut the land resources account by 48 percent. That's just a fact. The Wildlife Management Aquatic Resources Program by 70 percent. It would cut management of national conservation lands, including our national monuments, recreation areas, and national trails by 75 percent, and I would point out that those national monuments are major drivers of economic development in my state. I don't know anyone in New Mexico that thinks we spend too much money on wildlife. We may..."
Testimony LEE ZELDIN
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"if we're sitting here today saying, well, gosh, it's only four years and nine months left, I don't think the world is about to end, they want to vilify you as if you're denying science. I mean, I just saw a clip yesterday where Al Gore was talking about global freezing. I'm having trouble keeping up. I thought it was global warming and now it's global freezing. And I don't know what kind of money is made. You want to have making money off of a climate grift. Well, what won't get referenced by..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"Well, to your point, sir, in this proposed budget is $2 billion that would go as a block grant to states through a formula that'll be worked on. This will allow states to do that, don't always participate in grant-making because they, maybe they don't have enough money to hire grant writers, et cetera, but now all states will participate in money coming from this $2 billion. And then governors, state superintendents, state school boards will decide how this money should be spent in their state,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"Well, to your point, sir, in this proposed budget is $2 billion that would go as a block grant to states through a formula that'll be worked on. This will allow states to do that, don't always participate in grant-making because they, maybe they don't have enough money to hire grant writers, et cetera, but now all states will participate in money coming from this $2 billion. And then governors, state superintendents, state school boards will decide how this money should be spent in their state,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Hearings to examine federal boxing laws.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"Never did I meet someone who said, I'm making too much money, don't tell anybody. Everyone wants more money. And I understand that. So if we can generate more money, it means more money to the fighters. If given the opportunity for a UBO, assume the sponsorship and boxing as it currently stands is as horrific as the other elements of boxing. No major media conglomerate, no video game, no trading cards,"
Testimony COTTON, TOM
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for the fi...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"people. Thank you. And on spec. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Wright. I couldn't agree more. I'll take the opportunity of this annual hearing as I do in the Armed Services Committee when we address this topic to address the critics who say, why do we spend so much money on weapons we never use? It's wrong on both accounts. We don't spend that much money on these weapons. It's a fairly small percentage of our overall budget to include the budget of the military or your department. We just happen to be..."
Testimony FOXX, VIRGINIA
“Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Ru...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Apr 15, 2026
"The same taxpayers must forfeit their pay to both levels of government. There's no, quote, federal money or state money, but rather taxpayer money. Therefore, all levels of government have the same obligation to be good stewards of"
Testimony MR. STEVE ELLIS
Mitigation and Multiple Loss Properties: Factors Influencing the High ...
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"And so we're going to have to move that direction to try to relieve some of the pressure on the program. Well, it's been previously mentioned, and one is that there's been less money, less resources, and some of it is because of the budget rules. You know, that's money that's on budget, whereas a disaster is post—you know, is emergency funding, and so there's more money. Thankfully, the BRIC program actually allowed some of the post-disaster funding to be shifted to mitigation, which is why it..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
“Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service: The Financial Future Under Post...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"$700 million to $1 billion. There's two pieces to it. They won't allow us to raise prices more than once, and they've basically changed the work share rules, which are too complicated for here. But it's basically taking money from us, by their own admission, taking money from us, transferring it to mailers. They say they do it to balance. You know what I ask them? If we're balancing things, answer me one question. Of all the companies that do business with us, how many of them are losing money?..."
Testimony SPEAKER_27
Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beij...
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"Again, as you mentioned in your statement, charities do good work, and we shouldn't put a reporting regime in place that hamstrings charities from doing what they need to do. But the American people deserve the transparency and also the confidence when they're giving money to a charity, the confidence that that money is not being commingled with bad money and it's going to good uses. I would tend to agree with what the co-panelists have said. I used to ask my clients, do you look good in dark..."
Testimony KENNEDY, JOHN
Hearings to examine hidden facts regarding Nazis and Swiss banks.
senate Judiciary Committee · Feb 3, 2026
"So that's what this is still all about, isn't it? The money. It was about the money when your predecessor took the Nazi money, and it's about the money right now, isn't it? Oh, I see. What could it be about, then? Principal? The sanctity of the attorney-client"
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
"network is? Yes. It is an informal network where someone goes to a Hawala place in Minneapolis, which is like a money sending site, and they say, I want to send X amount of dollars, and then there is a receiving site in Somalia, and they take the cash out. So money doesn't cross the border. It is an order for money here that gets transmitted to Somalia. For the time, think that is a correct assessment? Yes. We have plenty of evidence of that from money directly going to Al-Shabaab, but then..."
Testimony HIGGINS, CLAY
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"I would argue that from a regular American's perspective, it's quite transparent that something criminal is going on when you have billions of dollars disappearing into childcare centers with no children in them. And you have a tremendous transfer of wealth into a relatively small immigrant community. You have $9,000,000,000 missing in the last few years that's alleged to be fraudulently stolen. You have, they're sending money, the Somali community in Minnesota sending money, big money..."
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid. Now while he was boosting those lies about USAID and he was stopping money going for say things such as Head Start, somehow the only money that didn't stop was the money to him and his organization. Now I don't know how you can have him be the watchdog as well as the guy that is literally living off of the government. If we want to talk about government welfare, it looks like Elon Musk, because it's my understanding that..."
Testimony JOHN NEWTON
"Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country"
house Agriculture Committee · Feb 11, 2025
"Thank you for the question, Mr. Crawford. I recall fondly the time that we spent with the Arkansas Ag Council when I was with Senator Bozeman's office, so it's nice to see you again. This is a topic that we explored when I was at Farm Bureau many, many years ago, and I think the challenge that we face with this is farmers have to have money before they can put it in an HSA-type account, and where we are with the farm economy today, the downturn that we're in, there's not a lot of money to put..."
Hearing Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SEAN DUFFY "The rating for the buildings at the Merchant Marine Academy are an F. deplorable the way these kids are living They didn't have hot water for four months. They did a dishwasher that didn't work. So they're eating off paper plates and plastic forks. And so one of the problems that the committee had, and I think this is fair, is you'd sent money and the money wasn't being invested and spent. And the point you made to me was, hey, why are we going to give you more money if you can't spend the money that we've already given you? And I think that's a fair point from this body. We have hired the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act to modify a provision relating to the extension of certain dates for the...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
ARMSTRONG, ALAN "Thank you very much. Oh, thank you. Is owed $136 million. And nobody disagrees with that, except there's no funding for it. And that, I fundamentally agree with your point. If we owe money, we owe money. And we shouldn't be talking about, if you owed me money, and you told me, wait a second, I have to go back to my wife and figure this out, how I'm going to pay you. I would say, tough, you owe me the money. So I fully support you on that. And I appreciate that the First Nations here are probably really frustrated with those as answers. So I'm very sympathetic to that issue and think it..."
Hearing H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital Access Act; H. Con. Res. 113 – Establishing the congressional budget for the...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN "that community pool might not exist if I hadn't bought a fair number of shares in it back in 1991, and I will confess, I sold a share this year, sold is a loose term, gave one to my youngest son when he turned 18, one of the shares that I own. So I understand there may be people doing big-time stuff, but there's also a lot of people, if that's a private placement, there's a lot of people who are doing things in their community where they've got a little community pool or some other thing that's more, I mean, it makes money some years, we might even make money this year, but we didn't make..."
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE KRISTIN ROBBINS "network is? Yes. It is an informal network where someone goes to a Hawala place in Minneapolis, which is like a money sending site, and they say, I want to send X amount of dollars, and then there is a receiving site in Somalia, and they take the cash out. So money doesn't cross the border. It is an order for money here that gets transmitted to Somalia. For the time, think that is a correct assessment? Yes. We have plenty of evidence of that from money directly going to Al-Shabaab, but then also indirectly, because they take a"
Hearing Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, standards, and strategic competition.
senate Space and Science · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
DR. ROBERT ATKINSON "Thank you for holding this important hearing. I'm going to try to maybe push the envelope a little bit, because the normal debate on science is more money or less money. That's the debate. And while I'm on the side of"
Hearing Hearings to examine a review of the President's supplemental funding request of June 24, 2026.
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MURRAY, PATTY "This is a huge responsibility, so let me be clear. I'm ready to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan way, as always, to address the needs of our nation and the American people. But I hope we can have real conversations about why there seems to always be money for Trump's wars, but never money for the families back home who are desperate for a little relief. So I look forward to today's discussion. Thank"
CRS Report
U.S. Efforts to Combat Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Other Illicit Financial Threats
Resources · Feb 4, 2025
The United States maintains a multifaceted policy regime for tackling anti-money laundering (AML), combating the financing of terrorism (CFT), and countering illicit financial threats. The 119th...
CRS Report
Money Laundering: An Overview of 18 U.S.C. § 1956 and Related Federal Criminal Law
Report · Jan 29, 2026
This report provides an overview of the elements of federal criminal money laundering statutes and the sanctions imposed for their violation. The most prominent is 18 U.S.C. § 1956. Section 1956:...
CRS Report
Chinese Money Laundering Networks
Report · Jan 8, 2026
Illicit financial activity involving what the U.S. government terms Chinese Money Laundering Organizations or Networks (CMLOs or CMLNs) is an issue that has increasingly attracted congressional...
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"And I'm wondering if you can work with our teams, because this is clearly a broken system. I mean, the estimating's wrong, we're way short, and then it's not as though you save money by shorting projects. You know this, right? If a project can't be completed, then the time value of money and inflation, and then you end up, you just end up with lots of difficulty. It is not cheaper to only partially fund a project. I get the idea of Congress having sort of a tactile control over which projects..."
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"administration just magically lifted export controls on our most advanced AI chips to a firm that comes under royal control. The steal for Trump's White House ballroom donated by a company in Luxembourg. And within days, magically, that company was handed a tariff cut. And among the donors bankrolling the ballroom is Tether, a foreign-based crypto giant giving through an American arm precisely the kind of foreign-linked corporate money that this bill leaves untouched. That is the pattern of..."
Testimony BEAN, AARON
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"We can argue very well by ourselves without the rest of the world getting in on our arguments. So we all say, you know, foreigners shouldn't participate in our elections. And so, we do not allow a foreigner to give money to – I don't take money from foreign governments or foreign entities or foreigners. That's prohibited. But we have presented evidence – Representative Malliotakis has presented evidence where"
Testimony RISCH, JAMES E.
Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"I mean, all of these people, they're in it for money. And what's the easiest way to get money? What's the safest way to get money? And this certainly is ahead of these other more kinetic type of things that you're talking"
Testimony KLOBUCHAR, AMY
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"And again, as Senator Booker explained, this is simply states self-reporting errors after people come to them and they find out that they either have given them too little money because they lost a job or too much money because they got a job. And sometimes there is an adjustment made. That's what this is about. And the chips and other things may help us to get that information more"
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"Or we'll increase taxes by 40 percent. Boy, won't that gut the ability to save money for retirement for the American people. Or we'll just borrow lots of money and destroy our country's credit rating. And every year we wait, it gets"
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"facts that we have to grapple with is benefits already exceed revenue. But again, we're honoring those benefits, right? When the trust fund runs out, it shouldn't be a calamity. We're just going to have to plus up those benefits, and we'll probably do that. One fact we ought to recognize is the U.S. government bond held in the hands of a government agency has no value. The trust fund's a fiction. Another thing we ought to grapple with is Social Security is a legal Ponzi scheme. I get criticized..."
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"receives what they receive for each dollar they put into the fund. And it ranges from a low of getting back 59 cents on the dollar to a high of getting $4.78 on the dollar. So again, that's my money. It's a fiction. It wasn't set up as an investment fund. You'll not solve this problem if you're not willing to recognize how grossly mismanaged Social Security was for decades by politicians, by our predecessors. They squandered the money. There's nothing of value there. And even worse than that,..."
Testimony KENNEDY, JOHN
Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"One of the things she specializes in is class actions. And thanks to her work, she has ensured that the people who are hurt and are the subject of these class actions, who oftentimes don't get any money, all the money goes to the lawyers. She has worked to ensure that people get their fair share. But more than her accomplishments, Judge St. John is, she's obviously intelligent. She's patient. She's wise. She is not a politician. She didn't have a squillion people call me to encourage her..."
Testimony KENNEDY, JOHN
Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"One of the things she specializes in is class actions. And thanks to her work, she has ensured that the people who are hurt and are the subject of these class actions, who oftentimes don't get any money, all the money goes to the lawyers. She has worked to ensure that people get their fair share. But more than her accomplishments, Judge St. John is, she's obviously intelligent. She's patient. She's wise. She is not a politician. She didn't have a squillion people call me to encourage her..."
Testimony BRIAN BLASE
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Quote, we collect the tax from the hospital, we put it up as a match for federal money, and then we give it back to the hospitals. To be clear, this is not a tax. It is legalized money laundering mechanism for shifting costs from states to Washington while generating windfalls for politically powerful providers. In 2011, then Vice President Joe Biden called provider taxes a, quote, scam and said they should be eliminated. Senator Durbin has called them a charade. The Simpson-Bowles Commission,..."
Testimony BRIAN BLASE
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"I think that it's financial fraud against the federal government, yes. So the key problem with Medicaid is that the more states spend, the more money they get from the federal government. So to set the certain amount that states get and all state spending on top of that comes from the state, that would be an ideal reform. But I'd say a first-order reform is to end the discrimination against the most vulnerable. There shouldn't be the federal government incentivizing states with seven times more..."
Testimony BRIAN BLASE
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"it's 90, it's 90 to 10 now. Yeah, I mean states get seven times more funding when they spend a dollar on the expansion population than the traditional population and particularly given that they can finance their state share with these legalized money laundering tactics, states use Medicaid to fund other state projects and the ACA expansion, the nine-to-one, is a multiplier on the money laundering apparatus. Yeah, in many cases, a center's the provider that goes to the state and says, we've..."
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"covered, doesn't really work anymore? So, so I mean when you think about it, if the federal government's goal was to make sure we take care of especially the, you know, the pregnant women, kids, disabled, they've the states have lost focus because there's so much money and the providers have looked at, there's so much money out here for the able-bodied adults. Dr. Oz recently paused payments to California knowing that the in-home supportive service program has grown over 24 percent over two..."
Testimony SARAH B. ROGERS
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sarah B. Rogers, of New York, t...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"I serve him. But, you know, when it's ultimately Congress's decision how much money gets deployed, I've deployed that money and I will follow appropriations law in this function. I'm definitely going to bring back more of them. I'm not committing to returning the agency to like the same exact identical footprint it had under President Biden. I think we do need to reform and modernize, but we should see people coming back to"
Testimony MOODY, ASHLEY
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"last 10 days. None of them are on fraud. None of them address fraud directly. And this amendment is simple. The no aid to ghost students, it simply codifies what they're doing at the Department of Education so we can't backslip and it flags extremely suspicious student aid applications. When I say that, that means I'm a student, I'm telling you I live in Tampa but my IP address is in Kenya. Like very suspicious flags. And everything that they're catching is illicit. It's going to ghost..."
Testimony DEBORAH DEL MASTRO
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"go down that she shouldn't have seen, and that his boss was Mexican drug cartel, and his boss told boss was Mexican drug cartel and his boss told him to take her and he says his boss doesn't care who he kills and that he wants $20,000 for the return of my daughter or he will sell her for what's between her legs and he will kill me, my family, and my daughter if I don't do this, if I don't come up with the money. Now we don't have that money. We just don't. So I'm incredulous with my jaw..."
Testimony DEBORAH DEL MASTRO
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"her. He told me to bring a phone charger and not to let my phone die or else I would never see my daughter again. He made demands for the next five and a thousand dollars by Western Union to Mexico. He wanted $2,500. I told him I didn't have it, which was really true. Just $2,000. He had me go to a local Walmart and that's where I used MoneyGram to send $2,000 to Mexico. I took a picture of it and texted him the receipt as he asked and then he told me there was a problem with it and that there..."
Testimony DEBORAH DEL MASTRO
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"her in another place, then he was going to drop her off in another place. As we were driving to different places and sending money, we sent $5,400 altogether in four different, four different transactions. When it was over, it was about five and a half hours. By the time they probably figured that we didn't have any more money to give them, he ended it. He said it's over. We were now back 20 miles away at another Walmart and he said that he had released my daughter at the front of the Walmart..."
Testimony DEBORAH DEL MASTRO
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"the third amount and he told me exactly what I was to say to her. He said tell her that this nightmare is almost over, you're gonna pick her up as soon as possible. I did that. I said exactly that and my daughter's voice said I'm so sorry mom I love you. After that another man's voice came on who was much more hard, much more harsh, the enforcer who threatened harm to us and Sarah if we didn't come up with more money and that's when we sent another $1,200. It was the last of our available..."
Testimony MCBATH, LUCY
“Building an AI-Ready America: How AI Is Creating Opportunities Across...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 24, 2026
"Thank you so much, Chairman Allen, and thank you everyone for joining us today. It's so nice to be down on this side of Georgia since I usually am up on the other end of Georgia, so I feel very welcome to be here. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this important issue that is affecting our community with our community. Right now, Americans are being pushed to the brink by an economy that works for those only that are already doing well but not for regular people. You should not have to..."
Testimony PERRY, SCOTT
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"My concern, among other things, is it's hard for all of us up here to figure out who's hiding the ball. Seems like, and I'm not here to pick on anybody, I don't know, it seems like the PBMs make money, the big pharma makes money, but your local consumer, the average citizen, can't afford it, and your local pharmacies, especially independents, are being driven out of business. Now, the money's going"
Testimony MR. SCOTT MECHKOWSKI
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"runs deeper. Last year, 33 people died in ICE facilities nationwide. In New Jersey's own prisons, an average of 48 die every single year. From 2018 to 2024, yet no one marched outside any one of those state prisons. This is never about conditions at Delaney Hall. It's not about the money. New Jersey has never minded the state taking our money. The state has more than $4 million fiscally in 2024 to hold criminal aliens in its own Department of Corrections and roughly $5.8 million in state..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE DAVID FRIEDMAN
Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the A...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Well, I think the efforts are demonstrably not successful because we see a world there that's aflame and doesn't look anything like what we would like it to look like. I would suggest, Congressman, that we do have an overblown sense of our ability to change the facts on the ground. When the United States enters or wealthy Western countries enter this region, most of the money usually gets spent in ways that are unaccounted for, that don't go to the right people. Sometimes we're looked at like a..."
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improvin...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate Mr. Ruby. I appreciate your testimony. And I have gotten one. I'm not as popular as the chairman. I've only gotten one spam call while we've been sitting here. And I am curious, though, because my constituents get these all the time, too. But a lot of them in my district and the complaints I get are people calling up on Medicare, Medicare Advantage type programs. But like the chairman, I don't get those. Now, he's too young to get them. But I don't get..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"transformational breakthroughs here in the United States has slowed over the years. The breakthrough rates that our scientific enterprises are accomplishing are slower than they've ever been. I think there are very obvious examples. We're flying slower than we were It does, I agree. But I think, you know, even in areas where we've spent a tremendous amount of money, particularly in sort of the life sciences, the amount of money that it takes now to produce a new drug that can impact an American..."
Testimony EDWARDS, CHUCK
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"days later, his very delegation chose to shut the government down. The North Carolina delegation chose to shut the government down. That brought things to a screeching halt. Money that was due to folks looking to recover was brought to a halt. Debris removal was brought to a halt. The help that people in western North Carolina needed was brought to a halt. All while there were folks up here saying, we need more money, we need more resources, and I thought it was rich and hypocritical of folks..."
Testimony DAVIDSON, WARREN
Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"disappointing that the rulemaking does not address CTR and SARS thresholds, and we hope to do so in the final rule, this effort is a welcome attempt to shift away from check-the-box defensive compliance to recenter AML on true risk. Now, I would like to turn to the Corporate Transparency Act. Under the Biden Administration, implementation followed the same pattern of growing the haystack of reports rather than finding the money, the laundering needle. FinCEN issued overly broad rules that..."
Testimony BEATTY, JOYCE
Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"for her opening statement. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good afternoon, Director Gackey. It's certainly good to see you again, and thank you for appearing before us today for our annual Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Oversight Hearing. Although FinCEN is a relatively small bureau within the Treasury Department, it plays an outsized role in protecting the integrity of the United States financial system and safeguarding our national security. It is responsible, as you know, for helping law..."
Testimony BEATTY, JOYCE
Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"At precisely the moment when these threats are becoming more complex, I am concerned that this administration and Republicans in Congress are moving to weaken the very tools that help investigators follow the money, protect consumers, and hold bad actors accountable. These rollbacks would not only increase the risk of fraud and abuse, they would also weaken the broader anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing framework and leave the United States with fewer tools to respond to..."
Testimony ANDREA GACKI
Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"FinCEN is actively triaging incoming tips and directing them appropriately, and once the criteria for granting awards is determined through issuance of the final rule, FinCEN will begin processing and paying awards. Shifting gears to BSA modernization, as criminals evolve their methods of laundering money and hiding illicit proceeds, a modernized BSA regime is critical to protecting our financial system against emerging threats. At the same time, we want to ensure that financial institutions..."
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Thank you very much, Director Gocky. The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 required the Treasury Department to issue the National Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Finances of Terrorism Priorities. Congress mandated this list to give financial institutions a roadmap on the types of crimes to focus their Bank Secrecy Act compliance"
Testimony DR. ROBERT ATKINSON
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Thank you for holding this important hearing. I'm going to try to maybe push the envelope a little bit, because the normal debate on science is more money or less money. That's the debate. And while I'm on the side of"
Testimony DR. ROBERT ATKINSON
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"and technical data. They can go to town on that. Personal data is important as well, but if I had to prioritize, I'd do that. I think the university community has been, I don't want to say asleep at the switch, but this is not something they really want to do. This is an imposition on the university community. That's how they look at it, and I think that has to change. There are many, many cases where the Chinese will take our data, move it over there, and do amazing things with it, and we just..."
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Hearings to examine a review of the President's supplemental funding r...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"This is a huge responsibility, so let me be clear. I'm ready to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan way, as always, to address the needs of our nation and the American people. But I hope we can have real conversations about why there seems to always be money for Trump's wars, but never money for the families back home who are desperate for a little relief. So I look forward to today's discussion. Thank"
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine a review of the President's supplemental funding r...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"And let me also say, we're in a moment in history where we can win the war in Ukraine. That victory would be critically important for those people who have fought for more than four years against the odds and proven they can put Putin back on his heels. But instead of finding the money that they need now for air defenses, we're putting more money into this exchange with Iran, a war of choice which we never should have entered. Thank you,"
Testimony MR. CARL KENNEDY
"Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event P...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Clearing brokers must also have complaint procedures. Then the most important piece, which I heard in the suggestion that perhaps there isn't a requirement with respect to anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rules, FCM's clearing brokers must have anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rules that are consistent with the Bank Secrecy Act. I think there are a lot of parallels between the types of customer protections and knowing your customers and understanding the risks assigned..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"That's off balance sheet. If we make it even bigger by allowing all of the commercial banks to now become members of this GSE, it can earn a lot of money, and we can use that money to pay off this S&L crisis. And that's precisely what we did starting in 1989 with Freya. So 10% now went to the AHP, the Affordable Home Program, which is a very valuable program, and then originally a fixed amount, and later 20% of the profits went separately to pay off the S&L ref corp bonds. And so this was a way..."
Testimony SALAZAR, MARIA ELVIRA
Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and th...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"They are just slaves. They cannot receive the money. That money that they are earning is deposited in a Cuban bank. Bottom line, modern-day human"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annual Report, focusing on a new day at the CFPB through reform.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
WARREN, ELIZABETH "How much, on average, did Toyota's customers get scammed out of? So, Mr. Vogt, Toyota had already agreed that they had cheated people out of money and agreed to pay the money back. And I'm asking you, when you took the action to say to Toyota, you keep the money and let all those people who got cheated just go suck air. When that happened, how much was each of those people, how much had they been cheated out of? I assume you had looked at the file and knew what it was that you were letting Toyota keep the money for. sue-and-settle consent order to go after companies when we don't have the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Jules Hurst III, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary (Comptroller), Richard O'Malley, of Wisconsin, to be a...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
HIRONO, MAZIE K. "DOD obligated more than $2 billion in non-reimbursed funds and over $2 billion in reimbursable funds, which still hasn't been paid, to the Department of Homeland Security. And so, as part of fiscal responsibility, do you intend to get this money back from DHS, and do you anticipate giving more money, reimbursable or not, to DHS? Because they have their own huge pot of money that this Congress just appropriated without any guardrails on their activity, and they are in the process of killing more people. Did you get the money back? Do you intend to get the money back from DHS? Do you know if..."
Hearing Task Force on Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economic Prosperity: Examining the Structure of the Federal Reserve System
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 12, 2026 · Transcript
DAVIDSON, WARREN "Okay. Well, thank you for that. I mean, obviously, the Fed has been working on a central bank digital currency, both in Boston and New York, and San Francisco is literally hiring people to write code to develop a central bank digital currency. So hopefully you guys become aware of that, because it's work that has been ongoing for quite a long time. And, you know, when you talk about accountability and autonomy with cash flow, how do the banks make money? So if you look at the-you know, we talk about cost and benefit. What does it cost to run the Fed? How much money? We would know if there was..."
Hearing H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SMITH, ADAM "is even calculating. We're not willing to do that. I'm not willing to do that. I'll be honest. I don't think we should make those cuts, but since we're not willing to make those cuts, continuing to drive up the amount of money spent on defense, and if you throw in the $350 billion that is planned in the next reconciliation package, you're looking at a nearly 50 percent increase in the defense budget at a time when, without question, the greatest threat to our long-term national security is our fiscal instability. So that amount of money is very, very difficult to swallow, and then there's the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school and beyond.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
TUBERVILLE, TOMMY "This bill that I'm putting out is a basic idea. It's going to cause problems with somebody but at the end of the day, we got to start somewhere, folks. Or we're going to lose it. We're going to lose Olympic sports. We're going to lose women's sports because there's not going to be any money. It's going to be club sports. I got news for y'all. It's coming. The money's not going to be there. You can forget about Title IX. You can have all the lawsuits you want. If the money's not there, it's not there. The money's going to go to athletes that get on television. Student-athletes, to me, should..."
Hearing Hearings to examine preventing fraud in child care assistance programs.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript
CASSIDY, BILL "we are here to serve. And when we say federal funds, let's not be abstract. We're talking about our money. If you're watching this, your money, your neighbor's money, money that could have been used to plan for your child's future, could have been used for a night"
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON "There's an account. You've got to check the money out. If you get the money back, you've got to check the money back. There's an administrative"
Hearing Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of AI surveillance pricing.
senate Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON "There's an account. You've got to check the money out. If you get the money back, you've got to check the money back. There's an administrative"
Hearing Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition and transparency lowers prescription drug costs.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON "There's an account. You've got to check the money out. If you get the money back, you've got to check the money back. There's an administrative"
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "that we would send kids into a courtroom and claim somehow we don't have the money to pay for this, where we've all talked about all the ways in which this administration is wasting taxpayer money. We haven't even talked about the Qatari jet that has sent us back hundreds of millions of dollars that the president can't even use at this point because it's not safe. So it's not a question of money and when we have the money. It's where the money is being"
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
GROTHMAN, GLENN "These limits would prevent students and parents from over borrowing while saving over $44 billion, and I have run into my district. These people who have over borrowed for graduate degrees and are just stuck, and I think the only reason you want to give them more money is to prop up some of the people who make their money teaching and administering these degrees, who, like I said, they're making money on people offering a service that doesn't have value. Additionally, one big beautiful bill delayed the closed school discharge and borrower defense rules, which had been abused by the Obama and..."
Hearing More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State and Commerce
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SALAZAR, MARIA ELVIRA "But I'm asking you something very simple. We have never seen those reports produced by KPMG, which is the one that is responsible to make sure that whatever money we send to Del C.'s interim government goes to the schools and the roads and the hospitals that she's supposedly claiming that that money is going to. Right? It's our money going to her hands. So, can we see their report? Because KPMG is responsible to make sure that that money gets to the right"
Hearing Oversight Hearing - Office of Management and Budget
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
WOMACK, STEVE "Would it include a sense of urgency? Yes. It's a supplemental request, wasn't covered previously, but this is an emerging issue. For example, a lot of that money, most of that money, two-thirds of that money was Pentagon spending in response to Epic Fury, replenishing some of these accounts, so that is a sense of urgency, is it not? Yes, Congressman. Okay, so there are two, not to be terribly parochial with THUD, but there were two items in that supplemental that affect my subcommittee, and I want to ask you about both of"
Hearing Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Federal Tax Policy in the Multibillion-Dollar Industry
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SEWELL, TERRI A. "what do you think is a long-term impact on young players by not having, you know, advocates work on their behalf? We're talking a lot about the SCORE Act, and there's another bill over on the Senate side, and in lost in all of this is that the universities benefit by getting, you know, reduced liability or no liability, and the players, yes, they get to play, they get to get money, but they don't get to get those, that money withheld, and so so many of them, the example you gave an SEC player that had $750,000 and at the end of it all had no money to pay his taxes is a story that I'm hearing..."
Hearing “A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
MR. CHRIS FLOYD "So the impact will hit both the company and deciding what movies to make and how often to make them, and it will impact, so that impacts the workers and how many people get hired and paid. It also impacts people like Mr. Ashton's group who are, who have already made a movie. What happens is when someone streams it and pays for it legitimately, we automatically share a portion of those revenues with the Screen Actors Guild, with the directors, with all those people who worked on the movie. That's, that gives them a buffer for when they're not working. It's sort of like a mini retirement plan...."
Hearing “Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America's Northern Border”
house Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
JOHNSON, JULIE "You don't have enough money? Do you have too little money or too much money or just enough money? Do you have a surplus in your"
Hearing “Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
TIMMONS, WILLIAM R. "It saved 20 percent. We spend one and a half trillion dollars on social safety nets. Twenty percent of that is a lot of money. And over a 10-year budget window, it's two plus trillion dollars. So, and again, that's not money that – it's money that we can put to better use because it's people that need it. And so I think that we need to get the TABS Act on the floor, and we need to get it passed because giving states the ability to get a better picture of an individual's"
Hearing Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
SCOTT, RICK "It just doesn't make any sense to me. So if you couldn't get any more money out of the government, all right, and we didn't let you borrow more money, because if you borrow more money, ultimately, you know what that's going to happen. The Postal Office, I've been up here seven years, it never makes"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
HOYER, STENY H. "He did not. Mr. Chairman, I'm going to vote against this bill, but I'm going to argue that we certainly need to spend money. We need to spend the money on industrialization. We need to spend money on acquisition. And we need to spend money on"
Hearing Hearings to examine the affordability agenda.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
TILLIS, THOMAS "you know what but last time I checked a lot of the banks still give you one or two passes but when it becomes a chronic problem at what point are you expected to actually know how much is in your bank account before you write a check? That's what this is. It's nothing more than that. It's financial literacy. I'll put money into financial literacy. I'll put money into real-time don't write this check because you're about to get money and you've over you've gone over the customary limit that banks will actually write off. Everybody's talking about like banks get you it's a profit center. I..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Bradford Pentony Wilson, of New Jersey, to be Archivist of the United States, Hal Duncan, of Texas, to be...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "something that you're really concentrating on to eliminate the waste and fraud that we've been seeing. The stats I used yesterday was at a minimum $250 billion per year in GAO, up to a trillion dollars according to LexisNexis. I mean, and it's impossible to prosecute that and recover those funds. You have to prevent them from going out to the front end. So can you, first of all, just address the accusations of partisan allocation of grant money. Elections matter, and obviously you're going to provide grant money to the issues that a duly elected president are going to want to support. But..."
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
MORENO, BERNIE "But my point being that this is, I think, where the anger comes from. Why would a company that's a multi-trillion dollar company need any money? There was a situation in Ohio. Carlisle Group came in, built the data center in Akron, and we gave them four and a half million dollars. Like, why? And I've said to David Rubenstein at Carlisle, give them money back. You don't need the money. And if you need the money, you have a shitty business model. That's the problem. So number two, start with this crappy business model. See, the best part of being Catholic, Sunday, confession, it's all over. So..."
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
THE HONORABLE BRIAN NESVIK "Yes, certainly. So I think this is a time when looking for places like we may not have looked before, like additional, you know, states have the same issue as we do in the federal government. They have to look at how much money they take in and how much money they spend, and when that's lopsided, they've got to make adjustments. And what I would tell states is, is that this is a time when there's not going to be as much federal money, because our priority is to reduce government spending. You're going to have to look to non-governmental organizations, you're going to have to look at your own..."
Hearing Beijing’s Poison Pipeline: The CCP’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MR. DAVID LUCKEY "Thank you for the question, Representative Moylan. I'd just focus on the fact that, while I haven't done specific research on this recently, it's perceived that most of the traffickers of these precursor chemicals that are being used to produce illicit fentanyl are not large organizations. It's not major criminal organizations. And, in fact, it's likely very small, single-person or single-family-run organizations. So the challenge is far greater than it might first appear, which makes redoubling the efforts even more important. On the other hand, regarding criminal money laundering, Chinese..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and the Fiscal Year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I won't ask for consistency because I know we are Congress, but we talked about this is a bill that spends money, therefore we don't do things that don't spend money. This is over 50 things that don't spend money trying to take out of the bill. But there is one that I really think, you know, sometimes when we put things in, we don't look at them all that closely. There was a bill introduced by Representative Tom Tiffany from Wisconsin to designate the Apostle Islands as a national"
Hearing “State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnership, and the Resilience of America’s Communities”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "no longer met department priorities. Can you just talk us through in one minute what that was and what capability or capacity is lost with the elimination of that council? Yes, sir. In short, appreciated Mr. Littrell's line of questioning and his concern that sometimes everything sounds like it's going to cost money, cost money, cost money. I would submit to my colleagues that one of the most cost effective things we can do at the federal government level is play that convening role. There is no other entity that can as effectively bring together governments, the private sector, experts to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of...
senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE ADAM TELLE "There's sufficient funding in the budget to stay on track to fully restore the Everglades five years ahead of schedule. This is one of the biggest projects that's happening in the United States of America right now. That's new money? This new money that's requested and it's going to be in addition to other money that's been provided and of course future needs that will come to you in future fiscal years. Sorry to interrupt. Yes, sir. No problem. Most importantly, and Chairman Kennedy mentioned this, the budget includes a new way to delineate how we budget for district salaries. If you think..."
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
HEINRICH, MARTIN "this administration would cut the land resources account by 48 percent. That's just a fact. The Wildlife Management Aquatic Resources Program by 70 percent. It would cut management of national conservation lands, including our national monuments, recreation areas, and national trails by 75 percent, and I would point out that those national monuments are major drivers of economic development in my state. I don't know anyone in New Mexico that thinks we spend too much money on wildlife. We may spend too much money on a war in Iran, but we don't spend too much money on wildlife. People often say..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Environmental Protection Agency.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
LEE ZELDIN "if we're sitting here today saying, well, gosh, it's only four years and nine months left, I don't think the world is about to end, they want to vilify you as if you're denying science. I mean, I just saw a clip yesterday where Al Gore was talking about global freezing. I'm having trouble keeping up. I thought it was global warming and now it's global freezing. And I don't know what kind of money is made. You want to have making money off of a climate grift. Well, what won't get referenced by your colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle who bring up the greenhouse gas reduction fund is..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "Well, to your point, sir, in this proposed budget is $2 billion that would go as a block grant to states through a formula that'll be worked on. This will allow states to do that, don't always participate in grant-making because they, maybe they don't have enough money to hire grant writers, et cetera, but now all states will participate in money coming from this $2 billion. And then governors, state superintendents, state school boards will decide how this money should be spent in their state, where the greatest needs are, whether that's in rural communities, whatever those programs are,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Education.
senate Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "Well, to your point, sir, in this proposed budget is $2 billion that would go as a block grant to states through a formula that'll be worked on. This will allow states to do that, don't always participate in grant-making because they, maybe they don't have enough money to hire grant writers, et cetera, but now all states will participate in money coming from this $2 billion. And then governors, state superintendents, state school boards will decide how this money should be spent in their state, where the greatest needs are, whether that's in rural communities, whatever those programs are,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine federal boxing laws.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "Never did I meet someone who said, I'm making too much money, don't tell anybody. Everyone wants more money. And I understand that. So if we can generate more money, it means more money to the fighters. If given the opportunity for a UBO, assume the sponsorship and boxing as it currently stands is as horrific as the other elements of boxing. No major media conglomerate, no video game, no trading cards,"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for the fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Energy.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
COTTON, TOM "people. Thank you. And on spec. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Wright. I couldn't agree more. I'll take the opportunity of this annual hearing as I do in the Armed Services Committee when we address this topic to address the critics who say, why do we spend so much money on weapons we never use? It's wrong on both accounts. We don't spend that much money on these weapons. It's a fairly small percentage of our overall budget to include the budget of the military or your department. We just happen to be spending money for the first time on modernization projects at higher levels and they're badly needed...."
Hearing “Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Run by the States”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Transcript
FOXX, VIRGINIA "The same taxpayers must forfeit their pay to both levels of government. There's no, quote, federal money or state money, but rather taxpayer money. Therefore, all levels of government have the same obligation to be good stewards of"
Hearing Mitigation and Multiple Loss Properties: Factors Influencing the High Cost of Flooding
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
MR. STEVE ELLIS "And so we're going to have to move that direction to try to relieve some of the pressure on the program. Well, it's been previously mentioned, and one is that there's been less money, less resources, and some of it is because of the budget rules. You know, that's money that's on budget, whereas a disaster is post—you know, is emergency funding, and so there's more money. Thankfully, the BRIC program actually allowed some of the post-disaster funding to be shifted to mitigation, which is why it was so concerning that it was stalled for a few years"
Hearing “Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service: The Financial Future Under Postmaster General Steiner”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Mar 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "$700 million to $1 billion. There's two pieces to it. They won't allow us to raise prices more than once, and they've basically changed the work share rules, which are too complicated for here. But it's basically taking money from us, by their own admission, taking money from us, transferring it to mailers. They say they do it to balance. You know what I ask them? If we're balancing things, answer me one question. Of all the companies that do business with us, how many of them are losing money? The answer, zero. They're all making money. We're the only one losing money. I'm not sure how I see..."
Hearing Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_27 "Again, as you mentioned in your statement, charities do good work, and we shouldn't put a reporting regime in place that hamstrings charities from doing what they need to do. But the American people deserve the transparency and also the confidence when they're giving money to a charity, the confidence that that money is not being commingled with bad money and it's going to good uses. I would tend to agree with what the co-panelists have said. I used to ask my clients, do you look good in dark green or bright"
Hearing Hearings to examine hidden facts regarding Nazis and Swiss banks.
senate Judiciary Committee · Feb 3, 2026 · Transcript
KENNEDY, JOHN "So that's what this is still all about, isn't it? The money. It was about the money when your predecessor took the Nazi money, and it's about the money right now, isn't it? Oh, I see. What could it be about, then? Principal? The sanctity of the attorney-client"
Hearing “The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript
CROCKETT, JASMINE "Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid. Now while he was boosting those lies about USAID and he was stopping money going for say things such as Head Start, somehow the only money that didn't stop was the money to him and his organization. Now I don't know how you can have him be the watchdog as well as the guy that is literally living off of the government. If we want to talk about government welfare, it looks like Elon Musk, because it's my understanding that just on yesterday, a new contract was approved for approximately $300 million for Elon"
Hearing "Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country"
house Agriculture Committee · Feb 11, 2025 · Transcript
JOHN NEWTON "Thank you for the question, Mr. Crawford. I recall fondly the time that we spent with the Arkansas Ag Council when I was with Senator Bozeman's office, so it's nice to see you again. This is a topic that we explored when I was at Farm Bureau many, many years ago, and I think the challenge that we face with this is farmers have to have money before they can put it in an HSA-type account, and where we are with the farm economy today, the downturn that we're in, there's not a lot of money to put into that type of account, but there is value to that concept that you can tuck away some money..."
Hearing Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, focusing on assessing the United States response.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
RISCH, JAMES E. "I mean, all of these people, they're in it for money. And what's the easiest way to get money? What's the safest way to get money? And this certainly is ahead of these other more kinetic type of things that you're talking"
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
KLOBUCHAR, AMY "And again, as Senator Booker explained, this is simply states self-reporting errors after people come to them and they find out that they either have given them too little money because they lost a job or too much money because they got a job. And sometimes there is an adjustment made. That's what this is about. And the chips and other things may help us to get that information more"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
KENNEDY, JOHN "One of the things she specializes in is class actions. And thanks to her work, she has ensured that the people who are hurt and are the subject of these class actions, who oftentimes don't get any money, all the money goes to the lawyers. She has worked to ensure that people get their fair share. But more than her accomplishments, Judge St. John is, she's obviously intelligent. She's patient. She's wise. She is not a politician. She didn't have a squillion people call me to encourage her nomination either for the Court of Appeal or for the District Court. We do get a"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Gregory Carl Cook, to...
senate Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
KENNEDY, JOHN "One of the things she specializes in is class actions. And thanks to her work, she has ensured that the people who are hurt and are the subject of these class actions, who oftentimes don't get any money, all the money goes to the lawyers. She has worked to ensure that people get their fair share. But more than her accomplishments, Judge St. John is, she's obviously intelligent. She's patient. She's wise. She is not a politician. She didn't have a squillion people call me to encourage her nomination either for the Court of Appeal or for the District Court. We do get a"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sarah B. Rogers, of New York, to be Chief Executive Officer of the United States Agency for Global Media,...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
SARAH B. ROGERS "I serve him. But, you know, when it's ultimately Congress's decision how much money gets deployed, I've deployed that money and I will follow appropriations law in this function. I'm definitely going to bring back more of them. I'm not committing to returning the agency to like the same exact identical footprint it had under President Biden. I think we do need to reform and modernize, but we should see people coming back to"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the functions of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
MOODY, ASHLEY "last 10 days. None of them are on fraud. None of them address fraud directly. And this amendment is simple. The no aid to ghost students, it simply codifies what they're doing at the Department of Education so we can't backslip and it flags extremely suspicious student aid applications. When I say that, that means I'm a student, I'm telling you I live in Tampa but my IP address is in Kenya. Like very suspicious flags. And everything that they're catching is illicit. It's going to ghost students. But it holds the money until the applicant can prove their identity. It's common sense. They can..."
Hearing “Building an AI-Ready America: How AI Is Creating Opportunities Across America's Workforce”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 24, 2026 · Transcript
MCBATH, LUCY "Thank you so much, Chairman Allen, and thank you everyone for joining us today. It's so nice to be down on this side of Georgia since I usually am up on the other end of Georgia, so I feel very welcome to be here. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this important issue that is affecting our community with our community. Right now, Americans are being pushed to the brink by an economy that works for those only that are already doing well but not for regular people. You should not have to already have money to make money in the United States of America. We cannot allow that to become the..."
Hearing the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacists Fight Back [in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans Act]; 2) H.R. 9720,...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
PERRY, SCOTT "My concern, among other things, is it's hard for all of us up here to figure out who's hiding the ball. Seems like, and I'm not here to pick on anybody, I don't know, it seems like the PBMs make money, the big pharma makes money, but your local consumer, the average citizen, can't afford it, and your local pharmacies, especially independents, are being driven out of business. Now, the money's going"
Hearing “False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MR. SCOTT MECHKOWSKI "runs deeper. Last year, 33 people died in ICE facilities nationwide. In New Jersey's own prisons, an average of 48 die every single year. From 2018 to 2024, yet no one marched outside any one of those state prisons. This is never about conditions at Delaney Hall. It's not about the money. New Jersey has never minded the state taking our money. The state has more than $4 million fiscally in 2024 to hold criminal aliens in its own Department of Corrections and roughly $5.8 million in state criminal aliens assistance programs. Delaney Hall also supports 300 union jobs, which brings an estimated..."
Hearing Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the Abraham Accords
house Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE DAVID FRIEDMAN "Well, I think the efforts are demonstrably not successful because we see a world there that's aflame and doesn't look anything like what we would like it to look like. I would suggest, Congressman, that we do have an overblown sense of our ability to change the facts on the ground. When the United States enters or wealthy Western countries enter this region, most of the money usually gets spent in ways that are unaccounted for, that don't go to the right people. Sometimes we're looked at like a turkey on Thanksgiving. You know, someone just going to take, we'll take your money and then we'll,..."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate Mr. Ruby. I appreciate your testimony. And I have gotten one. I'm not as popular as the chairman. I've only gotten one spam call while we've been sitting here. And I am curious, though, because my constituents get these all the time, too. But a lot of them in my district and the complaints I get are people calling up on Medicare, Medicare Advantage type programs. But like the chairman, I don't get those. Now, he's too young to get them. But I don't get those. I get the ones that want to lend me money. So what algorithm are they using to decide to call..."
Hearing Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the FY2027 Research and Technology Enterprise
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "transformational breakthroughs here in the United States has slowed over the years. The breakthrough rates that our scientific enterprises are accomplishing are slower than they've ever been. I think there are very obvious examples. We're flying slower than we were It does, I agree. But I think, you know, even in areas where we've spent a tremendous amount of money, particularly in sort of the life sciences, the amount of money that it takes now to produce a new drug that can impact an American versus how it was 20 or 30 years ago is dramatically higher. So we need far more inputs in order to..."
Hearing Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
EDWARDS, CHUCK "days later, his very delegation chose to shut the government down. The North Carolina delegation chose to shut the government down. That brought things to a screeching halt. Money that was due to folks looking to recover was brought to a halt. Debris removal was brought to a halt. The help that people in western North Carolina needed was brought to a halt. All while there were folks up here saying, we need more money, we need more resources, and I thought it was rich and hypocritical of folks to then turn right around and vote to shut the government down. Just my perspective for those folks..."
Hearing "Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event Prediction Markets"
house Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
MR. CARL KENNEDY "Clearing brokers must also have complaint procedures. Then the most important piece, which I heard in the suggestion that perhaps there isn't a requirement with respect to anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rules, FCM's clearing brokers must have anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rules that are consistent with the Bank Secrecy Act. I think there are a lot of parallels between the types of customer protections and knowing your customers and understanding the risks assigned to the particular customers that you service that are existing in current requirements for Futures..."
Hearing Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "That's off balance sheet. If we make it even bigger by allowing all of the commercial banks to now become members of this GSE, it can earn a lot of money, and we can use that money to pay off this S&L crisis. And that's precisely what we did starting in 1989 with Freya. So 10% now went to the AHP, the Affordable Home Program, which is a very valuable program, and then originally a fixed amount, and later 20% of the profits went separately to pay off the S&L ref corp bonds. And so this was a way to clean up the S&L"
Hearing Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and the Path Ahead
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
SALAZAR, MARIA ELVIRA "They are just slaves. They cannot receive the money. That money that they are earning is deposited in a Cuban bank. Bottom line, modern-day human"