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Congressional Recognition of Commemorative Days, Weeks, and Months: Background and Current Practice
Reports · May 13, 2024
In each Congress, Members typically introduce hundreds of legislative measures to recognize, support, honor, or acknowledge certain days, weeks, and months. Some scholars have observed that...
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 · 5 transcript matches
SPEAKER_02 "We, in addition to that, significantly changed those summer hire authorities locally from six months to nine months. Many of these locations that you're talking about have got a season. I know at Steamtown, they go all the way through with the Polar Express train in"
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United States Bankruptcy Courts: Overview and Analysis of Bankruptcy Filings for the 12-Month Period Ending June 30, 2024
Posts · Oct 28, 2024
This Insight provides information and statistics related to bankruptcy filings in the United States bankruptcy courts for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2024 (this is the most recent reporting...
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Native American Heritage Month: Fact Sheet
Reports · Nov 1, 2024
Native American Heritage Month (also known as National American Indian Heritage Month) celebrates the contributions and achievements of Native Americans. November was first designated as National...
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LGBTQ Pride Month: Fact Sheet
Reports · Oct 17, 2022
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month, which is observed during the month of June, celebrates the achievements of the LGBTQ community and recognizes the historical and...
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Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Speech Resources: Fact Sheet
Reports · Aug 12, 2024
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. It is a time to recognize the contributions and achievements of Americans of Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Island descent. This guide is designed...
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National Disability Employment Awareness Month: Fact Sheet
Reports · Oct 25, 2024
This fact sheet provides authoritative information resources related to National Disability Employment Awareness Month. It is designed to assist congressional offices with work related to National...
Testimony SPEAKER_08
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This amendment originated with a piece of legislation that Congressman Nels and I worked on for months, months and months and months, to improve rail safety. But too often, we hear people talk about this issue as if the railroads are fundamentally"
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National Hispanic Heritage Month: Fact Sheet
Reports · Sep 18, 2023
This fact sheet is designed to assist congressional offices with work related to National Hispanic Heritage Month, which is observed from September 15 to October 15. It contains links to census and...
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE BROOKE ROLLINS "Our efforts over the past 17 months reflect the Trump Administration's commitment to ensuring that America's food supply remains the best in the world. It's safe, it's reliable, it's healthy, and it's affordable. Last Friday's jobs report beat every economist's forecast when 172,000 jobs were added in May, cementing the Trump economy's record of delivering for American workers month after month. In fact, more people are working today than ever before in American history. Further, 30-year fixed mortgage rates are down, and our deregulatory efforts are projected to save Americans a collective..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
TITUS, DINA "At some high-volume consular posts around the world, however, we are seeing massive wait times for tourism visas. It's 11 months in Bogota, eight months in New Delhi, seven months in Mexico City, 11 months in Ottawa, seven months in Mexico City, 11 months in"
Testimony GOLDMAN, DANIEL S.
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"But no. You know what Stephen Miller wants to do? He wants to suspend habeas corpus because he doesn't like the fact that he can't just do whatever he wants and there's actually a law that he has to follow. So yes, the criminals should be deported, but that's not who are being kept in these detention facilities indefinitely for months and months and months and months. Many with work authorizations, paying taxes, having"
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I'm just looking for the half a million people who are seniors. Just a commitment that they can count on getting that Social Security payment month after month after month without Donald Trump taking a big bite out of it. And I can't even get that out of this nominee. I'll be a no on"
Testimony GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to ...
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"to engage in an investigation because the White House is unhappy with a report. The thing about this particular issue is that the plane was reported on months ago, months and months ago, about the concerns that because it was built by Qatar that it wouldn't have the same security aspects that one would need to protect a president. And so this just doesn't ring true that your process was a thoughtful, deliberative,"
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Hearings to examine the nominations of Barbera Thornhill, of North Car...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Great. Thank you. And Mr. Brown, I'm not going to leave you out. I mean, I didn't want you to feel disappointed, so I'm going to ask a question of you too, and then I'll yield it back to the chair, and I applaud – or I thank the chair for giving me some grace on timing. In March, just a couple months back, I guess that's three, four months ago now, three months ago, the Associated Press reported that Equatorial Guinea – and this is a quote from the article – an authoritarian Petro state signed..."
Testimony VAN ORDEN, DERRICK
"To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conser...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"All right. Now on to the subject of the hearing, sir. So there's some real disparity. I was an enlisted guy in the SEAL teams for a long time, so it's kind of like process, you know. There's a disparity between the amount of time to apply to some programs where you get awarded things. Like EQIP is three to six months. CSP is three to six months. But like ECAP can be three days, right? So what are we doing or what are you doing over there to make sure that we can kind of level these bubbles?..."
Testimony SPEAKER_08
Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances,...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"I co-chaired the commission's hearing on Beijing's weaponization of supply chains back in 2024. One of the big frustrations we had in the buildup to that hearing was that we had our staff for months and months and months trying to get all the information they could, classified, unclassified, everything you can think of, on key starting materials and APIs so that we could put in our report and prepare our witnesses for what the actual exposure was so we could ask them about it. And we found out..."
Testimony BRETT MATSUMOTO
Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, t...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Some of that is late respondents. Some of that is the initial month seasonal factor can get revised in later months. Once you get to the third month, then that initial revision process holds until the benchmark revision. And in the benchmark revision, there are a number of other sources of potential"
Testimony HORSFORD, STEVEN
Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"And I'll work with you, thank you for your commitment today, along with my office to resolve these cases and reduce these unacceptable delays. Whether it's 11 months, six months, or one month, they deserve their benefits. With that, I yield back. Will the gentleman yield since you want to reference my"
Testimony SPEAKER_38
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"rights services, I urge you to support this bill and its detention facilities. And, you know, respectfully, we have been asking for reforms in the Department of Homeland Security for months and months and months, and I am hopeful that you will hear not only your Democratic colleagues' demands, but also the demands of the American people that are loud and clear that they want not a cent more to ICE and CBP until there are meaningful reforms. I yield"
Testimony MS. RACHEL GOODE
“Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"We then counted how many months delayed were those same biosimilars in getting access to market. And we found in the UK and Canada, it was five months and seven months, and that's beyond expiry of the basic patents on the drug. So they have some patents there as well. But in the US, it was two years and ten months. Yes. So the ETHIC Act is pro-innovation, because right now, we see pharmaceutical companies stacking duplicate patents on their old cash cows, when what they should be doing is..."
Testimony KENNEDY, TIMOTHY M.
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Okay. So why wouldn't you explain that and answer very simply in some sort of public response to the American people over two months ago, over two months ago when this letter was written, and over three months ago when this man was found dead? And the last people that had any contact with him that we are aware of were your"
Testimony HIGGINS, CLAY
“Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relations...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 14, 2026
"I recognize myself for a couple of closing remarks. I thank Director Secotta very much, sincerely, for appearing before us today. You had an incredibly busy schedule, running the agency for nine or ten months and then being nominated as director and going through a prolonged confirmation process that we anticipated would be a month or so. It turned into three or four months, and you were a gentleman throughout, and appearing before this committee today honored your promise to do"
Testimony SPEAKER_15
“From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Cri...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"prohibiting conspiracies against rights, which elevates misdemeanor FACE violations into federal felonies. And the result has been preposterous prison sentences. Consider the clinic sit-in at a D.C. abortion clinic in 2020, called a blockade by the government. Because a clinic staffer suffered a sprained ankle, all the participants were found guilty of a crime of violence as co-conspirators and were sent immediately to prison after the verdict. Joan Bell, 27 months in federal prison for a..."
Testimony MCGARVEY, MORGAN
"Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of...
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"contractors, they have the ACA to keep herself and her family, her 19-year-old disabled son, afloat. But when I spoke with her, she said that if the ACA expired, that her tax, her premiums are going to go from $350 a month to $1,275.69 per month. I talked to another couple. Again, in the gig economy, they're paying $625 per month before the tax credits expired. Now those premiums are going to $2,501 per month. And this is the kind of thing, if we want to have a gig economy, if we want to let..."
Testimony BRECHEEN, JOSH
“Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the...
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Mr. McNeil, for the TSA agents, given the attrition, given those that are leaving their jobs, you said 40 percent of people are calling in now saying, I just can't do this in some areas, 40 percent saying, I cannot do this, I have to go make a living for my family, I have to get a paycheck, and so that void is having to be filled. What happens months down the road, because of the six-month training requirement to get this up to speed, how many months will we be in a very vulnerable situation,..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEVIN MULLIN
Hearings to examine the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, t...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"I think we have an opportunity to maybe work on that. I meant it when I say that I hope in six months we're not. I can't guarantee it because the news choose what they're going to run, but I hope that I'm not on the news every six months or six months from now every day. I hope DHS is just able to be laser focused on doing their job and it isn't controversial about taking care of the homeland. I hope people have confidence in our agency again, and I'm going to work every day to restore"
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, t...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"just how many encounters were happening at the border, how many arrests, some of those things on it. Last year, it wasn't weeks late. It was months and months and months late on getting data out. DHS has a really good story to tell. There's a lot of good things that are happening there, but my concern is that social media and some of the examples are coming out just to tell the"
Testimony CANTWELL, MARIA
Hearings to examine how shutdowns threaten air safety, travel, and the...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"they need to come up, so it got very complex. Yeah, it's very complex, but I am interested in some analysis of this and some information because I think we might have also found some optimization of the system, and I do think that we push sometimes to get maximum, like the DCA, I'm sure we'll hear from NTSB in January about the flow of traffic into DCA the night of the crash, and was there too much flow, and should it have been slower, and then the warning bells that basically air traffic..."
Hearing “From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Criminal Law”
house Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_15 "prohibiting conspiracies against rights, which elevates misdemeanor FACE violations into federal felonies. And the result has been preposterous prison sentences. Consider the clinic sit-in at a D.C. abortion clinic in 2020, called a blockade by the government. Because a clinic staffer suffered a sprained ankle, all the participants were found guilty of a crime of violence as co-conspirators and were sent immediately to prison after the verdict. Joan Bell, 27 months in federal prison for a 77-year-old grandmother. Jean Marshall, 24 months in federal prison for a 77-year-old retired nurse...."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "I want to make one thing clear about Jack Smith, who was a special counsel. Months ago, perhaps six months ago, maybe longer, he volunteered to appear before this committee under oath and testify about what he did as special counsel and to answer the questions of the"
Hearing Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_25 "President Trump's economic agenda is bolstered by two other distinct but reinforcing levers, trade and deregulation. Let me briefly address both of these in turn. First, the President is undeterred in his determination to open markets for U.S. goods and services while rebuilding U.S. manufacturing capacity. Over the 12 months ending March 2026, the trade deficit for goods declined by $370 billion compared to the same time frame ending March 2025. The economy has added 313,000 net new private sector jobs and 13,000 manufacturing jobs in the past two months. Firm capital expenditures rose at an..."
Hearing H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027; H.R. 7726 – Stop Child Care...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SCANLON, MARY GAY "They're stretching every dollar. And the White House and Republicans looked at that situation and decided that assistance for pregnant women, babies, and kids was the place to cut. So think about what that means. The White House proposal would cut the allowance for fresh fruits and vegetables for a pregnant mom from $47 a month to $13 a month and would cut the allowance for a child from $26 to $10 a"
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GOLDMAN, DANIEL S. "But no. You know what Stephen Miller wants to do? He wants to suspend habeas corpus because he doesn't like the fact that he can't just do whatever he wants and there's actually a law that he has to follow. So yes, the criminals should be deported, but that's not who are being kept in these detention facilities indefinitely for months and months and months and months. Many with work authorizations, paying taxes, having"
Hearing "To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conservation Programs"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
VAN ORDEN, DERRICK "All right. Now on to the subject of the hearing, sir. So there's some real disparity. I was an enlisted guy in the SEAL teams for a long time, so it's kind of like process, you know. There's a disparity between the amount of time to apply to some programs where you get awarded things. Like EQIP is three to six months. CSP is three to six months. But like ECAP can be three days, right? So what are we doing or what are you doing over there to make sure that we can kind of level these bubbles? Because, you know, six months to a farmer's, that's an entire growing season, essentially, where I'm up..."
Hearing “Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relationship to the Tiahrt Amendment”
house Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee · May 14, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
HIGGINS, CLAY "I recognize myself for a couple of closing remarks. I thank Director Secotta very much, sincerely, for appearing before us today. You had an incredibly busy schedule, running the agency for nine or ten months and then being nominated as director and going through a prolonged confirmation process that we anticipated would be a month or so. It turned into three or four months, and you were a gentleman throughout, and appearing before this committee today honored your promise to do"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE KEVIN MULLIN "I think we have an opportunity to maybe work on that. I meant it when I say that I hope in six months we're not. I can't guarantee it because the news choose what they're going to run, but I hope that I'm not on the news every six months or six months from now every day. I hope DHS is just able to be laser focused on doing their job and it isn't controversial about taking care of the homeland. I hope people have confidence in our agency again, and I'm going to work every day to restore"
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
HORSFORD, STEVEN "I also want to thank my colleagues for finally showing us what this committee's priorities are, because it sure isn't the affordability crisis. Families in my district from North Las Vegas to Beatty are being squeezed every month by the cost of groceries, rent, child care, gas prices, and insurance, every single month. And what has this committee done about it? A tax refund from four months ago is not paying for next month's"
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
ESTES, RON "The Department of Homeland Security funding in the Big Beautiful Bill was to clean up the mess created by the Democrat border crisis under the Biden administration. Those were month after month of hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossings. President Trump shut that"
Hearing The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH "Those two are of common importance, and I'm going to deliver on both of them. So if I can be slightly longer than yes or no, the last 63 months, maybe 64 months of high inflation above the Fed's objective suggests that it is immediately important to think about reforms, including in communications, and that's what we're going to"
Hearing H.R.4398, the “Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Accountability Act”; H.R.4805, the “Warrior Impact from Neurological and G-Force...
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_16 "We welcome working with the committee to resolve these issues. Regarding the VHA's Personnel Transparency Act, VA supports greater transparency but has concerns about shifting from quarterly to monthly reporting. Monthly data are susceptible to human resources processing variation and short-term volatility. On the Foreign Medical Program Integrity Act, VA strongly agrees with the need to modernize and strengthen VFMP oversight, and we agree with GAO's recent findings on fraud"
Hearing “Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_04 "Somebody who is found guilty of an intentional program violation is subject to disqualification, either 12 months, 24 months, permanent, or a 10-year, other special disqualification penalties. People make false statements on"
Hearing Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MS. HEATHER LAGRONE "The current process has grantees developing action plans to great detail of events that are certified by the disaster declaration they have been granted from other federal programs. The grantee must then put the action plan out for a month long public comment period that often yields little to no input, followed by a month's long HUD approval and review process that yields also no input. All which easily add six to eight months to the start of recovery activities simply for the sake of bureaucracy and regulations that mirror a non-disaster recovery"
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_42 "Thank you. Thank you, Congressman. So the FSA offices continue to be a priority for USDA, making sure that our farmers have what they need. But the One Farmer, One File, to be clear, before we had it, we had about 5,000 applications come through. And we responded in person through FSA anywhere between a month and two months, sometimes hopefully quicker. But that was it. When we released One Farmer, One File with one of the programs last year, we had 57,000 farmers within five days receive their"
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 · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_00 "and local governments. We are facing a rapidly evolving landscape. The administration initiated an unlawful military operation against Iran, a military operation against Iran, and we are responding to military operations via cyber capabilities. Last month, Anthropic announced Mythos Preview, a highly capable AI model that has proven to be exceptionally effective at identifying vulnerabilities in software and writing exploiting for them. And in less than six months, state and local governments will administer the midterm elections, a target of past foreign interference efforts. While our..."
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Current Employment Survey Monthly Revisions
Resources · Aug 14, 2025
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was established by An Act to Establish the Bureau of Labor in 1884. In 1913, it was renamed and moved inside the new Department of Labor by An Act to create a...
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"pregnant women. What is a two-month-old baby doing? What kind of high crime is a two-month-old baby committing? Crying more than three seconds? What is"
Testimony THOMPSON, GLENN
"To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conser...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"They don't have children at home that they're caring for younger than age 14. If they're unwilling to engage in an average of 80 hours a month, 80 hours a month, in either work, volunteering, or quite frankly, my"
Testimony ROBERT CEKADA
“Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relations...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 14, 2026
"It's from our people looking at why are things done a certain way and modernizing how we do it. Prior to the zero tax actually coming into effect, I tested the system myself. I never purchased a suppressor before because I could afford to buy one and I don't want to wait 14 months to get one. So in November when we made the changes, I was happy to see, I didn't tell any one of these folks, but I went out and purchased one. I was happy to see within about 48 hours I was able to get an approval..."
Testimony HAGEMAN, HARRIET M.
“From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Cri...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"as Chairman Jordan just pointed out, in which the DOJ, despite hundreds of cases and hundreds of attacks against pro-life medical centers for women, the DOJ only charged a handful of them. So again, spare me your faux outrage. The report further reveals that the Biden DOJ prosecutors requested an average sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants compared to 12.3 months for pro-choice defendants. Mr. Severino, how do these average sentencing amounts correlate to the applicable range in the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
“From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Cri...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"In terms of the numbers, 97% of the cases were against pro-lifers. It was about 26.8 months for those convictions and about 12 months for the pro-choice side. And you see with the Houk case you mentioned, that is a gross abuse where you have armed FBI agents with long guns go into this man's house where they were in contact with their attorney and normally, under normal circumstances, if they're willing to turn themselves in, which in this case they were, they turned themselves"
Testimony THE HONORABLE MICHAEL DESOMBRE
Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"Well, I think we've seen some action from them, for example, on the fentanyl area, where they have scheduled the various different precursor chemicals and otherwise. We have been seeing in the last six months greater crackdown by the Chinese in various different countries. So I think, actually, you've seen in Cambodia a lot of the, you know, crackdowns over the last six months, which have actually been, you know, to some degree very successful in decreasing the amount of scam compounds in..."
Testimony ANDY SCHNEIDER
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"There's, similarly, there are differentials. So you're looking at a monthly income of $2,000 a month, depending on the area of the country that the mother and child live in? Yes. I don't understand how they make ends"
Testimony MARK MACARRO
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Now, I can tell you on an individual basis, tribal property by tribal property, fairly certain we track revenue in similar fashion. For instance, this particular week in August, the first week of August, I know that our tribal gaming facility knows what revenue was generated on this day, which was today, Tuesday, on this day last year for this first week of August and the year before that and the year before that. We can compare week to week like that over different years, month to month, and..."
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Mr. Chair, I want to thank the chair for the commitment, so to everyone here, when the chair tells you right when you're about to have a vote on something, can you put this off until next month? You kind of hesitate because schedules get screwed up, and even when there's a complete sincerity in the offer, sometimes that hearing next month punts, but it is a mark of the working relationship I've had with the chair and my respect for him when he said, let's do that. I said, okay, and the offer..."
Testimony HAWLEY, JOSH
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Yeah, yeah, I can see why I Can certainly see why you know what? I can't quite figure out is that why you were so obsessed with it because you're already rich I mean in your your scheme worked here. I mean you're not worth now is north of 12 million dollars You got over a million dollars in cash awards during kovat during a 12 month 24 month span during kovat a million Bucks you knocked down in cash money using federal resources. Now, you're worth more than 12 million dollars You've got a..."
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Hearings to examine advancing the mission, focusing on evaluating the ...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Those delays are partially due to a wildly inefficient hiring process for VA research staff. Researchers are reporting to us that the time to hire a new member of their staff now often takes up to six months. As a result, a planned study on RSV missed its enrollment window and could not even enroll participants. Another clinical trial closed after it took six months to hire a researcher. The study's principal investigator and its lead clinician both resigned from the VA after that debacle. VA..."
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And above all, the safety of agency employees and the public remains our top priority. We are experiencing higher than average national fire activity after a dry winter. Extensive drought and excessive heat are worsening hazardous fuel conditions across large parts of the West and other areas as well. The agency stands ready to meet those challenges head-on and continues to focus on our priority work. We are prioritizing initial response so we can keep fires small, and we're invested in..."
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Hal Duncan, of Texas, t...
senate Budget Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Again, I hope, I hope the public will listen, because as you said, you know, Senator loved, you know, and there are so many cruel things written about Lindsey while he was alive and even after he's dead. It's just so grossly unfair. So, you know, I think there are so many areas of agreement. There's all kinds of things we disagree on, but having had conversations off and on with all of you, there are things we agree on. So, I know I've got this job for about six months. I want to use those six..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And I think I'm excited and very thrilled to say that we surpassed that goal. We actually had four test reactors reach criticality in the last few months, and this is something that I personally went out to visit at Idaho National Lab a few months ago, and I think it just shows that if you set bold, ambitious goals for Americans and you set the regulatory structure in the right way, that there is confidence and understanding from our innovators on what they're responsible for, we can achieve..."
Testimony HORSFORD, STEVEN
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I also want to thank my colleagues for finally showing us what this committee's priorities are, because it sure isn't the affordability crisis. Families in my district from North Las Vegas to Beatty are being squeezed every month by the cost of groceries, rent, child care, gas prices, and insurance, every single month. And what has this committee done about it? A tax refund from four months ago is not paying for next month's"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"available to us because it is a very much critical piece of how we fund and go to market. Now, with that being said, you talked about the AHP programs. The beauty of the whole thing is that as we look at that pie of that ecosystem and we get to grow that pie and do more work, we create loans, we get to pledge more collateral. As we increase the pie, there's more dollars that are available for us to put into programs such as our AHP programs. One of the programs that Cornhusker Bank has found..."
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"So I added those letters from Nature Conservancy and the Wilderness Society to our hearing record in February, so I don't feel like I need to add them here, but I'll just remind that this should not be the controversial measure that it has historically been viewed at. I think all you need to do is look at the House and their recent actions on this. They worked on this bill together across the aisle, reported it from full committee a month ago, well, I guess a couple months ago. The full chamber..."
Testimony ESTES, RON
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"The Department of Homeland Security funding in the Big Beautiful Bill was to clean up the mess created by the Democrat border crisis under the Biden administration. Those were month after month of hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossings. President Trump shut that"
Testimony KAPTUR, MARCY
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Children, children, hungry children, senior citizens, especially those who live on less than $2,500 a month. How'd you like to live on less than $2,500 a month? Disabled vets, they even have a special day for"
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I want to make one thing clear about Jack Smith, who was a special counsel. Months ago, perhaps six months ago, maybe longer, he volunteered to appear before this committee under oath and testify about what he did as special counsel and to answer the questions of the"
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Because in prior incidents, reference Minnesota earlier in your testimony, Alex Pretty and Renee Good were also fatally shot. And as far as we can tell, it's been months and months, there's been no justice in these cases. As far as I can tell, those officers were not"
Testimony THE HONORABLE TODD BLANCHE
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"They're just collecting money off the backs of taxpayers. And then you have, it's true. The governor of Minnesota did nothing but obstruct our efforts month after month. And then when we did a takedown and we executed a law enforcement action on a given day, he hopped on to X and said he was happy to partner with"
Testimony TILLIS, THOMAS
Hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congr...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I just wanted to make that point. The last thing, if you could just tell me, I know you don't want to get in, I think Senator Britt asked you some questions. I love the fact that you're doing reform. I would like to see the project charter for the task forces, if you have that, if people are managing this, milestones, any sort of dashboard you have, the things that any well-put-together set of task forces would have assembled for a six-month project, I'd like to just track it. Not necessarily..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH
The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Those two are of common importance, and I'm going to deliver on both of them. So if I can be slightly longer than yes or no, the last 63 months, maybe 64 months of high inflation above the Fed's objective suggests that it is immediately important to think about reforms, including in communications, and that's what we're going to"
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH
The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"which should have a material improvement ultimately in wages and the strength of the economy. But the long term can be quite far out, and we've got to monitor things month by month, quarter by quarter as we get there. So thank you,"
Testimony SALAZAR, MARIA ELVIRA
More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State an...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"So, could you? I would love to see. It's been six months. I would like to see two reports because it's every three months. So, can you show us, Congress, where that money is going to and provide the KPMG report to us? Can you commit to"
Testimony SPEAKER_11
“AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Some of it is free. A lot of it you can buy month to month. I don't think the lock-in is a"
Testimony THE HONORABLE MICHAEL KOZAK
Hearings to examine the national security strategy and the western hem...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"So there are a bunch of... That's the agenda they've got. They've got working groups to work on each one of those elements. And I would be looking, you know, to say, okay, let's... We're delayed for a month or so by the earthquake, but let's see, you know, over the next couple or three months how they're doing it in terms of putting those elements in place. We're also, you know, not looking for the Cadillac election"
Testimony SOTO, DARREN
Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"We've seen 18 months of bureaucracy, 18 months of talk, 18 months of delay. A lot of my folks back home think that the Rural Broadband Plan was actually the smaller rollout of the American Rescue Plan broadband, because that's the only thing that's happened to date since"
Testimony SPEAKER_16
H.R.4398, the “Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Account...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"We welcome working with the committee to resolve these issues. Regarding the VHA's Personnel Transparency Act, VA supports greater transparency but has concerns about shifting from quarterly to monthly reporting. Monthly data are susceptible to human resources processing variation and short-term volatility. On the Foreign Medical Program Integrity Act, VA strongly agrees with the need to modernize and strengthen VFMP oversight, and we agree with GAO's recent findings on fraud"
Testimony SPEAKER_10
H.R.4398, the “Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Account...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thank you, Congresswoman. For a while, I was a teaching fellow in health care operations at the Yale School of Management. And when I was there, I founded a practicum program where we put students into the Yale New Haven Health System to deal with these kind of queuing theory and wait time problems. What I would teach my students is that they could not start their first process improvement meeting until they had access to three buckets of data. They had to have staffing, demand, and wait times...."
Testimony STEIL, BRYAN
Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"It was only in the modern era as large ERP systems came in, pay began to get delayed, it was paid once a month, twice a month, weekly, bi-weekly, and what we've had is a system that does not give access to individuals to the wages that they've earned. That's a challenge that exists in the marketplace. It actually exists to young men and women who work here in the United States House of"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"It depends on weather, other schedules. And then when we get the data, our geophysicists have to work on the quality control and analysis before we can publish it. So there is a bit of a lag of a few months to sometimes many months from when the survey is completed to when the data are public. But all that data is in the pipeline. We just released, I believe it's four separate data sets just in the last few"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"The foreign trade zone application process is handled by CBP. And there have been significant delays, in some cases six months to 12 months, in those applications. I know CBP is operating under resource constraints, and I appreciate the work our officers are doing under difficult circumstances. The fiscal year 27 housemark includes important investments in CBP that may enable modernization in the automated commercial environment"
Testimony MCIVER, LAMONICA
“From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and I...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"more uncertainty, imposing broad tariffs, shuffling agencies, and pushing policies that make it harder for businesses to truly plan. The people need SBA to step up and defend them, more now than ever, even with some of the progress we've seen happen in just this Congress with bills that we passed with, you know, support and partnership from both sides of the aisle. Still, small businesses need more. Small businesses are telling us that they do not know if they can make it week after week, month..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
“Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Somebody who is found guilty of an intentional program violation is subject to disqualification, either 12 months, 24 months, permanent, or a 10-year, other special disqualification penalties. People make false statements on"
Testimony STANSBURY, MELANIE A.
“Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"It's to help grandparents who are taking care of children. It's to help take care of kids who are in the foster care system. It's there so that when a mom goes through a divorce and she loses her job and is having a hard time, she can take care of her kids. That's what the SNAP program exists for. It is a bridge. It doesn't even cover the cost. I would like to know, can any single person on this panel feed your family for $174 a month? Anybody? Can anybody in this room feed your family for $174..."
Testimony PAUL, RAND
Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Thank you for your testimony. We'll now proceed to questions. There are things you can control and things you can't control. And the mandates, I frankly would have removed the mandates and treated it more like a business. I just remove them completely. Even some compromises, you know, you go from six days to five days, you save $3 billion. You go to four days, you save $3 billion. Another $3 billion, that'd be $6 billion. That's two-thirds of your annual debt just by going to four days. You can..."
Testimony BALDWIN, TAMMY
Hearings to examine the nominations of Thomas B. Chapman, of Maryland,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"As you heard, I am very concerned about the merger between Union Pacific and North Southern as proposed, especially in light of some recent comments made by UP's CEO, Jim Vena. Mr. Vena, speaking to investors just a week ago, argued that statute requires the STB to complete its review within 12 months of accepting an application and that that clock is already running. He then said that if the board does not follow that 12-month requirement, then in his words, UP and NS does not have to follow..."
Testimony MILLER-MEEKS, MARIANNETTE
Trash to Treasure: Examining Legislation to Support Domestic Critical ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"one where speed and efficiency were not strategic imperatives. Every month of delay is a month China is pulling further ahead. Mr. Goldberg, we currently have a regulatory system designed, as I said, around the system of how do we safely dispose of"
Testimony CASE, ED
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"in the big picture, and decide it in one particular bill, I don't think we should go down any one part of that road. Number two, we have not demonstrated that the Department of Defense has any capacity to execute on a huge 50% increase in one fiscal year budget, and much more than that if you look at two fiscal years. Let's focus on the General Accountability Office's report just recently that showed a 10.7% reduction in Department of Defense personnel in just 11 months. I'm sorry, more..."
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
Future of Payments: Promoting Innovation and Fair Markets
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"And with the agency largely shut down, the CFPB has not been supervising large banks or big tech payment providers to make sure they are following consumer protection laws. Meanwhile, consumer complaints about financial products and services have exploded with more complaints filed in the last 14 months than consumers filed with the CFPB in the agency's first 14 months. So as we consider the state of payments and how innovations could benefit consumers,"
Testimony KEVIN LILLY
Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"In addition, sir, we have increased our number of seasonal hirings, not only in numbers, from 5,000 to 6,000, but also we have increased the duration from six months to nine months. So therefore, parks that have a longer seasonal cycle will not be burdened by losing these very valuable seasonal"
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"We are supposed to be deliberative here. We're not supposed to just be doing political punches. Earlier this year, we increased funding with pay-fors for all of the public health extenders in a bipartisan fashion. So to say that we're not doing this is to ignore the work we've already done. There's some 6.6 billion in this new spending, which is not offset. It takes other members' priorities and inserts them into an unrelated bill in bad faith. The ranking member had months to engage with me on..."
Testimony CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"I would remiss not to mention the recent decision out of the D.C. District Court that invalidated the 2020 programmatic biological opinion issued by the service for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation Enforcement's Mining Regulation Program. This decision will negatively impact coal production in the 24 states that have primacy. That includes my state. I'm extremely disappointed by this court decision and very concerned about what it will mean for projects in my state moving forward...."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"That could occur at CNN. That means American consumers, who already pay an average $69 a month for streaming on top of $100 a month for cable and $78 for internet, paying even more for sports, news, and entertainment. So, in the face of this profound consolidation and antitrust crisis sweeping the media market, why is the majority focused just on the"
Testimony MS. HEATHER LAGRONE
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"The current process has grantees developing action plans to great detail of events that are certified by the disaster declaration they have been granted from other federal programs. The grantee must then put the action plan out for a month long public comment period that often yields little to no input, followed by a month's long HUD approval and review process that yields also no input. All which easily add six to eight months to the start of recovery activities simply for the sake of..."
Testimony MRS. STEPHANIE MCGARRAH
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"We also need flexibility because even within North Carolina, what happens in eastern North what happens in eastern North Carolina and our recovery there in a flat coastal area is very different than the recovery required in western North Carolina, which is mountainous. Secondly, I would suggest that you allow states to leverage our action plans that are already in place. Heather talked about this from Texas' perspective. Our process took at least four to five months, and I'm regularly talking..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE BROOKE ROLLINS
An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Our efforts over the past 17 months reflect the Trump Administration's commitment to ensuring that America's food supply remains the best in the world. It's safe, it's reliable, it's healthy, and it's affordable. Last Friday's jobs report beat every economist's forecast when 172,000 jobs were added in May, cementing the Trump economy's record of delivering for American workers month after month. In fact, more people are working today than ever before in American history. Further, 30-year fixed..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE BROOKE ROLLINS
An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"And that also opening up a dispersal facility earlier this year for the first time and outfitting a facility in Metapa, Mexico that will open this month that will increase our sterile fly production by 100 million flies. That all happened because of what we implemented over a year ago in preparation for this moment. And since January 2025, and this is a really, really important point for those who are saying that we have not, we were caught unprepared. When we walked in the door in January..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE BROOKE ROLLINS
An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"No, the ports have been closed for a year, and that allowed us to keep it out. I think that if we'd opened any of those ports, we would have had it on our side six months, eight months, ten months ago. They"
Testimony GRASSLEY, CHUCK
An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"EPA Director Zeldin testified before another committee in the Senate that during the eight I do know of any information about small refineries shutting down. It's been a couple months, maybe three months, since I talked to you about vaccination for screw worms. You may not remember that conversation, and I don't expect you to, but we talked about it, and you were going to look into it. Yes, sir. What's the chances of use of vaccination to get us beyond this? Because when I called you, there was..."
Testimony GROTHMAN, GLENN
"On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Provid...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"of this opportunity because of their life circumstances, and I'm sure it would be very upsetting to them if this option was not open to them. Would you feel guilty if we got rid of these sort of positions and the people who maybe want to work less hours or maybe work more hours one month than another month, they no longer have that option? Okay. Well, I guess the answer should be obvious, but we'll ask, well, as Dr. Pella, I don't mean to, you're not getting questions,"
Testimony JEREMY HARRELL
Nuclear Permitting Reform: Legislation to Advance Efficient Licensing
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"In the end, there's a lot of that throughout the beginning of the process, and so in our mind this is a common-sense reform that comes into place, and if there's a contested licensing proceeding, then absolutely, we should have that back-end process, but this gets rid of an unnecessary step in the process. licensing activity? Yeah, at least one advanced reactor developer, the experience was over half a million dollars in fees just for this singular hearing and a delay that was at least six..."
Testimony TITUS, DINA
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"At some high-volume consular posts around the world, however, we are seeing massive wait times for tourism visas. It's 11 months in Bogota, eight months in New Delhi, seven months in Mexico City, 11 months in Ottawa, seven months in Mexico City, 11 months in"
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"My amendment would require the Secretary of State to report to Congress on the status and amount of U.S. funding that has been sent to the Board of Peace and accounting of how those funds have been used and documentation of any civilian harm occurring at any Board of Peace site funded by U.S. taxpayers. Every day, month after month, we in America are witnesses to and complicit in the horrific genocide in Gaza. The population has been systematically starved, civilian infrastructure has been..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"And despite the so-called ceasefire put in place seven months ago, the IDF continues its bombardment of Gaza. Just last month, the IDF killed 119 Palestinians, 30 percent of whom were either children, women, or the elderly, making May the deadliest month for Palestinians this year. The United States is Israel's largest supplier of arms, providing the government of Israel billions of dollars in military"
Testimony SPEAKER_15
“Hearing with the Commissioners of the Postal Regulatory Commission”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"January 2021. For the past two years, I was elected Vice Chairman of the agency by my fellow commissioners who join me here today. We have a vacancy in the Chairman position, so pursuant to law, the Vice Chairman acts as Chairman. As current agency head, my remarks this morning reflect the full Commission testimony. In some ways, not much has changed since my last testimony before this committee more than nine years ago in February 2017. If anything, the situation has gotten worse. Almost three..."
Testimony SPEAKER_25
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"President Trump's economic agenda is bolstered by two other distinct but reinforcing levers, trade and deregulation. Let me briefly address both of these in turn. First, the President is undeterred in his determination to open markets for U.S. goods and services while rebuilding U.S. manufacturing capacity. Over the 12 months ending March 2026, the trade deficit for goods declined by $370 billion compared to the same time frame ending March 2025. The economy has added 313,000 net new private..."
Testimony SPEAKER_25
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"What the other side doesn't want to talk about is job growth is strong, except for April, we have seen real wage growth every month, every month since President Trump took office. They don't want to talk about that 2.6 percent economic growth, despite the shutdown in the fourth quarter of last year, and despite the Iran conflict. We will get on the other side of this, and we are creating jobs, and importantly, Congressman, these are jobs for Americans, not the 5, 10, 20 million illegals that..."
Testimony SPEAKER_25
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"It is a basket and the basket is up 2.5%. During the Biden era, it was up 5% a year. I'm afraid you're incorrect because we had real wage increases every month since President Trump took office, except for the month of April. So I know the facts don't align with your"
Testimony SPEAKER_42
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Thank you. Thank you, Congressman. So the FSA offices continue to be a priority for USDA, making sure that our farmers have what they need. But the One Farmer, One File, to be clear, before we had it, we had about 5,000 applications come through. And we responded in person through FSA anywhere between a month and two months, sometimes hopefully quicker. But that was it. When we released One Farmer, One File with one of the programs last year, we had 57,000 farmers within five days receive their..."
Testimony PINGREE, CHELLIE
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"And I just want to see you guys put your money where your mouth is on these things. I've also heard on your new regenerative program, we have at least one farmer who's applied for that, and it has been months and months and no answer on that. So again, I'm really happy to follow up and just talk to you about that, or we don't have to figure it all out now. I wanted to say in one of the great things, I was pleased to hear about your domestic cotton program. I'm also the co-chair of the Slow..."
Testimony SPEAKER_36
Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America Fi...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Now, in Iran, the Trump administration issues a general license to Russia, providing billions in oil profits every month, several billion every month, fueling Putin's war machine. You didn't mention that in your opening"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
“Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in ...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"the challenges that industry faces, so they can make an informed decision about where they're going to take their future. I think that they can, the rotation programs, maybe work with this company for a month and then a different company for a month and then get to see what the different size companies are really dealing with. I think that there's a lot of opportunity to improve"
Testimony SIMPSON, MICHAEL K.
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Obviously, I'm more than willing to work with you and having a hearing on this. I expect that we're going to have some hearings in September, whether it's with the Smithsonian, with the Kennedy Center, with others that we didn't have time to get to previously. But I agree with you that there needs to be oversight. Your bill essentially says we want monthly reports or your amendment says we want monthly reports. Our language says that the committee or quarterly reports, the committee directs the..."
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"They're stretching every dollar. And the White House and Republicans looked at that situation and decided that assistance for pregnant women, babies, and kids was the place to cut. So think about what that means. The White House proposal would cut the allowance for fresh fruits and vegetables for a pregnant mom from $47 a month to $13 a month and would cut the allowance for a child from $26 to $10 a"
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"This comes from my years of having been a divorce attorney. There are actually 4.33 weeks in a month, so if you take 80 hours a month and divide it by 4.33, it's not 20. It's 18.47. And since we average it out over a period of weeks and months, you really only have to average 18.5 hours of work or volunteer work or education or drug treatment program or, or, or in order to qualify. So there's all kinds of"
Testimony NEGUSE, JOE
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"Paying, I don't know, $1,000 a month for groceries. How many children do you have? Two, I have two as well. I don't know how much money you're spending on groceries on an average basis, but, you know, $1,000 a month, $1,500 a month, right? $12,000 a year, $15,000 a year. It adds up pretty quick, Mr."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"and local governments. We are facing a rapidly evolving landscape. The administration initiated an unlawful military operation against Iran, a military operation against Iran, and we are responding to military operations via cyber capabilities. Last month, Anthropic announced Mythos Preview, a highly capable AI model that has proven to be exceptionally effective at identifying vulnerabilities in software and writing exploiting for them. And in less than six months, state and local governments..."
Testimony SPEAKER_03
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"standpoint, but they're very dynamic. And so what does 18 months look from now or six months from now? So we'll start with you, Mr. Jane, Ms. Darby, I'll give you the final word, but what are your closing"
Testimony MS. MARY KATHRYN NAGLE
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 1010 (Rep. Leger Fernandez), “Bridging Ag...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 21, 2026
"Title II grants the Bureau of Indian Affairs authority to conduct its own background checks, enabling the BIA to hire more officers more efficiently. This provision is critical. Currently, the Office of Justice Services, OJS, is so severely understaffed that Native families have been waiting for more than eight months just to receive a return phone call or email concerning the status of their loved one's case. This is the case with Kiserra Stops Pretty Places, a young Crow and Cheyenne teenager..."
Testimony SESSIONS, PETE
“DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 13, 2026
"Tell me about those. Are they systems that will take five months to fix, 10 months to fix, two years to fix? They're going to come"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"We, in addition to that, significantly changed those summer hire authorities locally from six months to nine months. Many of these locations that you're talking about have got a season. I know at Steamtown, they go all the way through with the Polar Express train in"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"So we have to do a better job of coordinating with state and local as well as across the interagencies, but appreciate your support on that. The last personal thing I would say is that just 18 months ago, in my last two months before I left office as governor, we had a wildland fire that started, and we knew right away that we weren't going to be able to handle it with our National Guard and our"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"The plan that we announced last week was based on the current conditions, but the numbers that we put in that showed the potential between 600,000 acre-feet and 1 million was to give that flexibility, that if we end up with more water in the system, if we can achieve our objectives with lower releases from the upper basin, we'll do that. But it's going to be week by week, month by month, as we see. And again, I just say, pray for rain. We've got to get some summer moisture to give us some more..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Yeah, lots of internal work on trying to identify this. Well, happy to share whatever is public, but I'm looking at your gold line there, and I just can't believe that that's even the accurate number. I mean, I stated already, we have 5,500 positions open right now that we've extended from six months to nine months. Extended to nine months. And then those, and this, and the Park Service has always been built around, around people that are part-time, quote, summer, but nine months, but they come..."
Testimony JAMES, JOHN
AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepay...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"fields before farmland, protect our water, and keep electric bills low. How do we make sure Michiganders actually benefit from that growth without being stuck with the bill of a billion-dollar infrastructure and projects for Silicon Valley? How do we ensure ratepayers aren't subsidizing massive new loads? And how do we do it while protecting critical natural resources like water that these facilities depend on? Because at the same time we're trying to win this AI race, Lansing is pursuing..."
CRS Report
National African American History Month Speech Resources: Fact Sheet
Report · Feb 5, 2026
This fact sheet links to authoritative information resources related to National African American History Month, which is also referred to as African American History Month and Black History Month....
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Women’s History Month Speech Resources: Fact Sheet
Report · Feb 17, 2026
Women’s History Month commemorates the contributions of American women. March was first designated as Women’s History Month on March 12, 1987, by P.L. 100-9. Since then, Presidents have issued annual...
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Older Americans Month Speech Resources: Fact Sheet
Report · Sep 12, 2025
May is Older Americans Month—a time some celebrate and pay tribute to older people across the country. Since 1992, the Administration on Aging has selected an annual theme for Older Americans Month....
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Small Business Research Programs Reauthorized After Six-Month Lapse
Legal Sidebar · Jul 13, 2026
On April 13, 2026, President Trump signed the Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act (P.L. 119-83) into law. P.L. 119-83 reauthorized the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)...
Hearing H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This amendment originated with a piece of legislation that Congressman Nels and I worked on for months, months and months and months, to improve rail safety. But too often, we hear people talk about this issue as if the railroads are fundamentally"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under Secretary,...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
WARREN, ELIZABETH "I'm just looking for the half a million people who are seniors. Just a commitment that they can count on getting that Social Security payment month after month after month without Donald Trump taking a big bite out of it. And I can't even get that out of this nominee. I'll be a no on"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence.
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E. "to engage in an investigation because the White House is unhappy with a report. The thing about this particular issue is that the plane was reported on months ago, months and months ago, about the concerns that because it was built by Qatar that it wouldn't have the same security aspects that one would need to protect a president. And so this just doesn't ring true that your process was a thoughtful, deliberative,"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Barbera Thornhill, of North Carolina, to be Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, with...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
KAINE, TIM "Great. Thank you. And Mr. Brown, I'm not going to leave you out. I mean, I didn't want you to feel disappointed, so I'm going to ask a question of you too, and then I'll yield it back to the chair, and I applaud – or I thank the chair for giving me some grace on timing. In March, just a couple months back, I guess that's three, four months ago now, three months ago, the Associated Press reported that Equatorial Guinea – and this is a quote from the article – an authoritarian Petro state signed a secretive deal with the Trump administration and has become a transit hub for deported migrants...."
Hearing Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances, and security.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "I co-chaired the commission's hearing on Beijing's weaponization of supply chains back in 2024. One of the big frustrations we had in the buildup to that hearing was that we had our staff for months and months and months trying to get all the information they could, classified, unclassified, everything you can think of, on key starting materials and APIs so that we could put in our report and prepare our witnesses for what the actual exposure was so we could ask them about it. And we found out that we do not have that information. And it's not just we don't, nobody has that"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, James Macy, of...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
BRETT MATSUMOTO "Some of that is late respondents. Some of that is the initial month seasonal factor can get revised in later months. Once you get to the third month, then that initial revision process holds until the benchmark revision. And in the benchmark revision, there are a number of other sources of potential"
Hearing Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the Commissioner of Social Security, Frank J. Bisignano
house Social Security Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
HORSFORD, STEVEN "And I'll work with you, thank you for your commitment today, along with my office to resolve these cases and reduce these unacceptable delays. Whether it's 11 months, six months, or one month, they deserve their benefits. With that, I yield back. Will the gentleman yield since you want to reference my"
Hearing H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act; H. Res. 1335 – Condemning actors seeking to...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_38 "rights services, I urge you to support this bill and its detention facilities. And, you know, respectfully, we have been asking for reforms in the Department of Homeland Security for months and months and months, and I am hopeful that you will hear not only your Democratic colleagues' demands, but also the demands of the American people that are loud and clear that they want not a cent more to ICE and CBP until there are meaningful reforms. I yield"
Hearing “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MS. RACHEL GOODE "We then counted how many months delayed were those same biosimilars in getting access to market. And we found in the UK and Canada, it was five months and seven months, and that's beyond expiry of the basic patents on the drug. So they have some patents there as well. But in the US, it was two years and ten months. Yes. So the ETHIC Act is pro-innovation, because right now, we see pharmaceutical companies stacking duplicate patents on their old cash cows, when what they should be doing is"
Hearing “A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security”
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
KENNEDY, TIMOTHY M. "Okay. So why wouldn't you explain that and answer very simply in some sort of public response to the American people over two months ago, over two months ago when this letter was written, and over three months ago when this man was found dead? And the last people that had any contact with him that we are aware of were your"
Hearing "Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of Entrepreneurship."
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
MCGARVEY, MORGAN "contractors, they have the ACA to keep herself and her family, her 19-year-old disabled son, afloat. But when I spoke with her, she said that if the ACA expired, that her tax, her premiums are going to go from $350 a month to $1,275.69 per month. I talked to another couple. Again, in the gig economy, they're paying $625 per month before the tax credits expired. Now those premiums are going to $2,501 per month. And this is the kind of thing, if we want to have a gig economy, if we want to let people actually go out and have these sources of work where they can make income, but we are cutting..."
Hearing “Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the DHS Shutdown on Americans”
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
BRECHEEN, JOSH "Mr. McNeil, for the TSA agents, given the attrition, given those that are leaving their jobs, you said 40 percent of people are calling in now saying, I just can't do this in some areas, 40 percent saying, I cannot do this, I have to go make a living for my family, I have to get a paycheck, and so that void is having to be filled. What happens months down the road, because of the six-month training requirement to get this up to speed, how many months will we be in a very vulnerable situation, even if the shutdown was to end today? I yield, Mr."
Hearing Hearings to examine how shutdowns threaten air safety, travel, and the economy.
senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
CANTWELL, MARIA "they need to come up, so it got very complex. Yeah, it's very complex, but I am interested in some analysis of this and some information because I think we might have also found some optimization of the system, and I do think that we push sometimes to get maximum, like the DCA, I'm sure we'll hear from NTSB in January about the flow of traffic into DCA the night of the crash, and was there too much flow, and should it have been slower, and then the warning bells that basically air traffic controllers had said went off for months and months and months unheated because there was too much going..."
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
THE HONORABLE MICHAEL DESOMBRE "Well, I think we've seen some action from them, for example, on the fentanyl area, where they have scheduled the various different precursor chemicals and otherwise. We have been seeing in the last six months greater crackdown by the Chinese in various different countries. So I think, actually, you've seen in Cambodia a lot of the, you know, crackdowns over the last six months, which have actually been, you know, to some degree very successful in decreasing the amount of scam compounds in Cambodia. I think our understanding is much of that has been driven by Chinese desire, as those scam..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
ANDY SCHNEIDER "There's, similarly, there are differentials. So you're looking at a monthly income of $2,000 a month, depending on the area of the country that the mother and child live in? Yes. I don't understand how they make ends"
Hearing Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, focusing on tribal implications and beyond.
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
MARK MACARRO "Now, I can tell you on an individual basis, tribal property by tribal property, fairly certain we track revenue in similar fashion. For instance, this particular week in August, the first week of August, I know that our tribal gaming facility knows what revenue was generated on this day, which was today, Tuesday, on this day last year for this first week of August and the year before that and the year before that. We can compare week to week like that over different years, month to month, and then of course years by years. So when, for instance, there was a time during COVID, during the..."
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
KAINE, TIM "Mr. Chair, I want to thank the chair for the commitment, so to everyone here, when the chair tells you right when you're about to have a vote on something, can you put this off until next month? You kind of hesitate because schedules get screwed up, and even when there's a complete sincerity in the offer, sometimes that hearing next month punts, but it is a mark of the working relationship I've had with the chair and my respect for him when he said, let's do that. I said, okay, and the offer was either to call up the amendment that I offered last month as a standalone bill, which prohibited..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
HAWLEY, JOSH "Yeah, yeah, I can see why I Can certainly see why you know what? I can't quite figure out is that why you were so obsessed with it because you're already rich I mean in your your scheme worked here. I mean you're not worth now is north of 12 million dollars You got over a million dollars in cash awards during kovat during a 12 month 24 month span during kovat a million Bucks you knocked down in cash money using federal resources. Now, you're worth more than 12 million dollars You've got a pension that in its first year paid out north"
Hearing Hearings to examine advancing the mission, focusing on evaluating the future of VA research.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MURRAY, PATTY "Those delays are partially due to a wildly inefficient hiring process for VA research staff. Researchers are reporting to us that the time to hire a new member of their staff now often takes up to six months. As a result, a planned study on RSV missed its enrollment window and could not even enroll participants. Another clinical trial closed after it took six months to hire a researcher. The study's principal investigator and its lead clinician both resigned from the VA after that debacle. VA researchers are not only being undermined by delays and cuts at the department, but also by..."
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. Forest Service"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
TOM SCHULTZ "And above all, the safety of agency employees and the public remains our top priority. We are experiencing higher than average national fire activity after a dry winter. Extensive drought and excessive heat are worsening hazardous fuel conditions across large parts of the West and other areas as well. The agency stands ready to meet those challenges head-on and continues to focus on our priority work. We are prioritizing initial response so we can keep fires small, and we're invested in staffing, coordination, contracting, and infrastructure to meet the reality that fire season is now many..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Hal Duncan, of Texas, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
senate Budget Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
JOHNSON, RON "Again, I hope, I hope the public will listen, because as you said, you know, Senator loved, you know, and there are so many cruel things written about Lindsey while he was alive and even after he's dead. It's just so grossly unfair. So, you know, I think there are so many areas of agreement. There's all kinds of things we disagree on, but having had conversations off and on with all of you, there are things we agree on. So, I know I've got this job for about six months. I want to use those six months to find those areas of agreement so that what Senator Whitehouse was talking about does not..."
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 "And I think I'm excited and very thrilled to say that we surpassed that goal. We actually had four test reactors reach criticality in the last few months, and this is something that I personally went out to visit at Idaho National Lab a few months ago, and I think it just shows that if you set bold, ambitious goals for Americans and you set the regulatory structure in the right way, that there is confidence and understanding from our innovators on what they're responsible for, we can achieve truly, truly great things. Yeah. I think this will be probably one of the most consequential..."
Hearing Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "available to us because it is a very much critical piece of how we fund and go to market. Now, with that being said, you talked about the AHP programs. The beauty of the whole thing is that as we look at that pie of that ecosystem and we get to grow that pie and do more work, we create loans, we get to pledge more collateral. As we increase the pie, there's more dollars that are available for us to put into programs such as our AHP programs. One of the programs that Cornhusker Bank has found very beneficial is our mortgage rate reduction program. I've mentioned a gentleman by the name of..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
MURKOWSKI, LISA "So I added those letters from Nature Conservancy and the Wilderness Society to our hearing record in February, so I don't feel like I need to add them here, but I'll just remind that this should not be the controversial measure that it has historically been viewed at. I think all you need to do is look at the House and their recent actions on this. They worked on this bill together across the aisle, reported it from full committee a month ago, well, I guess a couple months ago. The full chamber has now passed it on suspension by a voice vote with no recorded"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
TILLIS, THOMAS "I just wanted to make that point. The last thing, if you could just tell me, I know you don't want to get in, I think Senator Britt asked you some questions. I love the fact that you're doing reform. I would like to see the project charter for the task forces, if you have that, if people are managing this, milestones, any sort of dashboard you have, the things that any well-put-together set of task forces would have assembled for a six-month project, I'd like to just track it. Not necessarily for the record, but if you could commit to have a meeting with the people running it with me, I'd..."
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 "So, could you? I would love to see. It's been six months. I would like to see two reports because it's every three months. So, can you show us, Congress, where that money is going to and provide the KPMG report to us? Can you commit to"
Hearing “AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "Some of it is free. A lot of it you can buy month to month. I don't think the lock-in is a"
Hearing Hearings to examine the national security strategy and the western hemisphere.
senate Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE MICHAEL KOZAK "So there are a bunch of... That's the agenda they've got. They've got working groups to work on each one of those elements. And I would be looking, you know, to say, okay, let's... We're delayed for a month or so by the earthquake, but let's see, you know, over the next couple or three months how they're doing it in terms of putting those elements in place. We're also, you know, not looking for the Cadillac election"
Hearing Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SOTO, DARREN "We've seen 18 months of bureaucracy, 18 months of talk, 18 months of delay. A lot of my folks back home think that the Rural Broadband Plan was actually the smaller rollout of the American Rescue Plan broadband, because that's the only thing that's happened to date since"
Hearing Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
STEIL, BRYAN "It was only in the modern era as large ERP systems came in, pay began to get delayed, it was paid once a month, twice a month, weekly, bi-weekly, and what we've had is a system that does not give access to individuals to the wages that they've earned. That's a challenge that exists in the marketplace. It actually exists to young men and women who work here in the United States House of"
Hearing Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's Resource Potential"
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "It depends on weather, other schedules. And then when we get the data, our geophysicists have to work on the quality control and analysis before we can publish it. So there is a bit of a lag of a few months to sometimes many months from when the survey is completed to when the data are public. But all that data is in the pipeline. We just released, I believe it's four separate data sets just in the last few"
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_03 "The foreign trade zone application process is handled by CBP. And there have been significant delays, in some cases six months to 12 months, in those applications. I know CBP is operating under resource constraints, and I appreciate the work our officers are doing under difficult circumstances. The fiscal year 27 housemark includes important investments in CBP that may enable modernization in the automated commercial environment"
Hearing “From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and Innovation in Powering America’s Small Businesses.”
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
MCIVER, LAMONICA "more uncertainty, imposing broad tariffs, shuffling agencies, and pushing policies that make it harder for businesses to truly plan. The people need SBA to step up and defend them, more now than ever, even with some of the progress we've seen happen in just this Congress with bills that we passed with, you know, support and partnership from both sides of the aisle. Still, small businesses need more. Small businesses are telling us that they do not know if they can make it week after week, month after month. Their costs are just rising and rising. Associate Administrator Carter, do you believe..."
Hearing Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
PAUL, RAND "Thank you for your testimony. We'll now proceed to questions. There are things you can control and things you can't control. And the mandates, I frankly would have removed the mandates and treated it more like a business. I just remove them completely. Even some compromises, you know, you go from six days to five days, you save $3 billion. You go to four days, you save $3 billion. Another $3 billion, that'd be $6 billion. That's two-thirds of your annual debt just by going to four days. You can let people pay. If they want it six days, they pay an extra $30 a month or $50 a month to get it. I..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Thomas B. Chapman, of Maryland, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, Edward Eppler,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
BALDWIN, TAMMY "As you heard, I am very concerned about the merger between Union Pacific and North Southern as proposed, especially in light of some recent comments made by UP's CEO, Jim Vena. Mr. Vena, speaking to investors just a week ago, argued that statute requires the STB to complete its review within 12 months of accepting an application and that that clock is already running. He then said that if the board does not follow that 12-month requirement, then in his words, UP and NS does not have to follow the statute either, in reference to the public"
Hearing Trash to Treasure: Examining Legislation to Support Domestic Critical Mineral Recovery and Recycling
house Environment Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
MILLER-MEEKS, MARIANNETTE "one where speed and efficiency were not strategic imperatives. Every month of delay is a month China is pulling further ahead. Mr. Goldberg, we currently have a regulatory system designed, as I said, around the system of how do we safely dispose of"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
CASE, ED "in the big picture, and decide it in one particular bill, I don't think we should go down any one part of that road. Number two, we have not demonstrated that the Department of Defense has any capacity to execute on a huge 50% increase in one fiscal year budget, and much more than that if you look at two fiscal years. Let's focus on the General Accountability Office's report just recently that showed a 10.7% reduction in Department of Defense personnel in just 11 months. I'm sorry, more accurately, 13 months. That is not sustainable when you increase the budget at that level. And we should..."
Hearing Future of Payments: Promoting Innovation and Fair Markets
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
WATERS, MAXINE "And with the agency largely shut down, the CFPB has not been supervising large banks or big tech payment providers to make sure they are following consumer protection laws. Meanwhile, consumer complaints about financial products and services have exploded with more complaints filed in the last 14 months than consumers filed with the CFPB in the agency's first 14 months. So as we consider the state of payments and how innovations could benefit consumers,"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, to be an Assistant Secretary, Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
KEVIN LILLY "In addition, sir, we have increased our number of seasonal hirings, not only in numbers, from 5,000 to 6,000, but also we have increased the duration from six months to nine months. So therefore, parks that have a longer seasonal cycle will not be burdened by losing these very valuable seasonal"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of mental or physical disability in cases of organ transplants,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "We are supposed to be deliberative here. We're not supposed to just be doing political punches. Earlier this year, we increased funding with pay-fors for all of the public health extenders in a bipartisan fashion. So to say that we're not doing this is to ignore the work we've already done. There's some 6.6 billion in this new spending, which is not offset. It takes other members' priorities and inserts them into an unrelated bill in bad faith. The ranking member had months to engage with me on these priorities. I approached him first for a list of bills for a markup two months ago. Instead,..."
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
CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE "I would remiss not to mention the recent decision out of the D.C. District Court that invalidated the 2020 programmatic biological opinion issued by the service for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation Enforcement's Mining Regulation Program. This decision will negatively impact coal production in the 24 states that have primacy. That includes my state. I'm extremely disappointed by this court decision and very concerned about what it will mean for projects in my state moving forward. Director Nesvig, thank you for being here. I look forward to hearing how you intend to build on the..."
Hearing “Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "That could occur at CNN. That means American consumers, who already pay an average $69 a month for streaming on top of $100 a month for cable and $78 for internet, paying even more for sports, news, and entertainment. So, in the face of this profound consolidation and antitrust crisis sweeping the media market, why is the majority focused just on the"
Hearing "On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Providers"
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
GROTHMAN, GLENN "of this opportunity because of their life circumstances, and I'm sure it would be very upsetting to them if this option was not open to them. Would you feel guilty if we got rid of these sort of positions and the people who maybe want to work less hours or maybe work more hours one month than another month, they no longer have that option? Okay. Well, I guess the answer should be obvious, but we'll ask, well, as Dr. Pella, I don't mean to, you're not getting questions,"
Hearing Nuclear Permitting Reform: Legislation to Advance Efficient Licensing
house Energy Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
JEREMY HARRELL "In the end, there's a lot of that throughout the beginning of the process, and so in our mind this is a common-sense reform that comes into place, and if there's a contested licensing proceeding, then absolutely, we should have that back-end process, but this gets rid of an unnecessary step in the process. licensing activity? Yeah, at least one advanced reactor developer, the experience was over half a million dollars in fees just for this singular hearing and a delay that was at least six months. On average, we're seeing somewhere between that four to seven months and upwards of a million..."
Hearing “Hearing with the Commissioners of the Postal Regulatory Commission”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "January 2021. For the past two years, I was elected Vice Chairman of the agency by my fellow commissioners who join me here today. We have a vacancy in the Chairman position, so pursuant to law, the Vice Chairman acts as Chairman. As current agency head, my remarks this morning reflect the full Commission testimony. In some ways, not much has changed since my last testimony before this committee more than nine years ago in February 2017. If anything, the situation has gotten worse. Almost three months ago, the Postmaster General testified here and presented a dismal fiscal forecast. He stated..."
Hearing Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America First Foreign Policy
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_36 "Now, in Iran, the Trump administration issues a general license to Russia, providing billions in oil profits every month, several billion every month, fueling Putin's war machine. You didn't mention that in your opening"
Hearing “Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in National Security.”
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_17 "the challenges that industry faces, so they can make an informed decision about where they're going to take their future. I think that they can, the rotation programs, maybe work with this company for a month and then a different company for a month and then get to see what the different size companies are really dealing with. I think that there's a lot of opportunity to improve"
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
SIMPSON, MICHAEL K. "Obviously, I'm more than willing to work with you and having a hearing on this. I expect that we're going to have some hearings in September, whether it's with the Smithsonian, with the Kennedy Center, with others that we didn't have time to get to previously. But I agree with you that there needs to be oversight. Your bill essentially says we want monthly reports or your amendment says we want monthly reports. Our language says that the committee or quarterly reports, the committee directs the center to provide quarterly reports and updates. I don't know if we have monthly"
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 1010 (Rep. Leger Fernandez), “Bridging Agency Data Gaps and Ensuring Safety for Native Communities Act” or the...
house Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
MS. MARY KATHRYN NAGLE "Title II grants the Bureau of Indian Affairs authority to conduct its own background checks, enabling the BIA to hire more officers more efficiently. This provision is critical. Currently, the Office of Justice Services, OJS, is so severely understaffed that Native families have been waiting for more than eight months just to receive a return phone call or email concerning the status of their loved one's case. This is the case with Kiserra Stops Pretty Places, a young Crow and Cheyenne teenager who was murdered in Montana in 2019. For nine months now, her family has been told that no one at..."
Hearing “DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · May 13, 2026 · Transcript
SESSIONS, PETE "Tell me about those. Are they systems that will take five months to fix, 10 months to fix, two years to fix? They're going to come"
Hearing AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepayers
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
JAMES, JOHN "fields before farmland, protect our water, and keep electric bills low. How do we make sure Michiganders actually benefit from that growth without being stuck with the bill of a billion-dollar infrastructure and projects for Silicon Valley? How do we ensure ratepayers aren't subsidizing massive new loads? And how do we do it while protecting critical natural resources like water that these facilities depend on? Because at the same time we're trying to win this AI race, Lansing is pursuing aggressive and costly net-zero mandates that are driving up costs and reliability risks. We're talking..."
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Social Security Retirement Earnings Test Overview
InFocus · Mar 2, 2026
Background Social Security is a work-related, federal insurance program that provides monthly cash benefits to workers and their eligible family members in the event of a worker’s retirement,...
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Presidential Transitions: Executive Clemency
Resources · Jul 31, 2024
In Section 2 of the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 (as amended; 3 U.S.C. 102 note), Congress declared that “[t]he national interest requires that [presidential] transitions ... be accomplished...
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Supplemental Security Income During and After Incarceration
Resources · Jan 31, 2024
Background Certain people who are incarcerated are not eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments but may be able to receive them once released. There is congressional interest in...