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Witness Bill New
New Industries · 2 hearings
CRS Report
Authorizing New Additions to Memorials in the District of Columbia: Issues for Consideration
Resources · May 8, 2023
In recent Congresses, measures have been introduced to add new elements to existing memorials in the District of Columbia. Adding new elements to completed commemorative works requires an act of...
CRS Report
Public Transportation Capital Investment Grant (New Starts) Program: Background and Issues for Congress
Reports · Jun 20, 2016
The Capital Investment Grant (CIG) program, often called New Starts, is a discretionary funding program for the construction of new fixed-guideway public transportation systems and the expansion of...
Hearing State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight Deficiencies.
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
JOHN CONNOLLY "its anti-fraud efforts. And of course, the Department of Human Services, as the Medicaid agency, was front and center in that. And as I described earlier, and I appreciate the opportunity to say more, many different policy changes were made as a result of that. We heightened provider compliance. You bet. So I'll start with enhanced prepayment review. That is a new process that's entirely new. We have, you know, external vendors helping us with that and staff working on that. We had 450 new staff given to us as a result of the legislation passed this year to enhance program integrity in..."
CRS Report
New Title IX Sexual Harassment Regulations Overhaul Responsibilities for Schools
Posts · May 27, 2020
The Department of Education (ED) published new regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) on May 19, 2020. Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex...
CRS Report
New FCC Rules Ban Authorizations for Equipment Posing National Security Risks
Posts · Jan 11, 2023
On November 25, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released new rules restricting equipment that poses national security risks from being imported to or sold in the United States....
CRS Report
New Federal Protections for Pregnant and Nursing Workers
Resources · Apr 28, 2023
Several federal laws protect workers during nursing and pregnancy, but two new federal laws, passed as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, go into effect this year and expand those...
CRS Report
Antitrust Regulators Release New Vertical Merger Guidelines
Posts · Jul 21, 2020
On June 30, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized new Vertical Merger Guidelines (VMG) outlining their approach to mergers and acquisitions between firms at...
CRS Report
China’s New Semiconductor Policies: Issues for Congress
Reports · Apr 20, 2021
Since August 2020, the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) has issued several new related policy measures to boost the development of its semiconductor and software...
CRS Report
A New Civil Service “Policy/Career” Schedule: Issues for Lawmakers
Posts · Jan 29, 2025
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) reinstating and amending EO 13957—an EO issued during the first Trump Administration in late 2020 that had originally directed each...
CRS Report
Congressional Authorization of New U.S. Circuit and District Court Judgeships
Resources · Jun 12, 2017
Congress, pursuant to its authority in Article III, Sec. 1 of the U.S. Constitution, determines through legislative action the size and structure of the federal judiciary. Congress first exercised...
CRS Report
Administration of the House of Representatives: Actions Taken During a New Congress and Following a Majority Change
Resources · Dec 5, 2022
As seen in Table 1, majority party control in the House of Representatives has switched 11 times since 1910, most recently in 2019 (beginning of the 116th Congress). The results of the November 2022...
CRS Report
COVID-19: Legal Considerations for Bringing a New Vaccine to Market
Posts · Mar 24, 2020
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increases at an accelerating rate, interest has grown in developing a COVID-19 vaccine as an avenue for addressing the pandemic. Media reports indicate that...
CRS Report
CFIUS: New Foreign Investment Review Regulations
Resources · May 28, 2020
Overview On January 13, 2020, the Department of the Treasury issued final regulations to implement key parts of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) (Title XVII, P.L....
CRS Report
The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the Senate Floor
Reports · Dec 19, 2024
The Constitution mandates that Congress convene at noon on January 3 unless the preceding Congress, by law, designated a different day. P.L. 113-201 set January 6, 2015, as the convening date of the...
CRS Report
Immigration Courts: Decline in New Cases at the End of FY2024
Posts · Nov 26, 2024
Immigration courts within the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) adjudicate immigration cases; most commonly, formal removal proceedings under Section...
CRS Report
Commercial Space Industry Launches a New Phase
Reports · Dec 12, 2016
Rockets, satellites, and the services they provide, once the domain of governments, are increasingly launched and managed by privately owned companies. Although private aerospace firms have...
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.105, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Mar 5, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony GUTHRIE, BRETT
Full Committee Markup of 16 Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · May 21, 2026
"Is there further recognition to speak on the bill? The gentleman from New York, almost said New Jersey, but the gentleman from New York, I know New New York but almost said New Jersey, gentleman from New York is recognized for five minutes to speak on the bill. Gentleman yields"
Hearing Hearings to examine S.90, to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to finalize and implement certain travel management plans...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Dec 2, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Thomas DiNanno, of Florida, to be Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security,...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Sep 17, 2025 · Request transcript
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 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.1674, to modify the boundary of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State of Kentucky, S.2498, to authorize the Secretary...
senate National Parks Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing H.R. 3106, (Mr. Kennedy of New York) the “Weatherizing Infrastructure in the North and Terrorism Emergency Readiness Act of 2025”; H.R. 5109, (Mr....
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.140, to address the forest health crisis on the National Forest System and public lands, S.332, to require a study...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.90, to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to finalize and implement certain travel...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Brandon Judd, of Idaho, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, Leah Campos, of Virginia, to be...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · May 8, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading the way.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
HUSTED, JON "know harms small businesses when you're trying to keep them in the family, particularly the ag community or anything that has capital intensive, land intensive. And we went in this century alone from CNBC rated us from the 34th worst state in the country to do business to the best state to do business. And now we have new businesses forming, new businesses growing, new businesses moving to Ohio, our population is growing. We had 3,000 manufacturing jobs in the last 12 months alone, more jobs than we've ever had in the history of our"
Hearing Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biotechnology.
senate Health Care Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
ALAN D. PALKOWITZ "But that's where innovation plays a role. We have to be able to fund the research around advanced chemistry, around new technologies that actually allow us to make these products safer, safer for the environment, but also fundamentally to bring down the cost. If we can do those two things together, it reestablishes the dominance of American industry for that purpose, but also in the long term, hopefully contribute to the overall cost of new therapies. Thank you, Senator. This is a little bit beyond my area of expertise on the commercial end, but I do feel that generics are an important part..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SCOTT, RICK "They're just using the federal tax dollars to pay, because we all, we should expect our states to be, have skin in the game. And what we're, what you're saying is, what happens is they don't actually have skin in the game. Mr. Ingram, the HHS Office of the Inspector General recently decertified New York's Medicaid fraud control unit due to a year-long failure to do its job. Despite receiving over 16 million dollars annually and having a staff of 270 people, New York was the worst performing unit compared to other states. This office was only able to secure 85 fraud convictions from 20 to 25,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artificial intelligence and transforming communications.
senate Communication, Media, and Broadband · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
BOB EVERSON "performance, cost, and data governance. A network this fast and distributed cannot be operated solely at human pace. Through agentic ops, Cisco uses AI to support self-healing operations, identifying faults, rerouting traffic, and recovering at machine speed. Our deep network models can distinguish legitimate AI traffic from anomalies, help predict and isolate threats, identify vulnerabilities, and guide operators in deploying patches. AI-native mobile networks can use spectrum and infrastructure more efficiently, adapt in real-time, and enable new services. For service providers, this can..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight Hearing - Office of Management and Budget
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"that when moving fast, and you need to move fast in a lot of these issues, when moving fast that you anticipate some of the issues that will be caused by moving fast, and I'll say one thing with the 25 seconds I have remaining. There is right now being contemplated moving the Army Corps of Engineers New York District Office to New Jersey. It's the New York District Office. It services areas of both New York and New Jersey, but it should remain in New York, and I hope that we don't fall into the..."
Testimony B. SALTZMAN
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"and that's because the threat is growing and the missions are important. The space control alone, to be able to secure the space domain so we can use it the way we want, requires us to invest in new capabilities for new mission sets. Those are going to be delivered in the next four to five years, but they're going to require new mission ops centers, new personnel to fly the satellites, as well as 10 new program offices just to do the acquisition work. So, we have an increase in manpower,..."
Hearing Business meeting to markup S.1759, to allow for the operation of civil supersonic flight in the national airspace system under certain conditions,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Request transcript
Testimony HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD
Hearings to examine the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, t...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"eventually Secretary Nome canceled the plans for this facility. Senator, will you ensure that the Merrimack plan remains off the table? Or will you consider that. In follow-up conversations with my office, ICE refused to comment on opening new facilities elsewhere in New Hampshire. They've said they won't do it Merrimack, New Hampshire. But will you commit to me that ICE will not open any new facilities in New Hampshire or elsewhere in the country without the relationships and, and work in that..."
Testimony MS. SHANNON SILAS
Delivering for Veterans and Caregivers: Year One of the Dole Act
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"First, thank you for this legislation and what it will accomplish. Within VA alone, the Dole Act mandates implementing more than 40 enhancements, new guidelines, or new programs, executing six new pilot programs, conducting outreach and releasing new online tools for veterans, patients, and coroner medical examiners, and completing 50 new congressional mandated reports. Given the scope and breadth of the legislation, VA moved oversight of Dole Act"
Testimony VIOLA
Hearings to examine how shutdowns threaten air safety, travel, and the...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"that we need to keep coming into the system. So the government employee and of course for our sector, the aviation employee, the FAA, the year has been very distracting to try to get work done with the FAA. I think the stability that the workforce needs, a long-term stability that you've heard here, not just okay we're going to make it now to January 30th, but they need to know that they are going to get paid, that they have jobs to do, that can actually dig into these certification issues that..."
Witness Elizabeth Heck
Greater New York Insurance Companies · 1 hearing
Witness Amy Laitinen
New America · 1 hearing
Witness Brad Lander
City of New York · 1 hearing
Witness Kyle Mann
New York Legal Assistance Group · 1 hearing
Witness Tom Paterson
New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association · 1 hearing
Witness Félix Matos Rodríguez
The City University of New York · 1 hearing
Witness Lisa Curtis
Center for a New American Security · 1 hearing
Witness Kathy Hochul
State of New York · 1 hearing
Witness Dustin Delano
New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association · 1 hearing
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Air Force.
senate Department of Defense Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
B. SALTZMAN "and that's because the threat is growing and the missions are important. The space control alone, to be able to secure the space domain so we can use it the way we want, requires us to invest in new capabilities for new mission sets. Those are going to be delivered in the next four to five years, but they're going to require new mission ops centers, new personnel to fly the satellites, as well as 10 new program offices just to do the acquisition work. So, we have an increase in manpower, increase in facilities when we get these new missions to perform these vital critical functions for the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, chatbots, and the new frontier of senior fraud.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SCOTT, RICK "Sadly, for many older Americans, falling victim to a scam doesn't just mean losing money. It could also mean losing peace of mind, trust in others, and confidence in themselves while navigating daily life. As this committee has heard many times before, this is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year problem. In 2025, Americans over 60 lost a staggering $7.7 billion to scams, and that's what scams have been reported. The rise of artificial intelligence has offered scammers new tools to pursue their criminal schemes, and we must adapt and respond to these new threats. AI can be used to make fraudulent..."
Testimony SHAHEEN, JEANNE
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"I was very impressed with that, to see the cooperation with our Danish and Canadian and Greenlandic partners. It was nice to hear that that is going so smoothly, despite some of the challenges. So can you, and for us in New Hampshire, to see the station, to know the connection to New Boston, New Hampshire, because there is a hub for the Space Force in New Boston, as you know. But can you talk about how important it is for that radar and space surveillance mission to our homeland missile warning..."
Testimony JOHN CONNOLLY
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"its anti-fraud efforts. And of course, the Department of Human Services, as the Medicaid agency, was front and center in that. And as I described earlier, and I appreciate the opportunity to say more, many different policy changes were made as a result of that. We heightened provider compliance. You bet. So I'll start with enhanced prepayment review. That is a new process that's entirely new. We have, you know, external vendors helping us with that and staff working on that. We had 450 new..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Requ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"One of the things we're working on, you mentioned the Nessie Pipeline. We're also very passionate about bringing the Constitution Pipeline, another pipeline that would go into upstate New York and ultimately supply gas to New England. The largest source of electricity in New York by far is natural gas, and if you can bring more gas and cheaper gas. And as you probably also know, the local oversight board in New York has rated the capacity as critical, meaning very close to blackouts, which also..."
Testimony TENNEY, CLAUDIA
An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Requ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"which actually, over time, bans fossil fuels and all-of-the-above strategy. Yet, New York State, today, New York City, specifically, is over 90% dependent on fossil fuels, specifically natural gas, while the rest of us in upstate New York are only about 30%, and the entire energy grid in New York State is only about 47% fossil fuels, and yet, here we are in upstate New York, you know, making up for New York City, because they oppose pipelines. They oppose transmission lines. They use the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_19
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"advanced. And so that is why buses, as was just noted by the Sierra Club, are the most sustainable way of traveling in mass transportation. And the reality is operators who are having to comply with the New York example, you know, they're based in New York, but they're also based in Florida. And, you know, when dollars are going to fines and to pay the citizen bounty program, that's fewer investments in their own workforce. Academy Bus is a great example where in one day in New York, they had..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"They're motivated purely by a goal, not sexual exploitation of a child. They are not the traditional pedophile that we might think about. Their goal is to cause disruption in our communities, to have us holding hearings today talking about just how difficult it is to think about our children being harmed for shock and for awe. When that is the new type of offender, we need new types of tools. Looking at the types of signals that exist on the social media platforms, the chats, how people are..."
Hearing An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_20 "One of the things we're working on, you mentioned the Nessie Pipeline. We're also very passionate about bringing the Constitution Pipeline, another pipeline that would go into upstate New York and ultimately supply gas to New England. The largest source of electricity in New York by far is natural gas, and if you can bring more gas and cheaper gas. And as you probably also know, the local oversight board in New York has rated the capacity as critical, meaning very close to blackouts, which also limits job opportunities and growth in New York. So we want to bring more energy into New"
Hearing “False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
VAN DREW, JEFFERSON "the Federation for American Immigration Reform. He previously served for more than two decades as a border patrol agent. Always good to hear from people on the ground who really have seen and heard it. Mr. Scott Mikowski. Mr. Mikowski is a retired law enforcement officer who served more than 24 years with what was then called the Immigration and Naturalization Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When he retired, Mr. Mikowski was serving as the deputy director of ICE in New York City. And Mr.—I want to try to say it right—Amal Sina. Good. Mr. Sina is the executive director of..."
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Federal Regulatory Commission.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE DAVID ROSNER "Fourth, we are embracing innovative pathways to power data centers and other large loads while protecting consumers. Over the last year, the commission has acted to ensure that demand growth leads to a more reliable, affordable and sustainable grid, and that America can win the AI race without regular families paying for it. At FERC, this is another top priority. In December and January, the commission implemented programs in the PJM and SBP regions to pair new large loads with new generation. This pairing reduces how much these projects lean on the grid, it minimizes the need to construct..."
Hearing Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, standards, and strategic competition.
senate Space and Science · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
DREW ENDY "Nobody in the engineering school who wasn't already in the department that didn't exist yet wanted a new department because that would be new competition for funding and new competition for students. Nobody wanted another person at the table competing. It became really important to create a new thing so that a new space could fill in and breathe and mature over time. And that became a new biological engineering"
Hearing Hearings to examine genes to machines, focusing on the patent eligibility debate.
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "Lindsey was a critical element of it, a critical part of that, as were many of the members of my colleagues. And we put it to the floor. Business supported it. Labor supported it. The groups across the board supported it. It was thoughtful. It was balanced. It was a remarkable achievement on a bipartisan basis. It passed in the Senate with an overwhelming vote, but unfortunately was killed in the House of Representatives. Lindsey was part of that Gang of Eight. Lindsey was part of every gang. He couldn't be kept away. And he was invited in because he was always trying to find that bipartisan..."
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 · 2 transcript matches
SHAHEEN, JEANNE "I'm really asking about Canada now. Because in the state of New Hampshire, we've had jobs lost because of this administration's policy on Canada. Well, not just tourist jobs, tourism jobs. In fact, I was in the northern part of New Hampshire recently, and I was told that there is a, there was a manufacturing company that the state of New Hampshire had been working with through our Bureau of Industry to bring this Canadian company down to a small town in northern New Hampshire, where they were going to bring in several hundred jobs. There were two other Canadian companies that were interested..."
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE BROOKE ROLLINS "We still have a ways to go, but we're making progress. And this year is no different, and I'm going to talk, sir, about the New World screwworm just at the outset, and then I'm sure we'll dive into it more. We continue to prioritize defeating the New World screwworm. Over the past week and a half, USDA has confirmed six cases of the New World screwworm within the U.S., all but one in the south of Texas. I was just in Texas two days ago to inspect a USDA research facility that we just opened two weeks ago, developing new technologies to combat this pest, and we're back tomorrow on site in..."
Hearing Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the Department of Commerce.
senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SHAHEEN, JEANNE "So as you pointed out, also, in a lot of places, it's actually better long-term to use those fiber optic cables. And one of the reasons that New Hampshire submitted a new plan was because on June 6th, your office said they had to come up with a low-cost, technology-neutral approach that's required by the new guidelines. But that approach was not what the state had determined was the best way to"
Hearing Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capital.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KIM, ANDY "Thank you, Chairman, for bringing this hearing together. It's very important, and thank you all for joining up here. You know, Mr. Flood, I wanted to start with you. What I've been trying to work on, and actually working with the Chamber on in New Jersey, for instance, is about really trying to create this new innovation hub, you know, to really trying to bolster the type of technology development and innovation we're trying to do in our state. I called it, you know, creating this Einstein corridor between Philadelphia and New York, and, you know, as we've been going through this process,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, focusing on tribal implications and beyond.
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
HARRY LEVANT "States can go further under the 10th Amendment, but I am here today with real life ideas to help you, and we'll come back each time you ask, because there are ways to make this safer. And I join with the distinguished leaders of Tribal Nation. I pledge to continue working with you and others to make this safer. I'm not a prohibitionist, but we have a mental health crisis on our hands. Thank you for your time. Emphasis on short term that you can actually do. Bring the sports league commissioners in, place them under oath, get to the bottom of why they are selling their data for gambling..."
Testimony COONS, CHRISTOPHER A.
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"articulated strategy in place. Congress also bears responsibility for allowing it to continue and to drift, although I am grateful for members on both sides who are sincerely interested in working to reclaim Congress's constitutional authority. Today, the Air Force and Space Force continue with long-standing modernization and readiness issues that predated Operation Epic Fury. I look forward to hearing how this year's budget request attempts to address those issues while in the context of this..."
Testimony CLARKE, YVETTE D.
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"overbroad indiscriminate actions will have, and he has refused to accept California's explanations for the growth in those services, which are due to longstanding efforts by the federal government and states to keep patients out of institutions and in their homes and in communities. The need for home health care does not disappear when funding is suspended, and California patients are terrified of losing care at home and being forced into institutions. CMS has also threatened my state, New..."
Testimony SCOTT PARTIKA
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"and we believe our federal partners can and should continue to improve protection and oversight of state programs. Now to Ohio. Troubling data in home health space was uncovered in Ohio late last year. We began investigating the information in conjunction with Ohio Auditor Keith Fabert and former Attorney General Dave Yo shortly thereafter. The result culminated in new actions and initiatives to address areas of weakness to combat the fraudster's attempt at exploiting these critical programs...."
Testimony JOYCE, JOHN
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Okay, so let's let's move on. Director Basiri, personal care and home health aides are the largest and fastest growing job category in New York. And according to CMS, accounted for more than $44 billion in total payments between 2023 and 2025. I understand based on information that New York provided to the committee just yesterday, even though it was requested in March, that New York State Department of Health is in the process of designating wavered personal care services as a high risk..."
Testimony TYLER SADWITH
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"So we view the 300 referrals as a strong commitment to California's rooting out bad actors in our Medicaid program. And we, just like Medicare and CMS, we have experienced issues in hospice and have taken comprehensive steps to protect the program, protect the Medicaid program through new requirements and new safeguards, and institute licensure moratoriums, institute new regulations. We've criminally charged over 100 individuals in the past few years. We've set up a statewide hospice task..."
Testimony TYLER SADWITH
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"We've set up a statewide hospice task force. We've revoked over 300 licenses, and we have over 300 licenses that are ongoing. Thank you, Congressman. So just as a baseline, approximately 20 percent of our staff are dedicated exclusively to program integrity. We've made several new investments to strengthen the integrity of the program based on lessons learned. One example is strengthening our identity based on our experience with the stolen identities of individuals being used to enroll. So we..."
Testimony HUSTED, JON
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"know harms small businesses when you're trying to keep them in the family, particularly the ag community or anything that has capital intensive, land intensive. And we went in this century alone from CNBC rated us from the 34th worst state in the country to do business to the best state to do business. And now we have new businesses forming, new businesses growing, new businesses moving to Ohio, our population is growing. We had 3,000 manufacturing jobs in the last 12 months alone, more jobs..."
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"the Federation for American Immigration Reform. He previously served for more than two decades as a border patrol agent. Always good to hear from people on the ground who really have seen and heard it. Mr. Scott Mikowski. Mr. Mikowski is a retired law enforcement officer who served more than 24 years with what was then called the Immigration and Naturalization Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When he retired, Mr. Mikowski was serving as the deputy director of ICE in New..."
Testimony MR. ART DEL CUETO
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"It's not and it's not only activists spreading these lies it's elected officials and members of Congress. In May 2025 New York Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested after attempting to force way into Delaney Hall facility. Congresswoman LaMonica McIver was also charged following the incident. Many more have repeated their calls to abolish ICE. New Jersey Governor Mike Sherrill was forced to acknowledge that the extreme elements in these protests and that many of the so-called protesters were not even..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE DAVID ROSNER
An oversight hearing to examine the Federal Regulatory Commission.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Fourth, we are embracing innovative pathways to power data centers and other large loads while protecting consumers. Over the last year, the commission has acted to ensure that demand growth leads to a more reliable, affordable and sustainable grid, and that America can win the AI race without regular families paying for it. At FERC, this is another top priority. In December and January, the commission implemented programs in the PJM and SBP regions to pair new large loads with new generation...."
Testimony KING, ANGUS S., JR.
An oversight hearing to examine the Federal Regulatory Commission.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"This one carries twice the power that this one does. So you can replace your conductor without new poles, without new right-of-way, without a lot of new civil works, and double the capacity. So that's really what we're talking about"
Testimony SPEAKER_15
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you. So while this bill imposes new reporting requirements, new penalties, and new compliance burdens on charities across our country and in our districts, the administration is overseeing an arrangement where the American people may never know who's writing the biggest checks for one of the most high-profile projects in our country. That's not transparency. It's a double"
Testimony DREW ENDY
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Nobody in the engineering school who wasn't already in the department that didn't exist yet wanted a new department because that would be new competition for funding and new competition for students. Nobody wanted another person at the table competing. It became really important to create a new thing so that a new space could fill in and breathe and mature over time. And that became a new biological engineering"
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"So, if passed, how do you see this legislation interacting with DOL's proposed independent contractor rule, and would it assist DOL with further rulemaking, which theoretically would have the goal of empowering independent workers? Once I was picked up at the Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans by a man who had been working as a Lyft or Uber driver in the Bay Area, California, but decided he'd rather live in New Orleans, clearly a very smart man, and so he moved back, and he just had to tell..."
Testimony HEINRICH, MARTIN
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"These threats have united local governments, tribes, traditional historic communities, and community organizations of all stripes to preserve the shared yet distinct heritages of the region. And as a result, we have the Caja del Rio Protection Act. This bill will create two new stewardship areas, a new special management area on over 67,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land, and a new national conservation area on over 17,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management land. It will permit traditional..."
Testimony SPEAKER_12
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Maine lobster fishery is really not asking for too much here. We're not asking for new funding, a new process, or any kind of new policy mandate. Simply, more time to complete the process that this Congress started back in December started back in December of 2022. This legislation, H.R. 9436, will provide the of 2022. additional years necessary to get the science right so that we can protect both. Before I complete my remarks, I want to have added into the record for this markup support for..."
Testimony SPEAKER_22
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Why did some people have a problem? The research was development of new, like so new, using new viruses. The research, in my opinion, should be redirected to learn what worked well with the mRNA platform and what didn't, because it was the first interaction with human"
Testimony SPEAKER_22
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Ma...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Why did some people have a problem? The research was development of new, like so new, using new viruses. The research, in my opinion, should be redirected to learn what worked well with the mRNA platform and what didn't, because it was the first interaction with human"
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine genes to machines, focusing on the patent eligibil...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Lindsey was a critical element of it, a critical part of that, as were many of the members of my colleagues. And we put it to the floor. Business supported it. Labor supported it. The groups across the board supported it. It was thoughtful. It was balanced. It was a remarkable achievement on a bipartisan basis. It passed in the Senate with an overwhelming vote, but unfortunately was killed in the House of Representatives. Lindsey was part of that Gang of Eight. Lindsey was part of every gang...."
Testimony DEBRA G.B. LEONARD
Hearings to examine genes to machines, focusing on the patent eligibil...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"when I have a patient who has a mutation in a gene, that mutation exists in that patient. I simply read it. It is a discovery. It is an uncovering of what exists in a patient. It is not an invention or an innovation and should not be patent eligible. So I have no problems with new testing methods, new sequencing instruments, new long-range sequencing, which you don't know what that means, but would be highly innovative and hasn't yet reached the clinical market. So all I am asking is that those..."
Testimony STANTON, GREG
updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; Gene...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"WORDA 26 offers us a real, bipartisan opportunity to put that partnership to work. The bill advances strong drought resiliency provisions, a new Office of Water Supply and Drought Resilience, a new continuing authority program for small drought projects, and new authorities to tackle invasive species and restore water storage capacity. It includes 30 Arizona-specific projects, from Phoenix's Trace Rios ecosystem restoration work and to flood control efforts in Pinal"
Testimony SHAHEEN, JEANNE
Hearings to examine the national security strategy and the western hem...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I'm really asking about Canada now. Because in the state of New Hampshire, we've had jobs lost because of this administration's policy on Canada. Well, not just tourist jobs, tourism jobs. In fact, I was in the northern part of New Hampshire recently, and I was told that there is a, there was a manufacturing company that the state of New Hampshire had been working with through our Bureau of Industry to bring this Canadian company down to a small town in northern New Hampshire, where they were..."
Testimony SHAHEEN, JEANNE
Hearings to examine the national security strategy and the western hem...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"They were going to bring with them their equipment that they had in their company in Canada, that was used equipment that they were going to put into their manufacturing facility in New Hampshire. And they were going to be charged, I don't remember the exact amount, but it was an unbelievable, hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring their used equipment across the border into New Hampshire, to provide jobs into New Hampshire. And so they decided they weren't going to come, because they were..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Memorializing our Veterans: Outreach, Upkeep, and Community Partnershi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"We are excited about our ongoing Southern Expansion. This project consists of three overlapping phases, scheduled to be complete in 2029, and will add over 80,000 new burial opportunities, but this expansion alone will not keep ANC open to new interments beyond the early 2060s. Without a change in eligibility, Arlington National Cemetery will close to new burials within 40 years, sooner should a major conflict result in a change of"
Testimony DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"robust IP system. It's the pride and joy of our country, and it's in our Constitution. Sorry, I said I wasn't going to talk about Conlon, I just did. But we believe in the patent system. The copyright side is strong and robust, too. We can't just throw up and scrap it at the behest of a few tech companies that say, oh, we're going to lose the arms race. There are multiple arms races going on here. Our arts and culture, no one compares to it. K-pop, Bollywood, Eurovision, sorry, nothing is as..."
Testimony CAREY, MIKE
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"do has been working in a kind of a multi-community, it's called the New Community Authority. And this is a statutorily created political subdivision. And it actually comprises of both the public and private sectors, which has the authority under the Ohio revised codes who actually do its own type of bonds. And this way the City of Columbus gets all the new tax income from the new jobs and Franklin County gets all the new sales tax. The way they do this is the ownership group agreed to a..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesot...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"I understand that it is incredibly challenging to create a new credit union or bank, but de novos are a priority for the administration and they're a priority for me. New credit unions are a sign of health within the credit union system, and they often reach new underserved communities. We need to do more to support new market entrants. When credit unions and their members are thriving, the American dream is"
Testimony CARTER, EARL L. "BUDDY"
Markup of Fifteen Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"and unnecessarily long wait times for a finished pair of prescription eyeglasses. While we've been working on this issue for years, states like Georgia, New York, Kentucky, New Jersey, Illinois, Louisiana, Colorado, Texas, and dozens of others are passing tough new laws to address a wide range of VPM abuses. Congress has a responsibility to act as well, particularly because millions of Americans receive vision coverage through federally regulated plans that fall outside the reach of many state..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"from CBP or from North Korea, or militias from Russia or Iran from the IRGC. We have to have an all-out, frontal approach and be proactive. We can't be reactive in this. We have to be very proactive, and that partnership is something we're strengthening, but we also got to respect privacy, too. There's a lot of privacy concerns when the government starts looking into cyber because of the sensitive material that is there. It's a fine line we're trying to work through. It's difficult. We're going..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
“Workforce Rewired: Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Economy”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Well, all the work we do supports working adults in communities across the country and earning their turning their job into a degree. And we understand that with a new administration comes new priorities. Building a new enterprise, a new social enterprise has its ups and downs, but we're pleased to see that there are some new grant competitions that have been released and they are prioritizing apprenticeship and work-based learning and degree-connected apprenticeship. And my team calls me the..."
Testimony EVANS, GABE
Subcommittee Markup of Eight Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"It says loud and clear that we cannot accelerate growth on the backs of Americans who are working hard to pay their electric bill at the end of every month. And the Ratepayer Protection Act requires each state regulatory authority to consider adopting a large load standard, one that applies to customers with 100 megawatts or more of power demand at their peak at a single facility, so things like large data centers and hyperscalers, because these are the customers that can single handedly..."
Testimony SPEAKER_12
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on Ameri...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"In the course of being on the Court of Appeals, it's given me a broad exposure to many areas of the law, things that I didn't necessarily practice in but now have seen in many cases or maybe just a few cases. It's that skill that I think I will bring to the District Court of having this experience of repeatedly learning about new issues, new legal disputes, new areas of the law, and I will be doing that in any number of cases on the District"
Testimony THE HONORABLE CHRIS SUNUNU
“The 30,000 Foot View: Competition and Regulation in the U.S. Airline ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Of course. You know, they're all big believers and users in SAF, as you know, and that continues to Sure. So as I think as the industry matures, the economics get better and better, right? Because like any fairly new technology, and it is a fairly new introduction into the industry, it starts out fairly costly, lots of new, I won't say barriers to entry, but you know, costs, R&D, all of our airlines are investing in various forms of research and development to make SAF more accessible, easier..."
Testimony MS. JENNIFER SPRINGMANN
Safeguarding Federal Research Funds: The False Claims Act's Role in Co...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"NSF is also utilizing a new mechanism called other transactions. So, that's a new, it's a new mechanism for NSF. It's also a new mechanism for us to need to oversight. So, we have a lot to learn in that area. Do you understand the nature of my question? Sure. So, program officers, we have, we do outreach to the program, and we let them know, these are the red flags that we've seen in our"
Testimony MR. CHRISTOPHER SUNUNU
Hearings to examine improving safety across the National Airspace Syst...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"or at least with TSA agents, twice in one year. So, that is a huge discouragement in itself. The new air traffic control modernization bill, the fact that there is money and it is being deployed for new training centers and new simulators and all that sort of thing is great. We feel very – we've seen a lot of this"
Testimony SPEAKER_12
Legislative field hearing on a Discussion Draft of the “Great American...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 12, 2026
"Much of this growth was to meet the demand brought here by all the visitors to the national park. New hotels, new restaurants, new boutique shopping is the majority of what we've seen. It hasn't always been this"
Testimony MR. ZACHARY SCHWARTZ
Delivering Quality and Modern Healthcare to Michigan's Veterans and Se...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 12, 2026
"So we want to make it as easy as possible. We allow the providers to put the information that they need, and only the information that they need, in a very easy place for us to use technology to grab that, as opposed to building connections or building out new systems. We work with what they have, so that there isn't any new setup they have to do, or any new setup or configurations they need to buy, because that's another concern we have. Just to confirm, you're asking the rejection by VA..."
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
"We still have a ways to go, but we're making progress. And this year is no different, and I'm going to talk, sir, about the New World screwworm just at the outset, and then I'm sure we'll dive into it more. We continue to prioritize defeating the New World screwworm. Over the past week and a half, USDA has confirmed six cases of the New World screwworm within the U.S., all but one in the south of Texas. I was just in Texas two days ago to inspect a USDA research facility that we just opened two..."
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
"Put it off for a year, but in the meantime, amped up by 1,000% our staffing over the last year. I had FDA emergency approve half a dozen or so treatments. Texas Animal Health Commission and the other states will lead now the front line, but we're right there with them. Opened up the new facility in Kerrville, Texas, the new research facility, outfitted the new facility in Metapa, Mexico. Tens of millions of dollars. We're going to have more sterile flies in the next few"
Testimony SPEAKER_18
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"But because they are acquired lands, minerals on them are governed by the Mineral Leasing Act for acquired lands, the law of this underlying bill amends today. Now, while the MLA for acquired lands excludes areas within national parks, national monuments, that exclusion does not cover many LWCF acquisitions, especially those targeting recreational access to public lands, which open up new trailheads or new stream access, new access for hunters and fishermen, and we want to be able to protect..."
Testimony MOORE, GWEN
Full Committee Legislative Hearing on Digital Asset Taxation
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I've heard about clarity and parity and charity and validators and regulators, and I guess someday we're going to get this right. Mr. Kershaw, can you tell us a little bit about the way in which our financial, our taxation system was built to really accommodate any sort of new products, new economic activity, the latest and greatest thing? So why do you suspect that we're having such a difficult time of inserting this new industry into the current system? For example,..."
Testimony MS. KRISTA HESSLER CARVER
“Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Second, innovation does not stop at the initial approval of a drug. After a medicine reaches the market, companies continue to invest in improving it, developing new formulations, new delivery methods and new uses. These advances can improve safety, enhance effectiveness, and expand treatment options for patients – including those with unmet medical"
Testimony STANSBURY, MELANIE A.
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Chief Schulz, welcome back to the Natural Resources Committee, we're grateful that you're here. I know there's been a lot of focus today on forest management overall and wildfire risk and the reorganization of the Forest Service, and certainly we're very concerned about that in New Mexico, but I want to focus today in particular on the protection of our national forests, which are important to our communities and the cultures of New Mexico, because as it stands right..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"I do. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This bill is packed with provisions. It adds new programs, new requirements, new responsibilities, page after page of changes for the people who plan and manage our transportation system. But in the middle of all of that, there's a provision that doesn't quite line up with the work we already"
Testimony MR. SAM PETSONK
"Protecting Workers and Powering America: The Future of Mining"
house Education and Workforce Committee · May 8, 2026
"just this week, this administration has reportedly laid off one-third of the staff of the Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, shutting down the entire Pittsburgh office. And we now have only three administrative law judges nationwide to hear all the mine enforcement actions in the administration. The commission will lack a quorum. That means they will not be able to conduct any business at all. And that has happened before, and it's caused major trouble and backlog, which is a problem for..."
Testimony MR. JOSEPH COLALILLO
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"At Wakefern, our retailer-owned cooperative operates across nine states—Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania. The 43 family owners of Wakefern have the good fortune of being represented by 10 members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, including Frank Pallone, Tom Kane, Paul"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the American Entrepreneurship for 250 Years: Drivi...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Immigrants bring creativity, adaptation, new ideas, and innovation. Their businesses also add to our culture, bringing new flavors, new products, and new perspectives that enrich us all. This is truly our American story, that waves of newcomers have arrived here, have identified gaps and opportunities, and have built new businesses to continue to grow our"
Testimony MR. TOM FALCONE
AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepay...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"building infrastructure just for a data center. Now that that's happened, you've seen a tremendous number of states, including Arizona, start breaking customers into rate classes and charging them the appropriate rate, and that rate's going to be higher because if you're building infrastructure for a new customer, new stuff costs a lot more than the old stuff, and so you want to charge them the marginal rate of the new stuff so that you don't have to raise rates on the old customer. So that's..."
Testimony SPEAKER_12
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"timeline is for the resolution on that. I appreciate that very much. Your department recently announced plans to reverse the mineral withdrawal around Chaco Canyon National Historic Park. I would be remiss if I didn't point out that that's over the objection of New Mexico's governor, New Mexico's land commissioner, myself, the junior senator from New Mexico, the entire congressional delegation. Even Secretary Bernhardt, who visited Chaco Canyon with"
Testimony SPEAKER_12
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"timeline is for the resolution on that. I appreciate that very much. Your department recently announced plans to reverse the mineral withdrawal around Chaco Canyon National Historic Park. I would be remiss if I didn't point out that that's over the objection of New Mexico's governor, New Mexico's land commissioner, myself, the junior senator from New Mexico, the entire congressional delegation. Even Secretary Bernhardt, who visited Chaco Canyon with"
Testimony ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA D.
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"Table. Now, regarding the new CDC director nominee, part of the new team that you said would revolutionize the CDC, Mr. Seery said that the pick will likely be a disaster, and he said the only thing that Schwartz will likely restore is the CDC to business as usual. He said that, this is his quote, left to your own devices, you wouldn't have even chosen her, and that she is, and I quote Mr. Seery here, the queen of mandating vaccines. So is Aaron Seery wrong about this new nominee, or is the..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH
Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be ...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"The interest rate tool hits the entire economy. So we need a new framework, new tools, and I'd also say, Mr. Chairman, new communications. I think part of the reason why, after making a mistake in 2021 and 22, the mistake"
Testimony RISCH, JAMES E.
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for the fi...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"The free enterprise system has recognized that, and boy, are they there. The stream of people that come to my office with new technology, new ideas, new ways that they want to do this is really stunning. So that's important. And I think the world's going to wake up when this"
Testimony BARR, ANDY
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"Mr Chairman Good morning For over 26 years GLBA has readily adapted to new technologies, new types of financial firms, and new types of data. In that same 26 years, the states have had ample opportunity to test different approaches, and the results are clear. It is time for a national framework. Financial institutions should have consistent"
Testimony SHAHEEN, JEANNE
Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the De...
senate Appropriations Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"So as you pointed out, also, in a lot of places, it's actually better long-term to use those fiber optic cables. And one of the reasons that New Hampshire submitted a new plan was because on June 6th, your office said they had to come up with a low-cost, technology-neutral approach that's required by the new guidelines. But that approach was not what the state had determined was the best way to"
Testimony HOWARD LUTNICK
Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the De...
senate Appropriations Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"We worked it out with them, and we moved on. New Hampshire, we agreed with New Hampshire in November of 2025. So they were one of the first and one of the fastest to go for the new guidelines, and they did an excellent job. Sixty-seven percent is fiber, because they determined that was the best"
Testimony STEIL, BRYAN
Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Ri...
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"relates to housing, some good, some bad. You had, Mr. O'Leary, you were on CNN recently talking about New York City's new mayor, housing policies, New York City's approach, put in place price controls, restrict on that side. Don't worry about supply because, of course, we're six million units undersupplied. So instead of focusing on supply, they want to restrict pricing. What's the real world implications when you put in place price"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine veteran health and healing through adaptive sports...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 4, 2026
"They being the doctors at any of the VA facilities that I've gone to, both through Canandaigua, New York, Buffalo, New York, and Syracuse, New York. Anytime I go, they literally say, we don't have, the doctors all say, we don't have a young enough"
Testimony STEPHEN W. SCHONDELMEYER
Hearings to examine truth in drug labeling.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jan 29, 2026
"Where is the active ingredient made and the factory name and address, the finished dosage form, manufacturer name and address, who packages the product, who labels it? All of that information is in the New Zealand drug supply chain. Every step along the way is transparent, and for every drug, prescription drug on the market in New Zealand, it's put in a database, and any consumer in New Zealand or the rest of the world can look up those products at the product-specific level and identify where..."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine the Department's cyber force generation plan and t...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"will need to be successful. How do we need to train our workforce to most effectively use that tool? AI is going to change fundamentally what many of our work roles do in this domain. How do we develop new training modules? What doctrine? What new tactics, techniques, and procedures do we need to develop to be able to fully leverage these new capabilities? The model of the CWIC is to have an innovation warfare center that can look at technologies that are going to have game-changing effects in..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"That's the use of the IDIQ. The model of an IDIQ is not new, not new to VA, not new to government. VA will make the determination on which models we"
Testimony LUJÁN, BEN RAY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Michael Selig, of Florida, to be...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"Thanks for taking time to come by and visit in the office as well, sir. As we're working to provide the CFTC with new authorities over digital asset spot markets with tokens like Bitcoin trading over $50 billion per day, the new authority would be an enormous new duty. The CFTC is a small agency compared to the"
Testimony MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"further the censor's objectives? Well, yeah, I mean, you see right now, right, everybody's saying constitutional crisis. If you just Google that, it's like all over. Everybody repeats themselves in the mainstream news media. But look, I mean, we're in a new world now. We have more platforms that are open. I think it's much harder to get away with lying, as the New York Times did last night when it claimed that there was no evidence of fraud for Musk. So I do think it's a new environment. But..."
Hearing Full Committee Markup of 16 Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
GUTHRIE, BRETT "Is there further recognition to speak on the bill? The gentleman from New York, almost said New Jersey, but the gentleman from New York, I know New New York but almost said New Jersey, gentleman from New York is recognized for five minutes to speak on the bill. Gentleman yields"
Hearing Oversight Hearing - Office of Management and Budget
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "that when moving fast, and you need to move fast in a lot of these issues, when moving fast that you anticipate some of the issues that will be caused by moving fast, and I'll say one thing with the 25 seconds I have remaining. There is right now being contemplated moving the Army Corps of Engineers New York District Office to New Jersey. It's the New York District Office. It services areas of both New York and New Jersey, but it should remain in New York, and I hope that we don't fall into the same issue of just in the name of saving"
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
HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD "eventually Secretary Nome canceled the plans for this facility. Senator, will you ensure that the Merrimack plan remains off the table? Or will you consider that. In follow-up conversations with my office, ICE refused to comment on opening new facilities elsewhere in New Hampshire. They've said they won't do it Merrimack, New Hampshire. But will you commit to me that ICE will not open any new facilities in New Hampshire or elsewhere in the country without the relationships and, and work in that manner. Well, look, I will, I will be here for a second round of questions because I have a lot..."
Hearing Delivering for Veterans and Caregivers: Year One of the Dole Act
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
MS. SHANNON SILAS "First, thank you for this legislation and what it will accomplish. Within VA alone, the Dole Act mandates implementing more than 40 enhancements, new guidelines, or new programs, executing six new pilot programs, conducting outreach and releasing new online tools for veterans, patients, and coroner medical examiners, and completing 50 new congressional mandated reports. Given the scope and breadth of the legislation, VA moved oversight of Dole Act"
Hearing Hearings to examine how shutdowns threaten air safety, travel, and the economy.
senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
VIOLA "that we need to keep coming into the system. So the government employee and of course for our sector, the aviation employee, the FAA, the year has been very distracting to try to get work done with the FAA. I think the stability that the workforce needs, a long-term stability that you've heard here, not just okay we're going to make it now to January 30th, but they need to know that they are going to get paid, that they have jobs to do, that can actually dig into these certification issues that my members need to get this new technology on the aircraft to make the system safer. The Modern..."
Hearing Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Act's Mobile Source Requirements
house Environment Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_19 "advanced. And so that is why buses, as was just noted by the Sierra Club, are the most sustainable way of traveling in mass transportation. And the reality is operators who are having to comply with the New York example, you know, they're based in New York, but they're also based in Florida. And, you know, when dollars are going to fines and to pay the citizen bounty program, that's fewer investments in their own workforce. Academy Bus is a great example where in one day in New York, they had $120,000 in fines, and they're a great operator from New York all the way down to Operators do not..."
Hearing Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriters, and performers in the digital age.
senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee · Dec 9, 2025 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "They're motivated purely by a goal, not sexual exploitation of a child. They are not the traditional pedophile that we might think about. Their goal is to cause disruption in our communities, to have us holding hearings today talking about just how difficult it is to think about our children being harmed for shock and for awe. When that is the new type of offender, we need new types of tools. Looking at the types of signals that exist on the social media platforms, the chats, how people are operating is going to be really essential to try to stay current to these evolving statuses of new..."
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "Thank you. So while this bill imposes new reporting requirements, new penalties, and new compliance burdens on charities across our country and in our districts, the administration is overseeing an arrangement where the American people may never know who's writing the biggest checks for one of the most high-profile projects in our country. That's not transparency. It's a double"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
CASSIDY, BILL "So, if passed, how do you see this legislation interacting with DOL's proposed independent contractor rule, and would it assist DOL with further rulemaking, which theoretically would have the goal of empowering independent workers? Once I was picked up at the Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans by a man who had been working as a Lyft or Uber driver in the Bay Area, California, but decided he'd rather live in New Orleans, clearly a very smart man, and so he moved back, and he just had to tell Uber or Lyft, hey, I'm moving to New Orleans. My son-in-law was"
Hearing Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management areas, wildlife conservation areas, protection areas, recreation areas,...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
HEINRICH, MARTIN "These threats have united local governments, tribes, traditional historic communities, and community organizations of all stripes to preserve the shared yet distinct heritages of the region. And as a result, we have the Caja del Rio Protection Act. This bill will create two new stewardship areas, a new special management area on over 67,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land, and a new national conservation area on over 17,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management land. It will permit traditional uses like herb and mineral gathering, hunting, and livestock grazing, and it will conserve an..."
Hearing • H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025” • H.R. 2317 (Rep. Amodei), “Northern Nevada Economic...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_12 "Maine lobster fishery is really not asking for too much here. We're not asking for new funding, a new process, or any kind of new policy mandate. Simply, more time to complete the process that this Congress started back in December started back in December of 2022. This legislation, H.R. 9436, will provide the of 2022. additional years necessary to get the science right so that we can protect both. Before I complete my remarks, I want to have added into the record for this markup support for this bill from seven different entities. We have the Maine Lobstermen's"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and Erica Schwartz, of...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_22 "Why did some people have a problem? The research was development of new, like so new, using new viruses. The research, in my opinion, should be redirected to learn what worked well with the mRNA platform and what didn't, because it was the first interaction with human"
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, James...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_22 "Why did some people have a problem? The research was development of new, like so new, using new viruses. The research, in my opinion, should be redirected to learn what worked well with the mRNA platform and what didn't, because it was the first interaction with human"
Hearing updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; General Services Administration Capital Investment and Leasing Program...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
STANTON, GREG "WORDA 26 offers us a real, bipartisan opportunity to put that partnership to work. The bill advances strong drought resiliency provisions, a new Office of Water Supply and Drought Resilience, a new continuing authority program for small drought projects, and new authorities to tackle invasive species and restore water storage capacity. It includes 30 Arizona-specific projects, from Phoenix's Trace Rios ecosystem restoration work and to flood control efforts in Pinal"
Hearing Memorializing our Veterans: Outreach, Upkeep, and Community Partnerships at Veterans Cemeteries
house Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "We are excited about our ongoing Southern Expansion. This project consists of three overlapping phases, scheduled to be complete in 2029, and will add over 80,000 new burial opportunities, but this expansion alone will not keep ANC open to new interments beyond the early 2060s. Without a change in eligibility, Arlington National Cemetery will close to new burials within 40 years, sooner should a major conflict result in a change of"
Hearing “A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN "robust IP system. It's the pride and joy of our country, and it's in our Constitution. Sorry, I said I wasn't going to talk about Conlon, I just did. But we believe in the patent system. The copyright side is strong and robust, too. We can't just throw up and scrap it at the behest of a few tech companies that say, oh, we're going to lose the arms race. There are multiple arms races going on here. Our arts and culture, no one compares to it. K-pop, Bollywood, Eurovision, sorry, nothing is as great as our export of IP in both areas of technology and culture. It's a new time. We need new..."
Hearing Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Federal Tax Policy in the Multibillion-Dollar Industry
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
CAREY, MIKE "do has been working in a kind of a multi-community, it's called the New Community Authority. And this is a statutorily created political subdivision. And it actually comprises of both the public and private sectors, which has the authority under the Ohio revised codes who actually do its own type of bonds. And this way the City of Columbus gets all the new tax income from the new jobs and Franklin County gets all the new sales tax. The way they do this is the ownership group agreed to a self-imposed ticket tax of an additional 2% on all of the men and women's sporting events at Schott's..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "I understand that it is incredibly challenging to create a new credit union or bank, but de novos are a priority for the administration and they're a priority for me. New credit unions are a sign of health within the credit union system, and they often reach new underserved communities. We need to do more to support new market entrants. When credit unions and their members are thriving, the American dream is"
Hearing Markup of Fifteen Bills
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
CARTER, EARL L. "BUDDY" "and unnecessarily long wait times for a finished pair of prescription eyeglasses. While we've been working on this issue for years, states like Georgia, New York, Kentucky, New Jersey, Illinois, Louisiana, Colorado, Texas, and dozens of others are passing tough new laws to address a wide range of VPM abuses. Congress has a responsibility to act as well, particularly because millions of Americans receive vision coverage through federally regulated plans that fall outside the reach of many state"
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_13 "from CBP or from North Korea, or militias from Russia or Iran from the IRGC. We have to have an all-out, frontal approach and be proactive. We can't be reactive in this. We have to be very proactive, and that partnership is something we're strengthening, but we also got to respect privacy, too. There's a lot of privacy concerns when the government starts looking into cyber because of the sensitive material that is there. It's a fine line we're trying to work through. It's difficult. We're going to have to come to Congress for help on that, because we're going to need clarification, I believe,..."
Hearing “Workforce Rewired: Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Economy”
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "Well, all the work we do supports working adults in communities across the country and earning their turning their job into a degree. And we understand that with a new administration comes new priorities. Building a new enterprise, a new social enterprise has its ups and downs, but we're pleased to see that there are some new grant competitions that have been released and they are prioritizing apprenticeship and work-based learning and degree-connected apprenticeship. And my team calls me the consummate optimist, but I do think that's"
Hearing Subcommittee Markup of Eight Pieces of Legislation
house Energy Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
EVANS, GABE "It says loud and clear that we cannot accelerate growth on the backs of Americans who are working hard to pay their electric bill at the end of every month. And the Ratepayer Protection Act requires each state regulatory authority to consider adopting a large load standard, one that applies to customers with 100 megawatts or more of power demand at their peak at a single facility, so things like large data centers and hyperscalers, because these are the customers that can single handedly trigger the need for new generation, new substations, new transmission lines. And without these..."
Hearing Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on America 250 and American citizenship.
senate Constitution Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_12 "In the course of being on the Court of Appeals, it's given me a broad exposure to many areas of the law, things that I didn't necessarily practice in but now have seen in many cases or maybe just a few cases. It's that skill that I think I will bring to the District Court of having this experience of repeatedly learning about new issues, new legal disputes, new areas of the law, and I will be doing that in any number of cases on the District"
Hearing “The 30,000 Foot View: Competition and Regulation in the U.S. Airline Industry”
house Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE CHRIS SUNUNU "Of course. You know, they're all big believers and users in SAF, as you know, and that continues to Sure. So as I think as the industry matures, the economics get better and better, right? Because like any fairly new technology, and it is a fairly new introduction into the industry, it starts out fairly costly, lots of new, I won't say barriers to entry, but you know, costs, R&D, all of our airlines are investing in various forms of research and development to make SAF more accessible, easier to produce, whatever it may be, trying to get more companies that actually make, giving more time for..."
Hearing Safeguarding Federal Research Funds: The False Claims Act's Role in Combating Grant Fraud
house Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
MS. JENNIFER SPRINGMANN "NSF is also utilizing a new mechanism called other transactions. So, that's a new, it's a new mechanism for NSF. It's also a new mechanism for us to need to oversight. So, we have a lot to learn in that area. Do you understand the nature of my question? Sure. So, program officers, we have, we do outreach to the program, and we let them know, these are the red flags that we've seen in our"
Hearing Hearings to examine improving safety across the National Airspace System.
senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
MR. CHRISTOPHER SUNUNU "or at least with TSA agents, twice in one year. So, that is a huge discouragement in itself. The new air traffic control modernization bill, the fact that there is money and it is being deployed for new training centers and new simulators and all that sort of thing is great. We feel very – we've seen a lot of this"
Hearing Legislative field hearing on a Discussion Draft of the “Great American Outdoors Act 250.” (10:00AM local time)
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 12, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_12 "Much of this growth was to meet the demand brought here by all the visitors to the national park. New hotels, new restaurants, new boutique shopping is the majority of what we've seen. It hasn't always been this"
Hearing Delivering Quality and Modern Healthcare to Michigan's Veterans and Servicemembers
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jun 12, 2026 · Transcript
MR. ZACHARY SCHWARTZ "So we want to make it as easy as possible. We allow the providers to put the information that they need, and only the information that they need, in a very easy place for us to use technology to grab that, as opposed to building connections or building out new systems. We work with what they have, so that there isn't any new setup they have to do, or any new setup or configurations they need to buy, because that's another concern we have. Just to confirm, you're asking the rejection by VA"
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including post-2026 operations negotiations.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_18 "But because they are acquired lands, minerals on them are governed by the Mineral Leasing Act for acquired lands, the law of this underlying bill amends today. Now, while the MLA for acquired lands excludes areas within national parks, national monuments, that exclusion does not cover many LWCF acquisitions, especially those targeting recreational access to public lands, which open up new trailheads or new stream access, new access for hunters and fishermen, and we want to be able to protect those acquisitions and maintain that access. Many LWCF rec access projects are just effectively..."
Hearing Full Committee Legislative Hearing on Digital Asset Taxation
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
MOORE, GWEN "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I've heard about clarity and parity and charity and validators and regulators, and I guess someday we're going to get this right. Mr. Kershaw, can you tell us a little bit about the way in which our financial, our taxation system was built to really accommodate any sort of new products, new economic activity, the latest and greatest thing? So why do you suspect that we're having such a difficult time of inserting this new industry into the current system? For example, I've heard people talking about trading. Isn't that something that the SEC would do? We already have..."
Hearing “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MS. KRISTA HESSLER CARVER "Second, innovation does not stop at the initial approval of a drug. After a medicine reaches the market, companies continue to invest in improving it, developing new formulations, new delivery methods and new uses. These advances can improve safety, enhance effectiveness, and expand treatment options for patients – including those with unmet medical"
Hearing Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests and Outlook for the 2026 Wildfire Year.”
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
STANSBURY, MELANIE A. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Chief Schulz, welcome back to the Natural Resources Committee, we're grateful that you're here. I know there's been a lot of focus today on forest management overall and wildfire risk and the reorganization of the Forest Service, and certainly we're very concerned about that in New Mexico, but I want to focus today in particular on the protection of our national forests, which are important to our communities and the cultures of New Mexico, because as it stands right now, the Forest Service is considering transfer of a number of sites across New Mexico that are very..."
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_07 "I do. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This bill is packed with provisions. It adds new programs, new requirements, new responsibilities, page after page of changes for the people who plan and manage our transportation system. But in the middle of all of that, there's a provision that doesn't quite line up with the work we already"
Hearing "Protecting Workers and Powering America: The Future of Mining"
house Education and Workforce Committee · May 8, 2026 · Transcript
MR. SAM PETSONK "just this week, this administration has reportedly laid off one-third of the staff of the Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, shutting down the entire Pittsburgh office. And we now have only three administrative law judges nationwide to hear all the mine enforcement actions in the administration. The commission will lack a quorum. That means they will not be able to conduct any business at all. And that has happened before, and it's caused major trouble and backlog, which is a problem for mining companies. And you can appoint a new, make sure they appoint a new make sure they appoint a..."
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
MR. JOSEPH COLALILLO "At Wakefern, our retailer-owned cooperative operates across nine states—Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania. The 43 family owners of Wakefern have the good fortune of being represented by 10 members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, including Frank Pallone, Tom Kane, Paul"
Hearing Hearings to examine the American Entrepreneurship for 250 Years: Driving Innovation, Growth, and Opportunity.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "Immigrants bring creativity, adaptation, new ideas, and innovation. Their businesses also add to our culture, bringing new flavors, new products, and new perspectives that enrich us all. This is truly our American story, that waves of newcomers have arrived here, have identified gaps and opportunities, and have built new businesses to continue to grow our"
Hearing AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepayers
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
MR. TOM FALCONE "building infrastructure just for a data center. Now that that's happened, you've seen a tremendous number of states, including Arizona, start breaking customers into rate classes and charging them the appropriate rate, and that rate's going to be higher because if you're building infrastructure for a new customer, new stuff costs a lot more than the old stuff, and so you want to charge them the marginal rate of the new stuff so that you don't have to raise rates on the old customer. So that's generally the philosophy. There's about 60 tariffs among the states and utilities that are either in..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Energy.
senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_12 "timeline is for the resolution on that. I appreciate that very much. Your department recently announced plans to reverse the mineral withdrawal around Chaco Canyon National Historic Park. I would be remiss if I didn't point out that that's over the objection of New Mexico's governor, New Mexico's land commissioner, myself, the junior senator from New Mexico, the entire congressional delegation. Even Secretary Bernhardt, who visited Chaco Canyon with"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Treasury.
senate Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_12 "timeline is for the resolution on that. I appreciate that very much. Your department recently announced plans to reverse the mineral withdrawal around Chaco Canyon National Historic Park. I would be remiss if I didn't point out that that's over the objection of New Mexico's governor, New Mexico's land commissioner, myself, the junior senator from New Mexico, the entire congressional delegation. Even Secretary Bernhardt, who visited Chaco Canyon with"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Health and Human Services.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA D. "Table. Now, regarding the new CDC director nominee, part of the new team that you said would revolutionize the CDC, Mr. Seery said that the pick will likely be a disaster, and he said the only thing that Schwartz will likely restore is the CDC to business as usual. He said that, this is his quote, left to your own devices, you wouldn't have even chosen her, and that she is, and I quote Mr. Seery here, the queen of mandating vaccines. So is Aaron Seery wrong about this new nominee, or is the president? Mr. Secretary, my next"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be a Member and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH "The interest rate tool hits the entire economy. So we need a new framework, new tools, and I'd also say, Mr. Chairman, new communications. I think part of the reason why, after making a mistake in 2021 and 22, the mistake"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for the fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Energy.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
RISCH, JAMES E. "The free enterprise system has recognized that, and boy, are they there. The stream of people that come to my office with new technology, new ideas, new ways that they want to do this is really stunning. So that's important. And I think the world's going to wake up when this"
Hearing Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026 · Transcript
BARR, ANDY "Mr Chairman Good morning For over 26 years GLBA has readily adapted to new technologies, new types of financial firms, and new types of data. In that same 26 years, the states have had ample opportunity to test different approaches, and the results are clear. It is time for a national framework. Financial institutions should have consistent"
Hearing Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Rising Costs of Housing and Borrowing
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
STEIL, BRYAN "relates to housing, some good, some bad. You had, Mr. O'Leary, you were on CNN recently talking about New York City's new mayor, housing policies, New York City's approach, put in place price controls, restrict on that side. Don't worry about supply because, of course, we're six million units undersupplied. So instead of focusing on supply, they want to restrict pricing. What's the real world implications when you put in place price"
Hearing Hearings to examine veteran health and healing through adaptive sports.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "They being the doctors at any of the VA facilities that I've gone to, both through Canandaigua, New York, Buffalo, New York, and Syracuse, New York. Anytime I go, they literally say, we don't have, the doctors all say, we don't have a young enough"
Hearing Hearings to examine truth in drug labeling.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jan 29, 2026 · Transcript
STEPHEN W. SCHONDELMEYER "Where is the active ingredient made and the factory name and address, the finished dosage form, manufacturer name and address, who packages the product, who labels it? All of that information is in the New Zealand drug supply chain. Every step along the way is transparent, and for every drug, prescription drug on the market in New Zealand, it's put in a database, and any consumer in New Zealand or the rest of the world can look up those products at the product-specific level and identify where did it come from. We should have nothing less than"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Department's cyber force generation plan and the associated implementation plan.
senate Cybersecurity Subcommittee · Jan 28, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "will need to be successful. How do we need to train our workforce to most effectively use that tool? AI is going to change fundamentally what many of our work roles do in this domain. How do we develop new training modules? What doctrine? What new tactics, techniques, and procedures do we need to develop to be able to fully leverage these new capabilities? The model of the CWIC is to have an innovation warfare center that can look at technologies that are going to have game-changing effects in our domain, bring in the operational input that General Hartman mentioned, and in a very short term,..."
Hearing Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversight
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "That's the use of the IDIQ. The model of an IDIQ is not new, not new to VA, not new to government. VA will make the determination on which models we"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Michael Selig, of Florida, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
LUJÁN, BEN RAY "Thanks for taking time to come by and visit in the office as well, sir. As we're working to provide the CFTC with new authorities over digital asset spot markets with tokens like Bitcoin trading over $50 billion per day, the new authority would be an enormous new duty. The CFTC is a small agency compared to the"
Hearing “The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER "further the censor's objectives? Well, yeah, I mean, you see right now, right, everybody's saying constitutional crisis. If you just Google that, it's like all over. Everybody repeats themselves in the mainstream news media. But look, I mean, we're in a new world now. We have more platforms that are open. I think it's much harder to get away with lying, as the New York Times did last night when it claimed that there was no evidence of fraud for Musk. So I do think it's a new environment. But that's why you have to keep the government from putting pressure on these social media platforms, so..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Peter McCoy, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to Montenegro, Daniel Travis, of California, a Career...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
PETER MCCOY "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And that's a fantastic question. And really, I'd like to start with the Thank you, Mr. Chairman. winds that I think are moving in the right direction for Montenegro. With the election of a new president in 2023, the election of a new prime minister in 2023, I think the country is moving in the right direction in terms of wanting to do the right thing. And one of those right things is tackling corruption or tackling issues of crime with inside the country. Mr. Chairman, the law enforcement, I guess, total population that they have in country is roughly 3,300 folks,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W. "Job applications, interviews, human resource systems, each of these entry-level roles are shifting and often driven by AI. New AI-driven tools are being implemented across sectors with oftentimes little to no training on how to use them. We need to ensure that workers are getting the training they need at every level, whether they're searching for their first job or transitioning to a new role in the same field, or looking to switch industries altogether. Today's workers have got to ask themselves, how am I going to keep up, or even"
Hearing The Reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Sep 17, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Elizabeth Heck, Greater New York Insurance Companies
Hearing Proxy Power and Proposal Abuse: Reforming Rule 14a-8 to Protect Shareholder Value
house Financial Services Committee · Sep 10, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Brad Lander, City of New York
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 2073 (Rep. Newhouse), “Defending our Dams Act”, H.R. 3692 (Rep. Moulton), To reauthorize the Young Fisherman’s...
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · Sep 3, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Tom Paterson, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association
Hearing “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Félix Matos Rodríguez, The City University of New York
Hearing "Unmasking Union Antisemitism"
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · Sep 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Kyle Mann, New York Legal Assistance Group
Hearing Oversight Hearing titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.”
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Dustin Delano, New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association
Hearing Assessing the Terror Threat Landscape in South and Central Asia and Examining Opportunities for Cooperation
house South and Central Asia Subcommittee · Jun 26, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Lisa Curtis, Center for a New American Security
Hearing “A Hearing with Sanctuary State Governors”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 12, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Kathy Hochul, State of New York
Hearing "Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country"
house Agriculture Committee · Feb 11, 2025 · Transcript
JOHN NEWTON "Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member Craig, and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. My name is John Newton. I am the Executive Head of Terrain. Terrain is tasked with analyzing agricultural economic issues for our partnering farm credit associations. I frequently meet with farmers and ranchers in the communities they call home to understand their challenges and opportunities. My testimony today reflects these perspectives and is supported by data-driven analysis."
Hearing "No More Surprises: Reforming College Pricing for Students and Families"
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Amy Laitinen, New America
Hearing Hope on the Horizon: Prioritizing Small Business Growth in the 119th Congress
house Small Business Committee · Feb 5, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Bill New, New Industries
Testimony YOUNG, TODD
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"strengthening communities, and helping drive economic growth. As we look ahead to the next 250 years, they will remain just as essential to America's success. As the son of a small business owner, I grew up with great appreciation for the hard work and commitment required to run and sustain a small business. America's entrepreneurial spirit has fueled our nation's progress over the past two and a half centuries, but the pace of change today is unlike anything many small businesses have..."
Testimony DR. AJAY "AJ" P. MALSHE
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"see in the beautiful pictures, it looks very romantic, but space is a contested territory. There is no homeland. Our assets is our homeland. Second, the space is also not very far. International Space Station is just far from here to New York, so it is not far, but at the same time, our adversaries are very busy in the space as well, so it brings a very different opportunity. At the same time, you have new physics. You can invent new materials, so it is a great opportunity. Now, considering..."
Testimony DR. AJAY "AJ" P. MALSHE
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"Ohio, Illinois, all these are the Indiana crossroads of America, supply chains, and supply chain controls the manufacturing, and I just want to acknowledge that to both states, to our senators here. Now, at the same time, the taxes, when you do a deep tech research, Ohio State, for example, at Starlab, Purdue has a great program on MMRL, Zucrow Lab, and other, when you're doing the deep tech research, you're producing an opportunity for the next 250 years to create a new commerce that never..."
Testimony KIM, ANDY
Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capi...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"Thank you, Chairman, for bringing this hearing together. It's very important, and thank you all for joining up here. You know, Mr. Flood, I wanted to start with you. What I've been trying to work on, and actually working with the Chamber on in New Jersey, for instance, is about really trying to create this new innovation hub, you know, to really trying to bolster the type of technology development and innovation we're trying to do in our state. I called it, you know, creating this Einstein..."
Testimony PETER MCCOY
Hearings to examine the nominations of Peter McCoy, of South Carolina,...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And that's a fantastic question. And really, I'd like to start with the Thank you, Mr. Chairman. winds that I think are moving in the right direction for Montenegro. With the election of a new president in 2023, the election of a new prime minister in 2023, I think the country is moving in the right direction in terms of wanting to do the right thing. And one of those right things is tackling corruption or tackling issues of crime with inside the country. Mr. Chairman,..."
Testimony HARRY LEVANT
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"States can go further under the 10th Amendment, but I am here today with real life ideas to help you, and we'll come back each time you ask, because there are ways to make this safer. And I join with the distinguished leaders of Tribal Nation. I pledge to continue working with you and others to make this safer. I'm not a prohibitionist, but we have a mental health crisis on our hands. Thank you for your time. Emphasis on short term that you can actually do. Bring the sports league commissioners..."
Testimony HARRY LEVANT
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Prediction markets have been around a long time. The prediction markets aren't new. Taking this type of action is what's new. And to go back to combine this with Senator Smith's question, as it relates to preemption, I think the missing link there, Senator, is that this hasn't been declared gambling. If this were declared gambling, the prediction markets wouldn't be able to say, well, we're under the purview of"
Testimony ALAN D. PALKOWITZ
Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biote...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"But that's where innovation plays a role. We have to be able to fund the research around advanced chemistry, around new technologies that actually allow us to make these products safer, safer for the environment, but also fundamentally to bring down the cost. If we can do those two things together, it reestablishes the dominance of American industry for that purpose, but also in the long term, hopefully contribute to the overall cost of new therapies. Thank you, Senator. This is a little bit..."
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biote...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"To bring a new generic to the market, the drug companies will work with the PBMs behind the scenes. When the brand is about to go off the patent and a new generic comes out, the new generic it on the higher tier, branded tier, and so the copay is the same for the brand and for the"
Testimony ALAN D. PALKOWITZ
Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biote...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Thank you, Senator. This is a little bit beyond my area of expertise on the commercial end, but I do feel that generics are an important part of the equation for being able to bring down the cost of the cost of drugs and also create then the opportunity for new innovation to come forward. And so I think there are some inherent challenges that really need to be addressed and we need to make sure that we don't disincentivize the generics because I think they are an important part of the overall..."
Testimony KEVIN OUTTERSON
Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biote...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"We've pioneered some of the early work on microbiome research, and two projects are now approved by the FDA. We've looked at 35 small molecule chemical classes, all of them never before approved for FDA products, so lots of new, entirely new things that are coming through the pipeline. Because we were instructed to swing for the fences, not to do sort of a yet another penicillin type derivative, but something that was really quite remarkably"
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"They're just using the federal tax dollars to pay, because we all, we should expect our states to be, have skin in the game. And what we're, what you're saying is, what happens is they don't actually have skin in the game. Mr. Ingram, the HHS Office of the Inspector General recently decertified New York's Medicaid fraud control unit due to a year-long failure to do its job. Despite receiving over 16 million dollars annually and having a staff of 270 people, New York was the worst performing..."
Testimony JONATHAN INGRAM
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Well, New York's fraud control units under AG Letitia James has been horrendous, as you noted. It's one of the worst in the countries. You mentioned Indiana and Arizona. Those are states with programs, you know, one-fifth the size of New York. They have about one-tenth the staff, one-tenth the budget, and they're delivering, you know, five to seven times more criminal indictments. They're delivering more convictions, more civil recoveries. New York had not a single hospice fraud investigation,..."
Testimony BOB EVERSON
Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artific...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"performance, cost, and data governance. A network this fast and distributed cannot be operated solely at human pace. Through agentic ops, Cisco uses AI to support self-healing operations, identifying faults, rerouting traffic, and recovering at machine speed. Our deep network models can distinguish legitimate AI traffic from anomalies, help predict and isolate threats, identify vulnerabilities, and guide operators in deploying patches. AI-native mobile networks can use spectrum and..."
Testimony CRUZ, TED
Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artific...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Well, thank you, and I can verify firsthand there is no forest there. Mr. Spalter, in addition to new builds, your members are investing heavily in upgrading their existing networks to keep pace with growing data traffic. Are permitting delays slowing those upgrade projects as much as new construction, or are these bottlenecks different from what you see with greenfield deployment? Well, I hope your words prove prescient, and I hope that they foreshadow bipartisan agreement to get this"
Testimony CANTWELL, MARIA
Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artific...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"So AI can design viruses, toxins, biological weapons. It can be used to design an entirely new pathogen that are difficult to detect and counter. And today's hearing comes at an important moment as AI accelerates new capabilities that are being unlocked every day. But we still need to compete. So Mr. Ramzanali, is that how you pronounce it, Ramzanali? Ramzanali, you brought this up in your testimony about the Hugging Face, making it abundantly clear that we needed to have regulation on these,..."
Testimony FISCHER, DEB
Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artific...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Artificial intelligence has really presented a new array of challenges and opportunities for networks, and one challenge is the change in the profile of network traffic that AI has prompted. AI is not just a new source of network demand. It's also a new type of network demand that is diffusing throughout our networks here in this country. So, Mr. Everson, could you describe how and why AI is not just adding demand to networks, but it's also changing the traffic profile, the traffic patterns..."
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Sadly, for many older Americans, falling victim to a scam doesn't just mean losing money. It could also mean losing peace of mind, trust in others, and confidence in themselves while navigating daily life. As this committee has heard many times before, this is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year problem. In 2025, Americans over 60 lost a staggering $7.7 billion to scams, and that's what scams have been reported. The rise of artificial intelligence has offered scammers new tools to pursue their..."
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"AI can be used to make fraudulent videos known as steepfakes, impersonating experts and celebrities to try to fraud our seniors in a variety of devious schemes. AI can also be used to clone someone's voice, a terrifying development that has been used in heartbreaking and evil ways to impersonate a loved one and deceive their family. AI has been made existing scams more effective and lowered the barrier to entry for criminals. What once required real coding skill can now be done by anyone with..."
Testimony GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E.
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"AI didn't invent these scams. It supercharged them, making old cons more convincing and far easier to pull off. AI deception takes other forms too. Tools that are built without real safeguards can hallucinate and feed older adults dangerously wrong information. Last year, Reuters reported an AI chatbot that repeatedly insisted it was human and invited a 76-year-old man to an address in New York City. He fell on his way to the train station and died of his injuries. This year, the New York Times..."
Testimony HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Job applications, interviews, human resource systems, each of these entry-level roles are shifting and often driven by AI. New AI-driven tools are being implemented across sectors with oftentimes little to no training on how to use them. We need to ensure that workers are getting the training they need at every level, whether they're searching for their first job or transitioning to a new role in the same field, or looking to switch industries altogether. Today's workers have got to ask..."