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Hearing Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Montana, S.1055, to amend...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 10 transcript matches
SCHATZ, BRIAN "and a waiver of the National Environmental Policy Act is a very serious thing and a very unusual thing and so I'm not even saying we should definitely not do that I'm saying that if we're going to do that we should understand what we're doing it for and I don't think that can be a on this and to get this deal done. Thank you. Chair there's a letter from three commissioners of Muscle Shell County August 4th we're following up on our previous meeting with your staff last January to again request your support for amending the Crow Revenue Act to include Muscle Shell County in the revenue sharing..."
Hearing Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school and beyond.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
CASSIDY, BILL "a degree, without being set up for that future success, knowing that according to Coach Tuberville, only 0.2% of these athletes will play in the pros. The highest number I've heard is 2%. Whatever it is, 98 to 99.8% of these athletes will not play in the pros. So the goal of their experience in university should be to set them up for life. The question is, is that happening? Now, clearly the student athlete should share in the revenue, but it's a false choice to say we must choose between them receiving no revenue sharing and the current system, which spontaneously people call the wild, wild..."
Hearing “Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
SPEAKER_05 "One of the arguments was the NFL, the smaller teams were not going to benefit as much, or they were struggling. A Green Bay Packers team is not in a TV market that the Dallas Cowboys are in. And that this helps them to be able to revenue share. And if we change it, or if we eliminate it rather, then someone like maybe the Jacksonville Jaguars are not going to do as well. Are they all going to crash and burn? Probably not. But what's your take on if we take away that ability for them to revenue share and lift all boats? I'm with you. But I can't watch my Texas Longhorns on a Saturday for"
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Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA): Background and Current Issues
Reports · Dec 21, 2022
Almost all offshore oil and natural gas production on the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS) occurs in the Gulf of Mexico. Federal oil and gas leasing in the Gulf is governed primarily by two...
Hearing Member Day to examine S.297, to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require group health plans and health insurance issuers...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 19, 2026 · Request transcript
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State and Local Financing of Public Schools
Reports · Aug 26, 2019
The funding of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States involves a combination of local, state, and federal government revenues, in proportions that vary substantially both across...
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"and a waiver of the National Environmental Policy Act is a very serious thing and a very unusual thing and so I'm not even saying we should definitely not do that I'm saying that if we're going to do that we should understand what we're doing it for and I don't think that can be a on this and to get this deal done. Thank you. Chair there's a letter from three commissioners of Muscle Shell County August 4th we're following up on our previous meeting with your staff last January to again request..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"One of the arguments was the NFL, the smaller teams were not going to benefit as much, or they were struggling. A Green Bay Packers team is not in a TV market that the Dallas Cowboys are in. And that this helps them to be able to revenue share. And if we change it, or if we eliminate it rather, then someone like maybe the Jacksonville Jaguars are not going to do as well. Are they all going to crash and burn? Probably not. But what's your take on if we take away that ability for them to revenue..."
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The Oregon and California Railroad Lands (O&C Lands): In Brief
Reports · May 25, 2023
The Oregon and California Railroad (O&C) lands consist of 2.6 million acres of timberland in western Oregon. The majority of these lands were originally granted to the Oregon & California Railroad...
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The Good Neighbor Authority on Federal Lands
Resources · Jan 11, 2023
The Good Neighbor Authority allows the Forest Service (FS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to authorize states, counties, and federally recognized Indian tribes to conduct certain projects on...
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Overview of the Federal Tax System in 2024
Reports · Dec 18, 2024
This report describes the federal tax structure and system in effect for 2024. The report also provides selected statistics on the tax system as a whole. Historically, the largest component of the...
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Overview of the Federal Tax System in 2022
Reports · Jun 8, 2022
This report describes the federal tax structure and system in effect for 2022. The report also provides selected statistics on the tax system as a whole. Historically, the largest component of the...
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Federal Land Management Agencies’ Mandatory Appropriations Accounts
Report · Nov 5, 2019
Management of lands and resources is a principal mission for four federal agencies—the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Forest Service (FS), and National Park Service...
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Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Revenues During the COVID19 Pandemic
Resources · Mar 8, 2021
The economic effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic included a reduction in demand for oil and natural gas, resulting in lower prices and decreased production. These changes have...
Hearing Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, focusing on tribal implications and beyond.
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MARK MACARRO "diverted, so too is the ability of tribal governments to meet their responsibilities to serve their citizens. Put it this way, every dollar wagered on unregulated gaming like illegal prediction markets is a dollar pulled away from tribal jobs, tribal facilities, and tribal community programs. These event contracts are not a neutral alternative. They compete directly with regulated tribal gaming for the same consumer dollars, but without the compacts, without oversight, and without revenue-sharing obligations that channel gaming proceeds back into public services. And the scale of what's at..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_00 "minerals in there, if they do it right, do it in a way that is environmentally friendly, that we, our little territory, would very much appreciate, you know, revenue sharing. Not only just for our territory, but it's important for the national"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_00 "minerals in there, if they do it right, do it in a way that is environmentally friendly, that we, our little territory, would very much appreciate, you know, revenue sharing. Not only just for our territory, but it's important for the national"
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"a degree, without being set up for that future success, knowing that according to Coach Tuberville, only 0.2% of these athletes will play in the pros. The highest number I've heard is 2%. Whatever it is, 98 to 99.8% of these athletes will not play in the pros. So the goal of their experience in university should be to set them up for life. The question is, is that happening? Now, clearly the student athlete should share in the revenue, but it's a false choice to say we must choose between them..."
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Fish and Wildlife Service: Compensation to Local Governments
Reports · May 21, 2014
Many counties are compensated for the presence of federal lands within their boundaries because these lands are exempt from local taxes. Counties with lands under the primary jurisdiction of the Fish...
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District Court Holds That Google Unlawfully Monopolizes Online Search: Overview and Potential Remedies
Posts · Aug 16, 2024
On August 5, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that Google unlawfully monopolizes the markets for general search services and general search text ads through a series of...
Hearing Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Federal Tax Policy in the Multibillion-Dollar Industry
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
ESTES, RON "Additionally, we need to ensure that NIL deals do not unfairly advantage certain taxpayers over others. I'm glad the IRS has drawn clear lines to recognizing that third-party NIL collectives do not meet the requirements to be tax-exempt. More discussion and clarity is needed to ensure that other NIL donations and revenue-sharing agreements with universities directly are treated similarly. Let's take this hearing opportunity to kind of look at how we can make it easier for"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.4668, to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of, and provide protections for, student athletes and to...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 18, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CRUZ, TED "Similar concerns and amendments were raised by Senators Baldwin and Baker, and we've listened and worked hard to address them. I also want to thank Senators Budd, Capito, Hickenlooper, and Rosen, whose work has helped improve the bill before us today. No one got everything they wanted, but we did create a framework that stabilizes college athletics in the NIL and revenue-sharing era. The substitute we are considering reflects that work. It strengthens the responds to concerns raised by members and stakeholders, and it preserves the bipartisan agreement that brought us here. The new version..."
Hearing “A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MR. CHRIS FLOYD "So the impact will hit both the company and deciding what movies to make and how often to make them, and it will impact, so that impacts the workers and how many people get hired and paid. It also impacts people like Mr. Ashton's group who are, who have already made a movie. What happens is when someone streams it and pays for it legitimately, we automatically share a portion of those revenues with the Screen Actors Guild, with the directors, with all those people who worked on the movie. That's, that gives them a buffer for when they're not working. It's sort of like a mini retirement plan...."
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Funding for Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
InFocus · Jun 17, 2026
Congress provides annual appropriations and periodically provides supplemental appropriations for public elementary and secondary schools through many agencies and programs. Of these funds, the...
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Nexstar-Tribune Merger: Potential Competition Issues
Resources · Feb 22, 2019
On December 3, 2018, Nexstar Media Group and Tribune Media Company announced a merger agreement that would create the largest broadcast television station owner in the United States. Nexstar values...
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS): Operations and Issues for Congress
Reports · Apr 5, 2024
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), within the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for adjudicating applications and petitions for immigration benefits. These include...
Testimony DAINES, STEVE
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"lands. I look forward to getting this passed. Now regarding just the the amendment offered by the ranking member shots. I would just argue this is an affront to tribal sovereignty. Instead of the Crow tribe chairman Whiteclay to negotiate their own deal for revenue sharing this amendment simply says here's the deal take it or leave it. The Crow Revenue Act evidenced by the first word Crow puts all the power in the Crow tribes hands. They get to negotiate a deal that they see as fair. I would..."
Testimony LEE, MIKE
Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"development of seabed critical minerals could, if we had developed the right policy, provide a new source of revenue for local communities that have consistently stressed their need for federal funding to address local infrastructure needs and other needs that they have. In your role as Assistant Secretary for Insular International and Ocean Affairs, it confirmed, would you engage with BOEM and U.S. territories on creating some type of a deep-sea mining revenue-sharing agreement, perhaps one..."
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Debt and Deficits: Spending, Revenue, and Economic Growth
Resources · Dec 8, 2022
The Constitution provides Congress with the authority to manage the federal budget through its “power of the purse.” This In Focus summarizes federal budget and borrowing trends and discusses related...
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Disney-Fox Transaction
Resources · Jan 19, 2018
On December 14, 2017, the Walt Disney Company (Disney) and 21st Century Fox Inc. (Fox) announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Disney will acquire Fox for $66.1 billion. The...
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"It also lacks transparency. The lessee is not named. There is no requirement for an appraisal and there is no guarantee that the Crow tribe would benefit from any revenue sharing deal in the Bull Mountains. It is a net loss to the American people on public lands access and as taxpayers. I had questions in 2024 when we had a hearing on this bill, and this bill is"
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"We are sort of being asked to be the city council zoning and land use committee for the United States of America. And that's unusual in and of itself. But if we're going to do that, then we should at least know as much as a city council zoning and land use committee would know about what is in the deal. There is no appraisal. There is no revenue sharing agreement that we're aware of. We don't even know exactly how this deal is to work. What we do know is this deal is configured specifically to..."
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"The OIG also determined that Signal Peak withheld information from the government in its answers to a 2022 fraud questionnaire, including that its former vice president pled guilty to fraud and was sentenced to five years in prison and that the company pled guilty to federal worker health and safety charges in 2021. The Crow tribe has testified in 2024 that it hoped to earn $100 million over 10 years from the development of the coal in the Bull Mountains through a revenue sharing agreement with..."
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"the tribe and Muscle Shell County benefit from the agreement. The goal is to allow transparency and fairness before the land swap moves forward. At the hearing on this bill Chairman White Clay testified that it would be open to any amendments that would solidify and clarify the tribe's benefits. In response this amendment sets a profit floor guaranteeing that the tribe gets no less than 44 percent or 100 million dollars over 10 years whichever is greater. It also guarantees that Muscle Shell..."
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"available for anyone to see. I hope my colleagues would agree that a land exchange involving public lands and resources shouldn't move forward on a revenue sharing handshake that we are not I won't belabor the point other than if the point is to establish a revenue sharing agreement it's not at all unreasonable to enshrine that in the statute as opposed to what we have now which is a notion of a deal that may be cut but that we're supposed to ratify in"
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"allowed to see. Senator Daines. agreement in federal statutory law. I'm going to go ahead and oppose this amendment I do think that it departs from the bill that Senator Daines has introduced and probably make it harder for parties to reach the revenue sharing agreement that is required in the base text here you've you've indicated Senator Daines that you know somehow rather this this amendment would presume"
Testimony FITZGERALD, SCOTT
“Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"The NFL is not a fragile enterprise in need of special protection. It is one of the most successful and powerful entertainment businesses in the world, and it pays its players and staff accordingly. To suggest that teams could not remain competitive without an antitrust exemption It also falsely suggests that Congress, not the NFL, controls revenue sharing, which is also inaccurate. But the question before Congress is not whether professional sports teams will continue to compete without this..."
Testimony FITZGERALD, SCOTT
“Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Mr. Travis, when the NFL came to Congress in 61, they warned that smaller teams wouldn't survive if the league could not pool their broadcast rights. So it created shared revenue, of which I'm not really concerned. I don't care how they slice up the pie. But today, professional sports leagues are amongst the most profitable businesses in the world. Is it safe to say that the survival of professional sports is no longer dependent on a special exemption from"
Testimony FITZGERALD, SCOTT
“Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"I guess I would just make the point before I call on the gentleman from California, that all the professional leagues handle revenue sharing differently. Very clearly, Major League Baseball does. I'll recognize the gentleman from California for five"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
“Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"A hundred percent. I think the NFL's ability to share revenue and create, the NFL is unique. The way that I would sum it up is the NFL is, the business is the competition. If the games are not fun, nobody"
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"And all that, in a setting which I bring this up, people say it's a wild, wild west. With that context, NIL and everything that has occurred, it just spontaneously, people say it's a wild, wild west. For the first time, student athletes are sharing revenue. Coach Tuberville, who I'm sure will be here later, said when he was a coach at Auburn, he advocated for that from the get-go. That even before the NCAA was forced to do it, Coach Tuberville and others were saying there should be revenue..."
Testimony LIAM ANDERSON
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"The NCAA has numerous complaints about the regulatory schema that exists in the post-house settlement world, including that the transfer portal has destroyed roster stability, that collectives are circumventing the revenue-sharing cap, that the courts have enjoined eligibility"
Testimony LIAM ANDERSON
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"including mutually agreeable and enforceable transfer limitations, salary or revenue share caps, eligibility standards, and NIL rules, all exempt from antitrust scrutiny. Industry leaders could decide"
Testimony ABBY LYNCH
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"There's so many academic support services, student athlete development, health care, all of the in-kind benefits that you receive as being a student athlete, those could be taxed in a way. Any wage that you receive, they are doing a good job, at least, with informing student athletes that anything above $600 in NIL and revenue sharing is taxable, but a lot of people are learning that. A lot of student athletes are. It is a concern when I tell student athletes that is an impact from an..."
Testimony TRAYVEAN SCOTT, PH.D,
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"basketball, right? And so then there lies the missed opportunity for the rest of the sports. Where at Gremlin, we have 15. I think at Ohio State, there may be 36, right? So there's an entirely different demographic of student athletes who don't have their voices heard and missed, I'm going to say it again, an opportunity to have a seat at the table. That's one point. I think that it undermines the essence of what education is for. I heard Coach Tuberville kind of allude to it earlier. I hoped..."
Testimony MARK MACARRO
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"diverted, so too is the ability of tribal governments to meet their responsibilities to serve their citizens. Put it this way, every dollar wagered on unregulated gaming like illegal prediction markets is a dollar pulled away from tribal jobs, tribal facilities, and tribal community programs. These event contracts are not a neutral alternative. They compete directly with regulated tribal gaming for the same consumer dollars, but without the compacts, without oversight, and without..."
Testimony JAMIE HUMMINGBIRD
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"They fund all of our essential services that we provide to our tribal citizens. Prediction market platforms extract value from the local communities without comparable compact obligations, tribal licensing, state and tribal revenue sharing obligations or dedicated contributions to problem gaming mitigation. Consumer protection is also at"
Testimony ESTES, RON
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Additionally, we need to ensure that NIL deals do not unfairly advantage certain taxpayers over others. I'm glad the IRS has drawn clear lines to recognizing that third-party NIL collectives do not meet the requirements to be tax-exempt. More discussion and clarity is needed to ensure that other NIL donations and revenue-sharing agreements with universities directly are treated similarly. Let's take this hearing opportunity to kind of look at how we can make it easier for"
Testimony MR. SAM ACHO
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"from commissioners, and they're fine, but the players are the ones struggling. One option could be for contracts to be stated not just in what could happen, but actually guaranteed income. So there's that revenue portion, then there's the NIL portion. The NIL portion, a lot of the athletes aren't seeing that NIL portion because some of those offers are getting rejected by that NIL Go group, whereas the revenue share piece of the contract is guaranteed. You see in professional contracts, you'll..."
Testimony CRUZ, TED
Business meeting to consider S.4668, to protect the name, image, and l...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 18, 2026
"Similar concerns and amendments were raised by Senators Baldwin and Baker, and we've listened and worked hard to address them. I also want to thank Senators Budd, Capito, Hickenlooper, and Rosen, whose work has helped improve the bill before us today. No one got everything they wanted, but we did create a framework that stabilizes college athletics in the NIL and revenue-sharing era. The substitute we are considering reflects that work. It strengthens the responds to concerns raised by members..."
Testimony CRUZ, TED
Business meeting to consider S.4668, to protect the name, image, and l...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 18, 2026
"solution must begin with reality. The NIL era is here, it is reality. The Protect College Sports Act embraces this new environment while establishing the rules necessary to bring order to the chaos. Student-athletes should be able to earn money from their name, image, and likeness. This bill protects that. But a system that protects athletes also needs rules. Real NIL is not the same thing as a disguised recruiting payment as a booster in a back alley with a bag of cash. Revenue sharing is not..."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"minerals in there, if they do it right, do it in a way that is environmentally friendly, that we, our little territory, would very much appreciate, you know, revenue sharing. Not only just for our territory, but it's important for the national"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States ...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"minerals in there, if they do it right, do it in a way that is environmentally friendly, that we, our little territory, would very much appreciate, you know, revenue sharing. Not only just for our territory, but it's important for the national"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Legislative field hearing on a Discussion Draft of the “Great American...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 12, 2026
"across the finish line. I think it's important to remind the general public what this historic bill did. It created the Legacy Restoration Fund, which allocates funding generated by funding generated by the Department of the Interior from oil, gas, coal, and other mineral development, and it reinvests a portion of those dollars to address deferred maintenance in the American people's assets, old visitor centers, seawalls, water treatment facilities, bathrooms. It does this without touching the..."
Testimony TITUS, DINA
"Connecting Rural America to the National Airspace System"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I think a couple of years ago, both Salem, Oregon, and Corpus Christi, Texas received some of this funding that supported marketing and revenue sharing for Las Vegas routes, so can I ask you, Ms. Black, how would you speak to the contribution of regional airlines to supporting travel and"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"whether it's in the Gulf, whether it's in New Mexico, you know, that revenue sharing, some of it comes to the feds, but it goes to the state, goes to the tribes. And we're driving that forward. The other thing which I know came up at a prior hearing was"
Testimony MILLER-MEEKS, MARIANNETTE
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Pr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"If patented inventions arise from that research, the Bayh-Dole Act allows the private industry to negotiate licensing agreements to further research and develop the invention into new medicine to benefit patients, to take that entity private. Should there be a reasonable mechanism such as royalty or revenue sharing arrangements such as there are with venture capital investing in a new innovative company to ensure that the public sees a return on its investment once a product is commercially..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, to be an Assistant Secretary, Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
LEE, MIKE "development of seabed critical minerals could, if we had developed the right policy, provide a new source of revenue for local communities that have consistently stressed their need for federal funding to address local infrastructure needs and other needs that they have. In your role as Assistant Secretary for Insular International and Ocean Affairs, it confirmed, would you engage with BOEM and U.S. territories on creating some type of a deep-sea mining revenue-sharing agreement, perhaps one that's similar to that which was created for states to receive revenues from the oil and gas sales..."
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_01 "across the finish line. I think it's important to remind the general public what this historic bill did. It created the Legacy Restoration Fund, which allocates funding generated by funding generated by the Department of the Interior from oil, gas, coal, and other mineral development, and it reinvests a portion of those dollars to address deferred maintenance in the American people's assets, old visitor centers, seawalls, water treatment facilities, bathrooms. It does this without touching the revenue-sharing disbursements that go to energy-producing states like Wyoming and Louisiana, which..."
Hearing "Connecting Rural America to the National Airspace System"
house Aviation Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
TITUS, DINA "I think a couple of years ago, both Salem, Oregon, and Corpus Christi, Texas received some of this funding that supported marketing and revenue sharing for Las Vegas routes, so can I ask you, Ms. Black, how would you speak to the contribution of regional airlines to supporting travel and"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Interior.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "whether it's in the Gulf, whether it's in New Mexico, you know, that revenue sharing, some of it comes to the feds, but it goes to the state, goes to the tribes. And we're driving that forward. The other thing which I know came up at a prior hearing was"
Hearing Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain
house Health Subcommittee · Feb 11, 2026 · Transcript
MILLER-MEEKS, MARIANNETTE "If patented inventions arise from that research, the Bayh-Dole Act allows the private industry to negotiate licensing agreements to further research and develop the invention into new medicine to benefit patients, to take that entity private. Should there be a reasonable mechanism such as royalty or revenue sharing arrangements such as there are with venture capital investing in a new innovative company to ensure that the public sees a return on its investment once a product is commercially successful? And if not, what alternative approach would you propose to balance strong private sector..."
Hearing Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript
BRENDAN DUKE "Let me first begin with an overview of our fiscal situation for the Budget Committee. Analyses typically focus on government spending and revenue as shares of the economy. In 2025, revenue was 17%, which is around the same level as in"
Hearing "Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of Entrepreneurship."
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
MS. ROSA THURNHER "and currently it is now 20 of my revenue If I cut those ties, then I lose a large share of my revenue every month. I think they know that we are stuck in a pattern with them. I think that they have huge marketing budgets, which we all pay"
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_02 "about that piece. Well we share and respect your concern and that's why that when it was broken up it was actually broken into three organizations. It was BOEM, BSEE, and what was called Honor which is the Office of Natural Resource Revenue or Ocean Resource Revenue and in this proposal BOEM and BSEE you know which currently share offices and they you know they go out they inspect on the same platforms they work with the same issues they're following the same regulations but we've kept the revenue portion separately with the organization abbreviated Honor so Honor is not part of the marine..."
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_02 "tragedies. Senator, thank you for your support on that and you've had to see that tragedy with your own eyes, but it's why, you know, part of the strategy would be concentrate on the wildland-urban interface that you that you're describing with those communities is those are the areas that we have to protect people and property. That's got to be a priority for us. Thank you. about that piece. Well we share and respect your concern and that's why that when it was broken up it was actually broken into three organizations. It was BOEM, BSEE and what was called honor which is the office of the..."
Hearing Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer, Frank J. Bisignano
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
SÁNCHEZ, LINDA T. "Americans won't see the $1,000 refunds that they were promised. They can no longer use direct file, and they risk having their sensitive data shared illegally with other agencies. A United States district judge found last week that the Internal Revenue Service violated federal law 42,695 times when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer. There have been two injunctions by federal courts ruling that the IRS illegally shared private taxpayer"
Hearing Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artificial intelligence and transforming communications.
senate Communication, Media, and Broadband · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
ASAD RAMZANALI "subsidizing data center construction, Congress could establish a regime where local governments can charge a franchise fee so that they can compete for benefits, and they retain the right to say no. Finally, telecommunications is also instructive in the form of overspending on infrastructure that leads to bubbles. Today, trillions of dollars of investment are chasing tens of billions of dollars of AI revenue. This is more than the country has spent as a relative share of GDP than on the Manhattan Project, the Apollo program, the electricity build-out, or the interstate highway system. The..."
Hearing Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_23 "This federal government also cannot be trusted to safeguard anyone's privacy. Taxpayers were promised for decades that information they gave to the Internal Revenue Service would be kept confidential, yet the IRS was asked to share 700,000 records, then 7 million, then 1.28 million, and finally sent 47,000, which a federal judge said two weeks ago means the IRS broke the law at least 42,695"
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_37 "America 250 Act also recognizes we cannot wait any longer to begin addressing the fact that our highway trust fund isn't keeping up with its needs. The bill ensures that electric vehicle owners, just like all other users of the highways, begin paying their fair share into the highway trust fund with an annual registration fee, the first new revenue source for the trust fund in more than three decades. This bill also looks ahead to our future and provides a first-ever federal framework for autonomous motor or autonomous commercial motor vehicles in order to safely integrate them into our..."
Hearing "Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SCOTT, AUSTIN "competitive and balanced. It is different by region, and it is different by the size of grower as well. Western growers have many that grow on both sides of the border, and Mexico is a country that is our neighbor, and we need those good trade relations. Ms. Swain, I want to move to you. As you know, I represent south Georgia. The timber prices, specifically southern pine, is way down. You shared in your testimony that U.S. forestry industry has experienced 35 pulp mill closures, many of which are in my State of Georgia, resulting in $800 million in annual forest revenue losses. Additionally,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the future of social security.
senate Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
NANCY ALTMAN "Absolutely. There are going to be important byproducts if you bring in more revenue, increase Social Security's benefits, because one of the byproducts would be meaningful tax reform, because you'd have a counterweight of the American people would either suffer benefit cuts, it's not just good government, or billionaires start paying their fair share. one. So what's rich in your mind? Well, certainly the top 1%. There's been a... Give me an income level. Give me an income level. Well, often for tax purposes, it's"
Hearing The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
MEUSER, DANIEL "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We also appreciate very much yours and Vice Chair Bowman's work a report coming out next week from my subcommittee, which we'll be looking forward to sharing with you. As you know, CPI came out this morning, well underestimate we could say. For all intents and purposes, the underlining economy is strong. The small businesses, community banks I speak to throughout, for the most part, throughout Pennsylvania, report steady demand and positive business outlooks. As well, the businesses are profitable. Tax revenues for the federal government are up 6.9% in 2026, which is..."
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"The exchange would return substantial privately owned mineral interests within the Crow Reservation to the Crow tribe, provide the tribe with a continuing share of revenue from any future development of the exchanged Bull Mountain mineral interests, and complete a related land exchange to improve public access. The Indian Health Service Emergency Claims Parity Act from Senator Rounds would extend the period for notifying the Indian Health Service of emergency care received outside the IHS..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“Examining the Sports Broadcasting Act”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"You're right. But if I told you my team was a smaller school that was playing every Saturday, they're not always on TV. And those NFL teams, they always are. Some of the smaller town areas that I don't know what happens if they can't share the revenue. Let's keep talking about it. I've enjoyed having you on. Thank"
Testimony BRENDAN DUKE
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"Let me first begin with an overview of our fiscal situation for the Budget Committee. Analyses typically focus on government spending and revenue as shares of the economy. In 2025, revenue was 17%, which is around the same level as in"
Testimony MS. ROSA THURNHER
"Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of...
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"and currently it is now 20 of my revenue If I cut those ties, then I lose a large share of my revenue every month. I think they know that we are stuck in a pattern with them. I think that they have huge marketing budgets, which we all pay"
Testimony MR. CHRIS FLOYD
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"So the impact will hit both the company and deciding what movies to make and how often to make them, and it will impact, so that impacts the workers and how many people get hired and paid. It also impacts people like Mr. Ashton's group who are, who have already made a movie. What happens is when someone streams it and pays for it legitimately, we automatically share a portion of those revenues with the Screen Actors Guild, with the directors, with all those people who worked on the movie...."
Testimony HENRY HOFSCHNEIDER
Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"to approximately 167,500 seats in fiscal year 2026, a 78% decline. For the CNMI, air service is the foundation of our tourism recovery. Visitors cannot drive to the Commonwealth. They cannot take a train. Every visitor must arrive by air. When airline seats disappear, the ceiling for recovery drops with them. This has created a difficult cycle. Fewer flights remain, mean fewer visitors. Fewer visitors mean lower hotel occupancy and lower hotel occupancy tax collection. Lower collections mean..."
Testimony SPEAKER_12
Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States ...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"to approximately 167,500 seats in fiscal year 2026, a 78% decline. For the CNMI, air service is the foundation of our tourism recovery. Visitors cannot drive to the Commonwealth. They cannot take a train. Every visitor must arrive by air. When airline seats disappear, the ceiling for recovery drops with them. This has created a difficult cycle. Fewer flights remain, mean fewer visitors. Fewer visitors mean lower hotel occupancy and lower hotel occupancy tax collection. Lower collections mean..."
Testimony MR. CHRIS FLOYD
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"We have laws that enable us to go after pirate sites in the U.S., but Bulgaria, Vietnam, the Philippines, these jurisdictions sit outside the practical reach of U.S. law enforcement but easily reach U.S. consumers online. Global revenues from U.S. films are shared with cast and crew in residuals and pension health and welfare payments. Profits are poured into new productions in every state of the union, including with local"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"about that piece. Well we share and respect your concern and that's why that when it was broken up it was actually broken into three organizations. It was BOEM, BSEE, and what was called Honor which is the Office of Natural Resource Revenue or Ocean Resource Revenue and in this proposal BOEM and BSEE you know which currently share offices and they you know they go out they inspect on the same platforms they work with the same issues they're following the same regulations but we've kept the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States ...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"I understand that our staffs are having encouraging and productive conversation to resolve this drafting issue. So I certainly like to see these issues addressed in the bill before its final passage. But I believe since members of both sides want to address this, I won't bring up the Padilla Hickenlooper amendment one, a two, but I have another critical issue that we need to address and which is how revenue from nonresident visitor church are surcharges would be shared across the park service..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"tragedies. Senator, thank you for your support on that and you've had to see that tragedy with your own eyes, but it's why, you know, part of the strategy would be concentrate on the wildland-urban interface that you that you're describing with those communities is those are the areas that we have to protect people and property. That's got to be a priority for us. Thank you. about that piece. Well we share and respect your concern and that's why that when it was broken up it was actually broken..."
Testimony SÁNCHEZ, LINDA T.
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Americans won't see the $1,000 refunds that they were promised. They can no longer use direct file, and they risk having their sensitive data shared illegally with other agencies. A United States district judge found last week that the Internal Revenue Service violated federal law 42,695 times when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer. There have been two injunctions by federal courts ruling that the IRS illegally shared private taxpayer..."
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"I understand that our staffs are having encouraging and productive conversation to resolve this drafting issue. So I certainly like to see these issues addressed in the bill before its final passage. But I believe since members of both sides want to address this, I won't bring up the Padilla Hickenlooper amendment one, a two, but I have another critical issue that we need to address and which is how revenue from non-resident visitor church or surcharges would be shared across the park service..."
Testimony ASAD RAMZANALI
Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artific...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"subsidizing data center construction, Congress could establish a regime where local governments can charge a franchise fee so that they can compete for benefits, and they retain the right to say no. Finally, telecommunications is also instructive in the form of overspending on infrastructure that leads to bubbles. Today, trillions of dollars of investment are chasing tens of billions of dollars of AI revenue. This is more than the country has spent as a relative share of GDP than on the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_23
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"This federal government also cannot be trusted to safeguard anyone's privacy. Taxpayers were promised for decades that information they gave to the Internal Revenue Service would be kept confidential, yet the IRS was asked to share 700,000 records, then 7 million, then 1.28 million, and finally sent 47,000, which a federal judge said two weeks ago means the IRS broke the law at least 42,695"
Testimony SPEAKER_37
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"America 250 Act also recognizes we cannot wait any longer to begin addressing the fact that our highway trust fund isn't keeping up with its needs. The bill ensures that electric vehicle owners, just like all other users of the highways, begin paying their fair share into the highway trust fund with an annual registration fee, the first new revenue source for the trust fund in more than three decades. This bill also looks ahead to our future and provides a first-ever federal framework for..."
Testimony TEHASSI HILL
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"All right. Good afternoon. Thank you. As mentioned, my name is Tehassi Hill. I'm honored to serve as vice chairman of the Indian Gaming Association and also chairman of the Oneida Nation. Up front, I want to make it clear that Indian country is rural America. We are farmers and growers. We support responsible innovation and the use of futures to hedge risks and ensure fair pricing. However, we are strongly opposed to prediction markets that have manipulated a weak regulatory agency to offer..."
Testimony SCOTT, AUSTIN
"Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"competitive and balanced. It is different by region, and it is different by the size of grower as well. Western growers have many that grow on both sides of the border, and Mexico is a country that is our neighbor, and we need those good trade relations. Ms. Swain, I want to move to you. As you know, I represent south Georgia. The timber prices, specifically southern pine, is way down. You shared in your testimony that U.S. forestry industry has experienced 35 pulp mill closures, many of which..."
Testimony NANCY ALTMAN
Hearings to examine the future of social security.
senate Finance Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Absolutely. There are going to be important byproducts if you bring in more revenue, increase Social Security's benefits, because one of the byproducts would be meaningful tax reform, because you'd have a counterweight of the American people would either suffer benefit cuts, it's not just good government, or billionaires start paying their fair share. one. So what's rich in your mind? Well, certainly the top 1%. There's been a... Give me an income level. Give me an income level. Well, often for..."
Testimony MEUSER, DANIEL
The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We also appreciate very much yours and Vice Chair Bowman's work a report coming out next week from my subcommittee, which we'll be looking forward to sharing with you. As you know, CPI came out this morning, well underestimate we could say. For all intents and purposes, the underlining economy is strong. The small businesses, community banks I speak to throughout, for the most part, throughout Pennsylvania, report steady demand and positive business outlooks. As well,..."