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Hearing Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act to modify a provision relating to the extension of certain dates for the...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
PADILLA, ALEX "Pechanga's water rights settlement was codified in 2016 and made fully enforceable in 2020. The Pechanga Band of Indians Water Rights Settlement Technical Amendments Act would update the tribe's water rights settlement to allow current and future trust lands to be eligible for the tribe's water rights. The legislation would also expand allowable uses of the Water Quality Fund to reflect modern water quality challenges, such as the challenges raised by PFAS and other emerging"
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The Right to a Jury Trial in Civil Cases Part 2: Identifying Civil Cases with a Right to a Jury Trial
Posts · Dec 22, 2022
This Legal Sidebar is the second in a five-part series that discusses a unique feature of the American legal system—the constitutional right to a jury trial in federal civil cases at law. During the...
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 · 2 transcript matches
STAUBER, PETE "these onerous regulations are put in place without a full understanding of the impact they will have on the ground. These regulations often set unreasonable standards or are set to go into effect on unreasonable timelines. The regulations on the North Atlantic Right Will, which are currently mandated to be implemented by the end of 2028, are an example of this unreasonable timeline that will have a negative impact on local and regional economies across New England and will have an outsized impact on Maine lobstermen. This bipartisan legislation before us today does not weaken protections for..."
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Civil Rights at School: Agency Enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Reports · Apr 4, 2019
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits federally funded programs, activities, and institutions from discriminating based on race, color, or national origin. In its current form, largely...
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Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski: Determining When A Statute Creates a Federal Right Actionable Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Posts · Nov 3, 2022
Not every right under the Constitution or federal statute is explicitly associated with a private remedy. One federal law that provides a remedy when state or local governments violate rights...
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Application of the Bill of Rights to the States Through the Fourteenth Amendment and Selective Incorporation
Posts · Oct 31, 2024
The Bill of Rights, comprising the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, protects certain rights against infringement by the federal government. A recurring question throughout U.S. history...
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: • H.R. 177 (Rep. McClintock), “Yosemite National Park Equal Access and Fairness Act” • H.R. 3717 (Rep. Harder), “Golden...
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2026 · Request transcript
SPEAKER_03 "the potential disputes. This again, in the case of H.R. 8546, is an example where the tribes working harmoniously with their neighbors have been able to balance their ancestral land needs and wants with the water rights that come with it. This technical correction scheme builds on the 2016 broad settlement that allows for an alignment between the land rights and the water rights. But more importantly, Madam Chair, this is an example, as a colleague who left a little while ago said, of one of those where we're doing all the right things. We're settling disputes, we're returning water rights to..."
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Recent Developments in the Rights of Private Individuals to Enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
Posts · Feb 20, 2024
On November 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Eighth Circuit) in Arkansas State Conference NAACP v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment affirmed a federal district court ruling...
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
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“Reserved” but Not “Secured”: Supreme Court Sinks Navajo Nation’s Attempt to Compel Federal Action on Tribal Water Rights
Posts · Jul 5, 2023
On June 22, 2023, the Supreme Court issued its decision in two consolidated cases (hereinafter Navajo Nation) involving the Navajo Nation’s rights to water on the Navajo Reservation, which generally...
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China Primer: Human Rights
InFocus · Sep 21, 2026
Overview The People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) party-state is an increasingly repressive authoritarian regime that has engaged in widespread human rights abuses. The party-state is dominated...
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The American Privacy Rights Act
Posts · May 31, 2024
On April 7, 2024, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell and House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers jointly released a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA)....
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The Right to a Jury Trial in Civil Cases Part 1: Introduction and Historical Background
Posts · Dec 22, 2022
This Legal Sidebar is the first in a five-part series that discusses a unique feature of the American legal system—the constitutional right to a jury trial in federal civil cases at law. During the...
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Crime Victims’ Rights Act: A Summary and Legal Analysis of 18 U.S.C. § 3771
Reports · Jun 8, 2021
Section 3771 of Title 18 of the United States Code is a statutory bill of rights for the victims of crimes committed in violation of federal law or the laws of the District of Columbia. It defines a...
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH
The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"all of our colleagues that that's what drives us. I've started to do it in my first seven weeks, but it's resonating. I hear it back in the hallways. I hear it at the cafeteria. And so at some level, people might think of this job as getting the answer right well to the right of the decimal point, and occasionally we do have to wander there. But in order to deliver on what you've asked us to do, I've always thought that most of this job is the left of the decimal point. We're going to get the..."
Witness Rachel Lerman
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law · 1 hearing
Witness Rabbi Jill Jacobs
T' ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights · 1 hearing
Witness Glenn Taubman
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation · 1 hearing
Witness Matt Nosanchuk
Mattnos Strategies and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education · 1 hearing
Witness Kenneth Marcus
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law · 1 hearing
Witness Mathew Nosanchuk
Office for Civil Rights · 1 hearing
Witness Aaron Solem
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation · 1 hearing
Witness Dan Morenoff
American Civil Rights Project · 1 hearing
Witness Brett Tolman
Right on Crime · 2 hearings
Witness Uzra Zeya
Human Rights First · 1 hearing
Hearing “A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN "Second, I'm going to talk very quickly about digital replicas because I know you've heard about them a lot. They are a problem. They affect people. And because we are people, we have personal property rights in our identity and in our autonomy. Let's not forget why this exists. It's rights in ourselves. As Mr. Astin said, we have human rights, and those rights deserve to be federalized. They deserve to be made into a federal property right, and this needs to be made something that occurs across the country. We can carve out First Amendment concerns. We can carve out the scope of it, but it's..."
Hearing • H.R. 181 (Rep. McClintock), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that artificially propagated animals shall be treated the...
house Natural Resources Committee · Sep 15, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Oversight: Right Time, Right Place, Right Treatment with VA Community Care
house Health Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2025 · Request transcript
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Federal Police Oversight: Criminal Civil Rights Violations Under 18 U.S.C. § 242
Posts · Jun 15, 2020
The May 2020 death of George Floyd in police custody and subsequent nationwide protests against the use of force by law enforcement have sparked heightened interest in Congress’s ability to prevent...
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Due Process Rights for Guantanamo Detainees
Posts · Nov 2, 2021
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) granted a petition for rehearing en banc in Al Hela v. Biden, vacating a three-judge panel opinion holding that...
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Applicability of Federal Civil Rights Laws to Recipients of CARES Act Loans
Posts · May 1, 2020
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) authorizes the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide economic assistance temporarily to eligible organizations. Section...
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Supreme Court Rules That There Is No Constitutional Right to Having an Alien Spouse Admitted to the United States
Posts · Nov 5, 2024
On June 21, 2024, the Supreme Court in Department of State v. Muñoz rejected a U.S. citizen’s legal challenge to the denial of her alien husband’s application for a visa to enter the United States....
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Enforcing Federal Privacy Law—Constitutional Limitations on Private Rights of Action
Posts · May 31, 2019
Over the last two years, the prospect of a comprehensive federal data privacy law has been the subject of considerable attention in the press and in Congress. Some Members of Congress and outside...
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 Business meeting to consider S.4726, to promote efforts to bring about stability and security in Sudan, S.3984, to authorize a 2-year extension of...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Oversight hearings to examine Federal policies governing Indian water rights settlements, including S.953, to provide for the settlement of the...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Mar 11, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.558, to provide for the consideration of a definition of antisemitism set forth by the International Holocaust...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 30, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing "Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, and Legal Abuses in America’s Schools"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MR. JOHNATHAN SMITH "With those rights, while those rights are critically important, the Supreme Court has observed that the rights of parenthood are not beyond limitation. One parent's rights does not supersede the rights of other parents or their children, nor does it allow for the erasure of history, the targeting of children, the banning of accurate books, or the undermining of the value of public education as a whole. Too often, the language of parents' rights has been misconstrued and manipulated, not to advance the shared goal of serving and supporting students, but as a cudgel to divide our communities...."
Hearing “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_15 "characteristics. It engages in various kinds of conspiracy theories. It seeks to whitewash our history, to exclude certain subjects from our public schools. Are family values and that it's for parental rights, but then it interferes with parental rights. It interferes with parental rights. I'm a parent, too, and I want my children to learn about the history of this country. I want them to learn about racism. I want them to learn about hate and the expression of hate in this country. So as a parent, Moms for Liberty says it gets to decide for me and for millions of other parents in this..."
Hearing Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school and beyond.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
TRAYVEAN SCOTT, PH.D, "I'm listening to Mr. Tuck. That's where I'm going, right? If we've got 333 Division I institutions, only 68 make March Madness, right? When you win per round, your unit is about $335,000 a unit, right? So in the Southwestern Athletics Conference, in the Mideastern Athletics Conference, for example, they're one-bid"
Testimony DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Second, I'm going to talk very quickly about digital replicas because I know you've heard about them a lot. They are a problem. They affect people. And because we are people, we have personal property rights in our identity and in our autonomy. Let's not forget why this exists. It's rights in ourselves. As Mr. Astin said, we have human rights, and those rights deserve to be federalized. They deserve to be made into a federal property right, and this needs to be made something that occurs across..."
Testimony DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"The thing I'm concerned about, Mr. Raskin, is the small creator, who can't go up against the big tech company and say, help me here. There are also, by the way, schemes to help pay small creators. We have BMI and ASCAP standing as examples of collective rights. Collective rights organizations that clear rights for people so that they can get their royalties. So what exists right now, there's a lot that exists right now that we need to tap into. Think of them as a giant Hoover. They suck them..."
Testimony MR. JOHNATHAN SMITH
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"With those rights, while those rights are critically important, the Supreme Court has observed that the rights of parenthood are not beyond limitation. One parent's rights does not supersede the rights of other parents or their children, nor does it allow for the erasure of history, the targeting of children, the banning of accurate books, or the undermining of the value of public education as a whole. Too often, the language of parents' rights has been misconstrued and manipulated, not to..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“The Legal Basis for Action Against Venezuelan Drug Traffickers”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"He demanded every right in the arsenal of due process rights we have. And well, he should have when he was convicted on 36 different counts of felony fraud. have when he was convicted on 36 different counts of felony fraud, but he had the right to counsel, he had the right to present evidence, he had the right to cross-examine, he had the right to be indicted, and he had the right to a jury of his peers deciding the case. Even out at sea, our Coast Guard knows how to interdict a ship and take..."
Testimony MOODY, ASHLEY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Heidi Overton, of New Mexico, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Sep 24, 2026
"Is there, right now, if someone files an application and it's pending with you, can they continue to sell even though it hasn't been approved? yes. I'll get to the next question, right? Is that's a yes? Because I just think it's important that everybody understands that. Right now, we had millions that were pending, right? And so presumably they could have sold until we kicked them out, which is why bringing that down was so important. You had millions and millions just filed, no idea what's in..."
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine flock's nationwide AI surveillance network.
senate Judiciary Committee · Sep 23, 2026
"to certain societal interests in public safety and concerns there with violating the average American's sense of fundamental rights to privacy, to speech, to be moving without government surveillance and so much more. We are way out of balance right now. In fact, we are out of control for any government, state, local, or federal, to easily abuse the fundamental rights that we all assume we have a right to, that these cameras seem to be so seriously is going to use it. Mr. Chairman, can I ask..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
Hearings to examine the nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be De...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"they seek help, when that window of opportunity is open. No gaps in care, no stalling out and starting over, no one left to navigate the complex systems alone. We go back to the fundamentals of good medicine, combining science and compassion, and connecting Americans to health care that works. We should leave no stone unturned in pursuing effective treatment, the right care for the right person at the right time for the right amount of time. I vision moving from chemical coping to human..."
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 MR. JAY STANLEY
“Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"standardized, it must be built with great care and awareness of big potential downsides. We have to ensure America does not become a checkpoint society and that digital IDs don't become virtual ankle monitors, something that tracks us but we can't turn off or escape. Second, the digital ID system that is most likely to become dominant, mobile driver's licenses or MDLs issued by the is not being done right. Driver's licenses are already in most Americans' wallets and are by far the most likely..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Doyle, of Connecticut, Da...
senate Finance Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, end quote. Congress has acted under that power from the earliest days of our great nation, and this has led to American leadership in every innovative field. How many other countries had the foresight to embed intellectual property into their very founding? America has always set the global bar in terms of IP rights, and this must continue now and well into the future...."
Testimony THE HONORABLE CHRIS SUNUNU
“The 30,000 Foot View: Competition and Regulation in the U.S. Airline ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Those opportunities that flow there, so that competition can thrive, reducing the cost on airports, making sure that infrastructure is done, making sure that, again, I go back to even looking at our national airspace, right? Right now, we manage, every little pocket manages its own little national, own part of the national airspace, as opposed to this new modernized system that we're, Brian Bedford and the FAA are bringing into play, which will allow more efficiency, especially in rural areas,..."
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Then you had Plessy versus Ferguson which continued in that. Then we had the Warren Court which finally, after all those years, starting in 1965, 1954, started restoring those rights, and you had the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and 1968 guaranteeing voting rights. Then you had a series of Supreme Court decisions ending with Louisiana versus Calais which is a second redemption, effectively repealing the protections for black voting"
Testimony ALLEN, RICK W.
"Bad Medicine: Politics, Unions, and Antisemitism in Health Care"
house Education and Workforce Committee · May 20, 2026
"financial investments, pension funds, retirement accounts, academic partnerships, and intellectual property relationships. It is no surprise that many doctors and nurses are afraid to speak up about what their unions are doing in their workplaces. Many fear retaliation, professional isolation, or becoming targets themselves if they exercise their rights under federal law. Workers have rights to speak out against union leadership and to decline to fund political activities with which they..."
Testimony MS. JESSICA WATERS
“From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Cri...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"violence, not protected speech. the need for the National Face Act was well documented in the legislative record at the time, right? And what we saw was local and state law enforcement saying we can't handle this, right? Hundreds of people show up, and if my force goes to that clinic, we're not doing anything else in the state, right? So we saw the state law enforcement saying this is very needed. We also saw ample evidence that a lot of this violence was cross-state, right? And states'..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"At the heart of this ecosystem is trust. Our members believe that consumers and small business owners must have full control over their financial data, including the right to share it with third parties, the right to have it protected when they do so, the right to understand how it is being used, and the right to withdraw their consent from it being accessed at any time. This open banking framework should be the lodestar for any modernization of federal data privacy"
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"There are 17 states that have adopted what we call the consensus privacy approach. Virginia was the first state to adopt this model, and it's spread in other states like Kentucky and Montana and even all the way out in the West Coast and Oregon. It provides very workable privacy rights where there is a data minimization standard where companies have to use data in a way that's relevant and reasonable in relation to how they disclose it to consumers, but then gives them a whole bevy of other..."
Testimony JORDAN, JIM
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"That doesn't mean you can come into this room and start screaming at Mr. Raskin or me or anybody else and disrupt a congressional hearing. You have a right to protest on the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress, something these guys talk about every day. You can't do that. So when Don Lemon said that he was exercising his First Amendment free press rights, freedom of the press rights, that's not really accurate because he was trampling on other..."
Testimony TLAIB, RASHIDA
Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Ri...
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"I mean, it's kind of like this game of you're not going to pay your workers enough, but we're going to, the public is going to give you subsidiary, you're going to pay less in taxes, we're going to give you tax breaks and giveaways. And by the way, we'll cover the health insurance and food assistance programs that your workers need to survive. about political rights civil rights social rights cultural rights It's"
Testimony FRY, RUSSELL
“Oversight of the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith”
house Judiciary Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"indictment issued on President Trump? August 1st, 2023. Does that sound about after that, you asked for a trial date when? I don't recall as I sit here right now. January 2024. Does that sound about right? It sounds about right. Okay. So after the indictment in August, you asked for a January trial date. That's about five months. Five months. How many, how much evidence did you have? Millions of pages? As I sit here right now, I don't recall the exact. I think in your testimony, they talked..."
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 · 2 transcript matches
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 H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
NADLER, JERROLD "Then you had Plessy versus Ferguson which continued in that. Then we had the Warren Court which finally, after all those years, starting in 1965, 1954, started restoring those rights, and you had the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and 1968 guaranteeing voting rights. Then you had a series of Supreme Court decisions ending with Louisiana versus Calais which is a second redemption, effectively repealing the protections for black voting"
Hearing Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_18 "At the heart of this ecosystem is trust. Our members believe that consumers and small business owners must have full control over their financial data, including the right to share it with third parties, the right to have it protected when they do so, the right to understand how it is being used, and the right to withdraw their consent from it being accessed at any time. This open banking framework should be the lodestar for any modernization of federal data privacy"
Hearing Lives, not Leverage: the Long Arm of China and North Korea’s Repression
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_05 "the foundation for a bipartisan consensus on China, a sense that we have to do something. And I saw this in action when I was a staff director at the Congressional Executive Commission on China, and we were sanctioned for expressing our concerns and that the members, both on the Senate and the House, Republican, Democrat, led the way with. We've long held in the United States that all individuals have rights to life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness, and it's bad enough that the PRC takes away those rights, damages those rights, even those that they have ratified by treaty from their..."
Hearing “Renewal of USPTO Fee Setting Authority: Giving Full Effect to the America Invents Act”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Sep 2, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_01 "you have it as 50% and I think a 75% reduction for small and micro-entities. small and micro entities. You might want to adjust that, right, because right now if you want to keep the small and micro entity fees the same, you'd have to adjust that downwards, right, if you increase it for large. So I'm not sure that it does, right? I mean, how I read the"
Hearing Legislative hearing on: H.R. 642 (Rep. Steube), “Myakka Wild and Scenic River Act of 2025”; H.R. 5470 (Rep. LaHood), “Route 66 National Historic...
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Sep 2, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_16 "It is just remarkable to think about the transformational changes in our nation that inspired the world and has led to the advancement of civil rights for so many other important causes, such as women's rights, LGBTQ rights, and disability rights. Congress's purpose in creating the network was to connect together the countless"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for hospital and insurer price transparency, S.4189, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SANDERS, BERNARD "Senator Sanders. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much, and I want to applaud the staff on our side as well for their hard work, and to tell you that I intend to be supporting all of the bills that are before us this morning. But I do want to say in response to something that you did say, that at the end of the day, as a nation, we're going to have to ask ourselves one very simple question with regard to health care. Is health care a human right, or is it not? And I would suggest, Mr. Chairman, that the overwhelming majority of the American people understand that health care is a human right,..."
Hearing Maintaining America’s Leadership in Biomedical Innovation: FDA’s Role in Advancing U.S. Drug Development.
house Health Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN "Ms. DeGette of Colorado to introduce our next witness. And I appreciate it, and I'd also appreciate all the witnesses being here today. The next witness to be introduced is Dr. Thomas Wang. Did I get it right? All right. He says I got it right. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. And last but not least, Dr. Thomas Boyke is the Bloomberg Chair in Global Health, Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law and Development, and Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations. Per committee custom, each witness..."
Hearing “Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in National Security.”
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_01 "Excess skiff space in GSA, for example, is a great way, like, for a pay-for-fee, like a WeWorks, is another opportunity. I know. No, second of all, I wouldn't say it's broken. I would say it's a system designed for something else. Like if you're going into the Rockies in Colorado, you probably don't want a Corvette. You probably want a Ford one 50, right? So we were designed, the acquisition system was designed for a different era for a different concern. And we have not shifted to the right system or the right car. It is substantially problematic. I'll just give one example. And I think it..."
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 · 2 transcript matches
JOHNSON, DUSTY "This bill makes it clear that our Department of Transportation is not going to be using federal funds to procure technology that would give that millimeter-level data on our country's critical infrastructure to companies that are affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party. And so here we are with a bill that does right by investing in tribal infrastructure, does right by investing in rural infrastructure, does right by investing in our nation's infrastructure assets, and it's also got some pretty good wins for America. And Mr. Chairman, I am so looking forward to passing this bill out of..."
Testimony DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Do they need to disclose their data sets? Yes, that's, I think, one part of it. I think that in the fair use cases I've been talking about that Mr. Raskin was just referring to the one where his books were ingested, right? What happened there? I don't think they ever paid you for those books. You will be paid. Go find that postcard in the settlement, because it's the point is, right, it's not just disclosing what they trained on. By the way, in the Bartz case, we'd found that they were in fact..."
Testimony DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Your exact words, boy, I mean, maybe a short phrase was not copyrightable. If you took a paragraph from your book, that'd be less likely to be fair use. Well, that's a tough one, right, as a short phrase, but yeah, but the point stands, right? We should be able to use short phrases from each other, I think, unless it's a trademark violation, which is another, you know, question altogether. The question about outputs is tough, right? When they're exact copies, we already have copyright to..."
Testimony MR. JOHNATHAN SMITH
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"our history, it's been this body, Congress, that has acted through intentional interventions like Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, to respond to and to correct historical and ongoing injustice. Importantly, Congress didn't stop at writing the laws. It built the federal agencies and infrastructure to enforce them. The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights often stands as a student's last and sometimes only option to attend school free from discrimination. The Department of Justice's..."
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Hearings to examine the nominations of Peter McCoy, of South Carolina,...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"The U.S.-Columbia relationship, really beginning with the planned Columbia toward the end of the Clinton administration, so Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, President Trump first term, President Biden, President Trump second term, it's been a very steady relationship, even though at the presidential level, whether, you know, I've just gone through a lot of presidents of different parties, or I could go through the Colombian presidents, left, right, left, right, left, right. While there's been..."
Testimony BIGGS, ANDY
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"pressure the justices, clear the way for their agenda. And let's be honest, they had no problem with the court when it delivered rulings they liked. They celebrated Roe v. Wade for decades. But the moment the court issued rulings they disagreed with, they demanded the institution be blown up and rebuilt to guarantee political outcomes. Their goal is not ethics, it's not policy, it's power. One of their own members, former Representative Mondaire Jones, said the quiet part out loud, quote,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Lives, not Leverage: the Long Arm of China and North Korea’s Repressio...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"the foundation for a bipartisan consensus on China, a sense that we have to do something. And I saw this in action when I was a staff director at the Congressional Executive Commission on China, and we were sanctioned for expressing our concerns and that the members, both on the Senate and the House, Republican, Democrat, led the way with. We've long held in the United States that all individuals have rights to life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness, and it's bad enough that the PRC takes..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Lives, not Leverage: the Long Arm of China and North Korea’s Repressio...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"And you have to affect those things, right? And we have to do it actively, predictably, right? If you, you know, one of the sort of the underpinning logics of deterrence is that the response has to be known. That, meaning, we will respond, absolutely. It's the question of the scale. How far will we go? The unpredictability of the impact that makes people think that they should hold off. And right now, because we've tended to de-link human rights rather than to link it to other areas the way..."
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Legislative Hearing on: • H.R. 177 (Rep. McClintock), “Yosemite Nation...
house Natural Resources Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"the potential disputes. This again, in the case of H.R. 8546, is an example where the tribes working harmoniously with their neighbors have been able to balance their ancestral land needs and wants with the water rights that come with it. This technical correction scheme builds on the 2016 broad settlement that allows for an alignment between the land rights and the water rights. But more importantly, Madam Chair, this is an example, as a colleague who left a little while ago said, of one of..."
Testimony VAN ORDEN, DERRICK
"Increasing Demand and Opportunities for Homegrown Products Here and A...
house Agriculture Committee · Sep 16, 2026
"not. Absolutely not. I had a very, very uncomfortable discussion with our refiners this morning. We're still exporting diesel out of this country right now. And you can argue about second and third order effects if we reduce exports. But, you know, they're American companies and Americans need a break at the pump right now, especially for our farm diesel. Farm less than road diesel right now. My buddies, they contracted out at 264 for last year for diesel. And we want to make sure that, you..."
Testimony POCAN, MARK
Oversight Hearing - The Economy Act
house Appropriations Committee · Sep 15, 2026
"Okay. So, Congress, could we request it? That would be the only way. So, something like this, all right, so that's part of the problem, right? So, when you take it off the high risk list, it was because it was not being abused for a period of time, but the fact that right now it seems to be used much more frequently and maybe in slightly interesting ways could put it back on a high risk list, correct? Sure. Gotcha. You"
Testimony HAYES, JAHANA
"Out of Touch: When Union Politics Leave Workers Behind"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Sep 15, 2026
"But these are not activist campaigns. This is workers protecting and defending their rights, their rights to organize, their rights to speak up. And what we should be doing, not only on this committee, but in the Department of Labor, is strengthening those rights, because that is the task of the United States Department of Labor, to protect the workers. And we have a lot of conversation about corporations and what it means on the other side, but what we should be talking about is our..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
‘“Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’: Birthright Citizenship and the...
house Judiciary Committee · Sep 2, 2026
"The reason the 14th Amendment was drafted the way it was was to constitutionalize the Civil Rights Act. And that's why they're parallel in construction and in what they do. It was they would rescind the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was also suspected that a Supreme Court might hold that the Congress did not have the authority to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866. So that's why they constitutionalized it. And that's why they use parallel language, especially in the citizenship provision...."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
“Renewal of USPTO Fee Setting Authority: Giving Full Effect to the Ame...
house Judiciary Committee · Sep 2, 2026
"you have it as 50% and I think a 75% reduction for small and micro-entities. small and micro entities. You might want to adjust that, right, because right now if you want to keep the small and micro entity fees the same, you'd have to adjust that downwards, right, if you increase it for large. So I'm not sure that it does, right? I mean, how I read the"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
“Renewal of USPTO Fee Setting Authority: Giving Full Effect to the Ame...
house Judiciary Committee · Sep 2, 2026
"giving fee-setting authority to the PTO is it's whether discretionary as to how much, right, is how it's written. And to me, when Congress gives the agency discretion gives the agency discretion, right, to set its fees within certain guidelines, right, it has to set, obviously, aggregate fees to cover aggregate costs, right? As long as they hit those particular guardrails that you guys have set, then I think the agency has discretion to set their fees within the guardrails that you've set. If..."
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Legislative hearing on: H.R. 642 (Rep. Steube), “Myakka Wild and Sceni...
house Natural Resources Committee · Sep 2, 2026
"It is just remarkable to think about the transformational changes in our nation that inspired the world and has led to the advancement of civil rights for so many other important causes, such as women's rights, LGBTQ rights, and disability rights. Congress's purpose in creating the network was to connect together the countless"
Testimony STANSBURY, MELANIE A.
Legislative hearing on: H.R. 642 (Rep. Steube), “Myakka Wild and Sceni...
house Natural Resources Committee · Sep 2, 2026
"Now there are a number of good bills before us today, and I support a number of them, and I support a number of them including Representative Raskin's bill to honor Thomas Paine, Rep. Gonzalez's bill to protect Boca Chica Beach, but particularly I want to focus today on two bills that are bipartisan that I am a co-sponsor of and that includes Rep. LaHood's bill to designate the Route 66 as a National Historic Trail as well as Rep. Clyburn's bill to extend the African-American Civil Rights..."
Testimony TONKO, PAUL
Ten Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Sep 2, 2026
"Let's take the time to figure out whether the Busses Act will worsen the current pain at the pump before we allow more diesel fuel to be wasted. Let's do right by our kids, let's do right by our communities, and let's do right by our environment. With that, I urge members to support this amendment, Mr. Chair, and I yield"
Testimony ROY, CHIP
“Sanctuary Policies, Tragic Consequences”
house Judiciary Committee · Sep 1, 2026
"Should they have come into the United States of India? You're fine with the two individuals released by the Biden administration on the streets of the United States who were able to carry out and engage in this activity that resulted in the death and destruction and the maiming of the American people that we're just seeing right here. The witnesses to your left and right. I didn't say that. I said there should be a process. You're totally fine with that. Right. Well, you refuse to say that..."
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"He said to the participants on that call that he would work to restrict abortion in every single state. state. That's not enforcing the law. That is a zealot, a warrior seeking to advocate the president's position against reproductive rights. He wants to block states enacting their own policies and laws. He wants to make abortion access follow the laws of abortion banned states. In short, he wants to strip Americans of their right to choose and strip states of their right to govern. The part of..."
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"He said to the participants on that call that he would work to restrict abortion in every single state. state. That's not enforcing the law. That is a zealot, a warrior seeking to advocate the president's position against reproductive rights. He wants to block states enacting their own policies and laws. He wants to make abortion access follow the laws of abortion banned states. In short, he wants to strip Americans of their right to choose and strip states of their right to govern. The part of..."
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"He said to the participants on that call that he would work to restrict abortion in every single state. state. That's not enforcing the law. That is a zealot, a warrior seeking to advocate the president's position against reproductive rights. He wants to block states enacting their own policies and laws. He wants to make abortion access follow the laws of abortion banned states. In short, he wants to strip Americans of their right to choose and strip states of their right to govern. The part of..."
Testimony BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"I also want to thank Senator Hassan for making it clear that this is about students, families, and businesses. I co-lead this amendment because we know that discrimination is not new and it still persists. I know it as the former Secretary of Labor of Delaware, I know it as the former CEO of the Urban League where we fought for civil rights and justice, and also as a person who worked for the Institute for Community Inclusion focused on people with disabilities. Created from the momentum of the..."
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Pechanga's water rights settlement was codified in 2016 and made fully enforceable in 2020. The Pechanga Band of Indians Water Rights Settlement Technical Amendments Act would update the tribe's water rights settlement to allow current and future trust lands to be eligible for the tribe's water rights. The legislation would also expand allowable uses of the Water Quality Fund to reflect modern water quality challenges, such as the challenges raised by PFAS and other emerging"
Testimony LUJÁN, BEN RAY
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"move forward with this bill, 3573, and I want to acknowledge Senator Martin Heinrich, our Senator from New Mexico, with his work on the legislation as well. Now, Mr. Cameron, with all the conversation today, there's been a lot of attention brought to the number of pending water rights settlements. There are 39 enacted Indian water rights settlements binding federal commitments to tribal communities, but no guaranteed funding source for any of the settlement that were enacted after 2021. My..."
Testimony BEN WINTERS
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"speak. We need more, not less. Yeah, absolutely. It would facilitate those people coming forward, right? Right now you could say, where should you report it? And you could say, go to the FBI or the FTC or state AGs or local police department or the AARP. Like, I could name 15 different kinds or do it right on the platform. And none of those things are talking to each other. And so, A, the owner should not be on the victim to try to figure out what the most effective way of doing it is. And so,..."
Testimony ALLEN, RICK W.
“Building an AI-Ready America: How AI Is Creating Opportunities Across...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 24, 2026
"And Augusta, where you're sitting right now, was just named the number one best city for entrepreneurs to start a business. Isn't that great? And a lot of that happened right here in this Innovation Center. But today's hearing is part of this committee's Building an AI-Ready America series, and we'll examine how artificial intelligence, AI, is creating economic opportunities for American workers, job creators, and our communities. There's no better place to hold this hearing than right here in..."
Testimony SANDERS, BERNARD
Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Servic...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Senator Sanders. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much, and I want to applaud the staff on our side as well for their hard work, and to tell you that I intend to be supporting all of the bills that are before us this morning. But I do want to say in response to something that you did say, that at the end of the day, as a nation, we're going to have to ask ourselves one very simple question with regard to health care. Is health care a human right, or is it not? And I would suggest, Mr. Chairman,..."
Testimony BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Servic...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And so the work that we are trying to do to strengthen our nursing workforce is important. When nurses feel distressed, patients feel it. And shortages show up in patient care from delayed treatments to closed hospital departments to longer hospital stays to worse outcomes. And there's an economic toll as well. Burnout related to turnover alone costs an estimated $9 billion a year. And so we appreciate the support of our amendment. My amendment to Title 8 creates a three-year pilot program to..."
Testimony MS. CHARLOTTE LEE
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and In...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 21, 2026
"that voice. I don't think we have one that are similar, that are responsible for, I guess, outbound communication, right? Everything is very reactionary. Like we said, like, somebody has to ask for it for us to give it to them, just like on the website, right? I have to ask for it. I can't discover anything, right? So I think that when I say voice, I loosely mean that the information has to be encouraged and actively participating in dialogue where it is happening. I also think that the reason..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Democracies like to respect everybody's rights, but it's an old story with empires. Empires would extend their reach over lots and lots of land. And so you had to be a citizen and not a subject in order to exercise rights. But inevitably, because of imperial practices, the rights of citizens would be sacrificed and denigrated and diluted, just like the rights of the noncitizens. Let's get back on the path towards being a democratic republic and not acting like an empire with paramilitary forces..."
Testimony NEGUSE, JOE
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"I thought the federal standard, I thought the standard here was three days or is that wrong? 72 hours. Right. So if you forget your ID. You forget your ID, you've got 72 hours. That'd be right. You would not have cured your ballot. That's right. Do you know what that time period is obviously, I believe Colorado has a gold standard, but if it's good enough for the people of Wisconsin, I'm just, again, don't really understand why you would champion, on the one"
Testimony JASON SOMENSATTO
Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 17, 2026
"And so it's like, put aside that viewpoint of like, do you like this technology? Is this the cool development or not? And understand that like, people are engaged in this, right, regardless of what number you use, right? If it's 12 million people, 25 million people, right? There's a lot of Americans who are engaging in this technology in good faith, and it's incumbent on Congress and on the Senate to recognize that and put into place the regulations that are necessary for that to"
Testimony LIEUTENANT GENERAL DOUGLAS SCHIESS
Hearings to examine the nomination of Lieutenant General Douglas A. Sc...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"the capability to connect all of those forces together, I do agree that we need to be able to bring all of the information to the right person at the right time, to make the decisions they need to make, to be able to have the right effect against the target. Yes, Senator, I believe that AI is a huge part of how we do things. I would say there are certain areas that we're going to push that space domain"
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
Maintaining America’s Leadership in Biomedical Innovation: FDA’s Role ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Ms. DeGette of Colorado to introduce our next witness. And I appreciate it, and I'd also appreciate all the witnesses being here today. The next witness to be introduced is Dr. Thomas Wang. Did I get it right? All right. He says I got it right. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. And last but not least, Dr. Thomas Boyke is the Bloomberg Chair in Global Health, Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law and Development, and..."
Testimony DR. CYNTHIA VERST
Maintaining America’s Leadership in Biomedical Innovation: FDA’s Role ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"and of course, incentivizing as appropriate, and using technologies that actually e-sourcing, for instance, EMR and EDC systems being interconnected to simplify the process, and identifying the right patient for the right clinical trial at the right time on his or her patient journey. And of course, this all is working across the healthcare ecosystem in order to be"
Testimony MR. JAY MOSELY
States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"The Alabama Fusion Center is not an investigative agency. We don't duplicate the work of the FBI or the intelligence community. Our mission is simple, to get the right information to the right people at the right time so they can make informed decisions. But information sharing doesn't begin with"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. ...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"educators, and their communities. Lastly, I'd like to address which IAs we're not codifying. Today we're not considering the transfer of the Office of Civil Rights or the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. And perhaps that's because even my colleagues recognize how politically unpalatable such transfers would be. A core function of the Department of Education is to protect and defend students' civil rights. The federal government must retain its central role in enforcing..."
Testimony STAUBER, PETE
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"these onerous regulations are put in place without a full understanding of the impact they will have on the ground. These regulations often set unreasonable standards or are set to go into effect on unreasonable timelines. The regulations on the North Atlantic Right Will, which are currently mandated to be implemented by the end of 2028, are an example of this unreasonable timeline that will have a negative impact on local and regional economies across New England and will have an outsized..."
Testimony GOLDEN, JARED F.
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"in the last three years a vast network of acoustic monitors in the Gulf of Maine to listen for right whale calls. It's also regularly watched for right whales on dedicated voyages and flights. So Maine is now doing the federal government's job for it. They're also using gliders that travel underneath the water and can detect whale calls right down to particular individual whales if their call has been put into an existing database of known right whale calls. We're getting down the level of..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH
Hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congr...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Culture is the big driver of a lot of things and in my first seven weeks, Senator, we're doing our very best in the best of the Fed's traditions to get the culture right, to get the strategy right, and to get policy right. And if we can do those things, all of which are to the left of the decimal point, might not be of such great"
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Ma...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"And yet in 2021, President Trump called the COVID vaccine, quote, one of the greatest achievements of mankind, end quote. I don't usually agree with President Trump, but it certainly was a great achievement. So who's right? Were you right or was President Trump right? Thank"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"from the real harms being visited on kids because of the disastrous policies of this administration. I urge our colleagues to rethink this, oppose this legislation, and I yield back. you, Mr. Chairman. Three UC requests. One is a statement from 115 civil rights and health care access and LGBTQ rights organizations opposing the legislation. Objection. A statement from the Human Rights Campaign, again urging opposition. Objection. And finally, this is excerpts from statements from more than 30..."
Testimony MCCLINTOCK, TOM
Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"easier by eliminating the confusions caused by split jurisdictions. Ranchers need to know where their permits apply, where infrastructure can be maintained, and who's responsible for decisions arbitrary administrative boundary on a federal map. The bill also protects existing rights and authorizations. It specifically provides that valid existing rights, including rights of way, easements, leases, licenses, and permits remain protected after the transfer. This ensures that current users,..."
Testimony MARK NEWMAN
“Direct Contracting: A Prescription for Lower Health Care Costs”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"Medicare, Medicaid, you name it, there is an average write-off of 75 percent of patient balances tied to deductibles and other things like that that they go uncollected. That is regardless of market type. So right out the bat, if in your market, you know, you're reliant on 30 percent of your revenue coming from patients, well, guess what? There's 22 points right out the door, right? You know, it has that shift. The second part of that is payers don't pay. You know, on here, you've dealt with..."
Testimony MCGARVEY, MORGAN
Memorializing our Veterans: Outreach, Upkeep, and Community Partnershi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Great. That is good to hear, and I appreciate you saying that there's overtime, and look, we know how hard everybody works, and we know what happens if something gets left uncared for, right? I mean, the people who visit these cemeteries, they're our cemeteries, right, and people care a lot about them, and rightfully so. You mentioned, overtime, you mentioned you're about to"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"The difference here is that we are a capitalist society, right? You don't get a job. You don't get a check, right? If you lose your job, you lose your house, you lose your health insurance, you lose everything, right? You have kids, right? I mean, the problem is that if you're in a society, and I'm not saying I want to be"
Testimony SPEAKER_36
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"U.S. assistance should not be given unconditionally. We uphold American values and credibility when we insist that security cooperation aligns with the rights for fundamental freedoms and human rights. Amendment 691 would require the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, to certify that Pakistan is actively taking steps to prevent human rights abuses before its military may receive U.S. security assistance. Accountability strengthens, not undermines, our..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
"Reviewing Partnerships to Enhance Management of the National Forest S...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Even if a collaborative decided, hey, we need to go in there and we need to do active management, the regulatory regime that overlays those national forests oftentimes restricts the ability to actually go in and do the right treatment at the right time at the right place. That needs to be"
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"improving the bureaucracy and the redundancy in the system, but there is, as you said, there is a way to become legal. If you choose not to do that, you're making a conscious decision and I can't help you on that situation. If you don't want to become a legal citizen, there's a way to be in this country legally, but you have to follow the laws that Congress passed and that we enforce. I don't pick and choose, I enforce, but there is a right way to stay in this country and there's a right way to..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of How America Invests
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"you all using AI? So we are, and the industry and companies are in different, varying different levels here, but AI is a tool that could be used, right, in terms of, as you're alluding to, different efficiencies that can be brought into, you know, back office work and other strategies as well. And as I was mentioning in my answer to Mr. Foster, is that, you know, when you take a look at, you know, an attempt to have blanket AI regulations, that's what the EU tried to do with the AI Act, right,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"and then also, of course, hard resources? Targeted programs that can support groups like ours, the state surveys, many of which are in universities, university groups to attract students in on focused programs. There are such efforts being enrolled right now as we speak from various agencies. More support for those programs would be fantastic. are? Yes, EarthMRI is fantastic because we can employ students right away, get them right out in the field, get them analyzing rocks right away in the..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE DAVID STEINER
Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"address the underlying problem rather than adding another 800 billion dollars the yeah and and you know I think it's I think that is a perfect example of how we got where we are right the problems that were fixed there were what I call the accounting problems right welfare retirement different things like that they weren't the operational problems that plague the post office right the mandates that I talked about in my opening remarks and so that bill took care of a lot of the accounting issues..."
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine the future of social security.
senate Finance Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"So how much value does a U.S. government bond have to a U.S. government agency? The answer is zero, right? Because when the trustees take that bond to pay out benefits because benefits exceed revenue right now, the U.S. Treasury just has to issue another bond, right? So again, the trust fund is a"
Testimony FLETCHER, LIZZIE
Subcommittee Markup of Eight Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"We take very seriously people's First Amendment right to speak and to speak out about things that matter in their lives. And so I appreciate Chairman Guthrie, your statement about working together. And I really do think it's essential that we get this right and that we write language that protects these pipelines and allows them to operate safely at all times without the dangerous interference that can be caused while also protecting the rights of American citizens that frankly are being..."
Testimony VAN HOLLEN, CHRIS
Hearings to examine the nominations of Juan Segura, of Virginia, to be...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 18, 2026
"because over four years ago, President Bukele initiated a 30-day state of exception. This was a state of emergency where they suspended certain constitutional rights, like the right of free assembly, like the rights of due process, like the right to access to legal counsel, for a good purpose, which was to crack down on gang violence. But here's the"
Testimony TUBERVILLE, TOMMY
Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances,...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"How safe do we feel about the ingredients in pharmaceuticals from China, and how can we depend on that safety? So, we just pretty much take it for granted that they're going to do the right thing, right? Because we don't make it much here, right? Thank you. Mr. Miller, China is known for its investment fraud and scam"
Testimony JESSE TOLLESON, JR.
Hearings to examine Army force modernization in review of the Defense ...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"objective of about just north of 600 vehicles right now, and really what the ISV Heavy is going to be designed to do is it kind of fits that kind of niche requirement there between an ISV and then, say, a JLTB, and it's really going to be focused on the power generation part of that. One of the things that we do have a critical capability gap on right now is power generation at that mobile brigade combat team level. I would tell you, though, right now, sir, I don't think there's any barriers..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting i...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026
"enforcement compounds with the inability of individuals to then go and seek remedy. see an interest in approaches that cut right to the heart of AI companies political and economic power. I think that that's the right place to be starting from. I think it's equally important that we get the incentive structures right. And so I think that there's there's two components here. One is that we make sure that there are there's an approach and policy that provides for the kind of safety net needed..."
Testimony SPEAKER_25
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"quickly, we know that as it looks at opportunities to try to prop up Lake Mead, that looking at conservation, looking at the ICS opportunities, again, like I said, it's been able to prop that up 75 feet. That's where the water has existed. As we look at the Upper Basin, right, we've consistently heard in the meetings that we've had with them that they're not able to find the significant amount of conservation, right? They have stated that there is already shortage up there. They have stated..."
Testimony GROTHMAN, GLENN
"On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Provid...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Okay. Well, I guess the answer should be obvious, but we'll ask, well, as Dr. Pella, I don't mean to, you're not getting questions, because... Right, right, right. Do you feel that anybody is being forced to do this or in any way are being taken advantage of? Are the people opting for this type of work going with their eyes open and want to do this? In other words, you're taking away something that they have decided would be their"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine how technological advances are driving transportat...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"A few more than ten. So, Senator, if we're establishing leadership right here at home in these technologies, then we're actually also developing the most innovative cyber tools and security methods right here at home. So, that federal leadership is incredibly important in ensuring that we secure these technologies, which we absolutely, it's a priority for our members as well. And very quickly, right now, what agencies and companies are doing to do that and secure these technologies is following..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"characteristics. It engages in various kinds of conspiracy theories. It seeks to whitewash our history, to exclude certain subjects from our public schools. Are family values and that it's for parental rights, but then it interferes with parental rights. It interferes with parental rights. I'm a parent, too, and I want my children to learn about the history of this country. I want them to learn about racism. I want them to learn about hate and the expression of hate in this country. So as a..."
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Okay. America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank. Large, dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America. Okay. These all just happen to be comments from the fearless leader of Turning Point USA, so I could see where SPLC was going. I also think that it's so interesting that right now, just for those sitting at home, you may not know that Oversight is not having any hearings right now because the Republicans don't want to deal with the Epstein file, so they have shut..."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Planned Parenthood has admitted that they are racist. SPLC right now has a time in history right now to look at the things that it has not gotten right. And we can all benefit from that. There have been decades of this kind of thing. In the 1960s, the informants and all of that were doing their work, ended up hurting rather than"
Testimony CASTRO, JOAQUIN
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"It covers anti-corruption and promoting the rule of law. And it covers the human rights obligations that govern this assistance under the Leahy law. When we train and equip foreign security forces, getting the human rights vetting right is necessary. The training would make sure the officers carrying out this work are equipped to do it well, lawfully and"
Testimony MR. JACK CABLE
“The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Co...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I believe Congress has a role there as well, and this also underscores the passage of the Pillar Act in order to give necessary resources to state and local governments. Thank you, Congressman, for the question. In order to get ahead of these issues, I think about it in two ways, right? We have to both shift further right up the attack chain to deploy AI in order to better detect attacks, better defend systems, while also shifting further left, right, into the very ways in which software..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE MICHELLE BOWMAN
Oversight of Prudential Regulators
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Thank you for that question. I appreciate your praise, I think, on the new Basel III proposal. It was praise. We worked very diligently to ensure that we were striking the right balance between capital and risk-weighting requirements. The way that we're working to ensure that we're capturing the right banks at the right levels is to ensure that there is an indexing for the requirements and responsibilities. We're using nominal GDP as our index weight for that. I share your concern. This is a..."
Testimony FEENSTRA, RANDY
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"I applaud your efforts. You know, I think about what has happened over the last several years. You've had a lot of challenges. I think of the egg industry and we took that head on and said, all right, we're going to make changes and we did. I think what's happening with trade right now, all right, we're cutting our trade deficit And then opening 19 new trade"
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"the other side of the aisle. I don't know why. I assume that they're going to target him and try to attack him and try to force him out of the administration because they do that. You can watch it happen with a variety of people, the way that they will target someone by name and then start trying to force them out by creating controversy. I want to thank Mr. Boren for the work that he has done on behalf of not my constituents, but actually constituents in Oregon. We had a hearing on water,..."
Testimony OBERNOLTE, JAY
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"How can you say that having no bill is better than the protections in this bill, even if we agree to disagree on how strong those protections should be? But half the states don't have, they have no privacy rights in half those states. So even if that's true, you're giving privacy rights to consumers that right now have none. Well, I mean, that's the whole goal here is to create one federal standard that gives everyone the same rights that we all believe that we should have. And I'm hopeful, Mr...."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
“Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in ...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Excess skiff space in GSA, for example, is a great way, like, for a pay-for-fee, like a WeWorks, is another opportunity. I know. No, second of all, I wouldn't say it's broken. I would say it's a system designed for something else. Like if you're going into the Rockies in Colorado, you probably don't want a Corvette. You probably want a Ford one 50, right? So we were designed, the acquisition system was designed for a different era for a different concern. And we have not shifted to the right..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
“Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in ...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Chairman, I'm open to any that wants to chime in. Sure. So, as somebody who transitioned, you know, a while ago now, it's been 17 years, but being, having friends that are transitioning now and also working with Mission 22 and DAV and all of these agencies, these nonprofits trying to transition, is having these programs available within the military, right? Because right now they're having to go out outside of that. There are, the military has done an amazing job from the last couple of years..."
Testimony JOHNSON, DUSTY
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"This bill makes it clear that our Department of Transportation is not going to be using federal funds to procure technology that would give that millimeter-level data on our country's critical infrastructure to companies that are affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party. And so here we are with a bill that does right by investing in tribal infrastructure, does right by investing in rural infrastructure, does right by investing in our nation's infrastructure assets, and it's also got some..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"All right. All right. All right. All right. All"
Testimony CASTOR, KATHY
AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepay...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"that we have already paid for. And the good news is that we have quick, ready-to-deploy solutions like batteries, grid-enhancing technologies, and distributed systems. But the challenge is that there are barriers to deployment and savings. There are misaligned incentives that reward utilities for selling as much power as possible and making large capital investments rather than efficiently using the right power in the right place at the right time. We also should be rapidly scaling virtual..."
Testimony BANKS, JIM
Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be ...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"What tools does the Federal Reserve have to defend the dollar's role as countries route payments through the Chinese financial systems to do business with Iran and other adversaries? Thank you. Your leadership is so important, and it's important right now. We need you on the job right now, not later, right now. So I look forward to voting for you quickly and seeing you confirmed and getting you on the job. With that, I yield back. Thank you,"
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
"I'm listening to Mr. Tuck. That's where I'm going, right? If we've got 333 Division I institutions, only 68 make March Madness, right? When you win per round, your unit is about $335,000 a unit, right? So in the Southwestern Athletics Conference, in the Mideastern Athletics Conference, for example, they're one-bid"
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
"Coach Tuberville kind of allude to it earlier. I hoped he would drill down a little deeper on the academic missions of these institutions. Look, we're all in favor of NIL. I'm certainly in favor of sharing revenue or direct compensation, as many of my colleagues allude, but I do agree that the system needs to be refined in the way that provides opportunities for all involved in Division I. And then understanding the trickle-down effect, right? So what happens in Division I, Power IV affects the..."
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
"Absolutely, and I think that's a great question. And I know we're pressed for time, so I'll share this. Multiple jurisdictions are now affecting what's going on in college athletics, right? It's causing this competitive environment. I'll give you an example. The state of Alabama passes laws to be able to not tax NIL, right? So what does the state of Louisiana do? We file a suit because LSU has to play Alabama, right? Grambling has to play Alabama State, right? And so they're trying to level..."
Hearing The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH "all of our colleagues that that's what drives us. I've started to do it in my first seven weeks, but it's resonating. I hear it back in the hallways. I hear it at the cafeteria. And so at some level, people might think of this job as getting the answer right well to the right of the decimal point, and occasionally we do have to wander there. But in order to deliver on what you've asked us to do, I've always thought that most of this job is the left of the decimal point. We're going to get the culture right. We're going to get the strategy right. We're going to get policy right. And we're..."
Hearing “The Legal Basis for Action Against Venezuelan Drug Traffickers”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "He demanded every right in the arsenal of due process rights we have. And well, he should have when he was convicted on 36 different counts of felony fraud. have when he was convicted on 36 different counts of felony fraud, but he had the right to counsel, he had the right to present evidence, he had the right to cross-examine, he had the right to be indicted, and he had the right to a jury of his peers deciding the case. Even out at sea, our Coast Guard knows how to interdict a ship and take sailors into"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Heidi Overton, of New Mexico, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Sep 24, 2026 · Transcript
MOODY, ASHLEY "Is there, right now, if someone files an application and it's pending with you, can they continue to sell even though it hasn't been approved? yes. I'll get to the next question, right? Is that's a yes? Because I just think it's important that everybody understands that. Right now, we had millions that were pending, right? And so presumably they could have sold until we kicked them out, which is why bringing that down was so important. You had millions and millions just filed, no idea what's in them, no idea where they come from, no idea what they contain, but we had regs that allowed them to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine flock's nationwide AI surveillance network.
senate Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee · Sep 23, 2026 · Transcript
BOOKER, CORY A. "to certain societal interests in public safety and concerns there with violating the average American's sense of fundamental rights to privacy, to speech, to be moving without government surveillance and so much more. We are way out of balance right now. In fact, we are out of control for any government, state, local, or federal, to easily abuse the fundamental rights that we all assume we have a right to, that these cameras seem to be so seriously is going to use it. Mr. Chairman, can I ask you, I will make a point to you if possible, just as a follow-up, even though you have the same hair..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be Deputy Secretary, Timothy Westlake, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Sep 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "they seek help, when that window of opportunity is open. No gaps in care, no stalling out and starting over, no one left to navigate the complex systems alone. We go back to the fundamentals of good medicine, combining science and compassion, and connecting Americans to health care that works. We should leave no stone unturned in pursuing effective treatment, the right care for the right person at the right time for the right amount of time. I vision moving from chemical coping to human connection and from a pill culture to a purpose culture. We do this by recognizing the powerful roles that..."
Hearing “Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
MR. JAY STANLEY "standardized, it must be built with great care and awareness of big potential downsides. We have to ensure America does not become a checkpoint society and that digital IDs don't become virtual ankle monitors, something that tracks us but we can't turn off or escape. Second, the digital ID system that is most likely to become dominant, mobile driver's licenses or MDLs issued by the is not being done right. Driver's licenses are already in most Americans' wallets and are by far the most likely form of digital ID to become standard. Login.gov itself is moving towards relying on them. Third,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Doyle, of Connecticut, David Foley, Jr., of Virginia, Samuel Negatu, of the District of Columbia,...
senate Finance Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, end quote. Congress has acted under that power from the earliest days of our great nation, and this has led to American leadership in every innovative field. How many other countries had the foresight to embed intellectual property into their very founding? America has always set the global bar in terms of IP rights, and this must continue now and well into the future. Strong, clear, reliable, and predictable IP rights drive investments in innovative technologies, and..."
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 "Those opportunities that flow there, so that competition can thrive, reducing the cost on airports, making sure that infrastructure is done, making sure that, again, I go back to even looking at our national airspace, right? Right now, we manage, every little pocket manages its own little national, own part of the national airspace, as opposed to this new modernized system that we're, Brian Bedford and the FAA are bringing into play, which will allow more efficiency, especially in rural areas, that right now, you could have, you have small airports that could have unmanned towers right now,..."
Hearing "Bad Medicine: Politics, Unions, and Antisemitism in Health Care"
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
ALLEN, RICK W. "financial investments, pension funds, retirement accounts, academic partnerships, and intellectual property relationships. It is no surprise that many doctors and nurses are afraid to speak up about what their unions are doing in their workplaces. Many fear retaliation, professional isolation, or becoming targets themselves if they exercise their rights under federal law. Workers have rights to speak out against union leadership and to decline to fund political activities with which they disagree. The Civil Rights Act protects workers from having to sacrifice their faith and their principles..."
Hearing “From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Criminal Law”
house Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
MS. JESSICA WATERS "violence, not protected speech. the need for the National Face Act was well documented in the legislative record at the time, right? And what we saw was local and state law enforcement saying we can't handle this, right? Hundreds of people show up, and if my force goes to that clinic, we're not doing anything else in the state, right? So we saw the state law enforcement saying this is very needed. We also saw ample evidence that a lot of this violence was cross-state, right? And states' jurisdiction ends where its borders end, right? And they were having a hard time being able to prosecute..."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026 · Transcript
JORDAN, JIM "That doesn't mean you can come into this room and start screaming at Mr. Raskin or me or anybody else and disrupt a congressional hearing. You have a right to protest on the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress, something these guys talk about every day. You can't do that. So when Don Lemon said that he was exercising his First Amendment free press rights, freedom of the press rights, that's not really accurate because he was trampling on other individuals' rights. Is that true? First right mentioned under the First Amendment, freedom of..."
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
TLAIB, RASHIDA "I mean, it's kind of like this game of you're not going to pay your workers enough, but we're going to, the public is going to give you subsidiary, you're going to pay less in taxes, we're going to give you tax breaks and giveaways. And by the way, we'll cover the health insurance and food assistance programs that your workers need to survive. about political rights civil rights social rights cultural rights It's"
Hearing “Oversight of the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith”
house Judiciary Committee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
FRY, RUSSELL "indictment issued on President Trump? August 1st, 2023. Does that sound about after that, you asked for a trial date when? I don't recall as I sit here right now. January 2024. Does that sound about right? It sounds about right. Okay. So after the indictment in August, you asked for a January trial date. That's about five months. Five months. How many, how much evidence did you have? Millions of pages? As I sit here right now, I don't recall the exact. I think in your testimony, they talked about a number 13 million pages. Is that a"
Hearing "Increasing Demand and Opportunities for Homegrown Products Here and Abroad"
house Agriculture Committee · Sep 16, 2026 · Transcript
VAN ORDEN, DERRICK "not. Absolutely not. I had a very, very uncomfortable discussion with our refiners this morning. We're still exporting diesel out of this country right now. And you can argue about second and third order effects if we reduce exports. But, you know, they're American companies and Americans need a break at the pump right now, especially for our farm diesel. Farm less than road diesel right now. My buddies, they contracted out at 264 for last year for diesel. And we want to make sure that, you know, by the November, December timeframe, when our farmers are going to start contracting for the next..."
Hearing Oversight Hearing - The Economy Act
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Sep 15, 2026 · Transcript
POCAN, MARK "Okay. So, Congress, could we request it? That would be the only way. So, something like this, all right, so that's part of the problem, right? So, when you take it off the high risk list, it was because it was not being abused for a period of time, but the fact that right now it seems to be used much more frequently and maybe in slightly interesting ways could put it back on a high risk list, correct? Sure. Gotcha. You"
Hearing "Out of Touch: When Union Politics Leave Workers Behind"
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · Sep 15, 2026 · Transcript
HAYES, JAHANA "But these are not activist campaigns. This is workers protecting and defending their rights, their rights to organize, their rights to speak up. And what we should be doing, not only on this committee, but in the Department of Labor, is strengthening those rights, because that is the task of the United States Department of Labor, to protect the workers. And we have a lot of conversation about corporations and what it means on the other side, but what we should be talking about is our relationship of workers to those things, and making sure that their democratic rights are protected, so that..."
Hearing ‘“Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’: Birthright Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment, Part II”
house Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee · Sep 2, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "The reason the 14th Amendment was drafted the way it was was to constitutionalize the Civil Rights Act. And that's why they're parallel in construction and in what they do. It was they would rescind the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was also suspected that a Supreme Court might hold that the Congress did not have the authority to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866. So that's why they constitutionalized it. And that's why they use parallel language, especially in the citizenship provision. Representative Bingham, who was instrumental in both the Civil Rights Act of 66 and in the citizenship..."
Hearing Ten Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Sep 2, 2026 · Transcript
TONKO, PAUL "Let's take the time to figure out whether the Busses Act will worsen the current pain at the pump before we allow more diesel fuel to be wasted. Let's do right by our kids, let's do right by our communities, and let's do right by our environment. With that, I urge members to support this amendment, Mr. Chair, and I yield"
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies, Tragic Consequences”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Sep 1, 2026 · Transcript
ROY, CHIP "Should they have come into the United States of India? You're fine with the two individuals released by the Biden administration on the streets of the United States who were able to carry out and engage in this activity that resulted in the death and destruction and the maiming of the American people that we're just seeing right here. The witnesses to your left and right. I didn't say that. I said there should be a process. You're totally fine with that. Right. Well, you refuse to say that those two individuals shouldn't have been here. That's your"
Hearing Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of AI surveillance pricing.
senate Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD "He said to the participants on that call that he would work to restrict abortion in every single state. state. That's not enforcing the law. That is a zealot, a warrior seeking to advocate the president's position against reproductive rights. He wants to block states enacting their own policies and laws. He wants to make abortion access follow the laws of abortion banned states. In short, he wants to strip Americans of their right to choose and strip states of their right to govern. The part of this agreement that purports to limit the immunity under our tax laws and protect the president..."
Hearing Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition and transparency lowers prescription drug costs.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD "He said to the participants on that call that he would work to restrict abortion in every single state. state. That's not enforcing the law. That is a zealot, a warrior seeking to advocate the president's position against reproductive rights. He wants to block states enacting their own policies and laws. He wants to make abortion access follow the laws of abortion banned states. In short, he wants to strip Americans of their right to choose and strip states of their right to govern. The part of this agreement that purports to limit the immunity under our tax laws and protect the president..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD "He said to the participants on that call that he would work to restrict abortion in every single state. state. That's not enforcing the law. That is a zealot, a warrior seeking to advocate the president's position against reproductive rights. He wants to block states enacting their own policies and laws. He wants to make abortion access follow the laws of abortion banned states. In short, he wants to strip Americans of their right to choose and strip states of their right to govern. The part of this agreement that purports to limit the immunity under our tax laws and protect the president..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the functions of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA "I also want to thank Senator Hassan for making it clear that this is about students, families, and businesses. I co-lead this amendment because we know that discrimination is not new and it still persists. I know it as the former Secretary of Labor of Delaware, I know it as the former CEO of the Urban League where we fought for civil rights and justice, and also as a person who worked for the Institute for Community Inclusion focused on people with disabilities. Created from the momentum of the civil rights movement, the Office for Civil Rights is tasked with the responsibility of protecting..."
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
BEN WINTERS "speak. We need more, not less. Yeah, absolutely. It would facilitate those people coming forward, right? Right now you could say, where should you report it? And you could say, go to the FBI or the FTC or state AGs or local police department or the AARP. Like, I could name 15 different kinds or do it right on the platform. And none of those things are talking to each other. And so, A, the owner should not be on the victim to try to figure out what the most effective way of doing it is. And so, yes, it would facilitate a more accurate picture of what's actually going on because you'd get more..."
Hearing “Building an AI-Ready America: How AI Is Creating Opportunities Across America's Workforce”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 24, 2026 · Transcript
ALLEN, RICK W. "And Augusta, where you're sitting right now, was just named the number one best city for entrepreneurs to start a business. Isn't that great? And a lot of that happened right here in this Innovation Center. But today's hearing is part of this committee's Building an AI-Ready America series, and we'll examine how artificial intelligence, AI, is creating economic opportunities for American workers, job creators, and our communities. There's no better place to hold this hearing than right here in Augusta, right here at the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center on Augusta University's..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation Hearing: “Modernizing Public Access to Legislative Data and...
house Modernization and Innovation Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
MS. CHARLOTTE LEE "that voice. I don't think we have one that are similar, that are responsible for, I guess, outbound communication, right? Everything is very reactionary. Like we said, like, somebody has to ask for it for us to give it to them, just like on the website, right? I have to ask for it. I can't discover anything, right? So I think that when I say voice, I loosely mean that the information has to be encouraged and actively participating in dialogue where it is happening. I also think that the reason that you might be getting more visits when you have AI answer your questions is actually because it..."
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "Democracies like to respect everybody's rights, but it's an old story with empires. Empires would extend their reach over lots and lots of land. And so you had to be a citizen and not a subject in order to exercise rights. But inevitably, because of imperial practices, the rights of citizens would be sacrificed and denigrated and diluted, just like the rights of the noncitizens. Let's get back on the path towards being a democratic republic and not acting like an empire with paramilitary forces that kill U.S. citizens without warrant, that kill"
Hearing H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital Access Act; H. Con. Res. 113 – Establishing the congressional budget for the...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026 · Transcript
NEGUSE, JOE "I thought the federal standard, I thought the standard here was three days or is that wrong? 72 hours. Right. So if you forget your ID. You forget your ID, you've got 72 hours. That'd be right. You would not have cured your ballot. That's right. Do you know what that time period is obviously, I believe Colorado has a gold standard, but if it's good enough for the people of Wisconsin, I'm just, again, don't really understand why you would champion, on the one"
Hearing Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee · Jul 17, 2026 · Transcript
JASON SOMENSATTO "And so it's like, put aside that viewpoint of like, do you like this technology? Is this the cool development or not? And understand that like, people are engaged in this, right, regardless of what number you use, right? If it's 12 million people, 25 million people, right? There's a lot of Americans who are engaging in this technology in good faith, and it's incumbent on Congress and on the Senate to recognize that and put into place the regulations that are necessary for that to"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Lieutenant General Douglas A. Schiess, USSF, to be general and Chief of Space Operations.
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
LIEUTENANT GENERAL DOUGLAS SCHIESS "the capability to connect all of those forces together, I do agree that we need to be able to bring all of the information to the right person at the right time, to make the decisions they need to make, to be able to have the right effect against the target. Yes, Senator, I believe that AI is a huge part of how we do things. I would say there are certain areas that we're going to push that space domain"
Hearing States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
MR. JAY MOSELY "The Alabama Fusion Center is not an investigative agency. We don't duplicate the work of the FBI or the intelligence community. Our mission is simple, to get the right information to the right people at the right time so they can make informed decisions. But information sharing doesn't begin with"
Hearing H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. 9609, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Student Aid Act"; H.R. 9602, "Less...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "educators, and their communities. Lastly, I'd like to address which IAs we're not codifying. Today we're not considering the transfer of the Office of Civil Rights or the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. And perhaps that's because even my colleagues recognize how politically unpalatable such transfers would be. A core function of the Department of Education is to protect and defend students' civil rights. The federal government must retain its central role in enforcing students' civil rights, because historically, when the states operated without federal oversight, we..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH "Culture is the big driver of a lot of things and in my first seven weeks, Senator, we're doing our very best in the best of the Fed's traditions to get the culture right, to get the strategy right, and to get policy right. And if we can do those things, all of which are to the left of the decimal point, might not be of such great"
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_11 "And yet in 2021, President Trump called the COVID vaccine, quote, one of the greatest achievements of mankind, end quote. I don't usually agree with President Trump, but it certainly was a great achievement. So who's right? Were you right or was President Trump right? Thank"
Hearing H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Condemning prosecution policies that give preferential treatment to foreign...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "from the real harms being visited on kids because of the disastrous policies of this administration. I urge our colleagues to rethink this, oppose this legislation, and I yield back. you, Mr. Chairman. Three UC requests. One is a statement from 115 civil rights and health care access and LGBTQ rights organizations opposing the legislation. Objection. A statement from the Human Rights Campaign, again urging opposition. Objection. And finally, this is excerpts from statements from more than 30 different major medical associations and World Health Authority's supporting gender-affirming care for..."
Hearing Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming, as the...
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript
MCCLINTOCK, TOM "easier by eliminating the confusions caused by split jurisdictions. Ranchers need to know where their permits apply, where infrastructure can be maintained, and who's responsible for decisions arbitrary administrative boundary on a federal map. The bill also protects existing rights and authorizations. It specifically provides that valid existing rights, including rights of way, easements, leases, licenses, and permits remain protected after the transfer. This ensures that current users, including grazing permit holders, are not unfairly disrupted by a change in administrative jurisdiction...."
Hearing “Direct Contracting: A Prescription for Lower Health Care Costs”
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript
MARK NEWMAN "Medicare, Medicaid, you name it, there is an average write-off of 75 percent of patient balances tied to deductibles and other things like that that they go uncollected. That is regardless of market type. So right out the bat, if in your market, you know, you're reliant on 30 percent of your revenue coming from patients, well, guess what? There's 22 points right out the door, right? You know, it has that shift. The second part of that is payers don't pay. You know, on here, you've dealt with countless hearings around insurance companies and the prior authorizations and denials of claims and..."
Hearing Memorializing our Veterans: Outreach, Upkeep, and Community Partnerships at Veterans Cemeteries
house Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
MCGARVEY, MORGAN "Great. That is good to hear, and I appreciate you saying that there's overtime, and look, we know how hard everybody works, and we know what happens if something gets left uncared for, right? I mean, the people who visit these cemeteries, they're our cemeteries, right, and people care a lot about them, and rightfully so. You mentioned, overtime, you mentioned you're about to"
Hearing American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "The difference here is that we are a capitalist society, right? You don't get a job. You don't get a check, right? If you lose your job, you lose your house, you lose your health insurance, you lose everything, right? You have kids, right? I mean, the problem is that if you're in a society, and I'm not saying I want to be"
Hearing H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H.R. 8884 – Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act; H. Res....
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_36 "U.S. assistance should not be given unconditionally. We uphold American values and credibility when we insist that security cooperation aligns with the rights for fundamental freedoms and human rights. Amendment 691 would require the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, to certify that Pakistan is actively taking steps to prevent human rights abuses before its military may receive U.S. security assistance. Accountability strengthens, not undermines, our"
Hearing "Reviewing Partnerships to Enhance Management of the National Forest System"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_05 "Even if a collaborative decided, hey, we need to go in there and we need to do active management, the regulatory regime that overlays those national forests oftentimes restricts the ability to actually go in and do the right treatment at the right time at the right place. That needs to be"
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_13 "improving the bureaucracy and the redundancy in the system, but there is, as you said, there is a way to become legal. If you choose not to do that, you're making a conscious decision and I can't help you on that situation. If you don't want to become a legal citizen, there's a way to be in this country legally, but you have to follow the laws that Congress passed and that we enforce. I don't pick and choose, I enforce, but there is a right way to stay in this country and there's a right way to become a citizen in this country and you can't go around that. There is more that we need. We've..."
Hearing From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of How America Invests
house Capital Markets Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "you all using AI? So we are, and the industry and companies are in different, varying different levels here, but AI is a tool that could be used, right, in terms of, as you're alluding to, different efficiencies that can be brought into, you know, back office work and other strategies as well. And as I was mentioning in my answer to Mr. Foster, is that, you know, when you take a look at, you know, an attempt to have blanket AI regulations, that's what the EU tried to do with the AI Act, right, and it has backfired on them. So that's why we have suggested an approach that is much more..."
Hearing Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's Resource Potential"
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_20 "and then also, of course, hard resources? Targeted programs that can support groups like ours, the state surveys, many of which are in universities, university groups to attract students in on focused programs. There are such efforts being enrolled right now as we speak from various agencies. More support for those programs would be fantastic. are? Yes, EarthMRI is fantastic because we can employ students right away, get them right out in the field, get them analyzing rocks right away in the lab for pragmatic, real skill building, absolutely. Yeah. I think where the federal government in..."
Hearing Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE DAVID STEINER "address the underlying problem rather than adding another 800 billion dollars the yeah and and you know I think it's I think that is a perfect example of how we got where we are right the problems that were fixed there were what I call the accounting problems right welfare retirement different things like that they weren't the operational problems that plague the post office right the mandates that I talked about in my opening remarks and so that bill took care of a lot of the accounting issues not all of them at the expense of American taxpayer it actually but it exacerbated the operational..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the future of social security.
senate Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
JOHNSON, RON "So how much value does a U.S. government bond have to a U.S. government agency? The answer is zero, right? Because when the trustees take that bond to pay out benefits because benefits exceed revenue right now, the U.S. Treasury just has to issue another bond, right? So again, the trust fund is a"
Hearing Subcommittee Markup of Eight Pieces of Legislation
house Energy Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
FLETCHER, LIZZIE "We take very seriously people's First Amendment right to speak and to speak out about things that matter in their lives. And so I appreciate Chairman Guthrie, your statement about working together. And I really do think it's essential that we get this right and that we write language that protects these pipelines and allows them to operate safely at all times without the dangerous interference that can be caused while also protecting the rights of American citizens that frankly are being trampled in this"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Juan Segura, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Western Hemisphere Affairs) and to be a...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 18, 2026 · Transcript
VAN HOLLEN, CHRIS "because over four years ago, President Bukele initiated a 30-day state of exception. This was a state of emergency where they suspended certain constitutional rights, like the right of free assembly, like the rights of due process, like the right to access to legal counsel, for a good purpose, which was to crack down on gang violence. But here's the"
Hearing Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances, and security.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
TUBERVILLE, TOMMY "How safe do we feel about the ingredients in pharmaceuticals from China, and how can we depend on that safety? So, we just pretty much take it for granted that they're going to do the right thing, right? Because we don't make it much here, right? Thank you. Mr. Miller, China is known for its investment fraud and scam"
Hearing Hearings to examine Army force modernization in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2027 and the Future Years Defense Program.
senate Airland Subcommittee · Jun 16, 2026 · Transcript
JESSE TOLLESON, JR. "objective of about just north of 600 vehicles right now, and really what the ISV Heavy is going to be designed to do is it kind of fits that kind of niche requirement there between an ISV and then, say, a JLTB, and it's really going to be focused on the power generation part of that. One of the things that we do have a critical capability gap on right now is power generation at that mobile brigade combat team level. I would tell you, though, right now, sir, I don't think there's any barriers that are in place right now for us to move very quickly here. Senator, we are still on that timeline...."
Hearing Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting innovation, affordability and American dominance.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "enforcement compounds with the inability of individuals to then go and seek remedy. see an interest in approaches that cut right to the heart of AI companies political and economic power. I think that that's the right place to be starting from. I think it's equally important that we get the incentive structures right. And so I think that there's there's two components here. One is that we make sure that there are there's an approach and policy that provides for the kind of safety net needed that's to you know help the public to weather whatever changes might be might be coming. But equally..."
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_25 "quickly, we know that as it looks at opportunities to try to prop up Lake Mead, that looking at conservation, looking at the ICS opportunities, again, like I said, it's been able to prop that up 75 feet. That's where the water has existed. As we look at the Upper Basin, right, we've consistently heard in the meetings that we've had with them that they're not able to find the significant amount of conservation, right? They have stated that there is already shortage up there. They have stated that there is already shortage up there. So they have stated that they might not be able to do or make..."
Hearing "On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Providers"
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
GROTHMAN, GLENN "Okay. Well, I guess the answer should be obvious, but we'll ask, well, as Dr. Pella, I don't mean to, you're not getting questions, because... Right, right, right. Do you feel that anybody is being forced to do this or in any way are being taken advantage of? Are the people opting for this type of work going with their eyes open and want to do this? In other words, you're taking away something that they have decided would be their"
Hearing Hearings to examine how technological advances are driving transportation innovation.
senate Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "A few more than ten. So, Senator, if we're establishing leadership right here at home in these technologies, then we're actually also developing the most innovative cyber tools and security methods right here at home. So, that federal leadership is incredibly important in ensuring that we secure these technologies, which we absolutely, it's a priority for our members as well. And very quickly, right now, what agencies and companies are doing to do that and secure these technologies is following the existing NIST guidelines, CISA protocols, zero trust architecture, secure by design principles,..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
CASTRO, JOAQUIN "It covers anti-corruption and promoting the rule of law. And it covers the human rights obligations that govern this assistance under the Leahy law. When we train and equip foreign security forces, getting the human rights vetting right is necessary. The training would make sure the officers carrying out this work are equipped to do it well, lawfully and"
Hearing “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MR. JACK CABLE "I believe Congress has a role there as well, and this also underscores the passage of the Pillar Act in order to give necessary resources to state and local governments. Thank you, Congressman, for the question. In order to get ahead of these issues, I think about it in two ways, right? We have to both shift further right up the attack chain to deploy AI in order to better detect attacks, better defend systems, while also shifting further left, right, into the very ways in which software products are being built to make them fundamentally more resilient. Our focus at Corridor is on the..."
Hearing Oversight of Prudential Regulators
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE MICHELLE BOWMAN "Thank you for that question. I appreciate your praise, I think, on the new Basel III proposal. It was praise. We worked very diligently to ensure that we were striking the right balance between capital and risk-weighting requirements. The way that we're working to ensure that we're capturing the right banks at the right levels is to ensure that there is an indexing for the requirements and responsibilities. We're using nominal GDP as our index weight for that. I share your concern. This is a very important issue. Our comment period closes on June 18th and we look forward to comments on this..."
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
FEENSTRA, RANDY "I applaud your efforts. You know, I think about what has happened over the last several years. You've had a lot of challenges. I think of the egg industry and we took that head on and said, all right, we're going to make changes and we did. I think what's happening with trade right now, all right, we're cutting our trade deficit And then opening 19 new trade"
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
SPEAKER_16 "the other side of the aisle. I don't know why. I assume that they're going to target him and try to attack him and try to force him out of the administration because they do that. You can watch it happen with a variety of people, the way that they will target someone by name and then start trying to force them out by creating controversy. I want to thank Mr. Boren for the work that he has done on behalf of not my constituents, but actually constituents in Oregon. We had a hearing on water, wildlife, and fisheries talking about the ability to clear rights-of-way for utilities, and one..."
Hearing Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
OBERNOLTE, JAY "How can you say that having no bill is better than the protections in this bill, even if we agree to disagree on how strong those protections should be? But half the states don't have, they have no privacy rights in half those states. So even if that's true, you're giving privacy rights to consumers that right now have none. Well, I mean, that's the whole goal here is to create one federal standard that gives everyone the same rights that we all believe that we should have. And I'm hopeful, Mr. Chairman, I see my time's expired. I'm hopeful that we can get to a place of bipartisan agreement..."
Hearing AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepayers
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
CASTOR, KATHY "that we have already paid for. And the good news is that we have quick, ready-to-deploy solutions like batteries, grid-enhancing technologies, and distributed systems. But the challenge is that there are barriers to deployment and savings. There are misaligned incentives that reward utilities for selling as much power as possible and making large capital investments rather than efficiently using the right power in the right place at the right time. We also should be rapidly scaling virtual power plants using the batteries, the smart thermostats, electric vehicles distributed in communities..."
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
BANKS, JIM "What tools does the Federal Reserve have to defend the dollar's role as countries route payments through the Chinese financial systems to do business with Iran and other adversaries? Thank you. Your leadership is so important, and it's important right now. We need you on the job right now, not later, right now. So I look forward to voting for you quickly and seeing you confirmed and getting you on the job. With that, I yield back. Thank you,"
Hearing “Rising Threat: America’s Battle Against Antisemitic Terror”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Kenneth Marcus, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
Hearing "From Playground to Classroom: The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 Schools"
house Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee · Sep 10, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Rachel Lerman, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
Hearing "Oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act"
house Judiciary Committee · Dec 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Brett Tolman, Right on Crime
Hearing “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Matt Nosanchuk, Mattnos Strategies and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
Hearing "Restoring Excellence: The Case Against DEI"
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · May 21, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Dan Morenoff, American Civil Rights Project
Hearing "Unmasking Union Antisemitism"
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · Sep 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Glenn Taubman, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Hearing The Need for an Authorized State Department
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Apr 30, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Uzra Zeya, Human Rights First
Hearing "Restoring Balance: Ensuring Fairness and Transparency at the NLRB"
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · Jun 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Aaron Solem, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Hearing “Criminalizing America: The Growth of Federal Offenses and Regulatory Overreach”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · May 7, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Brett Tolman, Right on Crime
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