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Hearing H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents Opt-in Protection Act"; H.R. 8747, "K-12 AI Literacy and Readiness Act of...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Request transcript · 7 transcript matches
SPEAKER_06 "For the sake of workers and patients, I urge my colleagues to join me in opposing H.R. 8347. Next, we'll consider the Heat Workforce Standards Act, which would block occupational safety and health administration from OSHA from finalizing and enforcing a nationwide heat safety standard. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, heat stress killed 907 U.S. workers between 1992 and 2019, but the true death toll is likely much higher and will continue to"
CRS Report
Electricity Portfolio Standards: Background, Design Elements, and Policy Considerations
Reports · Oct 21, 2020
Electricity portfolio standards, such as renewable portfolio standards and clean energy standards, are policies aimed at changing the energy sources used to generate electricity. Supporters identify...
CRS Report
Department of Energy Appliance and Equipment Standards Program
Resources · Nov 8, 2019
Congress continues to consider the extent and effectiveness of energy efficiency standards. One focus is energy efficiency standards for appliances and equipment. Overview The Department of Energy’s...
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 · 6 transcript matches
UNKNOWN "standards that all truck trailer manufacturers must meet and comply with. The standards set the balance to protect people when there happens to be an accident involving a vehicle that hits the back of the truck trailer. But some lawyers, the scum, have figured out how to sue under state law claiming that juries should ignore the federal safety standards set by DOT and should hit companies with punitive damages even when they meet those federal standards. In one case called Wabash case, the jury ignored the federal standards for rear guard bumpers, ignored that the company had actually met the..."
Hearing Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
MCCLAIN DELANEY, APRIL "historians could only dream of, and we must do our part by elevating development of biological standards and measurements as a key statutory mission of our scientific enterprise. And this is where the importance of biometrology, the development and use of biotech standards and measurements becomes clear, and there's no better place for this work than NIST in my district. A program dedicated in law to researching and advancing a suite of standards and framework for biotech development that will create the unifying language for industry, for consumers, and for regulators. Uniform standards will..."
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Standardizing Federal Data: Categorizing Approaches
Resources · Oct 21, 2024
Congress has at times enacted laws that specifically require federal agencies to use data standards, which establish rules to enhance the usability of data. This In Focus provides an overview of...
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A Brief History of U.S. Electricity Portfolio Standard Proposals
Resources · Feb 24, 2021
Electricity portfolio standards are designed to change the set of energy sources used to generate electricity, usually by establishing requirements on utilities to procure a percentage of electricity...
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Small Business Size Standards: A Historical Analysis of Contemporary Issues
Reports · Jun 15, 2022
Small business size standards are of congressional interest because they have a pivotal role in determining eligibility for Small Business Administration (SBA) assistance as well as federal...
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Air Quality: EPA’s 2023 Proposed Changes to the Particulate Matter (PM) Standard
Reports · Aug 16, 2023
The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue national ambient (outdoor) air quality criteria (standards) for certain listed pollutants and then review...
Hearing H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
SPEAKER_02 "talking across each other because this, I too agree and believe in standards, and I too agree in combat roles, particularly, specifically, that you need to meet the standard, and the standard is the standard to participate in. 5,000 women have that standard right now in active duty, who are serving active duty. I think where we struggle is our current Secretary of Defense is, on the record, is saying the highest male standard, and I think that you are correct in saying that there's a history of us having age-based standards that we're comfortable with. I would argue that we also have a..."
Hearing Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, standards, and strategic competition.
senate Space and Science · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BUDD, TED "What are parts of the old house? If we have some of the old house that may need renovating, what are those parts that are difficult to renovate? What would be some of the consequences if the Chinese biology standards were the globally adopted standards? Thank you very much. Member"
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Federal Data Management: Issues and Challenges in the Use of Data Standards
Reports · Apr 29, 2024
The federal government manages a significant amount of data. Congress expects federal agencies to be effective managers and stewards of the data with which they are entrusted. Sometimes, Congress...
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Supreme Court Considers Standard for Voting Rights Act Claims
Posts · Mar 18, 2021
In a potentially significant case, the Supreme Court is considering the proper standard for evaluating claims of discriminatory voting laws under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). On...
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NLRB Reinstates “Overwhelming Community of Interest” Collective Bargaining Unit Standard
Posts · May 15, 2023
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) establishes a right to engage in collective bargaining for most private sector employees. Since 2011, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), which...
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The Americans with Disabilities Act in Cyberspace: Website Accessibility Standards
Posts · Oct 20, 2022
Written in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) gives uncertain guidance about businesses’ and nonprofits’ responsibility to make their online offerings accessible to the disabled. As...
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The Department of Energy’s Appliance and Equipment Standards Program
Report · Feb 18, 2022
Since 1978 Congress has authorized mandatory federal programs to regulate the energy and water consumption of appliances and commercial equipment used in buildings. The Department of Energy (DOE) has...
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The Application of the “One Central Reason” Standard in Asylum and Withholding of Removal Cases
Posts · Dec 18, 2017
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a non-U.S. national (alien) who fears persecution in his native country may be eligible for asylum or withholding of removal, two forms of relief from...
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Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Standard Mileage Rates
Legal Sidebar · Feb 17, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides standard mileage rates as optional methods for taxpayers to substantiate their transportation expenses. This Insight reviews how the standard mileage rates...
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Medical Care Standards in Immigrant Detention Facilities
Resources · Apr 2, 2024
In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic and whistleblower complaints about medical neglect and unnecessary gynecological procedures have led to concerns over the medical care of noncitizens in the...
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The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard: Overview and Selected Considerations
Reports · Feb 7, 2020
/ In July 2016, Congress enacted P.L. 114-216 (2016 Act), comprehensive legislation to govern the labeling of bioengineered foods. The 2016 Act required the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to...
Hearing Member Day to examine S.297, to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require group health plans and health insurance issuers...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 19, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing H.J. Res. 60 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Park...
house Rules Committee · Apr 28, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony SPEAKER_02
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"talking across each other because this, I too agree and believe in standards, and I too agree in combat roles, particularly, specifically, that you need to meet the standard, and the standard is the standard to participate in. 5,000 women have that standard right now in active duty, who are serving active duty. I think where we struggle is our current Secretary of Defense is, on the record, is saying the highest male standard, and I think that you are correct in saying that there's a history of..."
Witness Andrew deLaski
Appliance Standards Awareness Project · 1 hearing
Witness Rev. Walter Copan
Colorado School of Mines and Former Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology · 1 hearing
Witness Dr. James Kushmerick
National Institute of Standards and Technology · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Evan Beard
Standard Bots · 1 hearing
Hearing H.R. 1048 - Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions Act; H.J. Res. 24 - Providing for...
house Rules Committee · Mar 24, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.28, to require the disclosure of a camera or recording capability in certain internet-connected devices, S.97, to...
senate Mar 12, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing H.J. Res. 42 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of...
house Rules Committee · Mar 3, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.93, to amend the Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal blooms,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Feb 5, 2025 · Request transcript
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 · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_11 "Minnesota or Illinois, Mr. Chairman. That said, I think there's room for improvement. I flagged my concern specifically as it relates to the standards some of our universities are using when issuing a photo ID. It's a very different standard, for example, than the State of Wisconsin's Department of Transportation has when issuing a driver's license or a state-issued ID. I think we are best served if we move to that higher standard rather than the lower standard allowing universities to issue photo IDs with either limited documentation or giving those IDs to non-citizens or to illegal..."
Hearing Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the FY2027 Research and Technology Enterprise
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
BABIN, BRIAN "today's discussion will include funding levels, indirect cost policies, uniform guidance, and the President's budget request. Those are important discussions, but funding alone is not a measurement of success. The real question is whether taxpayer dollars are being invested wisely and deliver results for the American people. This budget directs taxpayer dollars towards technologies that will decide the next century artificial intelligence, quantum advanced manufacturing, nuclear, and biotechnology, while ensuring that the science that this government funds meets the highest scientific..."
Hearing “Protecting U.S. Leadership in Codes Development and Enhancing Public Access”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MR. JAMES PAULEY "It is certainly more transparent access. Well, look, thank you for the question. I think the practical effect, Representative Fry, is that over this past century, we have shown that private sector standards development, those independent standards bodies, have produced standards that have been beneficial to the public, whether you want to look at it in the fire numbers that I quoted earlier and those reductions, or whether you want to look at it from across the spectrum of standards that people interact with every day, interoperability, safety standards, whatever those may"
Hearing Subcommittee Markup of Seven Pieces of Legislation
house Environment Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
TONKO, PAUL "partisan poison pills. While the aims narrow scope of the bill to only block more protective standards or state waivers that relate to inducement strategies or DEF quality monitoring, it still allows the administrator to set weaker standards and unnecessarily targets existing state authority under the Clean Air Act to set more ambitious standards in order to protect public health. The aim still adds a five-year lead time for any updated standards or state waivers after the 10-year safe harbor effectively locking in older protections for 15"
Hearing H.R. 139 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 8595 – National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027;...
house Rules Committee · Jul 13, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
FOXX, VIRGINIA "with the semi-yearly practice of resetting our clocks. Every November, as all of us are well aware, we follow the annual fall back. But under this legislation, Americans would no longer need to turn back their clocks an hour. Further, H.R. 139 provides exemptions for Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as they currently adhere to standard year-round time and therefore remain on permanent standard time. The remaining 48 states under this legislation will be granted the authority to lock their clocks permanently. There are two important things to note here. First,..."
Hearing H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2025"; H.R. 9203, "Student...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
WALBERG, TIM "My bill, H.R. 5505, Equal Campus Access Act of 2025, requires public colleges that receive federal student aid to treat religious student groups equally to any other student organization on campus. This bill ensures religious student organizations maintain full access to campus speech, leadership standards, or standards of conduct. Next, the committee will mark up Representative Tracy Mann's H.R."
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original resolution regarding Contempt of Congress, S.2732, to strengthen employee cost savings suggestions...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management areas, wildlife conservation areas, protection areas, recreation areas,...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Request transcript
Testimony HIGGINS, CLAY
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"primary purpose of that role, of that MOS in that unit, includes close engagement and close combat, and it's a combat role, but sex-norm physical fitness would be across the board. We clarified by using, by separating combat roles, that we don't, it's not the intention of Congress for the Pentagon to choose the lowest standards and say, okay, the new sex-neutral standard is whatever the lowest standard was. The combat roles would have higher standards. So if you're a female in the United States..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"Minnesota or Illinois, Mr. Chairman. That said, I think there's room for improvement. I flagged my concern specifically as it relates to the standards some of our universities are using when issuing a photo ID. It's a very different standard, for example, than the State of Wisconsin's Department of Transportation has when issuing a driver's license or a state-issued ID. I think we are best served if we move to that higher standard rather than the lower standard allowing universities to issue..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"standards that all truck trailer manufacturers must meet and comply with. The standards set the balance to protect people when there happens to be an accident involving a vehicle that hits the back of the truck trailer. But some lawyers, the scum, have figured out how to sue under state law claiming that juries should ignore the federal safety standards set by DOT and should hit companies with punitive damages even when they meet those federal standards. In one case called Wabash case, the jury..."
Testimony MR. JAMES PAULEY
“Protecting U.S. Leadership in Codes Development and Enhancing Public ...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"It is certainly more transparent access. Well, look, thank you for the question. I think the practical effect, Representative Fry, is that over this past century, we have shown that private sector standards development, those independent standards bodies, have produced standards that have been beneficial to the public, whether you want to look at it in the fire numbers that I quoted earlier and those reductions, or whether you want to look at it from across the spectrum of standards that people..."
Testimony MR. JOEL SCATA
Mitigation and Multiple Loss Properties: Factors Influencing the High ...
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"annual chance flood at the 50th percentile confidence, meaning there's a 50% chance that flooding could occur beyond that so-called 100-year flood plain. That's the flip of a coin. We are making development decisions based on the flip of a coin. When 40% of NFIP claims come from properties outside the mapped flood zone, we clearly have a mapping problem. Third, update the NFIP's building standards. The minimum floodplain development standards haven't been comprehensively updated since the..."
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 "All right, now one of the things you mentioned that I've been toying with in my own mind and you just touched on it tangentially, so maybe I heard what I wanted to hear, was you mentioned risk and it has bothered me that when you have low risk, sometimes FDA wants everything done, you know, according to their standard process, but if you have low risk, should we be creating a second standard that says, you know, it's not, we don't know if it works for what it says it's going to work for, but the risk is so low, if you want to try it, you can and create a new standard. Should we do that?..."
Hearing Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
OBERNOLTE, JAY "Ms. Fitzgerald, we could agree to disagree on some of these issues. You said a couple of things that I found to be kind of inflammatory, and I wanted to talk about them and give you the opportunity to respond. One of the things you said is that the goal of this process of creating one federal standard should be to create a standard that's stronger than any of the individual state standards, and I very much disagree with that because we tried very hard to take a consensus approach where we took the best of what every state had to offer. And that would mean being somewhere in the middle, not..."
Hearing Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
JOHN HEWITT "A recent study that was published by Californians for Affordable Packaging estimated that the actual cost is going to be somewhere between $56 and $78 billion, much higher than referenced in the Teamsters letter, and what that equates to for the average Californian family is an increase in grocery costs of $683 to $948 per year for those respective households. The good news, or the good thing, and what we're here to support today on behalf of the Recycling Leadership Council and the Consumer Brands Association is we have an opportunity to simplify the recycling process, reduce packaging that..."
Hearing “Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SESSIONS, PETE "platforms used for this verifications have failed to meet the expectations. In March of 2023, this subcommittee held a hearing focused on login.gov and the traveling findings from the General Service Administration's Inspector General report that was released that month told us point blank, we have a problem. In short, GSA misled government clients about the extent to which login.gov met certain technical standards and expressly what they said it would do. These standards were the backbone of what was needed to ensure that identity verification platform could prevent"
Hearing H.R. 8552, the “Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2026”; H.R. 8767, the “Compensation Fund Recrediting Act”; H.R. 9006, the...
house Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BERGMAN, JACK "I mean, this committee can only do so much. But the one thing we can do is we can utilize the standards that exist so that we can all agree that there is this standard. Is it the right standard going forward or do we need to treat it like a bell curve where it's an 80 percent norm of a standard but with 20 percent room for for modifications or, you know, because the problem doesn't fit the model, if that makes sense. Is it the right standard going forward or do we need to treat it like a bell curve where it's an 80 percent norm of a standard but with 20 percent room for for modifications or,..."
Hearing Trash to Treasure: Examining Legislation to Support Domestic Critical Mineral Recovery and Recycling
house Environment Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_00 "Exempting recyclers from the requirement to be fully permitted under RCRA to allow them to store batteries for longer will remove important guardrails and mitigate risk. These guardrails include fire and spill controls, storage and disposal standards, air emission standards, and public notice requirements. Enacting policies to increase critical mineral recovery while also upholding key environmental regulations is of national"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"differentiate between whether you're an older person or a younger person, whether or not you're a gender of one kind or another. If I'm correct about your amendment, making all jobs, both combat and not combat-related, subject to that same gender-neutral fitness test for both men and women, this will certainly have a lot of real-world consequences for existing service members and in future recruitment of service members as well. So consider, as an example, a public affairs officer or a doctor..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"medically credentialed and not one that can catch a medicine ball like the guy that's next to her. And really, in all seriousness, this amendment raises serious questions about what the intent is. Is this the intent of this amendment to ensure that every service member can meet the demands of the job, or is it really just a cynical attempt to use the language of standards to target women's continued service at all? Today, we fight with more than just pure muscle. We fight with our brains as..."
Testimony BACON, DON
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Okay, thank you. Higgins, I have to agree with Ms. Houlihan on this one. I think if there were certain combat roles, you narrowed it down, you know, the sex-neutral standard to certain combat roles, I think that would be persuadable, but to do it across the board, and I served 30 years in the Air Force, I just don't think it would work to have the same standard and men and women with the same physical fitness standards for every job in the Air Force. I think it would end up disqualifying a lot..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"plaintiff $450 million in punitive damages. First, it makes no sense to punish companies with punitive damages when they have actually complied with and met the federal standards for those rear guard bumpers. Second, the juries are in essence substituting their judgment for that of the NHTSA experts and awarding huge punitive damages against the companies even though they have complied, they complied with the federal standard. Third, the experts at DOT and NHTSA spent a lot of time doing tests,..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"It still allows people, this legislation that bill, it still allows people to file lawsuits and also recover damages for injuries and lost income called compensatory damages. It still allows people to even get punitive damages if the company does not meet the federal standard when the trailer is manufactured and does not preclude lawsuits. The current situation is unattainable. If this trend continues, we could have juries in different states that are in essence creating different benchmarks or..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"These companies spend a lot of time testing and retesting the trailers to make sure they create a product that meets all the federal standards. These companies and thousands of people they employ all want safe trailers. They drive on the highways, too. Congress empowered the Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to set federal standards for rear guard bumpers. Many companies comply with all federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"companies are seeing their insurance costs increase substantially. One company told me that their insurance costs have gone up by 40 to 50 percent in the last few years. The mere threat and possibility of these types of lawsuits is having a serious negative impact. These costs are being passed down to the consumers, making everything more expensive to Americans. To be clear, this amendment addresses the rear guard bumpers of truck trailers. It would only prevent punitive damages from being..."
Testimony MR. JAMES PAULEY
“Protecting U.S. Leadership in Codes Development and Enhancing Public ...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"materials that your organization produces. Well, I would agree with you. I think there has been, this is part of the issue, I believe, and the lawyers on the panel can help me. I think the problem with some of the courts are they have taken along even some of the supplementary information that's in the standard and included that to say it's the entire standard. And that is indeed one of the challenges, and I think one of the points that was made along the path at saying there's a lot of what we..."
Testimony MR. JOHN VENNERI
“Protecting U.S. Leadership in Codes Development and Enhancing Public ...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"So I think there are ways to deal with a fair use in a relatively light manner, right, because folks, you know, that turns into a, you know, a real issue, right? And the first, for example, there has been holding in the cases that when somebody reads a standard to comply with the law or somebody reads a standard to comply with, you know, to use it in manufacturing, that suddenly that same standard is transformed, right? They say that it's transformative. Everybody reads a standard to comply..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"and their ideas to the STEP team who are sitting right next door and we're in similar meetings. We've already seen that, for example, the SCORE program benefited from that. It was really not up to the same standard. It wasn't our team, the prior Biden administration didn't hold them the same standard, but our SBDC team helped them get up to the standard. And so we'll do the Congressman, thank you for the question. I"
Testimony MCCLAIN DELANEY, APRIL
Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"historians could only dream of, and we must do our part by elevating development of biological standards and measurements as a key statutory mission of our scientific enterprise. And this is where the importance of biometrology, the development and use of biotech standards and measurements becomes clear, and there's no better place for this work than NIST in my district. A program dedicated in law to researching and advancing a suite of standards and framework for biotech development that will..."
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
Maintaining America’s Leadership in Biomedical Innovation: FDA’s Role ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"All right, now one of the things you mentioned that I've been toying with in my own mind and you just touched on it tangentially, so maybe I heard what I wanted to hear, was you mentioned risk and it has bothered me that when you have low risk, sometimes FDA wants everything done, you know, according to their standard process, but if you have low risk, should we be creating a second standard that says, you know, it's not, we don't know if it works for what it says it's going to work for, but..."
Testimony CLOUD, MICHAEL
Oversight Hearing - U.S. Small Business Administration
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I think dollars, I don't know that you mentioned this, but went, taxpayer dollars went through SBA, went to foreign identities, theft rings, I mean, just to think that taxpayers are basically paying for their identity to be stolen, grant programs that had unacceptable vetting standards, accountability standards, you know, and here we see where the low standards actually meant less capital was available in the markets. Temporary programs that were attempting to be turned into permanent programs,..."
Testimony TONKO, PAUL
Subcommittee Markup of Seven Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"partisan poison pills. While the aims narrow scope of the bill to only block more protective standards or state waivers that relate to inducement strategies or DEF quality monitoring, it still allows the administrator to set weaker standards and unnecessarily targets existing state authority under the Clean Air Act to set more ambitious standards in order to protect public health. The aim still adds a five-year lead time for any updated standards or state waivers after the 10-year safe harbor..."
Testimony CAROL HARRIS
Delivering Quality and Modern Healthcare to Michigan's Veterans and Se...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 12, 2026
"oncology, getting these specialties and the providers that support those specialties into EPS has also been a challenge as well. So I just want to make sure that we focus not just on the act of scheduling appointments, but it's this holistic process, and that's part of the reason why providers are reluctant to participate. Yeah, well, we made a recommendation to VA and to VHA to take a look at the seven-day calendar standard for scheduling an appointment for community care, which they did take..."
Testimony OBERNOLTE, JAY
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Ms. Fitzgerald, we could agree to disagree on some of these issues. You said a couple of things that I found to be kind of inflammatory, and I wanted to talk about them and give you the opportunity to respond. One of the things you said is that the goal of this process of creating one federal standard should be to create a standard that's stronger than any of the individual state standards, and I very much disagree with that because we tried very hard to take a consensus approach where we took..."
Testimony OBERNOLTE, JAY
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"The other thing that you said that I take issue with a little bit is you said that this bill is weaker than the weakest state standard and that we would be better off to have no federal standard at all than to pass this bill. And I do take exception to that because, first of all, the weakest state standard right now is no state standard. We have 22 different state standards. That means the majority of states have zero protections for consumers when it comes to digital data privacy. How can you..."
Testimony BILIRAKIS, GUS M.
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Okay. Mr. Hamilton, dairy farmers in my district rely on meaningful federal standards that are consistently enforced. HR 8414, the Dairy Pride Act, would require FDA to enforce standards for dairy terms like milk, yogurt, and cheese when products do not meet those standards or are not properly labeled as imitations. So another question here, and again, this is for Mr."
Testimony THOMAS G. DINANNO
Hearings to examine arms control and transforming international securi...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 24, 2026
"We have programs, not only sort of information sharing engagement, the Non-Proliferation Bureau, which I oversee, actively seeks out and trains, we have, attempting to raise the standards of potential weak spots or potential partners that we felt that we need to raise their standards. So not only do we actively engage with our, again, I would characterize as traditional allies, but it's very important that we raise the standards across the board, that across the countries that might be involved..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Opportunities with VHA Reorganization
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"and there's something I didn't mention a minute ago, VA developed its own building standards. We don't use national building standards. We developed our own standards because we had nothing better to do, I think. And then we take it to the Corps of Engineers, who have their"
Testimony BRENDAN CARR
An oversight hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Dec 17, 2025
"The FCC's job under the Communications Act for reviewing mergers is to make sure that they're in the public interest, and that's the standard that we apply. Well, again, the standard is the public interest standard, and the FCC's decisional document approving mergers walks through all of the standards, it applies them, and it's right there in black and white for everyone to do when we apply normal"
Testimony BRENDAN CARR
Hearings to examine FAA's plan for ATC modernization, focusing on eval...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Dec 17, 2025
"The FCC's job under the Communications Act for reviewing mergers is to make sure that they're in the public interest, and that's the standard that we apply. Well, again, the standard is the public interest standard, and the FCC's decisional document approving mergers walks through all of the standards, it applies them, and it's right there in black and white for everyone to do when we apply normal"
Hearing Mitigation and Multiple Loss Properties: Factors Influencing the High Cost of Flooding
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
MR. JOEL SCATA "annual chance flood at the 50th percentile confidence, meaning there's a 50% chance that flooding could occur beyond that so-called 100-year flood plain. That's the flip of a coin. We are making development decisions based on the flip of a coin. When 40% of NFIP claims come from properties outside the mapped flood zone, we clearly have a mapping problem. Third, update the NFIP's building standards. The minimum floodplain development standards haven't been comprehensively updated since the 1970s. Meanwhile, 18% of our most severely flood-damaged properties were built after these standards were..."
Hearing “Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_05 "and their ideas to the STEP team who are sitting right next door and we're in similar meetings. We've already seen that, for example, the SCORE program benefited from that. It was really not up to the same standard. It wasn't our team, the prior Biden administration didn't hold them the same standard, but our SBDC team helped them get up to the standard. And so we'll do the Congressman, thank you for the question. I"
Hearing Oversight Hearing - U.S. Small Business Administration
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
CLOUD, MICHAEL "I think dollars, I don't know that you mentioned this, but went, taxpayer dollars went through SBA, went to foreign identities, theft rings, I mean, just to think that taxpayers are basically paying for their identity to be stolen, grant programs that had unacceptable vetting standards, accountability standards, you know, and here we see where the low standards actually meant less capital was available in the markets. Temporary programs that were attempting to be turned into permanent programs, Reagan once said that, you know, the most closest thing we have to eternal life on earth is a..."
Hearing Delivering Quality and Modern Healthcare to Michigan's Veterans and Servicemembers
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jun 12, 2026 · Transcript
CAROL HARRIS "oncology, getting these specialties and the providers that support those specialties into EPS has also been a challenge as well. So I just want to make sure that we focus not just on the act of scheduling appointments, but it's this holistic process, and that's part of the reason why providers are reluctant to participate. Yeah, well, we made a recommendation to VA and to VHA to take a look at the seven-day calendar standard for scheduling an appointment for community care, which they did take a look at. They looked at the standard, and they ultimately decided to keep the seven-day standard...."
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
BILIRAKIS, GUS M. "Okay. Mr. Hamilton, dairy farmers in my district rely on meaningful federal standards that are consistently enforced. HR 8414, the Dairy Pride Act, would require FDA to enforce standards for dairy terms like milk, yogurt, and cheese when products do not meet those standards or are not properly labeled as imitations. So another question here, and again, this is for Mr."
Hearing Hearings to examine arms control and transforming international security functions at the State Department.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 24, 2026 · Transcript
THOMAS G. DINANNO "We have programs, not only sort of information sharing engagement, the Non-Proliferation Bureau, which I oversee, actively seeks out and trains, we have, attempting to raise the standards of potential weak spots or potential partners that we felt that we need to raise their standards. So not only do we actively engage with our, again, I would characterize as traditional allies, but it's very important that we raise the standards across the board, that across the countries that might be involved in that supply chain, and we have active programming that does that. Thank you for the question,..."
Hearing Opportunities with VHA Reorganization
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 11, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "and there's something I didn't mention a minute ago, VA developed its own building standards. We don't use national building standards. We developed our own standards because we had nothing better to do, I think. And then we take it to the Corps of Engineers, who have their"
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Dec 17, 2025 · Transcript
BRENDAN CARR "The FCC's job under the Communications Act for reviewing mergers is to make sure that they're in the public interest, and that's the standard that we apply. Well, again, the standard is the public interest standard, and the FCC's decisional document approving mergers walks through all of the standards, it applies them, and it's right there in black and white for everyone to do when we apply normal"
Hearing Hearings to examine FAA's plan for ATC modernization, focusing on evaluating progress, ensuring accountability and results.
senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation · Dec 17, 2025 · Transcript
BRENDAN CARR "The FCC's job under the Communications Act for reviewing mergers is to make sure that they're in the public interest, and that's the standard that we apply. Well, again, the standard is the public interest standard, and the FCC's decisional document approving mergers walks through all of the standards, it applies them, and it's right there in black and white for everyone to do when we apply normal"
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
SCHIFF, ADAM B. "I also wanted to speak in support of this, and even more broadly, I think we should beef up a buy American food, produce, protein, I think that people going into a grocery store want to buy American produce, want to buy American beef, and they want to know what's made in America and what's coming from overseas, I think they're willing to pay a little more to know that what they're going to put in their mouth was produced with health standards in mind and other standards in mind that we have in this country that they don't have in other countries, and I'd love to see us invest in a marketing..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading the way.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
DR. AJAY "AJ" P. MALSHE "acquisition small business-centric is very important, because it is an ecosystem of companies like Intel, Northrop, Starlab, which are our partners, but there's a handshake, and that handshake is very important. The last, but the future economy will be following those standards, otherwise we'll be following the standards of our adversary countries, so we at the forefront are Establishing commerce is very important. Thank"
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
PADILLA, ALEX "wherever they may lead, without prejudice or improper influence. 150 years ago, we created the Department of Justice. It exists today with these mission statements and core values. That's the standard. And by that standard, Todd Blanche fails. During the confirmation hearing, Mr. Blanche was asked whether he and Donald Trump were"
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
PADILLA, ALEX "wherever they may lead, without prejudice or improper influence. 150 years ago, we created the Department of Justice. It exists today with these mission statements and core values. That's the standard. And by that standard, Todd Blanche fails. During the confirmation hearing, Mr. Blanche was asked whether he and Donald Trump were"
Hearing Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition and transparency lowers prescription drug costs.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
PADILLA, ALEX "wherever they may lead, without prejudice or improper influence. 150 years ago, we created the Department of Justice. It exists today with these mission statements and core values. That's the standard. And by that standard, Todd Blanche fails. During the confirmation hearing, Mr. Blanche was asked whether he and Donald Trump were"
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act".
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
WYDEN, RON "The theme of today's meeting is streamlining the tax filing system for those who are hard working and protecting them from predatory schemes and audits. As of right now, everybody in America is subject to audit except one family. That is the Trump family. All thanks to the tax audit immunity deal that Donald Trump got out of his own administration. The immunity deal, in my view, is a brazen abuse of the nation's laws in a system that forces everybody else to play by the rules. It amounts to the worst of double standards. It's a crooked double standard that benefits one person, the president..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
LANKFORD, JAMES "was bending them to their will, and so the World Health Organization was putting out data that you saw, at least at that point, as being from a Chinese perspective covering up what was going on, but you also noted we weren't able to get access to all this information. We've got to be able to figure this out for the future to be able to make sure that research that is done, we have access to all information if something goes sideways at some point, which clearly it did at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that being, as was noted by many people, the only lab in the world that was doing..."
Hearing “False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MR. SCOTT MECHKOWSKI "Take the food. New Jersey State Health Inspection June 8th found the kitchen sanitary, satisfactory, no evidence of rodents or vermin. The menu accommodates religious diets. The Borders are showed up unannounced and ate the same meal served to detainees every day and stated it was fine. Let's take the history of Delaney Hall. This building operated as an ICE detention site from 2011 to 2017. New Jersey's leaders said nothing. The standards haven't changed. The building hasn't changed. What changed is who sits in the White House. The double standard runs deeper. Last year, 33 people died in..."
Hearing Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the Abraham Accords
house Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE DAVID FRIEDMAN "most of the money usually gets spent in ways that are unaccounted for, that don't go to the right people. Sometimes we're looked at like a turkey on Thanksgiving. You know, someone just going to take, we'll take your money and then we'll, there needs to be an adult in the room in that area. I would suggest that the only real adult in the room, the only country that has a track record of empowering an Arab minority is the state of Israel. The Christian Arabs in Israel have the highest standard of living in Israel, even more so than the Jews. The Arabs in Israel have the highest standard of..."
Hearing Charting a New Course: Countering China's Dominance in Global Shipbuilding
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MR. BRENT SADLER "These are the repair ops. We have several years under our belt of getting better understanding amongst the group of us what our ship standards are, build and repair standards and familiarity with the actual platforms themselves. That's an important first"
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 "So some of the fully generative things like chat GPT will just kind of aggregate and like spit something out. But some of the other things I love like perplexity has a citation and like tags on every single thing so you can go check that citation, right? So I think that that's a standard that they set. So I mean it's all new for everybody, but if that is the standard that the house says, right? Like every line has to have a source or something that traces back to, there's no reason technically we can't do that. Yeah. You have to cite"
Hearing "Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event Prediction Markets"
house Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
TOKUDA, JILL N. "Quite frankly, this is regulatory arbitrage. It's just creating a double standard. We have a higher standard for tribes and states that have taken the time and invested a significant amount of resources to make sure that the ill effects of gaming do not fall on its people, and we have a self-regulatory system that, quite frankly, is a danger to our people. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, Ranking Member, I yield"
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
VAN DREW, JEFFERSON "But if we want to test who's telling the truth out here, I'll go on a lie detector test anywhere, anytime with anybody who wants to do this and say, you know, that I'm telling the truth on this. Because I didn't know what to expect. I was hoping it would be up to state standards of the state prisons I visited and walked through when I was a state senator and found that the standards were much better. But get this, I'm not done yet. So then they, well, they don't have recreation. They can't move around enough. By the way, in the state facilities, they"
Hearing Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and the Path Ahead
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "I'm saying that in the case of you're positing a South Africa refugee question, that the standard there would be the refugee standard. TPS does not use that standard. So it's not a distinction between South Africans and"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under Secretary,...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_17 "and maintain the stability that underpins America's economic leadership. Edmund Burke said that a disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be his standard of a statesman. Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Besant, if confirmed, that would be my standard as Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets. Thank you for your time today, and I look forward to your"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W. "I'm giving you a chance to say that. Right. I agree that those existing laws and setting standards, making sure that we have standards that are going to make sure that kids and American people are held safe, and could be that the tort system will hold AI companies accountable for damages done to our"
Hearing Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnerships
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
MR. THOMAS HARDY "Along the Libido Corridor, U.S. TDA is advancing projects that support critical minerals in Angola, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while improving access to Angola's ports. Our activities span power generation, mineral processing, and transportation infrastructure, all helping to unlock investment, strengthen supply chains, and expand opportunities for American companies. We apply rigorous standards to our work, supporting trusted partners while avoiding projects that fail to meet high environmental labor standards or that reinforce our strategic where our support for the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence.
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
COTTON, TOM "Thank you, Senator Brown. Mr. Clayton, before we move to your opening statement, I need to ask you five standard five standard questions the committee poses to each nominee who appears before us. A simple yes or no answer for the record will suffice. One, do you agree to appear before the committee here or in other venues when invited? Yes. Two, if confirmed, do you agree to send officials from your office to appear before the committee and designated staff when invited? Yes. Three, do you agree to provide documents or any other materials requested by the committee in order for it to carry..."
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
LEE, LAUREL M. "storing digital evidence. Just as importantly, this legislation includes strong limits. Liability protections do not apply in cases of intentional misconduct, negligence, or malicious acts, and with rigorous cybersecurity standards consistent with the National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines to ensure this evidence remains protected and secure. This is a narrow, practical, bipartisan solution that gives law enforcement access to secure modern technology while maintaining strong accountability and oversight. Ultimately, this bill is about helping investigators move cases..."
Hearing "Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Americans"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_09 "Can you go into specifics in terms of how we can, kind of give me some real world examples? We have a situation in my district, and maybe you can shed some light into this, where road gets washed out. It gets washed out every single time there's a flood. The community wants to build it to a higher standard, but because of the rules, you have to build it to what existed pre-disaster. Would it make sense to allow the community to fix it permanently and build it to a higher standard? That makes perfect sense to me. Mr. Matheson, I wanted to ask you, in your experience, which regulations or..."
Hearing The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_25 "Thank you. You've had an opportunity to see up close and personal how CFPB has worked and how it has failed, and so I'd like your insights about how ambiguous regulatory standards coupled with an independent funding source and a single director structure uniquely insulate the Bureau from standard checks and balances, and why is comprehensive reform necessary to protect both consumers and the broader financial industry? Thank you, Director"
Hearing Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN "It's a terminology nightmare. I call it the emergency docket. There are definitely questions about how it's appropriate to use that docket, when it's appropriate to use that docket, the standards to be applied, the way those standards actually work out in individual cases. You see that in some of our decisions, because we are, in many, if not most of these cases, not"
Hearing The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
VELÁZQUEZ, NYDIA M. "I expect more changes to come, and some of those might well be worthy of a press conference. To me, that is not a very definitive standard. Chair, can you commit today to creating a fixed public standard for which FOMC decisions and procedural changes trigger a press conference rather than deciding case by case which ones might be worth it? Yes or no? I hear you, but are you instituting any standards that will qualify for a press conference as it's worth news for the public and here, us in"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Supreme Court of the United States.
senate Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN "you know, we have to decide what to do with those requests. We argue about the standards to be used. We argue about how those standards apply in particular cases. Sometimes Justice Barrett and I have agreed. Sometimes Justice Barrett and I have"
Hearing FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
FINE, RANDY "to our allies and partners to prevent their dependence on our strategic rivals' technology. I'm particularly concerned about the exposures of our allies to a malign AI full stack. We don't want foreign AI to become the standard. We'd like our AI stack at all parts of the value chain to become the standard. It's VHS versus Betamax, except one of them is American and one of them is not. And so that's why I have filed a bill in HR 6996, the Full AI Stack Export Promotions Act, which was marked up and passed in this committee. Unfortunately, ongoing delays in license approvals and confusion over..."
Hearing H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R. 9504
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript
PANETTA, JIMMY "Now this bill also takes the important step of shifting the responsibility from the taxpayer to the preparer being paid to file returns. We still need to pass legislation to establish basic professional standards for tax preparers and ensure that the IRS can enforce those standards. I do hope to work with the committee on those issues in the future, however, this bill is a very positive step forward. I appreciate Ms. Malliotakis for this and I support this"
Hearing American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "A commission like this will actually help us create a national U.S. robotics strategy, which will direct those that are not in government to work with people that are in government in order to create safety standards, technology standards, and a single point of connection to harmonize the technology leadership that we have in industry with the policy government we have here in"
Hearing Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "The most important way to do that is increasing access to spectrum. We're aggressively identified in 500 megahertz under our requirements under the Working Families Tax Cut Act. The other component that I would focus on is our participation in international standards and ensuring that international standards reflect our priorities for 6-g. We have communicated changes to Illinois that we need to see. Illinois' proposal that was submitted to us just didn't meet the mark in terms of"
Hearing “From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and Innovation in Powering America’s Small Businesses.”
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_17 "innovations that VC is not going to invest in, right? Like VC is not going to invest in a repair, an old part for the F-35 that this team can update and do using the CBER program. And so, and again, SBICs, we've got them spread across the country. We're working urgently to expand that. We don't lower our standards. We have very, I mean, it's been zero subsidies since 1999. Our team's phenomenal. The people, the process, the way they do due diligence, the way they monitor it, the way they exam, we're not lowering our standards. That's not what this is, but we're working aggressively to double,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Barbera Thornhill, of North Carolina, to be Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, with...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
KAINE, TIM "The Trump administration, through staff reductions at state, have reduced the staff in this unit by about 70%, and that led the TIP report last year, which is supposed to be done by June 30, to be a couple months late. Now, obviously, you're not there now, and June 30 is just in a very few days, so we can't hold you to that, but I am troubled, and I don't really need you to answer this, but I'm just troubled about our ability to have the TIP report be that gold standard with a significant staff reduction, and I hope, should you get there, your commitment to the TIP report being that gold..."
Hearing “Workforce Rewired: Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Economy”
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
ADAMS, ALMA S. "They also provide employers with a pipeline of talented employees. Registered apprenticeships are so successful that 9 out of 10 apprentices continue to be employed upon completing their program and earn an average starting wage of approximately $80,000 a year. Registered apprenticeships are the gold standard of workforce training because of their high-quality program standards. These quality standards not only ensure that apprentices build valuable skills while earning a salary and benefits, but also that they receive a credential that is valued in the labor market and recognized by..."
Hearing "To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conservation Programs"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You know, you're referring to conservation practice standards within NRCS, and a lot of those practice standards do include manure management, digesters, and other things. And I know that those are subscribed in other parts. I'm assuming that they're subscribed in"
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Measures
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
STEIL, BRYAN "As it relates to the underlying bill, I think it's really important that we have photo identification. I think the gentleman's comments, the ranking member, that there's a series of different standards across this nation actually is reason to support the underlying measure that we standardize the approach as we did in other areas of federal law. It was noted, if you want to board an airplane, there's a pretty tight list of forms of ID that"
Hearing Assessing U.S. Leadership in Quantum Science and Technology
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jan 22, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Dr. James Kushmerick, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hearing Robots Made in America: Advancing U.S. Leadership in Manufacturing and Automation
house Research and Technology Subcommittee · Apr 21, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Evan Beard, Standard Bots
Hearing “Appliance and Building Policies: Restoring the American Dream of Home Ownership and Consumer Choice.”
house Energy Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Andrew deLaski, Appliance Standards Awareness Project
Hearing The State of U.S. Science and Technology: Ensuring U.S. Global Leadership
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Feb 5, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Rev. Walter Copan, Colorado School of Mines and Former Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Testimony SPEAKER_11
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"Issue IDs to non-citizens, issue IDs to illegal immigrants, as many states do, many of them blue states, the state next to me, the state of Illinois issues driver's licenses, for example, to non-citizens and including illegal immigrants. And so this is a standard to say, how do we make sure that we're protecting the integrity of our elections? And we believe the best way to do that is through the forms of ID as listed in the bill. So the Wisconsin standard sound like, I mean, it sounds like. I..."
Testimony NEGUSE, JOE
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"under this law if you vote provisionally, if you don't have photo ID to be able to then ensure that your vote still counts? What's the time? You'd reference back to your state law on that. 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"
Testimony LEGER FERNANDEZ, TERESA
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"And what happened to Josh Hawley was that President Trump came after him. I'm just wondering if Republicans on the House side are equally afraid of this president coming after them for actually holding him to a high standard, to any kind of standard with regards to owning and selling stock. Well, I want to go to another matter, and that's this Section 3 of the bill, which is like save light, I"
Testimony WEBSTER, DANIEL
Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So the Utilized Standards for the All Act strengthens the U.S. leadership by advancing a private sector-led voluntary consensus technical standards process built on strong public-private partnerships. This approach is the cornerstone of our American standardization"
Testimony WEBSTER, DANIEL
Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"with private sector House stakeholders to advance U.S. interest in global standards development. The U.S. establishes a pilot program to support the host standards meeting in the United States, thereby increasing U.S. participation and influence in international standards body. I want to thank Representative Obernolte for his leadership, dedication, and co-leading this bill which is vital for maintaining U.S. competitiveness and security in emerging technology and sectors. I urge my colleagues..."
Testimony WEBSTER, DANIEL
Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"I yield back. Thank you, Chairman. The A&S for the U.S. Act reinforces a need to advance voluntary consensus, private sector-led technical standards built on strong private partnerships and promotes their adoption as globally recognized international standards. This ensures the United States, not Beijing, remains the global leader in setting international"
Testimony MCCLAIN DELANEY, APRIL
Full Committee Markup
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Biotech Seminal Report and their recommendations to Congress, biotechnology stands at a very critical juncture. The policies that we advance today will shape the next century of scientific discoveries and determine whether the U.S. can keep its competitive edge. Most of us never think about weights and measurements, and that's exactly the point. When we pull up to a gas station, we don't often wonder whether the number displayed is telling the truth about how many gallons we're putting in the..."
Testimony KELLY, ROBIN L.
Maintaining America’s Leadership in Biomedical Innovation: FDA’s Role ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"that treatments are safe and effective. As I continue to fight for critical diversity standards through the NIH Clinical Trial Integrity Act, I urge the FDA to finalize the diversity action plan guidance to the standard mandated by the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022, and Mr. Chairman, I yield"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Subcommittee Markup of Seven Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"There is bipartisan agreement on the importance of ensuring clarity and certainty around emissions-controlled technology for diesel engines, but H.R. 9618, the Diesel Engine Flexibility Act, is not the way to go. Despite trying to work on a bipartisan compromise, the Republican majority chose to introduce a version of the bill that blocks EPA from setting more protective pollution standards for on- and off-road vehicles and engines, and instead locks in decades-old, weaker standards. The bill..."
Testimony LANGWORTHY, NICHOLAS A.
Subcommittee Markup of Seven Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My bill, H.R. 9317, the Buses Utilizing Safety and Environmental Standards Act, or the Buses Act, is about bringing common sense to bus operations and preventing one city's extreme policies from becoming the standard for the rest of the country. Buses are one of the safest and most efficient ways to move large numbers of"
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"I also wanted to speak in support of this, and even more broadly, I think we should beef up a buy American food, produce, protein, I think that people going into a grocery store want to buy American produce, want to buy American beef, and they want to know what's made in America and what's coming from overseas, I think they're willing to pay a little more to know that what they're going to put in their mouth was produced with health standards in mind and other standards in mind that we have in..."
Testimony DR. AJAY "AJ" P. MALSHE
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"acquisition small business-centric is very important, because it is an ecosystem of companies like Intel, Northrop, Starlab, which are our partners, but there's a handshake, and that handshake is very important. The last, but the future economy will be following those standards, otherwise we'll be following the standards of our adversary countries, so we at the forefront are Establishing commerce is very important. Thank"
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"wherever they may lead, without prejudice or improper influence. 150 years ago, we created the Department of Justice. It exists today with these mission statements and core values. That's the standard. And by that standard, Todd Blanche fails. During the confirmation hearing, Mr. Blanche was asked whether he and Donald Trump were"
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"wherever they may lead, without prejudice or improper influence. 150 years ago, we created the Department of Justice. It exists today with these mission statements and core values. That's the standard. And by that standard, Todd Blanche fails. During the confirmation hearing, Mr. Blanche was asked whether he and Donald Trump were"
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"wherever they may lead, without prejudice or improper influence. 150 years ago, we created the Department of Justice. It exists today with these mission statements and core values. That's the standard. And by that standard, Todd Blanche fails. During the confirmation hearing, Mr. Blanche was asked whether he and Donald Trump were"
Testimony WYDEN, RON
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assi...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"The theme of today's meeting is streamlining the tax filing system for those who are hard working and protecting them from predatory schemes and audits. As of right now, everybody in America is subject to audit except one family. That is the Trump family. All thanks to the tax audit immunity deal that Donald Trump got out of his own administration. The immunity deal, in my view, is a brazen abuse of the nation's laws in a system that forces everybody else to play by the rules. It amounts to the..."
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"was bending them to their will, and so the World Health Organization was putting out data that you saw, at least at that point, as being from a Chinese perspective covering up what was going on, but you also noted we weren't able to get access to all this information. We've got to be able to figure this out for the future to be able to make sure that research that is done, we have access to all information if something goes sideways at some point, which clearly it did at the Wuhan Institute of..."
Testimony BABIN, BRIAN
Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"today's discussion will include funding levels, indirect cost policies, uniform guidance, and the President's budget request. Those are important discussions, but funding alone is not a measurement of success. The real question is whether taxpayer dollars are being invested wisely and deliver results for the American people. This budget directs taxpayer dollars towards technologies that will decide the next century artificial intelligence, quantum advanced manufacturing, nuclear, and..."
Testimony HARIDOPOLOS, MIKE
Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"For example, Pennsylvania, they're maximizing that natural gas that's found in Pennsylvania to maximize it, and we're bringing on this new technology to make sure we have the energy necessary to win the AI race. I would just ask you this, if you don't mind, getting into these gold standards science that you talk about, there's nine tenets that you have, could you walk us through why we need to return to this gold standard as opposed to the political game sometimes people play in committee?..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Yeah, I think this is an obligation I think we have as stewards of taxpayer dollars to ensure that the money that is going out to science is done so in a way that respects the scientific method and scientific progress. There is no scientist in the ecosystem that doesn't believe that their own scientific project should hold up to the standards of gold standard science laid out in that executive order, and to me I found the response to it from the left actually quite amusing. To me, I thought..."
Testimony MR. SCOTT MECHKOWSKI
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Take the food. New Jersey State Health Inspection June 8th found the kitchen sanitary, satisfactory, no evidence of rodents or vermin. The menu accommodates religious diets. The Borders are showed up unannounced and ate the same meal served to detainees every day and stated it was fine. Let's take the history of Delaney Hall. This building operated as an ICE detention site from 2011 to 2017. New Jersey's leaders said nothing. The standards haven't changed. The building hasn't changed. What..."
Testimony JOHN HEWITT
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"A recent study that was published by Californians for Affordable Packaging estimated that the actual cost is going to be somewhere between $56 and $78 billion, much higher than referenced in the Teamsters letter, and what that equates to for the average Californian family is an increase in grocery costs of $683 to $948 per year for those respective households. The good news, or the good thing, and what we're here to support today on behalf of the Recycling Leadership Council and the Consumer..."
Testimony WEBER, RANDY K. SR.
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"that confusion, not only consumers in California, but in the long run, a direct impact of the increased burdens it placed having business over 35 years. Businesses don't need those kinds of uncertain impacts on businesses. Would you agree? How can it change? seconds left, but I think that's good. A standard voluntary packaging, like we're talking about, is a good thing. Do you agree, Ms. Winslow, a standard voluntary? Is it brave, is that how you say that? Yes,"
Testimony THE HONORABLE DAVID FRIEDMAN
Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the A...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"most of the money usually gets spent in ways that are unaccounted for, that don't go to the right people. Sometimes we're looked at like a turkey on Thanksgiving. You know, someone just going to take, we'll take your money and then we'll, there needs to be an adult in the room in that area. I would suggest that the only real adult in the room, the only country that has a track record of empowering an Arab minority is the state of Israel. The Christian Arabs in Israel have the highest standard..."
Testimony MR. BRENT SADLER
Charting a New Course: Countering China's Dominance in Global Shipbuil...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"These are the repair ops. We have several years under our belt of getting better understanding amongst the group of us what our ship standards are, build and repair standards and familiarity with the actual platforms themselves. That's an important first"
Testimony MS. CHARLOTTE LEE
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization and In...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 21, 2026
"So some of the fully generative things like chat GPT will just kind of aggregate and like spit something out. But some of the other things I love like perplexity has a citation and like tags on every single thing so you can go check that citation, right? So I think that that's a standard that they set. So I mean it's all new for everybody, but if that is the standard that the house says, right? Like every line has to have a source or something that traces back to, there's no reason technically..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"For the sake of workers and patients, I urge my colleagues to join me in opposing H.R. 8347. Next, we'll consider the Heat Workforce Standards Act, which would block occupational safety and health administration from OSHA from finalizing and enforcing a nationwide heat safety standard. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, heat stress killed 907 U.S. workers between 1992 and 2019, but the true death toll is likely much higher and will continue to"
Testimony ADAMS, ALMA S.
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"My amendment is simple. It would replace the text of this cool and senseless bill with the text of the Ashanse Valdivia Heat Illness Injury and Fatality Prevention Act. of the Ashanti Valdivia Heat Illness Injury and Fatality Prevention Act. My men would direct OSHA to continue its work on a heat safety standard and would establish common sense requirements on what the standard should contain. For example, employers must provide workers with cool water, periodic rest breaks, and access to..."
Testimony MOYLAN, JAMES C.
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"This bipartisan bill amends the National Labor Relations Act and Fair Labor Standards Act to establish that franchisor may only be considered a joint employer with franchisee if it shares the employees with them and directly, actually, and immediately exercise significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment for those shared employees. This direct and immediate control standard is standard that the Trump administration and administrations of both parties both have..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Indirect control, reserved authority to control, and control exercised in Contracts when determining joint employment liability under NLRA. My amendment also strikes the bill's joint employment standard under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which keeps its current fact-specific and Holistic test for establishing joint employment liability. Labor and employment laws have long protected workers who have joint Employers, and a strong joint employment standard under the NLRA ensures"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"which is why this amendment would prohibit individuals convicted of certain crimes detailed under the LMRDA from serving as executives of corporations that are dealing with labor organizations, Director of the Office of Labor Management Standards, Secretary of Labor, Inspector General of the Department of Labor, any other political appointees of the Department of Labor, and the President. This bill, this act holds union officials and labor relations advisors and consultants to certain..."
Testimony BUDD, TED
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"What are parts of the old house? If we have some of the old house that may need renovating, what are those parts that are difficult to renovate? What would be some of the consequences if the Chinese biology standards were the globally adopted standards? Thank you very much. Member"
Testimony YOUNG, TODD
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"of this works. So that's what's at stake. So if you look at the title of this hearing, Measuring What Matters, Science Standards in Strategic Competition, sort of a plain vanilla title, but I'll say what is today's garbage by coming up with appropriate standards could become rocket fuel for our economy, could become the feedstock of technological and scientific breakthroughs and innovation and even geopolitical strength if we're to treat data as the strategic asset it is. As chairman of the..."
Testimony TOKUDA, JILL N.
"Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event P...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Quite frankly, this is regulatory arbitrage. It's just creating a double standard. We have a higher standard for tribes and states that have taken the time and invested a significant amount of resources to make sure that the ill effects of gaming do not fall on its people, and we have a self-regulatory system that, quite frankly, is a danger to our people. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, Ranking Member, I yield"
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"But if we want to test who's telling the truth out here, I'll go on a lie detector test anywhere, anytime with anybody who wants to do this and say, you know, that I'm telling the truth on this. Because I didn't know what to expect. I was hoping it would be up to state standards of the state prisons I visited and walked through when I was a state senator and found that the standards were much better. But get this, I'm not done yet. So then they, well, they don't have recreation. They can't move..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and th...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"I'm saying that in the case of you're positing a South Africa refugee question, that the standard there would be the refugee standard. TPS does not use that standard. So it's not a distinction between South Africans and"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"and maintain the stability that underpins America's economic leadership. Edmund Burke said that a disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be his standard of a statesman. Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Besant, if confirmed, that would be my standard as Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets. Thank you for your time today, and I look forward to your"
Testimony HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I'm giving you a chance to say that. Right. I agree that those existing laws and setting standards, making sure that we have standards that are going to make sure that kids and American people are held safe, and could be that the tort system will hold AI companies accountable for damages done to our"
Testimony SESSIONS, PETE
“Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"platforms used for this verifications have failed to meet the expectations. In March of 2023, this subcommittee held a hearing focused on login.gov and the traveling findings from the General Service Administration's Inspector General report that was released that month told us point blank, we have a problem. In short, GSA misled government clients about the extent to which login.gov met certain technical standards and expressly what they said it would do. These standards were the backbone of..."
Testimony MFUME, KWEISI
“Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"as the Chairman indicated, and briefings to ensure that GSA fixed the system that provided the service that they promised their agency clients. A year after our hearing, GSA announced it had fully implemented the National Institute of Standards and Technology's standard and had rolled it out to their agencies and to their"
Testimony MR. THOMAS HARDY
Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnersh...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Along the Libido Corridor, U.S. TDA is advancing projects that support critical minerals in Angola, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while improving access to Angola's ports. Our activities span power generation, mineral processing, and transportation infrastructure, all helping to unlock investment, strengthen supply chains, and expand opportunities for American companies. We apply rigorous standards to our work, supporting trusted partners while avoiding projects that fail to..."
Testimony COTTON, TOM
Hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to ...
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you, Senator Brown. Mr. Clayton, before we move to your opening statement, I need to ask you five standard five standard questions the committee poses to each nominee who appears before us. A simple yes or no answer for the record will suffice. One, do you agree to appear before the committee here or in other venues when invited? Yes. Two, if confirmed, do you agree to send officials from your office to appear before the committee and designated staff when invited? Yes. Three, do you..."
Testimony LEE, LAUREL M.
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"storing digital evidence. Just as importantly, this legislation includes strong limits. Liability protections do not apply in cases of intentional misconduct, negligence, or malicious acts, and with rigorous cybersecurity standards consistent with the National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines to ensure this evidence remains protected and secure. This is a narrow, practical, bipartisan solution that gives law enforcement access to secure modern technology while maintaining strong..."
Testimony SPEAKER_09
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Can you go into specifics in terms of how we can, kind of give me some real world examples? We have a situation in my district, and maybe you can shed some light into this, where road gets washed out. It gets washed out every single time there's a flood. The community wants to build it to a higher standard, but because of the rules, you have to build it to what existed pre-disaster. Would it make sense to allow the community to fix it permanently and build it to a higher standard? That makes..."
Testimony SPEAKER_25
The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you. You've had an opportunity to see up close and personal how CFPB has worked and how it has failed, and so I'd like your insights about how ambiguous regulatory standards coupled with an independent funding source and a single director structure uniquely insulate the Bureau from standard checks and balances, and why is comprehensive reform necessary to protect both consumers and the broader financial industry? Thank you, Director"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN
Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"It's a terminology nightmare. I call it the emergency docket. There are definitely questions about how it's appropriate to use that docket, when it's appropriate to use that docket, the standards to be applied, the way those standards actually work out in individual cases. You see that in some of our decisions, because we are, in many, if not most of these cases, not"
Testimony VELÁZQUEZ, NYDIA M.
The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I expect more changes to come, and some of those might well be worthy of a press conference. To me, that is not a very definitive standard. Chair, can you commit today to creating a fixed public standard for which FOMC decisions and procedural changes trigger a press conference rather than deciding case by case which ones might be worth it? Yes or no? I hear you, but are you instituting any standards that will qualify for a press conference as it's worth news for the public and here, us in..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"you know, we have to decide what to do with those requests. We argue about the standards to be used. We argue about how those standards apply in particular cases. Sometimes Justice Barrett and I have agreed. Sometimes Justice Barrett and I have"
Testimony FINE, RANDY
FY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"to our allies and partners to prevent their dependence on our strategic rivals' technology. I'm particularly concerned about the exposures of our allies to a malign AI full stack. We don't want foreign AI to become the standard. We'd like our AI stack at all parts of the value chain to become the standard. It's VHS versus Betamax, except one of them is American and one of them is not. And so that's why I have filed a bill in HR 6996, the Full AI Stack Export Promotions Act, which was marked up..."
Testimony FOXX, VIRGINIA
H.R. 139 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 8595 – National Secur...
house Rules Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"with the semi-yearly practice of resetting our clocks. Every November, as all of us are well aware, we follow the annual fall back. But under this legislation, Americans would no longer need to turn back their clocks an hour. Further, H.R. 139 provides exemptions for Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as they currently adhere to standard year-round time and therefore remain on permanent standard time. The remaining 48 states under this legislation will be granted..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
H.R. 139 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 8595 – National Secur...
house Rules Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"permanent standard time and some people who want permanent daylight savings time. But I think overall the majority, big majority, want daylight savings time. And it's only a small minority that have adopted and currently use permanent standard time. But under this bill, the States that use permanent standard time can do so. And if they enact the law before this becomes law, they can also have standard time as a permanent. So it doesn't prevent"
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
H.R. 139 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 8595 – National Secur...
house Rules Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"And that result is also borne out by a Gallup poll that was taken last year. Forty-eight percent, given the choice between permanent standard time and permanent daylight savings time, forty-eight percent would take permanent standard time, only twenty-four percent would take permanent daylight savings time once they considered all of the facts. So that's why I recently introduced a bipartisan bill with Representative Pat Harrigan from North"
Testimony PANETTA, JIMMY
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"Now this bill also takes the important step of shifting the responsibility from the taxpayer to the preparer being paid to file returns. We still need to pass legislation to establish basic professional standards for tax preparers and ensure that the IRS can enforce those standards. I do hope to work with the committee on those issues in the future, however, this bill is a very positive step forward. I appreciate Ms. Malliotakis for this and I support this"
Testimony SPEAKER_07
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"A commission like this will actually help us create a national U.S. robotics strategy, which will direct those that are not in government to work with people that are in government in order to create safety standards, technology standards, and a single point of connection to harmonize the technology leadership that we have in industry with the policy government we have here in"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"The most important way to do that is increasing access to spectrum. We're aggressively identified in 500 megahertz under our requirements under the Working Families Tax Cut Act. The other component that I would focus on is our participation in international standards and ensuring that international standards reflect our priorities for 6-g. We have communicated changes to Illinois that we need to see. Illinois' proposal that was submitted to us just didn't meet the mark in terms of"
Testimony WALBERG, TIM
H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Pro...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"My bill, H.R. 5505, Equal Campus Access Act of 2025, requires public colleges that receive federal student aid to treat religious student groups equally to any other student organization on campus. This bill ensures religious student organizations maintain full access to campus speech, leadership standards, or standards of conduct. Next, the committee will mark up Representative Tracy Mann's H.R."
Testimony WALBERG, TIM
H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Pro...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"My bill, Equal Campus Access Act, requires public colleges and universities that receive federal student aid to treat religious student groups the same as any other student organization on campus. This would ensure that religious student organizations can receive the full benefits afforded to them regardless of their beliefs, practices, speech, leadership standards, or standards of conduct. It's incredibly important that Congress support students exercising their First Amendment rights on..."
Testimony SCOTT, ROBERT C. "BOBBY"
H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Pro...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Mr. Chairman, the Equal Campus Access Act prohibits funding under the Higher Education Act to public colleges and universities that refuse to recognize or provide benefits to religious student organizations because of the organization's religious beliefs, practices, speech, leadership standards, or standards of conduct. But the Act does not, in fact, provide equal campus access, but instead gives preferential treatment to religious student organizations to preempt any number of institutional..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
“From Startup to Scale: The Role of the SBA Office of Investment and I...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"innovations that VC is not going to invest in, right? Like VC is not going to invest in a repair, an old part for the F-35 that this team can update and do using the CBER program. And so, and again, SBICs, we've got them spread across the country. We're working urgently to expand that. We don't lower our standards. We have very, I mean, it's been zero subsidies since 1999. Our team's phenomenal. The people, the process, the way they do due diligence, the way they monitor it, the way they exam,..."
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Hearings to examine the nominations of Barbera Thornhill, of North Car...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"The Trump administration, through staff reductions at state, have reduced the staff in this unit by about 70%, and that led the TIP report last year, which is supposed to be done by June 30, to be a couple months late. Now, obviously, you're not there now, and June 30 is just in a very few days, so we can't hold you to that, but I am troubled, and I don't really need you to answer this, but I'm just troubled about our ability to have the TIP report be that gold standard with a significant staff..."
Testimony BERGMAN, JACK
H.R. 8552, the “Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act o...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"I mean, this committee can only do so much. But the one thing we can do is we can utilize the standards that exist so that we can all agree that there is this standard. Is it the right standard going forward or do we need to treat it like a bell curve where it's an 80 percent norm of a standard but with 20 percent room for for modifications or, you know, because the problem doesn't fit the model, if that makes sense. Is it the right standard going forward or do we need to treat it like a bell..."
Testimony ADAMS, ALMA S.
“Workforce Rewired: Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Economy”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"They also provide employers with a pipeline of talented employees. Registered apprenticeships are so successful that 9 out of 10 apprentices continue to be employed upon completing their program and earn an average starting wage of approximately $80,000 a year. Registered apprenticeships are the gold standard of workforce training because of their high-quality program standards. These quality standards not only ensure that apprentices build valuable skills while earning a salary and benefits,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
"To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conser...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You know, you're referring to conservation practice standards within NRCS, and a lot of those practice standards do include manure management, digesters, and other things. And I know that those are subscribed in other parts. I'm assuming that they're subscribed in"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Trash to Treasure: Examining Legislation to Support Domestic Critical ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Exempting recyclers from the requirement to be fully permitted under RCRA to allow them to store batteries for longer will remove important guardrails and mitigate risk. These guardrails include fire and spill controls, storage and disposal standards, air emission standards, and public notice requirements. Enacting policies to increase critical mineral recovery while also upholding key environmental regulations is of national"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Trash to Treasure: Examining Legislation to Support Domestic Critical ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"First, it addresses only the rule that pushes recyclers to store batteries offsite, and it does so in a way that paradoxically could leave onsite storage less regulated than offsite storage. Second, it does not address other barriers that I've discussed, including the isolation of black mass and non-hazardous recycling residues. Third, it would give EPA broad authority to issue new standards without requiring the agency to account for existing safety standards or the national goals for recovery..."
Testimony STEIL, BRYAN
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Mea...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026
"As it relates to the underlying bill, I think it's really important that we have photo identification. I think the gentleman's comments, the ranking member, that there's a series of different standards across this nation actually is reason to support the underlying measure that we standardize the approach as we did in other areas of federal law. It was noted, if you want to board an airplane, there's a pretty tight list of forms of ID that"