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Animal Use in Federal Biomedical Research: A Policy Overview
Resources · Dec 28, 2023
Animals commonly are used in federally funded biomedical research for a number of reasons—for example, to better understand the biology of disease or to test the safety and efficacy of medical...
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Copyright and Uses of Music by Political Campaigns
Resources · Oct 2, 2024
During election seasons, news stories often report of musicians and songwriters objecting to uses of their music by political campaigns. Sometimes, these artists send cease-and-desist letters,...
CRS Report
Dual-Use Solar Photovoltaics: Emerging Applications and Issues for Congress
Reports · Oct 3, 2024
Solar photovoltaics (PV) is one potential renewable energy technology that may help the United States achieve its carbon reduction goals and commitments. However, solar PV uses more land per megawatt...
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Use in California
Resources · Jul 2, 2014
Hydraulic fracturing (sometimes referred to as fracking) is a technique that uses water, sand, and chemicals under pressure to enable or enhance the production of natural gas and crude oil from...
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Emergency Use Authorization and FDA’s Related Authorities
Resources · Aug 13, 2018
Under most circumstances, drugs, medical devices, and biologics may only be introduced into interstate commerce if they have been approved, cleared, or licensed by the Food and Drug Administration...
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Law Enforcement Use of Artificial Intelligence and Directives in the 2023 Executive Order
Posts · Dec 15, 2023
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has expanded in a variety of arenas, including by law enforcement. AI has been broadly conceptualized as computerized systems operating in ways often thought...
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Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Resources · Apr 14, 2023
Opioids, such as heroin, fentanyl, and some prescription pain medications (including morphine and oxycodone) are substances that act on receptors in the brain important in regulating pain and...
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Carson v. Makin: Using Government Funds for Religious Activity
Posts · Jul 6, 2022
When the government decides whether to give public funds to religious entities, that decision can raise constitutional questions under both of the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses. For many years,...
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Subsistence Uses of Resources in Alaska: An Overview of Federal Management
Reports · Apr 20, 2023
Certain federal statutes provide avenues for individuals to engage in subsistence uses of natural resources. The term subsistence uses or subsistence in federal statutes and regulations generally...
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Law Enforcement and Technology: Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Reports · Aug 22, 2023
Alongside growth in the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, for both commercial and recreational purposes, law enforcement agencies’ use of this technology has...
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Litigation Continues Over Use of Contract Pharmacies in 340B Drug Discount Program
Posts · May 23, 2024
The 340B Drug Discount Program enables eligible hospitals and other safety net providers to purchase outpatient prescription drugs at discounted prices. The Health Resources and Services...
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Defense Primer: Legal Authorities for the Use of Military Forces
InFocus · Dec 23, 2025
By the Framers’ apparent design, to keep the nation’s “purse” and the “sword” in separate hands and in other ways hinder the nation’s embroilment in unnecessary wars, the Constitution divides war...
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Could the Global Legal Entity Identifier Be Useful for Financial Transparency Legislation in the 116th Congress?
Resources · Oct 22, 2019
Overview The 116th Congress is examining legislation related to financial transparency. This has come in the form of bills—H.R. 2513, S. 2563, S. 1978, or S. 1889—that would mandate greater...
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Law Enforcement and Technology: Use of Automated License Plate Readers
Reports · Aug 19, 2024
Over the past couple of decades, law enforcement use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs; also referred to as LPRs) has increased. These tools are now relatively commonplace in policing....
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Federal Land Management: When “Multiple Use” and “Sustained Yield” Diverge
Posts · Jun 21, 2023
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) has provided the framework for federal management of public lands since 1976. Among other things, FLPMA instructs the Secretary of the Interior...
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.180, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the use of grant amounts for...
senate Judiciary Committee · May 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony PAUL, RAND
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"The witnesses' opening statements have been submitted for the record. We will now play a video that has been authenticated. The audio has been reduced except for the sound of the gunshoves at the end. We just would advise the audience not to be startled by the gunshoves Society grants the use of lethal force to various police agencies, but that grant is not carte blanche. That grant comes with serious conditions. The grant to use lethal force is so ominous, to use lethal force is so ominous,..."
Testimony HEINRICH, MARTIN
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"recognize that if we kept going down that path, we'd have no public lands left, which would mean most Americans would be locked out of the nation's open spaces. A few decades later, Congress passed FLIPMA and directed the BLM to keep public lands public and to manage public lands under the principles of multiple use and sustained yield. And to do that, it requires the BLM to periodically produce land use plans to guide its management decisions. Now, recognizing that multiple use doesn't and..."
Witness Mr. Lawerence Falbe
International Council of Shopping Centers Environmental and Land Use Policy Committee · 1 hearing
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2544, to permit State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies and grantees that receive eligible Federal grant...
senate Judiciary Committee · Feb 5, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.291, to establish an interest-bearing account for the non-Federal contributions to the Lower Colorado River...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Dec 17, 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 Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) affects permitting for energy,...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
HEINRICH, MARTIN "recognize that if we kept going down that path, we'd have no public lands left, which would mean most Americans would be locked out of the nation's open spaces. A few decades later, Congress passed FLIPMA and directed the BLM to keep public lands public and to manage public lands under the principles of multiple use and sustained yield. And to do that, it requires the BLM to periodically produce land use plans to guide its management decisions. Now, recognizing that multiple use doesn't and frankly can't mean every use on every acre, these land use plans ensure that all uses have some of..."
Testimony MR. KEITH KUPFERSCHMID
“Protecting U.S. Leadership in Codes Development and Enhancing Public ...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"is very significant. The AI issues you mentioned, I mean, that's obviously we're in agreement there. We hope the courts agree with what you just said as well and come out on that. But I mean, we're big supporters of fair use. There's nothing that's sort of categorically fair use one way or the other. So I think there certainly will be instances where using codes and standards will be fair use and other instances where it should not, certainly should not be fair use. Yeah, I agree with Mr."
Hearing Business meeting to markup S.737, to require certain interactive computer services to adopt and operate technology verification measures to ensure...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2544, to permit State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies and grantees that receive eligible Federal grant...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jan 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.342, to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize an individual who is awarded the Purple Heart for service in the...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Dec 10, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.90, to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to finalize and implement certain travel management plans...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Dec 2, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.29, to make daylight saving time permanent, S.191, to require the Secretary of Transportation to modify certain...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Apr 30, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing the Full Committee to consider the following: consider the following: 1) Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Reconciliation Committee Print providing for...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Apr 30, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artificial intelligence.
senate Children and Families Subcommittee · Jun 16, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_00 "The goal of our AI Assurance Lab is not to slow innovation, it is to ensure that innovation is worthy of the trust that students, families, and educators place in our schools. for evaluating AI tools before schools adopt them at scale. Delaware recently completed a statewide scan of AI use, and what we found was encouraging, but it reinforced the need for this independent review. Most AI use today is focused on helping educators with productivity and planning. That's a great data point. If we use AI and use it well, teachers can get time back and do the human work that only teachers can do...."
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 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_06 "2026, amends Title IV-A of the Every Student Succeeds Act to add artificial intelligence as an allowable use of student support and academic enrichment grants. It's curious because current law already allows Title IV-A funds to be used for artificial intelligence. Title IV-A has a wide variety of allowable uses that allow states and districts the flexibility they need to meet the needs of their communities. In fact, districts are already using Title IV-A funds to incorporate AI literacy into their schools. What states and districts actually need is clear federal guidance on how to safely and..."
Hearing “A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN "training. Licensing agreements need to flourish. They are beginning to happen. We need to make sure that creators, creators who create the stuff that we consume, are compensated, small creators too, not just large intermediaries, and we need to do that now. There's a lot of court cases pending, as Mr. Raskin said, fair use cases, but we also need to make sure that there are licensing and market-based solutions that make it fair for all of us. Thank you so much for giving me the time to hear. Thank you so much for asking me that question, Mr. Johnson. I want to start by saying we use the word..."
Testimony BARRASSO, JOHN
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"But what we've seen in Wyoming in the last decade has been a substantial increase in these designations. It seemed to me to limit use, to use these in ways to make non-use a use. And I just wonder if you could explain the increase in what we've seen in Wyoming in the last few years of this designation being used in a way that we never anticipated it being"
Testimony CASSIDY, BILL
Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Servic...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I will note that the Trump administration strongly opposes this provision. I acknowledge that members on both sides of the aisle may support the amendment, and I share the goal, having practiced medicine in a hospital for the uninsured and the uninsured that have affordable insulin. But I'll say the hospital where I practiced used 340B the way it was supposed to be used and actually gave the medicine for free to those who came in, and I would say that this amendment is giving cover for 340B..."
Testimony FINSTAD, BRAD
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"to meet the state of the times that we live in right now? What are some of the archaic systems that you've uncovered, and what steps have you all been taking? So you've talked about the different grant disbursement systems, and some were relying on emails. I mean, are we using spreadsheets? Are we using Excel, or are we using like modern-day drop-down box, easy-to-use software platforms? Thank you. I yield"
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Two billion. It would be used to hire officers, it would be used to train officers, it would be used to support officer wellness programs, it would be used to support resources for law enforcement such as body cameras, different things that they desperately need. Sure. So, I mean, talking specifically about immigration enforcement, like I said during my"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artific...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"The goal of our AI Assurance Lab is not to slow innovation, it is to ensure that innovation is worthy of the trust that students, families, and educators place in our schools. for evaluating AI tools before schools adopt them at scale. Delaware recently completed a statewide scan of AI use, and what we found was encouraging, but it reinforced the need for this independent review. Most AI use today is focused on helping educators with productivity and planning. That's a great data point. If we..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE BRIAN NESVIK
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"I would say that one of our focuses is, and if these ESA regulations are finalized, a provision will enable us to use basically the same criteria that you use, the five-factor analysis that we use to list a species will also be used to determine if a species should be delisted. Same exact process for both. And I think that is something that will help us with these species that I described that have reached recovery, but simply haven't had the investment to get them through the regulatory..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE BRIAN NESVIK
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"And I have spent a significant amount of my time in this profession working on dealing with trying to figure out how to solve that problem. I think the future of solving that problem lies in places we haven't gone before, using innovation and technology, using genomics, looking at opportunities for private investment to help us figure out how to use, you've probably heard of the idea of using YY, introduced all kinds of different species, it doesn't have to be carp, to deal with these problems,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Other studies in different drainages have shown similar but still significant return flows of 25 to 40%. Because of geography and climate, our portion of our water right is used as consumptive use to grow crops. A portion is used for beneficial use to maintain those riparian areas for livestock, wildlife, and"
Testimony MS. MARIA KORSNICK
Nuclear Permitting Reform: Legislation to Advance Efficient Licensing
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"and actually directly feed some of these fast reactors. It's a bit of a win-win. You're able to then fuel those reactors without using today's uranium supply, and it's actually using some of the used fuel. And so it's a nice way to close the fuel cycle, so to speak. You can also use recycled processes to feed our thermal reactors that we have today, but it's a little bit of a maybe more direct process to feed fast"
Testimony GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E.
Hearings to examine the posture of United States Northern Command and ...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 19, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I still have grave concerns about how the targeting was done, how the choice of the first Iran attack that hit a girl's school took place. And we need to have a bipartisan hearing, discussion, and legislation about the use of AI, whether it's used, when it's used, how it's used. We don't have any details about that strike, whether AI was used in"
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 · 2 transcript matches
MR. KEITH KUPFERSCHMID "is very significant. The AI issues you mentioned, I mean, that's obviously we're in agreement there. We hope the courts agree with what you just said as well and come out on that. But I mean, we're big supporters of fair use. There's nothing that's sort of categorically fair use one way or the other. So I think there certainly will be instances where using codes and standards will be fair use and other instances where it should not, certainly should not be fair use. Yeah, I agree with Mr."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE BRIAN NESVIK "I would say that one of our focuses is, and if these ESA regulations are finalized, a provision will enable us to use basically the same criteria that you use, the five-factor analysis that we use to list a species will also be used to determine if a species should be delisted. Same exact process for both. And I think that is something that will help us with these species that I described that have reached recovery, but simply haven't had the investment to get them through the regulatory process to get them"
Hearing Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, chatbots, and the new frontier of senior fraud.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCOTT, RICK "new tools to pursue their criminal schemes, and we must adapt and respond to these new threats. AI can be used to make fraudulent videos known as steepfakes, impersonating experts and celebrities to try to fraud our seniors in a variety of devious schemes. AI can also be used to clone someone's voice, a terrifying development that has been used in heartbreaking and evil ways to impersonate a loved one and deceive their family. AI has been made existing scams more effective and lowered the barrier to entry for criminals. What once required real coding skill can now be done by anyone with an AI..."
Hearing “AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_11 "For someone who is not familiar with AI, that seems like an ocean you get lost in. So it turns out AI is actually very good about teaching you about AI if you use it right. It's one of the interesting kind of components of the tool. The second is we hear a lot about prompt engineering and the need to be able to ask AI the right questions. In my opinion, what I've seen the most powerful use of AI, it's actually about context engineering. It's what you tell the AI before it gets started. And so educating business owners on how to use the context they're already sitting on, the customer data..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_07 "Even last week we were transitioning all turbines that were invested more than $58 million from the Department of Energy, and they were revamping in a few months and giving now more energy. Pickers, new unit pickers that are being converted on the island that were using oil and now are using gas, they're going to be installed from FEMA money, Tesla units from batteries across the island as well, six units that are going to be installed to the end of this year. So what we've been doing is changing the complete use of oil to a diversified basket of energy. Combined cycle, of course, LNG and..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_07 "Even last week we were transitioning all turbines that were invested more than $58 million from the Department of Energy, and they were revamping in a few months and giving now more energy. Pickers, new unit pickers that are being converted on the island that were using oil and now are using gas, they're going to be installed from FEMA money, Tesla units from batteries across the island as well, six units that are going to be installed to the end of this year. So what we've been doing is changing the complete use of oil to a diversified basket of energy. Combined cycle, of course, LNG and..."
Hearing Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting innovation, affordability and American dominance.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
ROUNDS, MIKE "You see, what we've got right now is in the United States, we've done everything we can on a bipartisan basis to make sure that the United States does not fall behind. If we don't do this correctly, A.I. will be used in the defense of our country, but it'll also be used by China in offensive operations. Today, in the United States, we use it in both offensive and defensive operations. We're better than our adversaries are right now. That saves"
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_42 "We have more people working. The result of that is less people on government programs. Glyphosate has been proven safe when used correctly both in the European Union, EU uses it, and in America when used correctly. I'm actually surprised on the Agriculture Committee, if we were to move away from glyphosate overnight we would completely destroy our food supply system in this country. So Secretary Kennedy and I, obviously we have to take a good look at"
Hearing "Building an AI-Ready America: Higher Education in the Age of AI"
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_08 "are expecting graduates to work with AI tools productively and responsibly within a specific professional domain. And this is also true. Most institutions of higher education are not preparing their graduates to meet that expectation. The response to AI on campus across the country has been fragmented and inconsistent. The gap between what higher education is producing and what the economy now requires is real, and it is growing, and it is a structural challenge. And I call this the proficiency dilemma, and it has two sides that are in tension. On one side, students are using AI constantly...."
Hearing “State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnership, and the Resilience of America’s Communities”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_05 "And so there are more vulnerabilities that could be exploited and can be exploited much more quickly than has happened in the past. Two, as state and local governments understandably and rightly use AI for more services, you know, provide chat bots through which constituents can interact with governments and, you know, use AI to help their own coding their own systems, that use of AI itself introduces new vulnerabilities because those AI systems have access to data about people and they themselves then become a potential conduit for potential attacks. And then the third point I'd make, which..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Energy.
senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
HOEVEN, JOHN "Will you commit to helping us continue to do that? Final point, talk about the importance of multiple use, multiple use, with good stewardship, but multiple use on public"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Treasury.
senate Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_04 "Will you commit to helping us continue to do that? Final point, talk about the importance of multiple use, multiple use, with good stewardship, but multiple use on public"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for the fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Energy.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
COTTON, TOM "people. Thank you. And on spec. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Wright. I couldn't agree more. I'll take the opportunity of this annual hearing as I do in the Armed Services Committee when we address this topic to address the critics who say, why do we spend so much money on weapons we never use? It's wrong on both accounts. We don't spend that much money on these weapons. It's a fairly small percentage of our overall budget to include the budget of the military or your department. We just happen to be spending money for the first time on modernization projects at higher levels and they're badly needed...."
Hearing Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_22 "we urge a principles-based approach that respects the specific risk profile and legal obligations of financial institutions. Any new limits on collection, use, or retention should allow banks to gather and use Deere, which is a company that is known for its ability to use information as necessary to provide requested products and services and for clearly disclosed purposes. If Congress is considering expanded individual rights, it is vital those rights be carefully tailored to the realities of"
Hearing Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversight
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_04 "That's what success looks like, and ultimately, the veteran can choose where he or she wants to receive his or her care. Representative, VA uses IDIQs and uses them in multiple areas and multiple spaces. This is the first time for a health care contract that VA is using this. This is used outside of our agency and other parts of government as well,"
Testimony ADAM CRAMER
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"public lands communities. And it helps attract workers and businesses across a range of industries because of the quality of life benefits it brings to local communities. Now, outdoor recreation may be these days the most economically significant and socially relevant use of our country's public lands, but it's not the only use. And BLM has a complicated job to implement its multi-use mandate, multi-use sustained yield mandate. This is a complex and consequential balancing act, and planning is..."
Testimony GREG SHEEHAN
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"Having lands open for any of these extractive uses still requires mining plans, still requires reclamation planning, still requires evaluation of multiple use—multiple resource uses, as well as Endangered Species Act, as well as National Historic Preservation Act, all of that. So I think when you have these open, there's still a lot of work ahead, but I don't know the exact specific details in the North Dakota plan, but certainly I'm a proponent of multiple use sustained yield that is the tenet..."
Testimony ISSA, DARRELL
“Protecting U.S. Leadership in Codes Development and Enhancing Public ...
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"If I had my way, and I could speak to Chief Justice Roberts, and he could speak to 677 district court judges, I would ask them to find fair use when somebody uses the information, wherever gleaned from, for purposes of compliance for themselves, and to, in fact, not consider it fair use when it is reprinted for a monetization or some other use other than the historic or truly educational uses that often happen, as Ms. Ross said. Now, I don't get to meet with the Chief Justice more than once a..."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artific...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"Teachers have their state standards and things that they're required to teach and content that must be learned by the end of a year, and as they're teaching, how can a tool be used to enhance the critical thinking that students are doing? So as they're creating work, as they're working together, as they're doing research, are these tools allowing them to personalize their learning to make it more related to their own background and their own interests and make the learning more meaningful for..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artific...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"by working together to understand the mental health aspects, the education aspects, and the in your approach to it. Okay. Ms. Mo. Thank you. Parents are fearful that their student's data is being used in a way that is not protected. And so the most important thing that educators can do is to actually say, this is what this tool is being used for. This is how I'm using it in my human centered relationship with your student and really address that fear straight on. EdSafe AI, Common Sense Media,..."
Testimony MR. VALJAY RIGBY
Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"know, small business technological act. And just being able to use it instead of for a brick and mortar, but if I can use it for some technology to access something that I don't, I'm not currently able to use, and just add one more tool to the many tools that I have, fill my toolbox"
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"new tools to pursue their criminal schemes, and we must adapt and respond to these new threats. AI can be used to make fraudulent videos known as steepfakes, impersonating experts and celebrities to try to fraud our seniors in a variety of devious schemes. AI can also be used to clone someone's voice, a terrifying development that has been used in heartbreaking and evil ways to impersonate a loved one and deceive their family. AI has been made existing scams more effective and lowered the..."
Testimony KELLY, MARK
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"And are you designing products with them in mind? And do you even know how many older adults are using your products? And if we want to make sure AI will help rather than harm, we need to know about, you know, who's using it, how they're using it, and how it reacts in the real world. So that's the purpose of my Bipartisan Aging with AI Act, which the chairman mentioned, which we introduced, Chairman Scott and I, in June. It will help us build the evidence we need by supporting research into how..."
Testimony MCBATH, LUCY
“Building an AI-Ready America: How AI Is Creating Opportunities Across...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 24, 2026
"For example, technologies might make it easier for bosses to monitor employee activity, or workers might be forced to use frustrating and clunky computer programs that they don't understand, but they're using them, trying to learn how to use them in order to get their jobs done. Can you speak about why it's important for management to consult with workers? You've touched upon it just briefly, but if you would expound upon that just a little bit more. It's important, as you said, for management..."
Testimony KEVIN RUPY
Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improvin...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"What I'm seeing in the industry right now is that these analytics providers are using AI. They're using AI to make those algorithms that they use to identify these calls more accurate. They're using AI to identify AI-generated calls. And, you know, at the end of the day, this is a bit of an arms"
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"there's a plan that she's got, a beef plan that's out there, but one of the things we're looking at is looking at vacant allotments, so allotments that historically have gone unused and the Forest Service has not made those available, so we're looking at what allotments can be made available to permittees to graze those allotments. We're also looking at AUM numbers across the landscape, where they've been reduced, where in many cases we have permitted use that is above where the actual use is..."
Testimony BURCHETT, TIM
“Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Re...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"telling, history is just an ongoing power struggle between oppressors and the oppressed. Only the oppressed are celebrated, especially illegal immigrants. The museum promotes educational curricula that recommends teachers to avoid using the terms illegal alien and illegal immigrant while instructing them how to use the terms gender fluidity and gender non-conforming. It hosts staff discussion groups on how museums can be used to foster social action against white privilege and heteropatriarchy...."
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
"2026, amends Title IV-A of the Every Student Succeeds Act to add artificial intelligence as an allowable use of student support and academic enrichment grants. It's curious because current law already allows Title IV-A funds to be used for artificial intelligence. Title IV-A has a wide variety of allowable uses that allow states and districts the flexibility they need to meet the needs of their communities. In fact, districts are already using Title IV-A funds to incorporate AI literacy into..."
Testimony KILEY, KEVIN
H.R. 8781, "Title IX Clarification Act of 2026"; H.R. 4986, "Parents O...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Yes, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be supporting today the K-12 AI Literacy and Readiness Act of 2026 because I think it will reinforce the work of our subcommittee, which has now held two hearings on the topic of the use of AI in schools, one focused on how it's being used to assist students and another on how teachers are using it to assist with their own lesson planning, instruction assessments, and so"
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
"students understand the risks and potential dangers of AI. I have concerns about, first of all, the attempt to specify a particular allowable use of IV-A funds, as this bill does, highlighting AI in this way does nothing to help states figure out the approach to AI and may inadvertently lead states and districts to believe that this is a preferred use of the funds over other allowable uses. Additionally, it's not lost that we sit here today as the Office of Education Technology at the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio),...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"We do these resource assessments over larger areas, and then the companies that are involved with either exploring for or extracting those resources, they use our maps, they use our reports, they use our data, and that helps them target their investigations for future work. I can maybe provide an initial"
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Three Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"the importation, and the production behind the fentanyl crisis. H.R. 5880, the Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act, requires people to identify tableting and encapsulating machines by serial number so that when the law enforcement sees a press, they can trace it. The bill mirrors the Biden Administration's detect and defeat counterfentanyl proposal, which called on Congress to establish a nationwide pill press and tableting machine registry so officials could track these machines and their illicit..."
Testimony MR. JORDAN BURRIS
“Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"we're in is unlike any other in the sense that AI is being used as an accelerator for what attacks that typically would take weeks to occur. And further, it's also becoming more cost effective for the adversary to launch those attacks. These attacks could be everything from launching deep fakes, things where we've seen an 8000% increase year over year. This can also be in terms of the velocity by which attacks are happening. This means the speed by which they are occurring. And in these..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
“AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"For someone who is not familiar with AI, that seems like an ocean you get lost in. So it turns out AI is actually very good about teaching you about AI if you use it right. It's one of the interesting kind of components of the tool. The second is we hear a lot about prompt engineering and the need to be able to ask AI the right questions. In my opinion, what I've seen the most powerful use of AI, it's actually about context engineering. It's what you tell the AI before it gets started. And so..."
Testimony MEUSER, DANIEL
“AI on Main Street: How AI is Shaping the Future of Small Business.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Mr. Crenshaw, I'd like to start with you, please. In business, I used to look at technology in the early 2000s as it's either a weapon that is used against you or a weapon that you use to benefit your company. AI certainly fits into that category and then"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN
Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I don't think that our budget includes a specific, you know, appropriation for AI. I think that, you know, this is a question that we're looking at very closely in terms of what our rules should be going forward, what the best practices in this area are in terms of how justices, how their clerks, how their assistants use AI and make sure that it's used appropriately, but not used on a where it's not where it's likely to create more dangers than than anything else. Okay, if you know that, you're..."
Testimony MR. CLARK PACKARD
U.S. Economic Security and Investment Abroad: Assessing Economic Secur...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"side, solidifying that piece, but also working to coordinate and bring allies in closer, right? If you go back to the 90s, Mexico was drifting in a very leftward way toward the failed socialism of Latin America. The Clinton administration made the wise decision to expand the U.S.-Canada FTA by bringing Mexico in as a way to push back against really troubling economics and policies that could have come right up against our border. So thinking about using trade in strategic ways like that, FTAs,..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE MICHAEL KOZAK
Hearings to examine the national security strategy and the western hem...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"It was pretty quick. We have used different, we've used UN organizations, OCHA and so on. We've used groups like Catholic Relief and Samaritan's Purse. We've got interagency agreements with the Department of War and with"
Testimony HUDSON, RICHARD
Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"I appreciate that answer and I think your track record on the BEAD program writ large it was excellent and so that at least in my case creates some trust that you will handle this appropriately and correctly but obviously we want to make sure these funds are used but to your point we want to make sure they're used correctly and effectively so they actually reach real people out there. So I appreciate the care with what you're using but we want to work with you to get this done as quickly as we..."
Testimony DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"training. Licensing agreements need to flourish. They are beginning to happen. We need to make sure that creators, creators who create the stuff that we consume, are compensated, small creators too, not just large intermediaries, and we need to do that now. There's a lot of court cases pending, as Mr. Raskin said, fair use cases, but we also need to make sure that there are licensing and market-based solutions that make it fair for all of us. Thank you so much for giving me the time to hear...."
Testimony DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"to license. They need to license the materials that they're using. As one does, it needs to, I think market-based solutions are the preferred solution because parties come to them. But we need to monitor what, in fact, they're doing. I think disclosure is a part I think disclosure is a part of that, but not the entire story. I think it's an important part of it, but most of all, I think we need to recognize that harm is being done to the markets, the actual and potential markets of copyright..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Well, thank you for that, Mr. Chairman. I'm going to have to get you a copy of some of my books. So, Professor Viswanathan, the Northern District Court in California held in Bartz v. Anthropic that the use of copyrighted works for AI training constitutes fair use. You just voiced your skepticism about thinking that it's just training. But according to the court, Anthropic is permitted to purchase a copy of a book and then use that work to train the model on language, writing, and story. Do you..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Yeah. The number one thing that we can do is establish a U.S. national robotics strategy. The bill before us today, the National Commission on Robotics Act, is a thoughtful, appropriate, and very useful step in doing that, in that it brings leaders of government, leaders of industry, and leaders of technology together to establish this national framework for a very important technology that is used not only in manufacturing, in commerce, but also in government as key dual-use technology. Thank..."
Testimony DR. DENNIS COATES
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And so essentially what you have is the law of unintended consequences, we do one good thing, and smart people figure out how to undo it to their advantage. So the bottom line was, to fund the stadiums through these tax-exempt bonds, they came up with alternative schemes, things like using lottery revenues, using hotel and rental car taxes, using taxes on tobacco and alcohol, and a variety of other schemes, including something called a pilot, payment in lieu of taxes, in order to come up with..."
Testimony SEWELL, TERRI A.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “The Congres...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 25, 2026
"not just within serving us, but with other parliamentaries. So that's a great thing. Now, I wanted to know what you see as the future use of AI. You talked a lot about the study, and only 3% was accurate. But are there, I mean, AI is improving daily, and there are so many different language, you know, models that are being tested. And so my question is, what do you see as the future use? And then what is the best use currently of AI? If not in analytics, is it in those graphics, or is it, just..."
Testimony FINE, RANDY
H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Pro...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"See, when you pass the right bills, you can solve the problem. We have seven years of experience with this piece of legislation, seven years of it being used in K-12 education, seven years of it being used with our 12 state universities, seven years of experience of it being used in our 28 state colleges. And with that seven years of experience, we have largely eradicated the"
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"multiplier. These autonomous towers do allow us to have capabilities that we didn't have in the past, but they've also changed since we first deployed them last year. We're currently going through new testing, new requirements that we see that was holes and laps in the systems, and also greatly taking the input of the individuals that patrol the area and where we need to be paying attention to. Some of those areas, it doesn't make any sense because they have too much traffic. So when you see..."
Testimony SPEAKER_24
Future of Payments: Promoting Innovation and Fair Markets
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Sure. So, as I've said, banks welcome competition and banks want to innovate within the banking sector. And for many years previously, some of the banking regulators were skeptical and prevented banks from using innovative technology to provide services to their customers that they wanted to use. For example, banks were essentially prohibited for several years from experimenting and using distributed ledger technology. So we welcome the ability of banks in the banking sector to innovate, of..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"not only for this system that was used by Homeland Security, but some guidelines and protocols to be used for other systems that the Department of Defense rightly uses for other agencies, but to make sure the Department of Defense isn't being overcharged or that we overcharge another agency that's using these systems. And for those reasons alone, I support this amendment. And I would ask the members to think about doing the same"
Testimony MARKEY, EDWARD J.
Hearings to examine 250 years of Main Street, focusing on retail to re...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"on in our country right now. And when he sends out this signal that it's just so anti-immigrant, these people are going to go to other parts of the world. They're just not going to feel welcome here. So I understand, Dr. Abadi, that your company used SBA's Small Business Development Center in Delaware to help develop its growth strategy. There are countless other immigrant-owned businesses that have used the SBDC program to grow and have used SBA lending programs to get capital. So if the Trump..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"Even last week we were transitioning all turbines that were invested more than $58 million from the Department of Energy, and they were revamping in a few months and giving now more energy. Pickers, new unit pickers that are being converted on the island that were using oil and now are using gas, they're going to be installed from FEMA money, Tesla units from batteries across the island as well, six units that are going to be installed to the end of this year. So what we've been doing is..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"So with us in Guam, this cost of high, it's about $4,000 just to go from Guam to California and back. To Hawaii, it's about $2,000, $3,000. And so if the Cabotage Law was exempted from us, we could use Philippine Airlines, we could use China Airlines, we could use Korean Airlines that can fly to Guam, pick up passengers and go on to the United States. So you ask what Congress can do if you could review this Cabotage Law and just give us an exemption or a waiver to be able to have the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States ...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"Even last week we were transitioning all turbines that were invested more than $58 million from the Department of Energy, and they were revamping in a few months and giving now more energy. Pickers, new unit pickers that are being converted on the island that were using oil and now are using gas, they're going to be installed from FEMA money, Tesla units from batteries across the island as well, six units that are going to be installed to the end of this year. So what we've been doing is..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States ...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"So with us in Guam, this cost of high, it's about $4,000 just to go from Guam to California and back. To Hawaii, it's about $2,000, $3,000. And so if the Cabotage Law was exempted from us, we could use Philippine Airlines, we could use China Airlines, we could use Korean Airlines that can fly to Guam, pick up passengers and go on to the United States. So you ask what Congress can do if you could review this Cabotage Law and just give us an exemption or a waiver to be able to have the..."
Testimony ROUNDS, MIKE
Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting i...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026
"You see, what we've got right now is in the United States, we've done everything we can on a bipartisan basis to make sure that the United States does not fall behind. If we don't do this correctly, A.I. will be used in the defense of our country, but it'll also be used by China in offensive operations. Today, in the United States, we use it in both offensive and defensive operations. We're better than our adversaries are right now. That saves"
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting i...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026
"I would agree with that, and I think that the community should be Yeah, I'm so glad that you brought this into the conversation because it's one of the things that the public sort of directly is interfacing with AI systems, but the kind of AI that is more used on us rather than by us, right? It's AI that's used to set the price of rent or to determine what the cost of somebody's mortgage is going to be and in those uses we see a few particular effects. One is that these systems have a tendency..."
Testimony SPEAKER_03
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"department or agency on any subject based on anything that could have been initiated as of the date of the settlement, known or unknown. The so-called settlement came after a federal judge ordered briefing on whether there was actual adversity between the parties, a constitutional requirement for a lawsuit. This one-sided use of prosecutorial power extends to the president's National Security Presidential Memorandum 7. Using the domestic terrorism label, it mandates that federal government,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_42
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"We have more people working. The result of that is less people on government programs. Glyphosate has been proven safe when used correctly both in the European Union, EU uses it, and in America when used correctly. I'm actually surprised on the Agriculture Committee, if we were to move away from glyphosate overnight we would completely destroy our food supply system in this country. So Secretary Kennedy and I, obviously we have to take a good look at"
Testimony PINGREE, CHELLIE
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"And I'll copy you on that, just because I think it's really important. When you said, I heard you talking to McGovern earlier today, and you said glyphosate is safe if it's used as directed, well, one of the concerns people have is how many places it's turning up. And so one of the questions we're asking is if there's widespread use of it in the Forest Service now, which happens in my state and many other states, is it being used properly? Are we looking at the runoff? Are we looking at the..."
Testimony MR. SAM MATHENY
Where Are We?: Examining Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilit...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"operational, and we believe that BPS can be a major contributor to our response in weather emergencies. Vice Chairman Allen. So what we have learned is that the energy grid uses precision timing in a variety of ways. It uses it to time align the energy so it can actually flow across the grid and get to its destination, and it's also used in fault tolerance monitoring. Power lines are really long. If there is an issue somewhere, you need to be able to deploy that crew exactly to where the fault..."
Testimony LOFGREN, ZOE
“Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"So just to be clear, the bill that we're we've sponsored does not allow a generic to market a patented use, correct? Exactly. It does not erase valid patents on new uses of medicine, correct? So I think that the practical effect is straightforward. It follows the FDA approved label leaves the patented use out, doesn't promote the patented use, and it can reach patients sooner that are for uses that are no longer under patent. It seems to me that reducing the cost of pharmaceuticals for..."
Testimony SPEAKER_08
"Building an AI-Ready America: Higher Education in the Age of AI"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"are expecting graduates to work with AI tools productively and responsibly within a specific professional domain. And this is also true. Most institutions of higher education are not preparing their graduates to meet that expectation. The response to AI on campus across the country has been fragmented and inconsistent. The gap between what higher education is producing and what the economy now requires is real, and it is growing, and it is a structural challenge. And I call this the proficiency..."
Testimony HARRIS, MARK
"Building an AI-Ready America: Higher Education in the Age of AI"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"And Mr. Chairman, I appreciate you calling this hearing. You know, over the last several years, we've seen a dramatic increase, obviously, in the use of AI programs. And this increase has been apparent in academic settings from K-12 institutions to secondary schools, to colleges and universities. And while many students have used AI to complete coursework, there has been a need across the workforce for students to have more of an in-depth knowledge of how to use AI technology in professional..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
“Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in ...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"because the administration has no authority to take that out or any of the agencies. So one thing that could be done is a systematic review of the statutory requirements and regulation with a very simple question. Is this doing more good than harm, right? Because some of those—there used to be a regulation that said you had to use dollar coins in every vending machine on a base. That was ultimately repealed because of something that Congress did, or there was a requirement you had to use..."
Testimony SPEAKER_45
Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America Fi...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"contingencies. And we had a contingency, and we had countries in NATO that said, no, you can't use our bases, particularly Spain. Now, I want to be fair, there were other countries that have been extraordinarily cooperative in what they've helped us to do, some publicly and some privately. But I think the president's irritation with NATO is that in a time of conflict and crisis where the United States had a need, you had members of this alliance who are constantly asking us to get involved in..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"And so there are more vulnerabilities that could be exploited and can be exploited much more quickly than has happened in the past. Two, as state and local governments understandably and rightly use AI for more services, you know, provide chat bots through which constituents can interact with governments and, you know, use AI to help their own coding their own systems, that use of AI itself introduces new vulnerabilities because those AI systems have access to data about people and they..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
“State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnershi...
house Homeland Security Committee · May 21, 2026
"So when a ransomware attack happens, you're also breached at the same time. You can count on that. And the terrible thing about that is that information is not just used as leverage for some sort of payout, but it's also used in subsequent attacks. So they use that information to be able to do fraud against people and affecting their lives. They use that to try to break into other people's accounts, and they use that just to formulate enough information to build a future attack. So not only..."
Testimony VELÁZQUEZ, NYDIA M.
Various Measures
house Small Business Committee · May 20, 2026
"I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 826 as amended, and I yield back. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank Representatives Simon and Bresnahan for their leadership on this important issue. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 99 percent of small businesses use at least one technology platform, with most using at least four. Yet only a quarter of small businesses use cybersecurity and malware detection tools. That is because small businesses lack the time, skills, and resources to adopt..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ADAM TELLE
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · May 20, 2026
"Sometimes the Corps says, we need more money to actually do the project. So the goal that we have about putting that $46 billion to use for its intended purpose, or if it can't be used for its intended purpose, maybe putting it to use in a state like Louisiana. That's right,"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Hearings to examine S.749, to amend title 38, United States Code, to e...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Typically wages will go about 77% up over the course of that veteran's career. The reduction in entitlement, since it's currently prorated, they're going to use more of their entitlement. We don't know if veterans are not using GI Bill because they want to preserve their entitlement so that they can still maybe go to college later or because they've transferred it to a dependent like a spouse or children and maybe they want it used in that manner. The other pieces of the bill, it doesn't..."
Testimony VEASEY, MARC A.
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"in scientific consensus. Let's take the dyes, for example. These synthetic food dyes and additives have been a part of the American food chain for decades now. And some food dyes have been shown to pose risk, while others simply have not. That's why it's so important that we follow the science and where it leads us. And people are oftentimes comparing the U.S. to Europe, and the difference isn't always about the science itself, but about the system. Here in the U.S., we use a different system...."
Testimony THE HONORABLE HOWARD LUTNICK
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"I hope to be considered the greatest friend of the lobstermen who are a great asset, and you know I think that they are a great asset to our country. I had the pleasure when I was last over in the United Kingdom of going out and having them serve us Maine lobster in the United Kingdom because it was important because we opened that market. It had never been done before, so this was opening that market for our great lobster fishermen. We promise you that we will use the best data and the most..."
Testimony HOEVEN, JOHN
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"Will you commit to helping us continue to do that? Final point, talk about the importance of multiple use, multiple use, with good stewardship, but multiple use on public"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"BOEM, BSEE, and what was called Honor which is the Office of Natural Resource Revenue or Ocean Resource Revenue and in this proposal BOEM and BSEE you know which currently share offices and they you know they go out they inspect on the same platforms they work with the same issues they're following the same regulations but we've kept the revenue portion separately with the organization abbreviated Honor so Honor is not part of the marine management proposal for unification but the group that..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"Will you commit to helping us continue to do that? Final point, talk about the importance of multiple use, multiple use, with good stewardship, but multiple use on public"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"about that piece. Well we share and respect your concern and that's why that when it was broken up it was actually broken into three organizations. It was BOEM, BSEE and what was called honor which is the office of the natural resource revenue or ocean resource revenue and in this proposal BOEM and BSEE you know which currently share offices and they you know they go out they inspect on the same platforms they work with the same issues they're following the same regulations but we've kept the..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH
Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be ...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"I think the data that's being used to judge inflation is quite imperfect data. And among the projects that the economics profession, and if I'm confirmed as chairman of the Fed, the Fed needs to do is to try to use our new understanding and new data sources to see what's really the inflation rate in the economy. We used to use core PCE core measures so we'd exclude food and energy because it was sort of a rough swag as to what was going on. We don't have to do a rough swag anymore. What I'm..."
Testimony COTTON, TOM
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for the fi...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"people. Thank you. And on spec. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Wright. I couldn't agree more. I'll take the opportunity of this annual hearing as I do in the Armed Services Committee when we address this topic to address the critics who say, why do we spend so much money on weapons we never use? It's wrong on both accounts. We don't spend that much money on these weapons. It's a fairly small percentage of our overall budget to include the budget of the military or your department. We just happen to be..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for the fi...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"And this critical minerals offshoring to China and elsewhere has gone on for decades. That crisis, I think, has hit everyone in the face and we're moving as quickly as we can to bring things back into the United States with business partners that have economics that work and can move quickly. Very excited about extracting lithium from brines from the smack over formation. We get almost none of the lithium we use today from in this country. And it's a critical metal we use in batteries, we use..."
Testimony LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOHN HEALY
Budget Hearing – National Guard and Reserve Forces
house Appropriations Committee · Apr 17, 2026
"But in addition to that, we've also got double that in our expected overseas normal rotational bases as well. So we're fully vested in all the cargo, air refueling, intel, command and control. I'd classify the impact that we're going to have, depending on the length of this, will be in the form of, you know, the standard for a reservist or a guardsman is a week and a month and two weeks a year. Well, that money that we typically use for that is not going to get used because they're being used..."
Testimony STEPHEN WHITING
Hearings to examine the posture of the United States Space Command and...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"Because the satellites we have on orbit today, we're going to rely on those for years and years if not decades to come. And we can't shift them out of a band that might be using the bands that we just talked about. Including, I would also say that's true for our ground-based radars that use those bands as well. So we have to figure out how to be able to continue to use our legacy systems that we're going to have to rely on for years to come. Senator, I think you well noted there the importance..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE JOHN SQUIRES
“Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"It comes from the combination of 35 U.S.C. 3 and 35 U.S.C. 2 under the Lanham Act and in your as the entity gets booted up to act as custodian in a very narrow capacity with a bona fide intent to use the name, and then it's a tend to use application. Who has the bona fide intent to use it? The USPTO. The USPTO? What are you going to do with it? In the very limited services that we define there, which is fraud, prevention, misuse. But is that a service you offer to all American file the..."
Testimony ROSEN, JACKY
Hearings to examine arms control and transforming international securi...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 24, 2026
"My concern— About the need for a visual— Of course. Besides a ground cratering in. And we have made millions of billions of dollars of investments in radiographic and other technology using math, using physics, using science to be sure that we ensure the integrity of our nuclear arsenal. We have been very specific in"
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Hearings to examine challenges and opportunities with implementing the...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"The Golden State is moving beyond the dichotomy of choosing between infrastructure development and environmental protection and showing that you can do both with smart policy. California uses habitat conservation planning to cover whole regions with a strategy to protect species, and the state can use that plan to clear projects within the planned area instead of going through individual review. California also uses a tool called consistency determination, where the state can approve a project..."
Testimony MS. MANDY DROGIN
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"So, the data actually tells us when we're hearing numbers of a couple of thousand, that's completely inaccurate. Even if we're using a left-leaning pro-immigration organization that ranking member Scanlon quoted, FWD.US, they say that in Texas alone, there's at least 111,000 students. So, this obviously is billions of dollars. We can look at the data and see since 2015 with the unaccompanied minors that have been released, if we use the TEA PEIMS data that tells us how much we're spending, it's..."
Testimony SPEAKER_22
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"we urge a principles-based approach that respects the specific risk profile and legal obligations of financial institutions. Any new limits on collection, use, or retention should allow banks to gather and use Deere, which is a company that is known for its ability to use information as necessary to provide requested products and services and for clearly disclosed purposes. If Congress is considering expanded individual rights, it is vital those rights be carefully tailored to the realities of..."
Testimony SPEAKER_23
Updating America’s Financial Privacy Framework for the 21st Century
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"democratic values. That's the second pillar. So it can't be extractive, it can't take intellectual property without compensation, it can't manipulate us without some kind of public awareness or interpersonal awareness, and it has to be safe to use for consumers. That's the AI psychosis and other problems. The third pillar that we have is investment, which means that we need to bring everybody up to a place where they can use these tools, where they have a voice in the political process that..."
Testimony DR. KEITH E. GUNUSKEY
“Career and Technical Education: Developing the Future of Main Street ...
house Small Business Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"is also a very big challenge that we face. So the Perkins funding is there. We do not use Perkins for transportation. We use the Title I funding, yes, and we can use it for really classroom supports, aids that we may have teachers in our classrooms to support reading and math work as well. Special education with IDEA is huge, as many of our students require teacher assistants to be with them to help with their instruction. Special education teachers to help process and modify curriculum so that..."
Testimony HENRY WILDE
Hearings to examine preventing fraud in child care assistance programs...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"second and third shift care. The second thing we did was to use data in ways that hadn't been used before, using data in existing systems to identify patterns that suggested that there could be fraud at"
Testimony REED, JACK
Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the De...
senate Appropriations Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"And Congress is requiring NVIDIA to self-certify that the H200 chips sold to China are not for military or intelligence end use. Well, how will you, at the Department of Commerce, track the final end use of these chips to ensure that they're not used for military or intelligence uses? And how will you enforce these"
Testimony SUOZZI, THOMAS R.
Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beij...
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"So we have got to recognize this is not Democrats versus Republicans. This is America, the United States of America, against our foreign adversaries that are trying to get us to divide each other. And we need people like yourselves to work together across party lines, the same as we need in our committee to work across party lines, to work to defeat our foreign adversaries that are using our freedom, that are using our social media, that are using our not-for-profits to try and divide us in our..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"That's what success looks like, and ultimately, the veteran can choose where he or she wants to receive his or her care. Representative, VA uses IDIQs and uses them in multiple areas and multiple spaces. This is the first time for a health care contract that VA is using this. This is used outside of our agency and other parts of government as well,"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"Yeah, well, I think it's going to be critical to expand the pool of people that can treat veterans. You know, it's always seemed crazy to me, and I've used the VA in my life, and I'm also a military reservist, so I also have access to TRICARE, so I've had multiple different kinds of insurance, and I've used them all over the country, and it always seemed crazy to me that I was not able to necessarily go to the same doctor that the rest of my family used. I think that if you can expand the pool..."
Testimony BURCHETT, TIM
“Curbing Federal Fraud: Examining Innovative Tools to Detect and Preve...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 13, 2026
"We're good. Go ahead, ma'am. Thank you. I'm out of time, but, Mr. Chairman, I think one of the things that we should, these good folks here do great work, and I think they're getting used just a little bit by the fact that we have too many staffers that really these committees are just large, there's no way that it can be monitored, and I think that they are figuratively in bed with some of the lobbyists, and I believe they're used, they use these folks to do, say, we're going to do a report on..."
Testimony DONALDS, BYRON
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"sure that fraud could not be caught. Is that correct? Well, they wanted to keep the standard to be disqualified from wasting taxpayer funds. Is that correct? Absolutely. Okay. Ms. Robins, I want to stay with you. I want to talk about use of funds. You have talked about some of these funds were used to buy property in Kenya. Yes, sir. Property in Turkey. Do I have that correct? Yes. Remittances back to Somalia. Yes. I think it is important for the committee to understand that these remittances,..."
Testimony RISCH, JAMES E.
Hearings to examine arms race.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Dec 10, 2025
"strategic bombers is nearing full modernization. For years, Russia has consistently failed to comply with nuclear agreements and instead uses arms control talks to constrain U.S. policy towards Russia and pursue concessions on issues far beyond just nuclear weapons. It used this strategy successfully on President Obama with New START. It used it on Biden in the Strategic Stability Dialogue in the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And Russia tried and failed to pull the same tricks on the..."
Testimony RISCH, JAMES E.
Hearings to examine maritime security in Africa, focusing on assessing...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Dec 10, 2025
"strategic bombers is nearing full modernization. For years, Russia has consistently failed to comply with nuclear agreements and instead uses arms control talks to constrain U.S. policy towards Russia and pursue concessions on issues far beyond just nuclear weapons. It used this strategy successfully on President Obama with New START. It used it on Biden in the Strategic Stability Dialogue in the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And Russia tried and failed to pull the same tricks on the..."
Testimony MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER
“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"Yeah, I mean, we now know what happened, which is that basically after the war on terror, the United States used counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, counterpopulism tactics, first in the Middle East as part of the Arab Spring uprisings, then in Eastern Europe as part of the dollar revolutions, using social media to foment revolutions against places that we wanted regime change, and then using censorship in places to repress conflicting opinion in places that we were trying to stabilize. Those..."
Testimony HOULAHAN, CHRISSY
Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environmen...
house Armed Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"your ability to understand and know something is based on how long you've been there and what you know. And I guess what I'm asking, sir, I don't disagree with you. I am a businessperson and did serve in the military, but we cannot possibly expect 20 to 40 people to go through our data, our sensitive Department of Defense data, and have any way of explaining to the American people what is waste and what is fraud with any sort of accuracy. And if it's okay, I'm going to move on to my next..."
Hearing An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript
PAUL, RAND "The witnesses' opening statements have been submitted for the record. We will now play a video that has been authenticated. The audio has been reduced except for the sound of the gunshoves at the end. We just would advise the audience not to be startled by the gunshoves Society grants the use of lethal force to various police agencies, but that grant is not carte blanche. That grant comes with serious conditions. The grant to use lethal force is so ominous, to use lethal force is so ominous, that society only allows such force to be used in rare occasions. Today we explore the rules of..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for hospital and insurer price transparency, S.4189, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
CASSIDY, BILL "I will note that the Trump administration strongly opposes this provision. I acknowledge that members on both sides of the aisle may support the amendment, and I share the goal, having practiced medicine in a hospital for the uninsured and the uninsured that have affordable insulin. But I'll say the hospital where I practiced used 340B the way it was supposed to be used and actually gave the medicine for free to those who came in, and I would say that this amendment is giving cover for 340B entities which is not using the program the way that we intended it to. They're using it as a money..."
Hearing “Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
FINSTAD, BRAD "to meet the state of the times that we live in right now? What are some of the archaic systems that you've uncovered, and what steps have you all been taking? So you've talked about the different grant disbursement systems, and some were relying on emails. I mean, are we using spreadsheets? Are we using Excel, or are we using like modern-day drop-down box, easy-to-use software platforms? Thank you. I yield"
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
MS. SARAH PIERCE "Two billion. It would be used to hire officers, it would be used to train officers, it would be used to support officer wellness programs, it would be used to support resources for law enforcement such as body cameras, different things that they desperately need. Sure. So, I mean, talking specifically about immigration enforcement, like I said during my"
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including post-2026 operations negotiations.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "Other studies in different drainages have shown similar but still significant return flows of 25 to 40%. Because of geography and climate, our portion of our water right is used as consumptive use to grow crops. A portion is used for beneficial use to maintain those riparian areas for livestock, wildlife, and"
Hearing Nuclear Permitting Reform: Legislation to Advance Efficient Licensing
house Energy Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
MS. MARIA KORSNICK "and actually directly feed some of these fast reactors. It's a bit of a win-win. You're able to then fuel those reactors without using today's uranium supply, and it's actually using some of the used fuel. And so it's a nice way to close the fuel cycle, so to speak. You can also use recycled processes to feed our thermal reactors that we have today, but it's a little bit of a maybe more direct process to feed fast"
Hearing Hearings to examine the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 19, 2026 · Transcript
GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I still have grave concerns about how the targeting was done, how the choice of the first Iran attack that hit a girl's school took place. And we need to have a bipartisan hearing, discussion, and legislation about the use of AI, whether it's used, when it's used, how it's used. We don't have any details about that strike, whether AI was used in"
Hearing Hearings to examine the next 250, focusing on small businesses leading the way.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
MR. VALJAY RIGBY "know, small business technological act. And just being able to use it instead of for a brick and mortar, but if I can use it for some technology to access something that I don't, I'm not currently able to use, and just add one more tool to the many tools that I have, fill my toolbox"
Hearing “Building an AI-Ready America: How AI Is Creating Opportunities Across America's Workforce”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 24, 2026 · Transcript
MCBATH, LUCY "For example, technologies might make it easier for bosses to monitor employee activity, or workers might be forced to use frustrating and clunky computer programs that they don't understand, but they're using them, trying to learn how to use them in order to get their jobs done. Can you speak about why it's important for management to consult with workers? You've touched upon it just briefly, but if you would expound upon that just a little bit more. It's important, as you said, for management to consult with workers before adopting this new technology. Okay. Thank you. One more question for..."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
KEVIN RUPY "What I'm seeing in the industry right now is that these analytics providers are using AI. They're using AI to make those algorithms that they use to identify these calls more accurate. They're using AI to identify AI-generated calls. And, you know, at the end of the day, this is a bit of an arms"
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. Forest Service"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
TOM SCHULTZ "there's a plan that she's got, a beef plan that's out there, but one of the things we're looking at is looking at vacant allotments, so allotments that historically have gone unused and the Forest Service has not made those available, so we're looking at what allotments can be made available to permittees to graze those allotments. We're also looking at AUM numbers across the landscape, where they've been reduced, where in many cases we have permitted use that is above where the actual use is occurring. We're trying to look at those differences, what caused those changes, and then where we..."
Hearing “Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
BURCHETT, TIM "telling, history is just an ongoing power struggle between oppressors and the oppressed. Only the oppressed are celebrated, especially illegal immigrants. The museum promotes educational curricula that recommends teachers to avoid using the terms illegal alien and illegal immigrant while instructing them how to use the terms gender fluidity and gender non-conforming. It hosts staff discussion groups on how museums can be used to foster social action against white privilege and heteropatriarchy. A museum display even accuses Mickey Mouse of having racist origins. The many examples of..."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio), “Expanding the Fast Track Act of 2026.’’ • H.R. 9640 (Rep. Wittman), “Earth...
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "We do these resource assessments over larger areas, and then the companies that are involved with either exploring for or extracting those resources, they use our maps, they use our reports, they use our data, and that helps them target their investigations for future work. I can maybe provide an initial"
Hearing Three Pieces of Legislation
house Health Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "the importation, and the production behind the fentanyl crisis. H.R. 5880, the Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act, requires people to identify tableting and encapsulating machines by serial number so that when the law enforcement sees a press, they can trace it. The bill mirrors the Biden Administration's detect and defeat counterfentanyl proposal, which called on Congress to establish a nationwide pill press and tableting machine registry so officials could track these machines and their illicit use. While I support the intent of this bill, I do have some concerns that it will tag unwitting..."
Hearing “Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
MR. JORDAN BURRIS "we're in is unlike any other in the sense that AI is being used as an accelerator for what attacks that typically would take weeks to occur. And further, it's also becoming more cost effective for the adversary to launch those attacks. These attacks could be everything from launching deep fakes, things where we've seen an 8000% increase year over year. This can also be in terms of the velocity by which attacks are happening. This means the speed by which they are occurring. And in these instances, these moments, we are seeing things that were attacks used to take weeks in order to be..."
Hearing Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN "I don't think that our budget includes a specific, you know, appropriation for AI. I think that, you know, this is a question that we're looking at very closely in terms of what our rules should be going forward, what the best practices in this area are in terms of how justices, how their clerks, how their assistants use AI and make sure that it's used appropriately, but not used on a where it's not where it's likely to create more dangers than than anything else. Okay, if you know that, you're better than I"
Hearing U.S. Economic Security and Investment Abroad: Assessing Economic Security Zones
house Oversight and Intelligence Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
MR. CLARK PACKARD "side, solidifying that piece, but also working to coordinate and bring allies in closer, right? If you go back to the 90s, Mexico was drifting in a very leftward way toward the failed socialism of Latin America. The Clinton administration made the wise decision to expand the U.S.-Canada FTA by bringing Mexico in as a way to push back against really troubling economics and policies that could have come right up against our border. So thinking about using trade in strategic ways like that, FTAs, using them, you know, all kinds of tools, but definitely using FTAs to kind of push these things..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the national security strategy and the western hemisphere.
senate Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE MICHAEL KOZAK "It was pretty quick. We have used different, we've used UN organizations, OCHA and so on. We've used groups like Catholic Relief and Samaritan's Purse. We've got interagency agreements with the Department of War and with"
Hearing Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
HUDSON, RICHARD "I appreciate that answer and I think your track record on the BEAD program writ large it was excellent and so that at least in my case creates some trust that you will handle this appropriately and correctly but obviously we want to make sure these funds are used but to your point we want to make sure they're used correctly and effectively so they actually reach real people out there. So I appreciate the care with what you're using but we want to work with you to get this done as quickly as we can. You and I have talked"
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 "Yeah. The number one thing that we can do is establish a U.S. national robotics strategy. The bill before us today, the National Commission on Robotics Act, is a thoughtful, appropriate, and very useful step in doing that, in that it brings leaders of government, leaders of industry, and leaders of technology together to establish this national framework for a very important technology that is used not only in manufacturing, in commerce, but also in government as key dual-use technology. Thank you, Congressman"
Hearing Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Federal Tax Policy in the Multibillion-Dollar Industry
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
DR. DENNIS COATES "And so essentially what you have is the law of unintended consequences, we do one good thing, and smart people figure out how to undo it to their advantage. So the bottom line was, to fund the stadiums through these tax-exempt bonds, they came up with alternative schemes, things like using lottery revenues, using hotel and rental car taxes, using taxes on tobacco and alcohol, and a variety of other schemes, including something called a pilot, payment in lieu of taxes, in order to come up with the revenues to pay off these bonds. I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch the"
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “The Congressional Research Service and the Future of AI-Enabled Policy Analysis”
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SEWELL, TERRI A. "not just within serving us, but with other parliamentaries. So that's a great thing. Now, I wanted to know what you see as the future use of AI. You talked a lot about the study, and only 3% was accurate. But are there, I mean, AI is improving daily, and there are so many different language, you know, models that are being tested. And so my question is, what do you see as the future use? And then what is the best use currently of AI? If not in analytics, is it in those graphics, or is it, just explain a little bit more if you don't"
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
FINE, RANDY "See, when you pass the right bills, you can solve the problem. We have seven years of experience with this piece of legislation, seven years of it being used in K-12 education, seven years of it being used with our 12 state universities, seven years of experience of it being used in our 28 state colleges. And with that seven years of experience, we have largely eradicated the"
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_13 "multiplier. These autonomous towers do allow us to have capabilities that we didn't have in the past, but they've also changed since we first deployed them last year. We're currently going through new testing, new requirements that we see that was holes and laps in the systems, and also greatly taking the input of the individuals that patrol the area and where we need to be paying attention to. Some of those areas, it doesn't make any sense because they have too much traffic. So when you see it, you don't have time to react. Sometimes proximity to a road that we had put it there, and we're..."
Hearing Future of Payments: Promoting Innovation and Fair Markets
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_24 "Sure. So, as I've said, banks welcome competition and banks want to innovate within the banking sector. And for many years previously, some of the banking regulators were skeptical and prevented banks from using innovative technology to provide services to their customers that they wanted to use. For example, banks were essentially prohibited for several years from experimenting and using distributed ledger technology. So we welcome the ability of banks in the banking sector to innovate, of course, subject to them being able to demonstrate that they're able to manage the risks, and banks are..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "not only for this system that was used by Homeland Security, but some guidelines and protocols to be used for other systems that the Department of Defense rightly uses for other agencies, but to make sure the Department of Defense isn't being overcharged or that we overcharge another agency that's using these systems. And for those reasons alone, I support this amendment. And I would ask the members to think about doing the same"
Hearing Hearings to examine 250 years of Main Street, focusing on retail to research.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
MARKEY, EDWARD J. "on in our country right now. And when he sends out this signal that it's just so anti-immigrant, these people are going to go to other parts of the world. They're just not going to feel welcome here. So I understand, Dr. Abadi, that your company used SBA's Small Business Development Center in Delaware to help develop its growth strategy. There are countless other immigrant-owned businesses that have used the SBDC program to grow and have used SBA lending programs to get capital. So if the Trump administration shuts off small business resources to immigrants, how will this affect our..."
Hearing “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_03 "department or agency on any subject based on anything that could have been initiated as of the date of the settlement, known or unknown. The so-called settlement came after a federal judge ordered briefing on whether there was actual adversity between the parties, a constitutional requirement for a lawsuit. This one-sided use of prosecutorial power extends to the president's National Security Presidential Memorandum 7. Using the domestic terrorism label, it mandates that federal government, including the DOJ, use every tool in its toolbox to target groups with ideologies this administration..."
Hearing Where Are We?: Examining Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilities in the United States
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MR. SAM MATHENY "operational, and we believe that BPS can be a major contributor to our response in weather emergencies. Vice Chairman Allen. So what we have learned is that the energy grid uses precision timing in a variety of ways. It uses it to time align the energy so it can actually flow across the grid and get to its destination, and it's also used in fault tolerance monitoring. Power lines are really long. If there is an issue somewhere, you need to be able to deploy that crew exactly to where the fault is, and that is one of the ways that precision time is used. BPS as an alternative system has..."
Hearing “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
LOFGREN, ZOE "So just to be clear, the bill that we're we've sponsored does not allow a generic to market a patented use, correct? Exactly. It does not erase valid patents on new uses of medicine, correct? So I think that the practical effect is straightforward. It follows the FDA approved label leaves the patented use out, doesn't promote the patented use, and it can reach patients sooner that are for uses that are no longer under patent. It seems to me that reducing the cost of pharmaceuticals for Americans is a really important goal. And I have"
Hearing “Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in National Security.”
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "because the administration has no authority to take that out or any of the agencies. So one thing that could be done is a systematic review of the statutory requirements and regulation with a very simple question. Is this doing more good than harm, right? Because some of those—there used to be a regulation that said you had to use dollar coins in every vending machine on a base. That was ultimately repealed because of something that Congress did, or there was a requirement you had to use double-sided paper, right? Those might be requirements that are examples that we may want to start..."
Hearing Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America First Foreign Policy
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_45 "contingencies. And we had a contingency, and we had countries in NATO that said, no, you can't use our bases, particularly Spain. Now, I want to be fair, there were other countries that have been extraordinarily cooperative in what they've helped us to do, some publicly and some privately. But I think the president's irritation with NATO is that in a time of conflict and crisis where the United States had a need, you had members of this alliance who are constantly asking us to get involved in European matters, like Ukraine and things of this nature, who in our time were actually telling us,..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Small Business Committee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
VELÁZQUEZ, NYDIA M. "I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 826 as amended, and I yield back. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank Representatives Simon and Bresnahan for their leadership on this important issue. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 99 percent of small businesses use at least one technology platform, with most using at least four. Yet only a quarter of small businesses use cybersecurity and malware detection tools. That is because small businesses lack the time, skills, and resources to adopt effective cybersecurity measures compared to their larger competitors. Cybercriminals are well aware of..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of...
senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE ADAM TELLE "Sometimes the Corps says, we need more money to actually do the project. So the goal that we have about putting that $46 billion to use for its intended purpose, or if it can't be used for its intended purpose, maybe putting it to use in a state like Louisiana. That's right,"
Hearing Hearings to examine S.749, to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend increased dependency and indemnity compensation paid to surviving...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_01 "Typically wages will go about 77% up over the course of that veteran's career. The reduction in entitlement, since it's currently prorated, they're going to use more of their entitlement. We don't know if veterans are not using GI Bill because they want to preserve their entitlement so that they can still maybe go to college later or because they've transferred it to a dependent like a spouse or children and maybe they want it used in that manner. The other pieces of the bill, it doesn't address VR&E, so Veterans with Service-Connected"
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
VEASEY, MARC A. "in scientific consensus. Let's take the dyes, for example. These synthetic food dyes and additives have been a part of the American food chain for decades now. And some food dyes have been shown to pose risk, while others simply have not. That's why it's so important that we follow the science and where it leads us. And people are oftentimes comparing the U.S. to Europe, and the difference isn't always about the science itself, but about the system. Here in the U.S., we use a different system. We use a risk-based approach when it comes to evaluating safety We use a risk-based approach when it..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Commerce.
senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE HOWARD LUTNICK "I hope to be considered the greatest friend of the lobstermen who are a great asset, and you know I think that they are a great asset to our country. I had the pleasure when I was last over in the United Kingdom of going out and having them serve us Maine lobster in the United Kingdom because it was important because we opened that market. It had never been done before, so this was opening that market for our great lobster fishermen. We promise you that we will use the best data and the most precise data to make sure that our decisions are right for America, and they need to be right for the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be a Member and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE KEVIN WARSH "I think the data that's being used to judge inflation is quite imperfect data. And among the projects that the economics profession, and if I'm confirmed as chairman of the Fed, the Fed needs to do is to try to use our new understanding and new data sources to see what's really the inflation rate in the economy. We used to use core PCE core measures so we'd exclude food and energy because it was sort of a rough swag as to what was going on. We don't have to do a rough swag anymore. What I'm most interested in is what's the underlying inflation rate, not what's the one-time change in prices..."
Hearing Budget Hearing – National Guard and Reserve Forces
house Defense Subcommittee · Apr 17, 2026 · Transcript
LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOHN HEALY "But in addition to that, we've also got double that in our expected overseas normal rotational bases as well. So we're fully vested in all the cargo, air refueling, intel, command and control. I'd classify the impact that we're going to have, depending on the length of this, will be in the form of, you know, the standard for a reservist or a guardsman is a week and a month and two weeks a year. Well, that money that we typically use for that is not going to get used because they're being used for contingency operations. Likewise, all the aircraft that we typically use for training day in and..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the posture of the United States Space Command and United States Strategic Command in review of the Defense Authorization...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
STEPHEN WHITING "Because the satellites we have on orbit today, we're going to rely on those for years and years if not decades to come. And we can't shift them out of a band that might be using the bands that we just talked about. Including, I would also say that's true for our ground-based radars that use those bands as well. So we have to figure out how to be able to continue to use our legacy systems that we're going to have to rely on for years to come. Senator, I think you well noted there the importance of"
Hearing “Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE JOHN SQUIRES "It comes from the combination of 35 U.S.C. 3 and 35 U.S.C. 2 under the Lanham Act and in your as the entity gets booted up to act as custodian in a very narrow capacity with a bona fide intent to use the name, and then it's a tend to use application. Who has the bona fide intent to use it? The USPTO. The USPTO? What are you going to do with it? In the very limited services that we define there, which is fraud, prevention, misuse. But is that a service you offer to all American file the application for me? My responsibilities are again under 35 U.S.C. Section 3 to advise"
Hearing Hearings to examine arms control and transforming international security functions at the State Department.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 24, 2026 · Transcript
ROSEN, JACKY "My concern— About the need for a visual— Of course. Besides a ground cratering in. And we have made millions of billions of dollars of investments in radiographic and other technology using math, using physics, using science to be sure that we ensure the integrity of our nuclear arsenal. We have been very specific in"
Hearing Hearings to examine challenges and opportunities with implementing the Endangered Species Act.
senate Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
SCHIFF, ADAM B. "The Golden State is moving beyond the dichotomy of choosing between infrastructure development and environmental protection and showing that you can do both with smart policy. California uses habitat conservation planning to cover whole regions with a strategy to protect species, and the state can use that plan to clear projects within the planned area instead of going through individual review. California also uses a tool called consistency determination, where the state can approve a project if it has already gone through federal approvals. We need to think more outside the box, but to do..."
Hearing “Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. Doe”
house Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
MS. MANDY DROGIN "So, the data actually tells us when we're hearing numbers of a couple of thousand, that's completely inaccurate. Even if we're using a left-leaning pro-immigration organization that ranking member Scanlon quoted, FWD.US, they say that in Texas alone, there's at least 111,000 students. So, this obviously is billions of dollars. We can look at the data and see since 2015 with the unaccompanied minors that have been released, if we use the TEA PEIMS data that tells us how much we're spending, it's $18,125 per student across the state of Texas on average. Of course, doing English second language..."
Hearing “Career and Technical Education: Developing the Future of Main Street Success.”
house Small Business Committee · Feb 24, 2026 · Transcript
DR. KEITH E. GUNUSKEY "is also a very big challenge that we face. So the Perkins funding is there. We do not use Perkins for transportation. We use the Title I funding, yes, and we can use it for really classroom supports, aids that we may have teachers in our classrooms to support reading and math work as well. Special education with IDEA is huge, as many of our students require teacher assistants to be with them to help with their instruction. Special education teachers to help process and modify curriculum so that it's understandable for the students. And so that is very important. And then there's something..."
Hearing Hearings to examine preventing fraud in child care assistance programs.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript
HENRY WILDE "second and third shift care. The second thing we did was to use data in ways that hadn't been used before, using data in existing systems to identify patterns that suggested that there could be fraud at"
Hearing Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the Department of Commerce.
senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
REED, JACK "And Congress is requiring NVIDIA to self-certify that the H200 chips sold to China are not for military or intelligence end use. Well, how will you, at the Department of Commerce, track the final end use of these chips to ensure that they're not used for military or intelligence uses? And how will you enforce these"
Hearing Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
SUOZZI, THOMAS R. "So we have got to recognize this is not Democrats versus Republicans. This is America, the United States of America, against our foreign adversaries that are trying to get us to divide each other. And we need people like yourselves to work together across party lines, the same as we need in our committee to work across party lines, to work to defeat our foreign adversaries that are using our freedom, that are using our social media, that are using our not-for-profits to try and divide us in our country. Mr. Dubinsky, I looked at your"
Hearing “Curbing Federal Fraud: Examining Innovative Tools to Detect and Prevent Fraud in Federal Programs”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jan 13, 2026 · Transcript
BURCHETT, TIM "We're good. Go ahead, ma'am. Thank you. I'm out of time, but, Mr. Chairman, I think one of the things that we should, these good folks here do great work, and I think they're getting used just a little bit by the fact that we have too many staffers that really these committees are just large, there's no way that it can be monitored, and I think that they are figuratively in bed with some of the lobbyists, and I believe they're used, they use these folks to do, say, we're going to do a report on this, and it takes you a year to get it done, and then by the time you get it done, we've moved on..."
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026 · Transcript
DONALDS, BYRON "sure that fraud could not be caught. Is that correct? Well, they wanted to keep the standard to be disqualified from wasting taxpayer funds. Is that correct? Absolutely. Okay. Ms. Robins, I want to stay with you. I want to talk about use of funds. You have talked about some of these funds were used to buy property in Kenya. Yes, sir. Property in Turkey. Do I have that correct? Yes. Remittances back to Somalia. Yes. I think it is important for the committee to understand that these remittances, in part, are used in what is called the Hawala. I want to make sure I have the terminology right...."
Hearing Hearings to examine arms race.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Dec 10, 2025 · Transcript
RISCH, JAMES E. "strategic bombers is nearing full modernization. For years, Russia has consistently failed to comply with nuclear agreements and instead uses arms control talks to constrain U.S. policy towards Russia and pursue concessions on issues far beyond just nuclear weapons. It used this strategy successfully on President Obama with New START. It used it on Biden in the Strategic Stability Dialogue in the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And Russia tried and failed to pull the same tricks on the Trump administration. We can be sure the Russians will try again endangering the safety of the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine maritime security in Africa, focusing on assessing threats to United States commercial diplomacy and national security interests.
senate Africa and Global Health Policy Subcommittee · Dec 10, 2025 · Transcript
RISCH, JAMES E. "strategic bombers is nearing full modernization. For years, Russia has consistently failed to comply with nuclear agreements and instead uses arms control talks to constrain U.S. policy towards Russia and pursue concessions on issues far beyond just nuclear weapons. It used this strategy successfully on President Obama with New START. It used it on Biden in the Strategic Stability Dialogue in the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And Russia tried and failed to pull the same tricks on the Trump administration. We can be sure the Russians will try again endangering the safety of the..."
Hearing “The Censorship-Industrial Complex”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER "Yeah, I mean, we now know what happened, which is that basically after the war on terror, the United States used counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, counterpopulism tactics, first in the Middle East as part of the Arab Spring uprisings, then in Eastern Europe as part of the dollar revolutions, using social media to foment revolutions against places that we wanted regime change, and then using censorship in places to repress conflicting opinion in places that we were trying to stabilize. Those tactics were then turned against the American people after the populist revolutions of 2016. First..."
Hearing Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environment
house Armed Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript
HOULAHAN, CHRISSY "your ability to understand and know something is based on how long you've been there and what you know. And I guess what I'm asking, sir, I don't disagree with you. I am a businessperson and did serve in the military, but we cannot possibly expect 20 to 40 people to go through our data, our sensitive Department of Defense data, and have any way of explaining to the American people what is waste and what is fraud with any sort of accuracy. And if it's okay, I'm going to move on to my next question. And this question is for Dr. Carlin. Doctor, today, I believe the news headline said that..."
Hearing Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capital.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
MR. MIKE FLOOD "We're not changing the process by which we choose the investments to show to you. We're just changing the amount of investments you get to invest. From the Chamber's perspective, you know, AI is a tool that's being used, and we've called for publicly, conversation solves a lot of problems, but public-private roundtables with agencies to talk about the way AI is being used in different industries. In disclosure, so we got to make sure that the appropriate disclosures"
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
JOHNSON, RON "disabled. States could optionally cover people medically needed who had income levels above the threshold set, and also children less than 21 that weren't on AFDC. So that was the core group of people that Medicaid was initially designed to cover. Now, through the 90s and a little bit again in the early 2000s, eligibility continued to expand, as did enrollment, as did the dollars and cents. We're going to have a little bit of dueling charts here. I think the committee should get used to my using of charts. But let's again, the problem-solving process always begins with you have to admit you..."
Hearing Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biotechnology.
senate Health Care Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
YOUNG, TODD "But unpack this a little bit for 30 seconds, please. Great. And we haven't even gotten into, which we don't need to now, but the fact that the very biotech which is used to produce life-saving, life-improving treatments is also the biotech that can be leveraged or parlayed into bio-industrial applications useful to war fighters. So with that cheerful statement, Senator Hassan, you're"
Testimony MR. MIKE FLOOD
Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capi...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"We're not changing the process by which we choose the investments to show to you. We're just changing the amount of investments you get to invest. From the Chamber's perspective, you know, AI is a tool that's being used, and we've called for publicly, conversation solves a lot of problems, but public-private roundtables with agencies to talk about the way AI is being used in different industries. In disclosure, so we got to make sure that the appropriate disclosures"
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"disabled. States could optionally cover people medically needed who had income levels above the threshold set, and also children less than 21 that weren't on AFDC. So that was the core group of people that Medicaid was initially designed to cover. Now, through the 90s and a little bit again in the early 2000s, eligibility continued to expand, as did enrollment, as did the dollars and cents. We're going to have a little bit of dueling charts here. I think the committee should get used to my..."
Testimony YOUNG, TODD
Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biote...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"But unpack this a little bit for 30 seconds, please. Great. And we haven't even gotten into, which we don't need to now, but the fact that the very biotech which is used to produce life-saving, life-improving treatments is also the biotech that can be leveraged or parlayed into bio-industrial applications useful to war fighters. So with that cheerful statement, Senator Hassan, you're"
Hearing Examining the Impact of EPA’s CERCLA Designation for Two PFAS Chemistries and Potential Policy Responses to Superfund Liability Concerns."
house Environment Subcommittee · Dec 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Lawerence Falbe, International Council of Shopping Centers Environmental and Land Use Policy Committee