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Hearing Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
HARRIS, ANDY "More than doubled. With $730 billion in today's dollars then, we're now at $1.6 trillion. The bottom line is, these budgets have become too complicated to get done, given the limited bandwidth of both the executive branch and the legislative branch. So I will tell you, and Ms. Young, you're absolutely right. We have, we're just doing workarounds. You know, the idea of a two-year budget cycle for the budget, why don't we do two years appropriations? There's some states that do two years appropriations. We meet every year. If we have to adjust something, we can adjust it. But at least half the..."
Hearing H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital Access Act; H. Con. Res. 113 – Establishing the congressional budget for the...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026 · Request transcript
GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN "that community pool might not exist if I hadn't bought a fair number of shares in it back in 1991, and I will confess, I sold a share this year, sold is a loose term, gave one to my youngest son when he turned 18, one of the shares that I own. So I understand there may be people doing big-time stuff, but there's also a lot of people, if that's a private placement, there's a lot of people who are doing things in their community where they've got a little community pool or some other thing that's more, I mean, it makes money some years, we might even make money this year, but we didn't make..."
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Appropriations Duration of Availability: One-Year, Multi-Year, and No-Year Funds
Reports · Jun 7, 2024
Controlling the duration for which funds are available to agencies is one of the ways Congress exercises its power of the purse and represents a key set of decisions made during the appropriations...
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Lunar New Year: Fact Sheet
Report · Jan 16, 2026
The Lunar New Year is a holiday celebrated in many parts of Asia and in Asian communities around the world. It marks the beginning of the year using the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar....
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Rebecca L. Taibleson, of Wisconsin, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Oct 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Jennifer Lee Mascott, of Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Oct 1, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Joshua D. Dunlap, of Maine, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, Eric Chunyee...
senate Judiciary Committee · Sep 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1038, to direct the Attorney General to include a data field in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 17, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony MARK MACARRO
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Now, I can tell you on an individual basis, tribal property by tribal property, fairly certain we track revenue in similar fashion. For instance, this particular week in August, the first week of August, I know that our tribal gaming facility knows what revenue was generated on this day, which was today, Tuesday, on this day last year for this first week of August and the year before that and the year before that. We can compare week to week like that over different years, month to month, and..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"That's the kind of comparison that we're making here. Absolutely ridiculous. And to go on to say something else, this committee has been looking at amendments about raising truck weights year after year, year after year, year after year, for different reasons. Always comes up with an excuse to not look at it for one pound, a hundred pounds, a thousand pounds, not really examining the changes that have gone on in technology and braking systems and computers, in the braking systems that are..."
Testimony TUBERVILLE, TOMMY
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"We're going to lose Olympic sports. We're going to lose women's sports because there's not going to be any money. It's going to be club sports. I got news for y'all. It's coming. The money's not going to be there. You can forget about Title IX. You can have all the lawsuits you want. If the money's not there, it's not there. The money's going to go to athletes that get on television. Student-athletes, to me, should have a five-year window. You start, you got five years. I'm sick of these 28,..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Melissa Holyoak, to be United States Attorney for the District of Utah for the term of four years,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 12, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2132, to amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent and mitigate the potential for conflicts of interest...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jan 15, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2132, to amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent and mitigate the potential for conflicts of interest...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jan 8, 2026 · Request transcript
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Confirmation of U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominations During Presidential Election Years: Frequently Asked Questions
Reports · Sep 18, 2020
This report provides data and analysis related to frequently asked questions about the confirmation of U.S. circuit and district court nominations during presidential election years. Senators with...
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U.S. District Court Nominees Confirmed During the First Three Years of the Biden Presidency: Overview and Analysis
Posts · Jan 4, 2024
This Insight provides statistics related to the nomination and confirmation of U.S. district court nominees during the first three years of the Biden presidency. This Insight also provides...
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Final Senate Action on U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominations During a President’s Eighth Year in Office
Reports · Jan 27, 2016
This report, in light of continued Senate interest in the judicial confirmation process during a President’s final year in office, provides statistics related to Senate action on U.S. circuit and...
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U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominees Confirmed During the First Year of the Biden Presidency: Overview and Analysis
Reports · Feb 1, 2022
This report provides statistics related to the nomination and confirmation of U.S. circuit and district court nominees during the first year of the Biden presidency. This report also compares these...
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Defense Primer: Future Years Defense Program (FYDP)
InFocus · Dec 18, 2025
Background The Future Years Defense Program (FYDP, commonly pronounced “fye-dip”) is a projection of the forces, resources, and programs to support Department of Defense (DOD) operations. [DOD is...
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Full-Year Continuing Resolutions: Frequently Asked Questions
Report · Nov 19, 2025
The term appropriations process refers to Congress’s annual development and consideration of appropriations legislation for each federal fiscal year running from October 1 through September 30....
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Robert P. Chamberlin, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Oct 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
ROY, CHIP "From November 23, illegal immigrant who posed as a minor while crossing border charged with murder in Florida, Florida, stabbing the person in the house that brought the individual into their home. Number two, Afghan allegedly molested 12-year-old and 14-year-old boys at Fort McCoy, a 20-year-old Afghan refugee that sexually abused a 12-year-old and 14-year-old immigrant sitting at the base where Democrats thought it was okay to have them all"
Hearing Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests and Outlook for the 2026 Wildfire Year.”
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_02 "which is about a half a million acres ahead of where we were last year. So when you look at the context, in terms of a five-year average, we're right in there last year about where the five-year average was. It is correct that we did drop year over year. But you have to look at where we"
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 · 4 transcript matches
KELLY, MIKE "Thank you all for being here. And I know your career, nine years in the NFL, four years in college, four years in high school, probably started a little midget football and worked your way up. So it's a lot longer than just nine years in the NFL. And to get through that is quite a"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.4726, to promote efforts to bring about stability and security in Sudan, S.3984, to authorize a 2-year extension of...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Testimony ROY, CHIP
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"From November 23, illegal immigrant who posed as a minor while crossing border charged with murder in Florida, Florida, stabbing the person in the house that brought the individual into their home. Number two, Afghan allegedly molested 12-year-old and 14-year-old boys at Fort McCoy, a 20-year-old Afghan refugee that sexually abused a 12-year-old and 14-year-old immigrant sitting at the base where Democrats thought it was okay to have them all"
Testimony MAST, BRIAN J.
updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; Gene...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"River, which long before any of us was here, the U.S. Army took a river that snaked like a river, and they turned it into a channel, again, destroying another ecosystem, and we undid that damage and made it look like a river again, and in 2019, we delivered $60 million to raise up the Tamiami Trail so that water could flow south into the Everglades where it belongs. Year after year, just more and more work, we worked to redo the broken management plan known as the Lake Okeechobee Regulation..."
Testimony WHITESIDES, GEORGE
Safeguarding Federal Research Funds: The False Claims Act's Role in Co...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to call up a chart, if we're able to, and direct the witnesses' attention to the chart. This chart shows the cumulative NSF awards made by day by fiscal year. Can everybody see the chart? Okay. This shows the last few years as well as 2026 to date. The result of this chart should shock all Americans who care about our country's scientific enterprise. Last year, the Trump administration slow-rolled grants for most of the year and ended up with a much lower..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"which is about a half a million acres ahead of where we were last year. So when you look at the context, in terms of a five-year average, we're right in there last year about where the five-year average was. It is correct that we did drop year over year. But you have to look at where we"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Mr. Benz, Mr. Chairman, yes, we are prepared. In my opening statement, I mentioned we actually have hired more firefighters this year than over the last year and the year before by about 5% to 6% ahead of where we were at this point in time last year. We also have an additional 450 red-carded employees above where we were last year at this time, so we do feel we are prepared, yes, sir. Mr. Benz, Mr. Chairman, it varies between NEPA and the Endangered Species Act. Both of those are primary..."
Testimony MATSUI, DORIS O.
AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepay...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you and Ranking Member Castor for having this hearing today and thank the witnesses for being here today. It's been almost four years since Republicans took over this committee and almost four years since CHAP-GPT was released to the public in 2022. For four years, we've been talking about rising electricity demand from AI and the impact on Americans' electricity bills. But in four years, my Republican colleagues have only made the problem..."
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Hearings to examine Social Security, focusing on a discussion on the f...
senate Budget Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"I mean, we're dealing with a critical component and it's the most significant component for most people's retirement. And when they hear that it's going to be insolvent in five years, four years, three years, two years, one year, they get nervous. We often praise what was done in 1983, but let's be honest. They waited until their backs were up against the"
Testimony SPEAKER_08
Hearings to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council's Annual...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Feb 5, 2026
"So a mortgage rate is two components. We could say that it is a derivative of the 10-year, but it's really a 7.5-year. And we have seen that decline, and then it is the spread between the 10-year bond and the actual mortgage security, and we have seen that is at multi-year lows. So what we saw in January was the lowest mortgage rates in almost three years. Well, yes, because two things,"
Testimony FROST, MAXWELL
“Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"We want to protect our biodiversity. We have things called hurricanes that happen every year. In fact, every year for the past several years, we've had a 100-year hurricane, a hurricane that's only supposed to happen one every 100 years. It is standards that help ensure that homes are built in the right places, that there's flooding mitigation in place, that building standards, building rules, all this"
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Social Security Long-Range Projections: Why 75 Years?
Resources · Jun 11, 2021
The Social Security Board of Trustees (Trustees) is required by law to report annually to Congress on the financial status of the Social Security trust funds. Since 1965, the Trustees have used a...
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Social Security: Potential Impacts of Changes in Computation Years
Reports · Dec 12, 2022
Social Security is a social insurance program that protects insured workers and their family members against loss of income due to old age (i.e., retirement), disability, or death. The amount of...
CRS Report
U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominations During President Obama’s First Six Years (2009-2014): Comparative Analysis with Recent Presidents
Reports · Mar 9, 2015
The selection and confirmation process for U.S. circuit and district court judges is of continuing interest to Congress. Recent Senate debates over judicial nominations have focused on issues such as...
CRS Report
Funding for the Impact Aid Program: Options for Budget Year Appropriations, Forward Funding, and Advance Appropriations
Reports · Jul 22, 2014
Administered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED), the Impact Aid program is one of the oldest federal education programs, dating from 1950. Impact Aid, authorized under Title VIII of the...
CRS Report
Five-Year Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program: History and Background
Reports · Jan 9, 2024
Under Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, as amended (OCSLA; 43 U.S.C. §§1331-1356b), the Secretary of the Interior must prepare and maintain forward-looking plans—typically referred...
CRS Report
Gun Control: Juvenile Record Checks for 18- to 21-Year-Olds
Resources · Feb 5, 2024
On June 25, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA; P.L. 117-159), which includes several firearms-related sections. Section 12001 addresses juvenile access...
CRS Report
Federal Wildfire Management: Ten-Year Funding Trends and Issues (FY2011-FY2020)
Reports · Oct 28, 2020
Wildfire management is a series of coordinated activities to prepare for, resolve, and recover from wildfire events. The federal agencies responsible for wildfire management include the U.S....
Hearing Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school and beyond.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
TUBERVILLE, TOMMY "We're going to lose Olympic sports. We're going to lose women's sports because there's not going to be any money. It's going to be club sports. I got news for y'all. It's coming. The money's not going to be there. You can forget about Title IX. You can have all the lawsuits you want. If the money's not there, it's not there. The money's going to go to athletes that get on television. Student-athletes, to me, should have a five-year window. You start, you got five years. I'm sick of these 28, 29-year-olds playing in a young person's sport and taking your money. I'm sick of that. Five years to..."
Hearing Charting a New Course: Countering China's Dominance in Global Shipbuilding
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
DR. MATTHEW FUNAIOLE "I'll keep my comments brief. The most important part in any effort in that vein to me is aligning on what the long-term objectives are and making sure that any agreements that are put into place are robust enough that they are going to be maintained for years and decades to come, right? This is not something that can be solved in five years or 10 years. We're talking about a several-decade time horizon in order to address some of the concerns that we're facing now. Part of those efforts also need to identify where it is we're going to compete with China and where are areas that maybe aren't..."
Hearing Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee · Jul 17, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
STEIL, BRYAN "of the SEC. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. I want to jump to you, Mr. Somensato, and talk DeFi a little bit. Building on a similar theme here, financial markets have grown along technological innovation. 200 years ago, finance relied on handwritten ledgers, horse-drawn or horse-delivered communications. A hundred years ago, telegraph and then telephone connected markets. Fifty years ago, we got closer to the Internet. Today, blockchain technology is giving us an ability to decentralize networks that can coordinate financial activity without a centralized or without a central..."
Hearing Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN "Nonetheless, we take our responsibility as fiscal stewards very seriously. In fiscal year 2027, the court is requesting an additional $14 million, a 7% increase for salaries and expenses. Over the last five fiscal years, the Supreme Court's funding needs have grown on average 15% per year. Aside from annual inflationary increases, recent growth in the court's budget has"
Testimony SPEAKER_37
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"transit systems, everything. I'm proud that this committee worked together to find some common ground on this crucial bipartisan piece of legislation. This bill was developed with Ranking Member Larson, Highway Subcommittee Chairman Rausser, Highway Subcommittee Ranking Member Norton, and Rail Subcommittee Chairman Webster. I want to thank each of them for the tremendous leadership and work in providing and moving this package forward. This bill was written following the input and thousands of..."
Testimony COLLIS TEMPLE JR.
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"participate in the college experience, which is the academic piece first. Now, you say that we probably need to give them five years. I understand. Five years is a redshirt year plus four to play. Senator Tuberville, I would ask you to consider a six-year deal. A six-year deal will, would involve a gray shirt, which is something that you're familiar"
Testimony COLLIS TEMPLE JR.
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"and then a redshirt, which is something you're also familiar with, and then give them four years to play. So, when you're talking about 18-year-old freshmen, 19-year-old sophomore, 20-year-old junior, 21-year-old senior, and you give them a couple of extra years to get it together, I think it'll work a lot better than just five years. Now, what the hell was your"
Testimony GOLDMAN, DANIEL S.
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Many spoke English. The ones that didn't were translated by other people. There, they have no criminal record. They have work authorizations. I was talking to a mother who had an 18-year-old, single mother, 18-year-old, 12-year-old, and 8-year-old. And she had been there in months with no hearing in sight, lawfully here, work authorization,"
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"you have the right to be represented by an attorney. You have the right to question the witnesses before you. They're talking to three-year-olds and four-year-olds. And these kids are sitting through hours-long proceedings without any counsel. And how on earth is a three-year-old or a four-year-old or even a ten-year-old or a 12-year-old going to argue against—the judge will say to them, you have the right to question any witnesses that are testifying against you. How are they supposed to..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"in terms of Southern Yellow Pine and what is needed to basically grow and maintain so that we manage Southern Yellow Pine plantations. So that's the picture. So when you look at a five-year average, we're about right in what we were over the last five years. We did have a fall down year over year, but it was primarily in Region 8. It was not across the"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"That's exactly right. We're looking at, we need to have a growth rate. Typically on private lands, you would have growth of about 5 to 6 percent a year. So a negative growth rate is we're not growing those forests. We have the declination, right, through mortality. We have so much mortality, whether it's from fire or insect and disease. So what I would love to do in 10 years in Colorado is take a snapshot today and then look at the trend in five years and five years after that. You will see it..."
Testimony GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E.
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"AI didn't invent these scams. It supercharged them, making old cons more convincing and far easier to pull off. AI deception takes other forms too. Tools that are built without real safeguards can hallucinate and feed older adults dangerously wrong information. Last year, Reuters reported an AI chatbot that repeatedly insisted it was human and invited a 76-year-old man to an address in New York City. He fell on his way to the train station and died of his injuries. This year, the New York Times..."
Testimony MORAN, JERRY
Hearings to examine advancing the mission, focusing on evaluating the ...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"That's a bill that's included in the Take Care of America Act, Veterans Act, and I look forward to finding that path that not only takes care of the Richard Starr Act, but this broad array of widely supported by VSO and by veterans across the country pieces of legislation. The challenge we've had, we have had six years of people sponsoring the Richard Starr Act, six years in which people have said we're for the Act, but it has failed to pass year after year after year, and in part, that is..."
Testimony SANDERS, BERNARD
Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Servic...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"is a poison pill intended to further delay warning labels on ultra processed food. We've been talking about labels year after year after year. We understand what exists now is inadequate. The time is now to do it. For more than 30 years, the food and beverage industry has been required to put nutritional labeling on their products. These labels are totally inadequate. I think most of us know that putting warning labels on ultra processed foods will not lead to higher overall grocery prices...."
Testimony HARRIS, ANDY
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"More than doubled. With $730 billion in today's dollars then, we're now at $1.6 trillion. The bottom line is, these budgets have become too complicated to get done, given the limited bandwidth of both the executive branch and the legislative branch. So I will tell you, and Ms. Young, you're absolutely right. We have, we're just doing workarounds. You know, the idea of a two-year budget cycle for the budget, why don't we do two years appropriations? There's some states that do two years..."
Testimony BOYLE, BRENDAN F.
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Are costs any lower? Of course not. In fact, they are through the roof, and they are through the roof specifically because of failed Trump Republican policies. First, the Trump tariff taxes. They have dramatically increased costs on the American people because of the Trump tariff taxes. The average American household paid nearly $1,700 more last year for goods than they did the year before, directly attributable to the Trump tariff taxes. That was last year. What does President Trump and his..."
Testimony JENIFER DAVIDSON
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Our goals through this bill are clear. Advance flood control and stormwater management, preserve open space, enhance recreation, protect the rural character and quality of life, safeguard the floodplain, and honor the rich cultural heritage of our region in partnership with the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. For me, this is personal. I have served Douglas County for nearly 20 years in my tenure. This county has experienced five 100-year flooding events. In flood years, I am 500 years..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I do want to call out one thing on page 61 of the bill, line 11, and this is a situation that they're trying to say to the secretary that if there's going to be a buyer of a square mile of federal land that is not suitable, and I would say, for the record, that a buyer that's not suitable would be someone that's not the neighbor that has been using that land for years. A suitable buyer would be the person that's been using that property for years and years and years as part of their operation...."
Testimony HERN, KEVIN
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My Democrat colleagues are very concerned about private equity and it has been widely reported year over year over year over year that tax-exempt hospitals actually spend less on charity than for-profit hospitals. In fact, the majority of non-profit hospitals receive more taxpayer subsidies than they return in community benefits, according to the Nonpartisan Loan"
Testimony KELLY, MIKE
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thank you all for being here. And I know your career, nine years in the NFL, four years in college, four years in high school, probably started a little midget football and worked your way up. So it's a lot longer than just nine years in the NFL. And to get through that is quite a"
Testimony MOORE, BLAKE D.
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"the here and now too often, as you mentioned. In last year's tax legislation, we created the Investment America, the Invest America Initiative created individual investment accounts for every child born in the next four years. But every kid, every teenager up to 18 can start these. So this is the beauty of it. They're going to get an NIL money from their playing days. And they're going to have to have an avenue to put it into. Every kid in America under the age of 18 should now be able to have..."
Testimony SPEAKER_30
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"But we are sending a demand signal with this authorization that we are serious about reinvigorating the defense industrial base so that the market will rise to the occasion. not increased last year. It was flatlined. We put 150 billion reconciliation one-time money on top of the baseline of 886, which we took from 2024 into 2025. So baseline spending has been level for two years. If we raise it with this bill, it'll be the first time in three years it's been increased. We had one-time..."
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"Can you tell them what some of those were? And am I not correct that that also included the accelerated depreciation so that if you went out and you bought a new photocopier for your small law practice on Main Street in Salem, Virginia, you used to have to take that out over a period of years. You didn't get the deduction in the first year. It was a number of years, and then under the first Trump administration and a Republican House, they reduced that. You could take it all in the first year...."
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 MURPHY, GREGORY F.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “The Congres...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 25, 2026
"and this is really a fascinating conversation, just living in the world of medicine. And just seeing the takeover of AI and how we are doing things so radically different, literally, in the last three years than we were three years, just in the last three years, and how the next three years are going to be an explosion. This is going to change our entire I think there are some, I don't want to say warmongers, but people who think, oh, the world is going to crash to an"
Testimony NANCY ALTMAN
Hearings to examine the future of social security.
senate Finance Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"That is $1.5 trillion that should have gone to Social Security, but instead stayed in the pockets of the wealthiest among us. This year's trustees' report has projected that Congress must act by 2032. That's one year sooner than last year's report projected. The earlier date is the result of Trump administration policies, specifically its first reconciliation bill giving tax breaks to the wealthiest, and its hostility to immigrants who every year contribute tens of billions more dollars to..."
Testimony TILLIS, THOMAS
Hearings to examine the future of social security.
senate Finance Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"and she said she'd be really mad at me if I did that. And yet, people are messaging that Republicans are here to kill Social Security. Does anybody really believe that that would be fiscally or politically wise? But if we continue that rhetoric, what's going to happen here is we're going to talk past each other. And instead of considering extraordinarily well-thought-out proposals by people like Senator Cassidy that has Democrats engaged, we come out here and we're just sparring at either end..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE DAVID STEINER
Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"You know, when you look at what we've suggested to states now for years and years and years and years, it is exactly this rule. You know, if you look at it, whether it's Connecticut, Michigan, California, we have something we call Kit"
Testimony MS. RACHEL GOODE
“Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Old data shows 14 years or less because that's going back to 1984 when there were less entrenched patent tickets. The latest data dated 2026 showing the last 10 years of how long it took biosimilars to get on the market was 18 years of exclusivity for the brand, but Congress thought 12 years was appropriate with FDA exclusivity and Congress allowed patent term extension up to 14 years, so 18 years is four years longer than Congress ever"
Testimony SPEAKER_30
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Moulton for introducing this important amendment. Thirty-seven percent year over year in the base budget, almost 50 percent from last year overall, $1.5 trillion, $1.5 trillion taxpayer dollars, at the same time that this year we gave, this administration, certainly not me, gave a trillion dollar tax cut to the top 1 percent, most of which went to the top .1 percent of the American people. This just does not pass the common sense"
Testimony SPEAKER_42
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"What that means, the billions of dollars in market access that we lost between 21 and 24 are real. And so gaining those back, we're expecting record exports of corn this year, dairy this year, tree nuts this year, ethanol this year. Fresh fruits and veggies are up. All of these are"
Testimony VAN DUYNE, BETH
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"So I'm going to ask you, what are you doing on August 6th? Let me tell you. For the fifth consecutive year, I am hosting what has become the nation's largest job fair. Last year, we had over 500 businesses that represented over 33,000 jobs, and we had about 35,000 people came last year to Globe Life Field, and we're going to do it again this year, August 6th. And we would love to have you there. I am formally inviting you right now to attend, because if you want to know about economic policy,..."
Testimony MR. THOMAS AUSTIN
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, "“Oversight ...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 3, 2026
"But I hesitate to give numbers associated with these because I think it undersells the amount of work that would be required to do so. We've had discussions in the past where numbers have been thrown out that would not be sufficient in order to take care of all of these missions. And just this budget year alone, we have over $600 million of identified projects that we're looking to do, and this exists in a time continuum. So if we don't do those in present year or current years, they get pushed..."
Testimony GOSAR, PAUL A.
“Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relations...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 14, 2026
"Congress must pass my bill to defund state registries and eliminate all federal gun owner registries. Uh, whether it lasts 60 years, 30 years, 20 years, and 10 years, a registry is still a registry. Congress has always rejected the idea of government keeping a list of firearm"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Hearings to examine the American Entrepreneurship for 250 Years: Drivi...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"My grandmother, his wife of 71 years, continued to report to the Ford showroom every day until she was 98 years old. Their son Robert, my dad, spent a 60-year career at Grapponi until his retirement last year, and after 28 years in the business, I became the company's president on the first of the year. Our team is 235 people strong, and we are proud to partner with three of the world's top automotive manufacturers, Ford, Mazda, and"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Extended to nine months. And then those, and this, and the Park Service has always been built around, around people that are part-time, quote, summer, but nine months, but they come back year after year after year. We don't need to have people working 12 months a year when places, we have many of our parks that close during the wintertime. I would like to get the data, though, because I'm not sure what scale you're using on that shows that dramatic drop, because that doesn't match. I just want..."
Testimony MFUME, KWEISI
“An Update on DoD’s Struggling Background Check System”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"Do you think your predecessor felt the same way, was driven the same way? Well, and I understand it and I appreciate it, but you have to realize what it's like to sit here year after year after year after year and be told the same thing, that it's getting better, the organization understands, we've got the right path, we're going to be transparent. And in that process, contractor after contractor is billing the United States government for services that I assume are never fully completed within..."
Testimony SCOTT CAMERON
Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Requests for the Army Corps of Engineers (Civi...
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2025
"Speaking in terms of the Delta and the Central Valley Project, more generally, the administration is working very hard with the water districts, both north of the Delta and south of the Delta, to come up with a water management regime that will allow more water to head south. We're lucky this year, Shasta is fairly close to full, which is a good thing, but it's unlikely that that will be the pattern year after year after year, so we definitely need more water storage in California. There's no..."
Testimony SCOTT CAMERON
Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Requests for the Army Corps of Engineers (Civi...
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2025
"skills that you need that you don't have? So, Ms. Captor, the answer to your first question is it varies a lot from year to year and region in the West to region, depending upon the hydrology. I can tell you that for the first time in a very long time, the Klamath Basin in California and Oregon has got plenty of water. Now, that probably won't be the case two years from now, but for this year, we're lucky, and also, this year, Reclamation was able to provide more water to Central Valley,..."
Testimony SCOTT, AUSTIN
"Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country"
house Agriculture Committee · Feb 11, 2025
"And I think until we get to that point, just rural America's economy is going to continue to suffer until we have adequate support. That said, just over a year ago, Secretary Vilsack testified before this committee claiming that the previous three years of net cash income were the best three years in 50 years. And I'm quoting him there, the best years for net cash income"
Hearing Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, focusing on tribal implications and beyond.
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MARK MACARRO "Now, I can tell you on an individual basis, tribal property by tribal property, fairly certain we track revenue in similar fashion. For instance, this particular week in August, the first week of August, I know that our tribal gaming facility knows what revenue was generated on this day, which was today, Tuesday, on this day last year for this first week of August and the year before that and the year before that. We can compare week to week like that over different years, month to month, and then of course years by years. So when, for instance, there was a time during COVID, during the..."
Hearing H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
UNKNOWN "That's the kind of comparison that we're making here. Absolutely ridiculous. And to go on to say something else, this committee has been looking at amendments about raising truck weights year after year, year after year, year after year, for different reasons. Always comes up with an excuse to not look at it for one pound, a hundred pounds, a thousand pounds, not really examining the changes that have gone on in technology and braking systems and computers, in the braking systems that are automated on vehicles, on"
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BOYLE, BRENDAN F. "Are costs any lower? Of course not. In fact, they are through the roof, and they are through the roof specifically because of failed Trump Republican policies. First, the Trump tariff taxes. They have dramatically increased costs on the American people because of the Trump tariff taxes. The average American household paid nearly $1,700 more last year for goods than they did the year before, directly attributable to the Trump tariff taxes. That was last year. What does President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress come up with this year? A reckless, idiotic, preemptive war on Iran. Gas..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management areas, wildlife conservation areas, protection areas, recreation areas,...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
JENIFER DAVIDSON "Our goals through this bill are clear. Advance flood control and stormwater management, preserve open space, enhance recreation, protect the rural character and quality of life, safeguard the floodplain, and honor the rich cultural heritage of our region in partnership with the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. For me, this is personal. I have served Douglas County for nearly 20 years in my tenure. This county has experienced five 100-year flooding events. In flood years, I am 500 years old. Flooding is our reality, and the most pressing driver for this legislation is flood protection...."
Hearing • H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025” • H.R. 2317 (Rep. Amodei), “Northern Nevada Economic...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_11 "I do want to call out one thing on page 61 of the bill, line 11, and this is a situation that they're trying to say to the secretary that if there's going to be a buyer of a square mile of federal land that is not suitable, and I would say, for the record, that a buyer that's not suitable would be someone that's not the neighbor that has been using that land for years. A suitable buyer would be the person that's been using that property for years and years and years as part of their operation. That is a suitable buyer, and I want to make the record extraordinarily clear that if there's a cash..."
Hearing H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H.R. 8884 – Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act; H. Res....
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_30 "But we are sending a demand signal with this authorization that we are serious about reinvigorating the defense industrial base so that the market will rise to the occasion. not increased last year. It was flatlined. We put 150 billion reconciliation one-time money on top of the baseline of 886, which we took from 2024 into 2025. So baseline spending has been level for two years. If we raise it with this bill, it'll be the first time in three years it's been increased. We had one-time reconciliation money that was passed last year to try to jump the 7-year guaranteed contracts is using part..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the future of social security.
senate Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
NANCY ALTMAN "That is $1.5 trillion that should have gone to Social Security, but instead stayed in the pockets of the wealthiest among us. This year's trustees' report has projected that Congress must act by 2032. That's one year sooner than last year's report projected. The earlier date is the result of Trump administration policies, specifically its first reconciliation bill giving tax breaks to the wealthiest, and its hostility to immigrants who every year contribute tens of billions more dollars to Social Security than they draw out."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Requests for the Army Corps of Engineers (Civil Works) and the Bureau of Reclamation
house Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 21, 2025 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCOTT CAMERON "Speaking in terms of the Delta and the Central Valley Project, more generally, the administration is working very hard with the water districts, both north of the Delta and south of the Delta, to come up with a water management regime that will allow more water to head south. We're lucky this year, Shasta is fairly close to full, which is a good thing, but it's unlikely that that will be the pattern year after year after year, so we definitely need more water storage in California. There's no doubt about that. We've got no particular position on the governor's latest proposal for additional..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MARSHALL, ROGER "When the working family tax cuts bill was passed, we gave states what a year and a half to improve their error rates, and then we've added another year. So that would be two and a half years of error rate. I've yet to hear anyone from the other side of the aisle say why can't our states bring down their error rates in a two and a half year time span and that would be more"
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. Forest Service"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
TOM SCHULTZ "And above all, the safety of agency employees and the public remains our top priority. We are experiencing higher than average national fire activity after a dry winter. Extensive drought and excessive heat are worsening hazardous fuel conditions across large parts of the West and other areas as well. The agency stands ready to meet those challenges head-on and continues to focus on our priority work. We are prioritizing initial response so we can keep fires small, and we're invested in staffing, coordination, contracting, and infrastructure to meet the reality that fire season is now many..."
Hearing Hearings to examine a review of the President's supplemental funding request of June 24, 2026.
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
PETE HEGSETH "We need to accelerate the timelines of those and deliver them even more quickly, and when you allow new entrants with all the right incentives, those things happen, and it's happening in that program. I believe because of the policies of this administration, it is likely to do so, just like the B-21, just like the F-47, just like so many other of our exquisite munitions that otherwise would have taken years and years to even get into development. We're moving those things left by, in some cases, years so that we get them in the hands of warfighters who would need them right now and not held..."
Hearing "Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Americans"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_17 "well, what's the value of the building and contents? And then what would it take to replace that? And they write an estimate on that and that's a project worksheet. But because they do actual cost, they don't give them the money. The local governments now have to go get a contractor to go build a fire station. They have to get an estimate. They have to submit that to FEMA for being reviewed. Well, they want to change because the station was too small. They want to build it bigger. Well, FEMA says we're only going to replace what was there. That's on you. We ain't going to approve that. But..."
Hearing Oversight Hearing - U.S. Small Business Administration
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
POCAN, MARK "small business, just like last September, for example, average small business lost $42,600 because of tariffs. That's why I was asking if we had something in place because clearly I spent 37 years of my life since I had hair literally owning a small business. A year ago I sold it. But a small business, the handful of employees, I know you're used to big businesses because you're, you know, much wealthier person, I understand. But for the average small business, those are the ones that were really impacted the most. I'm looking at something right now, first half of this year, small business..."
Testimony MARK MACARRO
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"And that's been the case in every reporting year. Every year, another few or several dozen, the number varies, more gaming operations open up from year to year. So the overall aggregate number does not necessarily reflect existing operations that are doing"
Testimony ROSS, DEBORAH K.
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"This bill has no exceptions or flexibility when it comes to overstaying a non-immigrant visa, and there are no exceptions based on age or dependent status. As the bill is currently written, if a two-year-old is on a family vacation in the United States and their parents decide to extend their trip 10 days beyond the validity of their visitor's visa, unless the two-year-old somehow miraculously leaves the country on their own, that two-year-old could be thrown into federal jail for up to six..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"We're supposed to get a presidential budget by February 15th. We do not. Now, the first year of any presidency, I understand that. They don't even have their own people in place by February 15th. But the second and third years, I don't find much excuse. We got it this year, April 1st, something like that, weeks late. But we're also supposed to have a top-line number from the budget committee. I don't think we've gotten that in at least six Congresses on either"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"rather the catch up be six months behind than two years behind if we remain in the same stale remarks as one of the proposals. I've always thought that was just common sense, because at the time we worked on that joint select committee, that's how we were operating. We had 10-year budget caps from the days of the Obama presidency, and we come together every two years to actually enact real levels that the Appropriations Committee to operate under, and we did those in two-year cycles. So that's..."
Testimony HARRIS, ANDY
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"war has shown, if the Ukraine government had an NDAA that they passed a year ago, that said what drone they had to buy, and didn't give authority to the government, to the Minister of Defense there, for stop-starts, they would have lost the war in that year. When it comes to, and Ms. Young, you've said it absolutely right, the only real authorization, the real authorization bill that affects discretionary budget every year is NDAA. Everything else, we don't really change the law that often, so..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"So it's literally empowering this committee. Yeah, I would just say, obviously, Russ Vought was also in the first Trump administration, as well as the second. It's hard for me to be able to say day-to-day operations there, because I'm not in day-to-day operations, but clearly the first year. Very late in getting the budget over, which is typical for a president when they actually come in the first year. I think President Biden was as well on that. Just because you're just getting your staff..."
Testimony MALOY, CELESTE
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"informative and a little bit heartbreaking. And thank you. I know you're not used to being on that side for these hearings, but thank you for sitting here and patiently answering questions for more than three hours now. I will be brief. I don't think I'll even use my whole five minutes. But, Mr. McClintock, I think you and I are in agreement on part of what's broken here based on other conversations we've had. I think the reason that the annual appropriations bills are so important is that when..."
Testimony SMUCKER, LLOYD
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"reduced the spending to Medicaid. In fact, spending for Medicaid is going to increase each year, even after the changes that were made in the affecting cost of Medicaid in One Big Beautiful Bill. In fact, it's going to increase more than the cost of inflation in each year for the next 10 years, which is the period that we looked at in that bill. Well, we're spending last year, I think, about $660 billion in reimbursements to states. That's going to increase to over $1 trillion, according to..."
Testimony LEAH BAKER
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Yes, sir. It's my understanding that with a lot of the broadband permitting under the BEED requirements that the Bureau of Land Management doesn't receive the application until year three of the four-year process, so that means that there's only one year left to process the permits. We've discussed permitting delays, and yes, that can provide or can create a significant burden for rural"
Testimony HUFFMAN, JARED
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"innovation and also required annual reports from NOAA on the progress being made. Now here we are, two and a half years before the regulatory deadline, and this bill would further extend this exemption for the American lobster and Jonah crab fisheries by an additional seven years, bringing the total exemption from the ESA and MMPA to an outrageous 13 years. It is deeply hearing to ask how things are going with this technology, with these efforts of monitoring everything else that we've said we..."
Testimony MR. SAM ACHO
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"But Congress, and specifically this committee, the Committee on Ways and Means, has an opportunity to continue to educate these young people, these small business owners, on how taxes work. And maybe one of the ideas we heard is maybe withholding some of those taxes at a certain rate, and that way they're not having to worry about realizing, okay, are these taxes real? Do I get punished? Do I get penalized? I haven't heard about it. My coach didn't tell me. My agent didn't tell me. Very many..."
Testimony BUCHANAN, VERN
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And then I read a book on Penn State, somebody had written a book about Penn State, and they had followed these kids from their freshman year, through a period of five years in their red shirt year, and there was like one or two left. So these kids are, there's a few kids getting rich, they're doing pretty good, but there's a lot of kids putting themselves at risk. In my"
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"When the working family tax cuts bill was passed, we gave states what a year and a half to improve their error rates, and then we've added another year. So that would be two and a half years of error rate. I've yet to hear anyone from the other side of the aisle say why can't our states bring down their error rates in a two and a half year time span and that would be more"
Testimony THUNE, JOHN
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"We've got to get a bill if we want to pass a farm bill that something can pass the house and be signed into law by the president. So the negotiations around this were with that in mind. And getting a year delay saves a number of states a whole lot of money in year one and gives states an opportunity to get into compliance. If you look at the number of states that have been in compliance in the last 10 years and that's with an error rate below 6%, you know how many it is? Every single one of..."
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"increased pretty significantly, and above, beyond that, and of course 2014, it really took off. Next chart. This is what we'd be spending if we took the 2014 spending, again, which is already first year into Medicaid expansion, and just increase that by population and inflation. We'd be spending 441 billion dollars in fiscal year 2025. Next chart. This shows, again, actual spending on top of that inflation population growth from 2014 through 2019, the year before the pandemic. Again, we're..."
Testimony MICHELLE ROZO
Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biote...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"And second, biotechnology is about far more than medicine. Leadership in biotech will shape agriculture, defense, economic competitiveness, and national power for decades to come. China's rise in biotechnology is no accident. For two decades, the Chinese government has pursued a national strategy for biotechnology leadership to dominate the sector using both legal and illegal means. And we can see the results most clearly in pharmaceutical biotech. Multinational pharmaceutical companies are..."
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Hydroxychloroquine, over 38 years of reporting, 142 deaths per year. Remdesivir, over five and a half years, 546 deaths per year. The COVID injection, almost 7,000 deaths per year. Which is safest? What did the FDA freak us out about? Ivermectin,"
Testimony DR. MATTHEW FUNAIOLE
Charting a New Course: Countering China's Dominance in Global Shipbuil...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I'll keep my comments brief. The most important part in any effort in that vein to me is aligning on what the long-term objectives are and making sure that any agreements that are put into place are robust enough that they are going to be maintained for years and decades to come, right? This is not something that can be solved in five years or 10 years. We're talking about a several-decade time horizon in order to address some of the concerns that we're facing now. Part of those efforts also..."
Testimony MR. BRENT SADLER
Charting a New Course: Countering China's Dominance in Global Shipbuil...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"When it comes to the time frame, everyone, and I'm also very guilty of this, it's not fast enough, but when we're talking about capital investments and industrial uptake, you're looking at fastest three years, probably pretty much above average is five years. And so we're really into the second year of the Hanwha investment into Philadelphia. In three years to five years, we should start to see more production, we should see labor issues starting to stabilize out, but it's going to take no less..."
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And above all, the safety of agency employees and the public remains our top priority. We are experiencing higher than average national fire activity after a dry winter. Extensive drought and excessive heat are worsening hazardous fuel conditions across large parts of the West and other areas as well. The agency stands ready to meet those challenges head-on and continues to focus on our priority work. We are prioritizing initial response so we can keep fires small, and we're invested in..."
Testimony VASQUEZ, GABE
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"In New Mexico, we pride ourselves on finding a balance between extraction and conservation, because we know with good conservation and management, we can do both. Our public lands define us as a people in New Mexico and as a state. But unfortunately, we're being hampered. In that mission, we've lost now 372 U.S. Forest Service employees in New Mexico that have been either fired or forced into retirement. Wildfire season here is now year-round, and we've seen the most devastating fires over the..."
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"They don't want to pay taxes. Trump doesn't want to pay taxes on billions of dollars that he earned last year. And this Republican committee, and Republicans in general, are determined that he doesn't ever face an audit about it. He can pay kind of what he wants to pay, and one year in the past, he was generous enough on huge earnings to pay $750, which was more than most years when he didn't pay a dime. Sponsors of this bill are telling us that they're so deeply troubled by foreign money going..."
Testimony COMER, JAMES
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"support to create a situation where we have independent IGs that actually do something, that don't work from home and take years and years and years to get something done. I'll use the post office as an example. Everyone in there agrees the post office has been a disaster for several years. The postal IG was in the office and all the things that I would think we would agree the IG should look at, they're studying, I think it was Austria, how Austria operates their postal service. Give me a..."
Testimony HARIDOPOLOS, MIKE
Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, I want to say it's been a great year for science. I mean, what a year with the incredible success with NASA, record funding for NASA, over $24 billion in last year's budget, an additional $10 billion. Of course, the Artemis 10-day mission around the moon for the first time since 1972, and better things to come, 192 launches last"
Testimony JOHNSON, DUSTY
"Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event P...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"coming. Of course, prediction markets aren't new. The idea of using markets to capture the wisdom of the crowd dates back centuries. At the CFTC, prediction markets have long been a part of the commission's work. In 1988, the agency first provided registration relief to Iowa electronic markets for their innovative political prediction market. Think about that, 1988. But as with all derivatives products, the landscape has changed a lot in the last 40 years, and I suspect it's going to change a..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio),...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"That number is obviously a huge reduction in time, but it's important to note where it comes from. I believe that we're finally reaching that 400-day timeline because we're actually following Congress's intention established in the Fiscal Responsibility Act to have our environmental assessments take a year and our environmental impact statements take two years. If the bulk of our projects are environmental assessments, we should be able to finish most of them in a little over a year. So that's..."
Testimony PETE HEGSETH
Hearings to examine a review of the President's supplemental funding r...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"We need to accelerate the timelines of those and deliver them even more quickly, and when you allow new entrants with all the right incentives, those things happen, and it's happening in that program. I believe because of the policies of this administration, it is likely to do so, just like the B-21, just like the F-47, just like so many other of our exquisite munitions that otherwise would have taken years and years to even get into development. We're moving those things left by, in some..."
Testimony BROOKE ROLLINS
Hearings to examine a review of the President's supplemental funding r...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"We are 100 percent supportive of that and are moving forward to execute that buy-up option. Thank you for your leadership on that, Senator. Why don't I follow up with you? I have not gotten a report from their visit, so I would like to do that first, but obviously you and I have been in a continuing conversation about that. The good news, there's no doubt our timber industry is in distress and has been for a long time. The fact that we import 90% or something from other countries of our lumber..."
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
"of the highest paid paying jobs into permatums. For example, although the bill limits its coverage to placements of less than less than a continuous year at a single site of service, keep in mind that they're very large health care networks with multiple sites. Large health care networks could, as a result, create permanent staffing lines occupied exclusively by independent contractors provided only that a staffer be shuttled around at least once a year. In fact, some actually form out the..."
Testimony GRIFFITH, H. MORGAN
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"that community pool might not exist if I hadn't bought a fair number of shares in it back in 1991, and I will confess, I sold a share this year, sold is a loose term, gave one to my youngest son when he turned 18, one of the shares that I own. So I understand there may be people doing big-time stuff, but there's also a lot of people, if that's a private placement, there's a lot of people who are doing things in their community where they've got a little community pool or some other thing that's..."
Testimony STEIL, BRYAN
Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 17, 2026
"of the SEC. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. I want to jump to you, Mr. Somensato, and talk DeFi a little bit. Building on a similar theme here, financial markets have grown along technological innovation. 200 years ago, finance relied on handwritten ledgers, horse-drawn or horse-delivered communications. A hundred years ago, telegraph and then telephone connected markets. Fifty years ago, we got closer to the Internet. Today, blockchain technology is giving us an ability to..."
Testimony STUTZMAN, MARLIN A.
Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 17, 2026
"just to be there and thinking about the history of our great country and the founding of our country and what we've done in the last 250 years. But our conversation today really is going to affect what the next 250 years is going to be like in our country. As we discussed earlier, one year ago today, this House passed the Clarity Act with one of the strongest bipartisan votes in Congress. It cleared Senate banking two months ago, yet it is still sitting on the Senate"
Testimony MOORE, TIM
Building the Future of Finance: How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 17, 2026
"signed into law and done, where do you see things five years, 10 years, and even we're gonna do the 20 year on that one, I don't think VHS is gonna be back though, Mr. Stutzman. I think that's gone. But where do you think we are, and how does that apply to the consumer out there across the"
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Hearings to examine the nomination of David Cummins, of Virginia, to b...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Do you think it's absolutely, not only gross politically, it's actually immoral? Because I went during the government shutdown to Cleveland Airport, I talked to government employees who told me, this is a grown man my age, who told me with tears in his eyes that he had to tell his 14 year old daughter he couldn't pay for her dance recital because he wasn't getting a paycheck, and how demasculating that was, and how he had to explain to his daughter he showed up for work, followed the rules, did..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenic...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"That's ridiculous. In addition to the fact that you were a career public servant for your entire life, you were a public defender, underpaid, overworked, not for a year, not for five years, but for years. The dignity and the service you have brought, no matter whether we disagree with your politics or not, should merit the praise of every single senator"
Testimony HARIDOPOLOS, MIKE
A Review of the Office of Space Commerce’s Mission Authorization Propo...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"to order. We can't be number one on Earth if we're number two in space. Under Jared Isaacman and President Trump's bold leadership, NASA is proving America belongs on top. This year we made great strides as evidenced by the successful Artemis II mission, which flew humans around the moon for the first time since 1972. We also have a thriving commercial space sector and a dynamic ecosystem powering every corner of the space economy. In Florida alone, we've almost doubled the number of private..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Hearings to examine the TRICARE pharmacy program.
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Stunningly, filling a generic medication at a retail pharmacy in TRICARE not only is cheaper for the beneficiaries via lower cost sharing, it's cheaper for the agency itself. According to their own reports, year over year over year, generic medications, on average, are cheaper at retail pharmacies than at Express Scripts mail-order pharmacy. In 2018, they were cheaper by 85% on average for a 30-day generic"
Testimony MORENO, BERNIE
Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"And what grade were you in? Gotcha. So you were nine years old, and this person served for 15 years in government, and we have this idea that maybe we double down on that process that failed for 15 years, that somehow we'd be better off, and yet you went in at your risk and exposed"
Testimony SPEAKER_15
H.R. 9641, H.R. 3108, H.R. 9642, H.R. 9468, H.R. 3514, H.R. 9644, and ...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"The Medicare trust fund is set to run out in 2033. That's seven years away. So if you're 58 years old and have been paying into Medicare for the last 40 years, Medicare won't have the funds to pay your hard-earned"
Testimony SPEAKER_17
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"well, what's the value of the building and contents? And then what would it take to replace that? And they write an estimate on that and that's a project worksheet. But because they do actual cost, they don't give them the money. The local governments now have to go get a contractor to go build a fire station. They have to get an estimate. They have to submit that to FEMA for being reviewed. Well, they want to change because the station was too small. They want to build it bigger. Well, FEMA..."
Testimony HURD, JEFF
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Okay, so what should it be? Like, how much? How long would it take for... What should the time frame for measuring this be? Should it be one year after enactment, two years, three years? How long do you"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"It's the American people. You've been protecting one man for most of your career, for years and years and years. He has demonstrated himself to put undue pressure. This is why he was impeached. This is why he was criminally"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN
Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Nonetheless, we take our responsibility as fiscal stewards very seriously. In fiscal year 2027, the court is requesting an additional $14 million, a 7% increase for salaries and expenses. Over the last five fiscal years, the Supreme Court's funding needs have grown on average 15% per year. Aside from annual inflationary increases, recent growth in the court's budget has"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN
Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"of decades, our docket has gone down. You know, when I clerked at the court, so that was, I'm afraid to say how long ago, but in the late 1980s, the court handled about 140 cases a year. The court now handles in terms of regular argued cases, maybe 70 cases a year. So a significant decrease. There's a cottage industry and explanations for why that decrease took place over time. But for all the time that I've been on the court, we've been relatively stable. So the last 15 years or so, we're..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN
Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"So, every year we have these events where we give little pins to people and so forth, and especially when they retire, and they—you know, it's like 30 years on the court, 40 years on the court, 25 years on the court, so this is not a building which is in constant turnover in terms of its employees. There is really long-term service in this building. I think people like to work there. I think people feel honored to work there, and the result is that we really don't have result is that we really..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"such as library and research services, case management, visitor services, IT facility management, and security. We carry out our work with relatively modest funding. Our budget represents just 2% of the judiciary branch's total funding, which in turn represents one-tenth of 1% of the federal budget. Nonetheless, we take our responsibility as fiscal stewards very seriously. In fiscal year 2027, the court is requesting an additional $14 million, a 7% increase for salaries and expenses. Over the..."
Testimony POCAN, MARK
Oversight Hearing - U.S. Small Business Administration
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"small business, just like last September, for example, average small business lost $42,600 because of tariffs. That's why I was asking if we had something in place because clearly I spent 37 years of my life since I had hair literally owning a small business. A year ago I sold it. But a small business, the handful of employees, I know you're used to big businesses because you're, you know, much wealthier person, I understand. But for the average small business, those are the ones that were..."
Testimony CLOUD, MICHAEL
Oversight Hearing - U.S. Small Business Administration
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I'm curious to know why you think that would have happened, and if you could speak to some of the protections you put in place with grants and with loans to make sure that the vetting process is good. It would seem like this has happened with negligence over time, but the lack of will to do something about it seems very troubling from year after year after year. Recently, Senator Joni Ernst received documents from the Biden SBA that during their time that they substituted the word Planned..."
Testimony TONKO, PAUL
Subcommittee Markup of Seven Pieces of Legislation
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"While the aims narrow scope of the bill to only block more protective standards or state waivers that relate to inducement strategies or DEF quality monitoring, it still allows the administrator to set weaker standards and unnecessarily targets existing state authority under the Clean Air Act to set more ambitious standards in order to protect public health. The aim still adds a five-year lead time for any updated standards or state waivers after the 10-year safe harbor effectively locking in..."
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
H.R. 139 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 8595 – National Secur...
house Rules Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"Thank you. I think I would have to agree with what several people have said, which is that if there's one thing Republicans, Democrats, and Independents agree upon, it's that Americans don't want to change their clocks twice a year. A Gallup poll from last year shows that 7 out of 10 Americans say we should ditch the switch. This opinion is also endorsed by our medical community, which strongly supports ending the biannual time change, warning that the twice yearly transition causes significant..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
“Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Over the past 17 months, we have made measurable progress in securing our borders. Following a peak in fiscal year 2024, when northern border apprehensions reached over 23,000, we achieved a 67 percent reduction in fiscal year 2025 and an additional 22 percent decrease this fiscal year. We have apprehended 33 gang and cartel members this year alone, including members of"
Hearing updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; General Services Administration Capital Investment and Leasing Program...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
MAST, BRIAN J. "River, which long before any of us was here, the U.S. Army took a river that snaked like a river, and they turned it into a channel, again, destroying another ecosystem, and we undid that damage and made it look like a river again, and in 2019, we delivered $60 million to raise up the Tamiami Trail so that water could flow south into the Everglades where it belongs. Year after year, just more and more work, we worked to redo the broken management plan known as the Lake Okeechobee Regulation Schedule and moved towards a new one called the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual. Just year..."
Hearing Safeguarding Federal Research Funds: The False Claims Act's Role in Combating Grant Fraud
house Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
WHITESIDES, GEORGE "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to call up a chart, if we're able to, and direct the witnesses' attention to the chart. This chart shows the cumulative NSF awards made by day by fiscal year. Can everybody see the chart? Okay. This shows the last few years as well as 2026 to date. The result of this chart should shock all Americans who care about our country's scientific enterprise. Last year, the Trump administration slow-rolled grants for most of the year and ended up with a much lower number of total grantees than any other year in the modern era. But this year is much worse. We're..."
Hearing AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepayers
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
MATSUI, DORIS O. "Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you and Ranking Member Castor for having this hearing today and thank the witnesses for being here today. It's been almost four years since Republicans took over this committee and almost four years since CHAP-GPT was released to the public in 2022. For four years, we've been talking about rising electricity demand from AI and the impact on Americans' electricity bills. But in four years, my Republican colleagues have only made the problem worse. Last year, Republicans' big ugly bill slashed tax credits for clean energy products, rooftop..."
Hearing Hearings to examine Social Security, focusing on a discussion on the facts and the path forward.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
KAINE, TIM "I mean, we're dealing with a critical component and it's the most significant component for most people's retirement. And when they hear that it's going to be insolvent in five years, four years, three years, two years, one year, they get nervous. We often praise what was done in 1983, but let's be honest. They waited until their backs were up against the"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council's Annual Report to Congress.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Feb 5, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "So a mortgage rate is two components. We could say that it is a derivative of the 10-year, but it's really a 7.5-year. And we have seen that decline, and then it is the spread between the 10-year bond and the actual mortgage security, and we have seen that is at multi-year lows. So what we saw in January was the lowest mortgage rates in almost three years. Well, yes, because two things,"
Hearing “Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream”
house Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
FROST, MAXWELL "We want to protect our biodiversity. We have things called hurricanes that happen every year. In fact, every year for the past several years, we've had a 100-year hurricane, a hurricane that's only supposed to happen one every 100 years. It is standards that help ensure that homes are built in the right places, that there's flooding mitigation in place, that building standards, building rules, all this"
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
GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E. "AI didn't invent these scams. It supercharged them, making old cons more convincing and far easier to pull off. AI deception takes other forms too. Tools that are built without real safeguards can hallucinate and feed older adults dangerously wrong information. Last year, Reuters reported an AI chatbot that repeatedly insisted it was human and invited a 76-year-old man to an address in New York City. He fell on his way to the train station and died of his injuries. This year, the New York Times reported that an AI tool gave a 75-year-old man medical advice, and he delayed his cancer treatment..."
Hearing Hearings to examine advancing the mission, focusing on evaluating the future of VA research.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MORAN, JERRY "That's a bill that's included in the Take Care of America Act, Veterans Act, and I look forward to finding that path that not only takes care of the Richard Starr Act, but this broad array of widely supported by VSO and by veterans across the country pieces of legislation. The challenge we've had, we have had six years of people sponsoring the Richard Starr Act, six years in which people have said we're for the Act, but it has failed to pass year after year after year, and in part, that is because there is not an offset to pay for, which is required by law, those provisions, not only in the..."
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
SANDERS, BERNARD "is a poison pill intended to further delay warning labels on ultra processed food. We've been talking about labels year after year after year. We understand what exists now is inadequate. The time is now to do it. For more than 30 years, the food and beverage industry has been required to put nutritional labeling on their products. These labels are totally inadequate. I think most of us know that putting warning labels on ultra processed foods will not lead to higher overall grocery prices. We've seen that in other countries around the world. There are a lot of reasons why food prices are..."
Hearing H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R. 9504
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript
HERN, KEVIN "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My Democrat colleagues are very concerned about private equity and it has been widely reported year over year over year over year that tax-exempt hospitals actually spend less on charity than for-profit hospitals. In fact, the majority of non-profit hospitals receive more taxpayer subsidies than they return in community benefits, according to the Nonpartisan Loan"
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 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
MURPHY, GREGORY F. "and this is really a fascinating conversation, just living in the world of medicine. And just seeing the takeover of AI and how we are doing things so radically different, literally, in the last three years than we were three years, just in the last three years, and how the next three years are going to be an explosion. This is going to change our entire I think there are some, I don't want to say warmongers, but people who think, oh, the world is going to crash to an"
Hearing Hearings to examine reforming the U.S. Postal Service's business model.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE DAVID STEINER "You know, when you look at what we've suggested to states now for years and years and years and years, it is exactly this rule. You know, if you look at it, whether it's Connecticut, Michigan, California, we have something we call Kit"
Hearing “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MS. RACHEL GOODE "Old data shows 14 years or less because that's going back to 1984 when there were less entrenched patent tickets. The latest data dated 2026 showing the last 10 years of how long it took biosimilars to get on the market was 18 years of exclusivity for the brand, but Congress thought 12 years was appropriate with FDA exclusivity and Congress allowed patent term extension up to 14 years, so 18 years is four years longer than Congress ever"
Hearing H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_30 "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Moulton for introducing this important amendment. Thirty-seven percent year over year in the base budget, almost 50 percent from last year overall, $1.5 trillion, $1.5 trillion taxpayer dollars, at the same time that this year we gave, this administration, certainly not me, gave a trillion dollar tax cut to the top 1 percent, most of which went to the top .1 percent of the American people. This just does not pass the common sense"
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
SPEAKER_42 "What that means, the billions of dollars in market access that we lost between 21 and 24 are real. And so gaining those back, we're expecting record exports of corn this year, dairy this year, tree nuts this year, ethanol this year. Fresh fruits and veggies are up. All of these are"
Hearing Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
VAN DUYNE, BETH "So I'm going to ask you, what are you doing on August 6th? Let me tell you. For the fifth consecutive year, I am hosting what has become the nation's largest job fair. Last year, we had over 500 businesses that represented over 33,000 jobs, and we had about 35,000 people came last year to Globe Life Field, and we're going to do it again this year, August 6th. And we would love to have you there. I am formally inviting you right now to attend, because if you want to know about economic policy, don't ask anybody in Washington. Ask the single mom who now has a job that pays the bills. Ask a vet..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, "“Oversight of the Architect of the Capitol: Addressing Past Lessons, Present Projects,...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
MR. THOMAS AUSTIN "But I hesitate to give numbers associated with these because I think it undersells the amount of work that would be required to do so. We've had discussions in the past where numbers have been thrown out that would not be sufficient in order to take care of all of these missions. And just this budget year alone, we have over $600 million of identified projects that we're looking to do, and this exists in a time continuum. So if we don't do those in present year or current years, they get pushed into future years because none of that work really goes away. It just gets added to future..."
Hearing “Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relationship to the Tiahrt Amendment”
house Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee · May 14, 2026 · Transcript
GOSAR, PAUL A. "Congress must pass my bill to defund state registries and eliminate all federal gun owner registries. Uh, whether it lasts 60 years, 30 years, 20 years, and 10 years, a registry is still a registry. Congress has always rejected the idea of government keeping a list of firearm"
Hearing Hearings to examine the American Entrepreneurship for 250 Years: Driving Innovation, Growth, and Opportunity.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "My grandmother, his wife of 71 years, continued to report to the Ford showroom every day until she was 98 years old. Their son Robert, my dad, spent a 60-year career at Grapponi until his retirement last year, and after 28 years in the business, I became the company's president on the first of the year. Our team is 235 people strong, and we are proud to partner with three of the world's top automotive manufacturers, Ford, Mazda, and"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Interior.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "Extended to nine months. And then those, and this, and the Park Service has always been built around, around people that are part-time, quote, summer, but nine months, but they come back year after year after year. We don't need to have people working 12 months a year when places, we have many of our parks that close during the wintertime. I would like to get the data, though, because I'm not sure what scale you're using on that shows that dramatic drop, because that doesn't match. I just want to be clear to the rest of me. The line on that chart doesn't match anything that I know about our..."
Hearing “An Update on DoD’s Struggling Background Check System”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Feb 24, 2026 · Transcript
MFUME, KWEISI "Do you think your predecessor felt the same way, was driven the same way? Well, and I understand it and I appreciate it, but you have to realize what it's like to sit here year after year after year after year and be told the same thing, that it's getting better, the organization understands, we've got the right path, we're going to be transparent. And in that process, contractor after contractor is billing the United States government for services that I assume are never fully completed within a caveat saying we couldn't do"
Hearing "Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country"
house Agriculture Committee · Feb 11, 2025 · Transcript
SCOTT, AUSTIN "And I think until we get to that point, just rural America's economy is going to continue to suffer until we have adequate support. That said, just over a year ago, Secretary Vilsack testified before this committee claiming that the previous three years of net cash income were the best three years in 50 years. And I'm quoting him there, the best years for net cash income"
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
JOHNSON, RON "increased pretty significantly, and above, beyond that, and of course 2014, it really took off. Next chart. This is what we'd be spending if we took the 2014 spending, again, which is already first year into Medicaid expansion, and just increase that by population and inflation. We'd be spending 441 billion dollars in fiscal year 2025. Next chart. This shows, again, actual spending on top of that inflation population growth from 2014 through 2019, the year before the pandemic. Again, we're running ahead of that baseline. Next chart. So let's say you take 2019"
Hearing Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biotechnology.
senate Health Care Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
MICHELLE ROZO "And second, biotechnology is about far more than medicine. Leadership in biotech will shape agriculture, defense, economic competitiveness, and national power for decades to come. China's rise in biotechnology is no accident. For two decades, the Chinese government has pursued a national strategy for biotechnology leadership to dominate the sector using both legal and illegal means. And we can see the results most clearly in pharmaceutical biotech. Multinational pharmaceutical companies are increasingly going to China to acquire cutting edge innovation. Last year alone, companies entered into..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
JOHNSON, RON "Hydroxychloroquine, over 38 years of reporting, 142 deaths per year. Remdesivir, over five and a half years, 546 deaths per year. The COVID injection, almost 7,000 deaths per year. Which is safest? What did the FDA freak us out about? Ivermectin,"
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
DOGGETT, LLOYD "They don't want to pay taxes. Trump doesn't want to pay taxes on billions of dollars that he earned last year. And this Republican committee, and Republicans in general, are determined that he doesn't ever face an audit about it. He can pay kind of what he wants to pay, and one year in the past, he was generous enough on huge earnings to pay $750, which was more than most years when he didn't pay a dime. Sponsors of this bill are telling us that they're so deeply troubled by foreign money going into nonprofit organizations, but they ignore the leading tax-exempt organization in this country,..."
Hearing the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacists Fight Back [in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans Act]; 2) H.R. 9720,...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
COMER, JAMES "support to create a situation where we have independent IGs that actually do something, that don't work from home and take years and years and years to get something done. I'll use the post office as an example. Everyone in there agrees the post office has been a disaster for several years. The postal IG was in the office and all the things that I would think we would agree the IG should look at, they're studying, I think it was Austria, how Austria operates their postal service. Give me a break. We've got to have some reform within this. I think that this is"
Hearing Unleashing the Golden Age of Science: Examining the Priorities of the FY2027 Research and Technology Enterprise
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
HARIDOPOLOS, MIKE "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, I want to say it's been a great year for science. I mean, what a year with the incredible success with NASA, record funding for NASA, over $24 billion in last year's budget, an additional $10 billion. Of course, the Artemis 10-day mission around the moon for the first time since 1972, and better things to come, 192 launches last"
Hearing "Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event Prediction Markets"
house Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
JOHNSON, DUSTY "coming. Of course, prediction markets aren't new. The idea of using markets to capture the wisdom of the crowd dates back centuries. At the CFTC, prediction markets have long been a part of the commission's work. In 1988, the agency first provided registration relief to Iowa electronic markets for their innovative political prediction market. Think about that, 1988. But as with all derivatives products, the landscape has changed a lot in the last 40 years, and I suspect it's going to change a lot in the next few years to come. And it's because technology has supercharged the growth of these..."
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_13 "That number is obviously a huge reduction in time, but it's important to note where it comes from. I believe that we're finally reaching that 400-day timeline because we're actually following Congress's intention established in the Fiscal Responsibility Act to have our environmental assessments take a year and our environmental impact statements take two years. If the bulk of our projects are environmental assessments, we should be able to finish most of them in a little over a year. So that's really the number that we're tacking towards, and I think it really shows that we are relying on the..."
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
SPEAKER_06 "of the highest paid paying jobs into permatums. For example, although the bill limits its coverage to placements of less than less than a continuous year at a single site of service, keep in mind that they're very large health care networks with multiple sites. Large health care networks could, as a result, create permanent staffing lines occupied exclusively by independent contractors provided only that a staffer be shuttled around at least once a year. In fact, some actually form out the human resources office and make everybody a temporary employee. All you got to do is change the site..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of David Cummins, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "Do you think it's absolutely, not only gross politically, it's actually immoral? Because I went during the government shutdown to Cleveland Airport, I talked to government employees who told me, this is a grown man my age, who told me with tears in his eyes that he had to tell his 14 year old daughter he couldn't pay for her dance recital because he wasn't getting a paycheck, and how demasculating that was, and how he had to explain to his daughter he showed up for work, followed the rules, did what he was told, weren't there for 20 plus years, and because of politicians here in Washington..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenico, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "That's ridiculous. In addition to the fact that you were a career public servant for your entire life, you were a public defender, underpaid, overworked, not for a year, not for five years, but for years. The dignity and the service you have brought, no matter whether we disagree with your politics or not, should merit the praise of every single senator"
Hearing A Review of the Office of Space Commerce’s Mission Authorization Proposal
house Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
HARIDOPOLOS, MIKE "to order. We can't be number one on Earth if we're number two in space. Under Jared Isaacman and President Trump's bold leadership, NASA is proving America belongs on top. This year we made great strides as evidenced by the successful Artemis II mission, which flew humans around the moon for the first time since 1972. We also have a thriving commercial space sector and a dynamic ecosystem powering every corner of the space economy. In Florida alone, we've almost doubled the number of private sector jobs since 2011 when we lost the shuttle. Also in the last five years, we watched a number of..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the TRICARE pharmacy program.
senate Personnel Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "Stunningly, filling a generic medication at a retail pharmacy in TRICARE not only is cheaper for the beneficiaries via lower cost sharing, it's cheaper for the agency itself. According to their own reports, year over year over year, generic medications, on average, are cheaper at retail pharmacies than at Express Scripts mail-order pharmacy. In 2018, they were cheaper by 85% on average for a 30-day generic"
Hearing Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
MORENO, BERNIE "And what grade were you in? Gotcha. So you were nine years old, and this person served for 15 years in government, and we have this idea that maybe we double down on that process that failed for 15 years, that somehow we'd be better off, and yet you went in at your risk and exposed"
Hearing H.R. 9641, H.R. 3108, H.R. 9642, H.R. 9468, H.R. 3514, H.R. 9644, and H.R. 9645
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "The Medicare trust fund is set to run out in 2033. That's seven years away. So if you're 58 years old and have been paying into Medicare for the last 40 years, Medicare won't have the funds to pay your hard-earned"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
BOOKER, CORY A. "It's the American people. You've been protecting one man for most of your career, for years and years and years. He has demonstrated himself to put undue pressure. This is why he was impeached. This is why he was criminally"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Supreme Court of the United States.
senate Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE ELENA KAGAN "such as library and research services, case management, visitor services, IT facility management, and security. We carry out our work with relatively modest funding. Our budget represents just 2% of the judiciary branch's total funding, which in turn represents one-tenth of 1% of the federal budget. Nonetheless, we take our responsibility as fiscal stewards very seriously. In fiscal year 2027, the court is requesting an additional $14 million, a 7% increase for salaries and expenses. Over the last five fiscal years, the Supreme Court's funding needs have grown on average 15% per year. Aside..."
Hearing Subcommittee Markup of Seven Pieces of Legislation
house Environment Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
TONKO, PAUL "While the aims narrow scope of the bill to only block more protective standards or state waivers that relate to inducement strategies or DEF quality monitoring, it still allows the administrator to set weaker standards and unnecessarily targets existing state authority under the Clean Air Act to set more ambitious standards in order to protect public health. The aim still adds a five-year lead time for any updated standards or state waivers after the 10-year safe harbor effectively locking in older protections for 15 years. Freezing EPA vehicle standards in place for 15 years would stifle..."
Hearing H.R. 139 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 8595 – National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027;...
house Rules Committee · Jul 13, 2026 · Transcript
SCANLON, MARY GAY "Thank you. I think I would have to agree with what several people have said, which is that if there's one thing Republicans, Democrats, and Independents agree upon, it's that Americans don't want to change their clocks twice a year. A Gallup poll from last year shows that 7 out of 10 Americans say we should ditch the switch. This opinion is also endorsed by our medical community, which strongly supports ending the biannual time change, warning that the twice yearly transition causes significant physical and mental health disruptions. We've heard about accidents. We've heard about more heart..."
Hearing “Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America's Northern Border”
house Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "Over the past 17 months, we have made measurable progress in securing our borders. Following a peak in fiscal year 2024, when northern border apprehensions reached over 23,000, we achieved a 67 percent reduction in fiscal year 2025 and an additional 22 percent decrease this fiscal year. We have apprehended 33 gang and cartel members this year alone, including members of"