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The July 19th Global IT Outages
Posts · Jul 23, 2024
On July 19, 2024, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike pushed an update to its software that caused some devices running the Windows operating system to crash. The day before, there was a separate outage...
Testimony MS. LISA DYER
Where Are We?: Examining Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilit...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"those are localized events, and the focus should be on the bad actors and stopping the bad actors, as opposed to the focus on GPS. Why people should care. It is an incredible achievement, as many of us have said up here, just how much ease it brings to our lives. I have a lovely 2009 Atlas in my car still. It was given to me by a dear uncle, but it is so amazing to be able to pull out and navigate. I like being able to take transactions on my phones. I like knowing that military has the..."
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"I wanted to be able to raise some of those to be able to walk through some of this because it has been very, very challenging. As we've gone through some of your notes and your diary and other things that are out there, we're trying to be able to pull bits and pieces of things to be able to learn lessons. On May the 6th, 2020, you wrote at that time, I had a conversation with Robert Redfield, as you know well, was then the director of CDC, about the fact that greater than 1"
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"That red light on the dash has been flashing for a long time, but the challenge is when we have a conversation about Social Security, it immediately becomes an issue of fear mongering across the country that this is all about taking benefits away. But we're actually trying to be able to get to a point that no one loses benefit. In fact, we stabilize the program long term is the goal of this, but it is a real challenge to be able to have a grown-up conversation about this to try to figure out..."
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"I know you're invoking your Fifth Amendment right, which you have the right to be able to do constitutionally, but thanks for coming and being a part of this. There are a lot of issues and a lot of questions that have come up, and hopefully someday in the future, we'll be able to get all this clarity and be able to pull together. There were over a million Americans that died from COVID. You know that well. You were tracking the numbers literally every single day, those affected and those that..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I would prefer to have gone much further and much more granularity in data, but for many of the conversations we had, this seemed to be a communal agreement on a starting point. So we're going to hopefully, with this bill, start to collect some baseline data on the scale of it, and then be able to pull out if it's a country of concern. With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield"
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to ...
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"It has grown to a multi-thousand person organization. There have been a lot of questions around this dais to try to figure out, is it the right size? We have a lot of people that are detailed from a lot of our intelligence agencies to the Director of National Intelligence Office now. We're trying to be able to figure out, that's the right places to continue to be able to pull people out of their agencies and pull them over there, or some of them need to return back to their agencies. Obviously,..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE AMY CONEY BARRETT
Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"with local law enforcement authorities, and when we are interacting with other entities within the judiciary, lower courts or at circuit conferences, then there is a lot of coordination with the marshal service. I think some of the specifics I probably don't know enough to speak with specificity, but probably would have to say that would be like in a private We are each assigned between four and eight members of a security detail, but in particular moments when the need arises and especially if..."
Testimony STEIL, BRYAN
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “The Congres...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 25, 2026
"Does AI, just an interjection, does AI speed that up in the sense of some of these AI tools can get you a quick, accurate answer? Obviously, then in the current tools require human oversight to review, double check, confirm those sources, although they may be able to pull up that source almost in real time. How do you think about I'm going to totally shift topics for our final 90 seconds siloing inside CRS and how do you build those collaborative teams where people have depth of expertise in..."
Testimony STEVEN NORDHAUS
Budget Hearing – National Guard and Reserve Forces
house Appropriations Committee · Apr 17, 2026
"Congressman, yes. Last year I went to Fort Polk for JRTC and out to Fort Irwin for NTC. This is where our units are getting that complex training environment across the board to be able to pull that all together. And so each one of these rotations are critical to National Guard's readiness for mission sets that we might get asked to do, or are part of a GIFMAP rotation, a global force management rotation in the future, and so it gets our units ready to go so that they can go forward, so they're..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
LANKFORD, JAMES "I wanted to be able to raise some of those to be able to walk through some of this because it has been very, very challenging. As we've gone through some of your notes and your diary and other things that are out there, we're trying to be able to pull bits and pieces of things to be able to learn lessons. On May the 6th, 2020, you wrote at that time, I had a conversation with Robert Redfield, as you know well, was then the director of CDC, about the fact that greater than 1"
Hearing Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social Security solvency.
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
LANKFORD, JAMES "That red light on the dash has been flashing for a long time, but the challenge is when we have a conversation about Social Security, it immediately becomes an issue of fear mongering across the country that this is all about taking benefits away. But we're actually trying to be able to get to a point that no one loses benefit. In fact, we stabilize the program long term is the goal of this, but it is a real challenge to be able to have a grown-up conversation about this to try to figure out how do we resolve it. I am one that's supportive of this committee doing its work to be able to..."
Testimony PETERS, GARY C.
Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the De...
senate Appropriations Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"responders, infrastructure, and so much more. And fully carrying out these tests is a necessary part of making sure that we're able to actually pull that off. So given these facts, I just need a yes or no answer. Will you commit to undoing the cancellations of these four testing sites and commit"
Hearing Where Are We?: Examining Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilities in the United States
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MS. LISA DYER "those are localized events, and the focus should be on the bad actors and stopping the bad actors, as opposed to the focus on GPS. Why people should care. It is an incredible achievement, as many of us have said up here, just how much ease it brings to our lives. I have a lovely 2009 Atlas in my car still. It was given to me by a dear uncle, but it is so amazing to be able to pull out and navigate. I like being able to take transactions on my phones. I like knowing that military has the top-of-the-line technology to protect us overseas and to protect themselves"
Hearing H.R. 9772, H.R. 9771, H.R. 9721, and H.R. 9722
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_13 "I would prefer to have gone much further and much more granularity in data, but for many of the conversations we had, this seemed to be a communal agreement on a starting point. So we're going to hopefully, with this bill, start to collect some baseline data on the scale of it, and then be able to pull out if it's a country of concern. With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence.
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
LANKFORD, JAMES "It has grown to a multi-thousand person organization. There have been a lot of questions around this dais to try to figure out, is it the right size? We have a lot of people that are detailed from a lot of our intelligence agencies to the Director of National Intelligence Office now. We're trying to be able to figure out, that's the right places to continue to be able to pull people out of their agencies and pull them over there, or some of them need to return back to their agencies. Obviously, you're not there at this point, but you've led a lot of large"
Hearing Budget Hearing - Supreme Court of the United States
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE AMY CONEY BARRETT "with local law enforcement authorities, and when we are interacting with other entities within the judiciary, lower courts or at circuit conferences, then there is a lot of coordination with the marshal service. I think some of the specifics I probably don't know enough to speak with specificity, but probably would have to say that would be like in a private We are each assigned between four and eight members of a security detail, but in particular moments when the need arises and especially if someone is under a particular threat or if they're speaking more publicly so they're more in 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
STEIL, BRYAN "Does AI, just an interjection, does AI speed that up in the sense of some of these AI tools can get you a quick, accurate answer? Obviously, then in the current tools require human oversight to review, double check, confirm those sources, although they may be able to pull up that source almost in real time. How do you think about I'm going to totally shift topics for our final 90 seconds siloing inside CRS and how do you build those collaborative teams where people have depth of expertise in certain certain areas. You also have a separate IT"
Hearing Budget Hearing – National Guard and Reserve Forces
house Defense Subcommittee · Apr 17, 2026 · Transcript
STEVEN NORDHAUS "Congressman, yes. Last year I went to Fort Polk for JRTC and out to Fort Irwin for NTC. This is where our units are getting that complex training environment across the board to be able to pull that all together. And so each one of these rotations are critical to National Guard's readiness for mission sets that we might get asked to do, or are part of a GIFMAP rotation, a global force management rotation in the future, and so it gets our units ready to go so that they can go forward, so they're critical to our readiness. In"
Hearing Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the Department of Commerce.
senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
PETERS, GARY C. "responders, infrastructure, and so much more. And fully carrying out these tests is a necessary part of making sure that we're able to actually pull that off. So given these facts, I just need a yes or no answer. Will you commit to undoing the cancellations of these four testing sites and commit"
Hearing Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the Abraham Accords
house Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE DAVID FRIEDMAN "Do we have to look at reality, the fact that Hamas still fully controls Gaza, the fact that there is no other force other than the IDF that will actually go and do the difficult and dangerous work of disarming Hamas, and that if we pull back, Hamas will be able to easily shoot into Israeli communities once again? I think we have to recognize the realities and look to expand peace, both with the Palestinians and in the region, while looking reality straight in the"
Hearing “An Update on DoD’s Struggling Background Check System”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Feb 24, 2026 · Transcript
SESSIONS, PETE "For them to take that as a lesson, a learning opportunity, perhaps they're better positioned to do something different. Not to get in the way, and not when you've accepted responsibility, I expect you to be able to have the bandwidth to pull that off, notwithstanding a myriad of federal laws. Employment laws. One last point that I would like to"
Hearing “Legislative Hearing on: H.R: 6733, The “VISN Reform Act of 2025”; H.R.6580, The “VA National Formulary Act of 2025”; H.R.6599, The “Leasing and...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
MURPHY, GREGORY F. "And there's the patience of Job when listening to an artificial intelligence. We have that we have this documented within the private system already for pre-op visits when patients call and say, hey, I don't understand this, and they go on and on and on. If we can institute this system, that will then be able to query that veteran's electronic medical record, pull data from this, and really take out the massive bureaucracy, streamline this. I think this will be actually earth shattering for the veteran and for our future systems to be able to cut through needless human bureaucracy, get our..."
Hearing Hearings to examine Department of Defense missile defense activities in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2027 and the...
senate Strategic Forces Subcommittee · Apr 27, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "We have built in a layered set of capabilities, multi-domain set of capabilities so that we can, we have pulled our capabilities off of the grid to be able to operate independently at the tactical edge if necessary and if they are disconnected from the broader enterprise, if you"
Hearing Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 12, 2026 · Transcript
CISCOMANI, JUAN "For years, the U.S. has failed to build enough housing to keep up with today's demand. This shortage has created a significant need for additional affordable housing in southern Arizona and communities across the country. We see a common theme, costs are higher, making it more difficult for families to enter the marketplace. So as you know, earlier this year, I introduced the FAST Housing Act, which directs HUD to launch a new pilot demonstration program for up to 50 communities in need of affordable housing to compete for federal funding. To qualify communities, we need to pull back..."
Hearing Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biotechnology.
senate Health Care Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
ALAN D. PALKOWITZ "We need to make sure that the translational expertise, which is different from what you may find in an academic environment, groups that have the technology, that have the know-how of how to take a hypothesis and convert it into a molecule that actually can be part of a clinical trial and be the source of IP and value creation. That requires an infrastructure, that requires expertise, and that requires investment. So we have to make sure that we can de-risk some of these ideas to the point where we pull investors in, we leverage private capital more effectively to really be able to drive..."
Hearing “A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security”
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
POU, NELLIE "Secretary, I'm so sorry. I know. No, no. I appreciate it. It sounds to me like you're agreeing that you will not be pulling any of the officers from the NORC International Airport so long as the two entities are able to work, and it appears as though that there is cooperation being held. Very well. Thank you so very much. I'm not trying to be rude. I just want to make sure that I get an opportunity to ask the other questions. As you know, last week, I conducted a visit to Delaney Hall. This was an oversight of a rogue facility that should, in my opinion, be shut down. What I witnessed was..."
Hearing “DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · May 13, 2026 · Transcript
MR. THOMAS HARKER "It's Advancing Analytics. It's a system where we pull all of the data from every financial management system, logistic system, and HR system, and we're able to apply analytics, AI, process mining to the entire population. That's given us great insight that's been very helpful as we move forward with the audit. It's going to be one of the key things that gets us across the finish line on the FY28 audit getting us a clean opinion. Yes, ma'am. We have a significant effort going around this so that we can go in and trace the problems that cause the journal vouchers back to their original system..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Glen Smith, of Iowa, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Nov 5, 2025 · Transcript
LUJÁN, BEN RAY "going with OMB and Mr. Vought that a lot of these grants and things, they've just been getting stalled. And again, not necessarily a question, I just hope that's another area when, at the table, because you'll be in the room, you'll be at the table with the secretary and everyone else, that we say, hey, we've got to find a way to keep these rural clinics open so that when a farmer or someone gets cut by an implement or they're pulling out the bandsaw, man, and something happens and you've got to get in quick to be able to reconnect, that we get that done. So I hope that we can find some time..."
Hearing Hearings to examine veteran health and healing through adaptive sports.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "that week of it being introduced to multiple sports changed my life forever. I went to one of the clinics where they show the archery and I was watching everybody else sit around and shoot and I was like, okay, it's cool, but I don't have an arm to use, so how in the world I'm going to be able to do this? And one of the coaches there heard me say it, he reached in his pocket, pulled a string out and tied it around the bow and said, bite down on this and pull. That was before COVID, so I trusted him, he was like, okay, I'll do this. And once that arrow hit the target, I was like, wow, this is..."
Hearing Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_17 "is always bipartisan, always, when you go through the process on that, and that is true in the Senate as well. The Senate requires both sides to have to sit down and talk like grown-ups and figure out our differences and to be able to solve those. To be able to have, to be able to remove the requirement to have 60 on appropriations, which is the gist of this proposal on this, would pull away that requirement that we have bipartisan conversation in the Senate. It also would add into it in this particular"
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act".
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
LANKFORD, JAMES "Mr. Chairman, thank you. Thanks for pulling this hearing together to be an amendment that has been included in the bill that I just want to be able to highlight and that deals with non-profits. There's so many people that consider non-profits exactly like other small businesses and I always smile and say most of them want to operate like in other small business but they're dominantly run by volunteers who struggle with their own life and their own work and they set aside time to be able to also be involved in non-profits. Non-profits are the third largest employer in our country but they have..."
Hearing Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Act's Mobile Source Requirements
house Environment Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
LANDSMAN, GREG "Ms. Garcia, just as it relates to the idling rules and kids, I mean, the asthma piece is a big deal. I mean, how expensive, if we were to pull back and just say, you know, we're going to have this one standard and we're not going to have states be able to decide because each state is a little different, the asthma rates go up or down? And, you know, much more"
Hearing Hearings to examine Water Resources Development Act of 2026, focusing on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, programs, and priorities.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Feb 25, 2026 · Transcript
SULLIVAN, DAN "In December, the Lake TAP became as the preferred option. People thought there was momentum building. And the concern is in Juno, right, is the Corps has pulled back, gone quiet without clearly explaining the change in the direction to the community. So what I want to do here is I want to be able to put that issue to rest. I know people in Juno are literally watching this hearing. It's that big of a deal. There is a real frustration in the community. And I think with transparency, and look, I trust you guys, right? You've been on it in a clear path forward with"
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026 · Transcript
MASSIE, THOMAS "testimony to the FBI and it's in there. And what happens when you go to the portal at the DOJ to look at what's behind this redaction? Another redaction. So we can't even see them. And then there's some of these files you've pulled down from the website that we will never see because we can't search the redactions. So I have several questions for you. Who's responsible? Are you able to track who in your organization that made this massive failure and released the victims names? Are you able to track who it was that obscured Les Wexner's name as a co-conspirator in an FBI document? Do"
Hearing Hearings to examine a grateful nation, focusing on maximizing veteran's success after service.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Nov 5, 2025 · Transcript
BRIEN "their zip code from their original home of record. That is something that they share with us. And so then we're able to discern, you know, we know about a third stay, a third return home to their states and a third return. Once they disperse, that opportunity is gone. Yep. And so we can pull data and share data and make educated decisions on where we think people may go based on their original home of record. And so for us, the best piece of what we do is that we're able to connect with them before they transition. I'd also encourage people to really think about, and I'm far removed now, how..."
Hearing Full Committee Markup of 16 Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
DUNN, NEAL P. "This legislation has been approved through this process, incorporating many suggestions from automakers, franchise dealers, and everybody alike. I have been disappointed to see the bipartisan consensus language pulled for what is included today, language that I saw only two days ago. I want to thank Chairman Guthrie, his team, his fellow members, and stakeholders for their workholders on this bill, and I appreciate the commitment of the Chair and the Ranking Member to continue to work on this matter. With that, I'll be able to support the broader bill today, but please know I want to get the..."
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
PAUL BENDA "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, I can't have you as eloquent as our two other witnesses, and the risk especially to doctors and to seniors that I think they pose in the threat that's out there. I think the education is a key piece to it that's going forward. But I also think people need to recognize the risk that AI, when I talk about the industrialization of this, just as companies are using chatbots to engage individuals in a broader basis and then link that to a human, the criminals are engaging the same thing. They're going to start the conversation with a chatbot, then hand it off to..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE DAVID FRIEDMAN
Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the A...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Do we have to look at reality, the fact that Hamas still fully controls Gaza, the fact that there is no other force other than the IDF that will actually go and do the difficult and dangerous work of disarming Hamas, and that if we pull back, Hamas will be able to easily shoot into Israeli communities once again? I think we have to recognize the realities and look to expand peace, both with the Palestinians and in the region, while looking reality straight in the"
Testimony SESSIONS, PETE
“An Update on DoD’s Struggling Background Check System”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"For them to take that as a lesson, a learning opportunity, perhaps they're better positioned to do something different. Not to get in the way, and not when you've accepted responsibility, I expect you to be able to have the bandwidth to pull that off, notwithstanding a myriad of federal laws. Employment laws. One last point that I would like to"
CRS Report
Energy Storage for Power Grids and Electric Transportation: A Technology Assessment
Reports · Mar 27, 2012
Energy storage technology has great potential to improve electric power grids, to enable growth in renewable electricity generation, and to provide alternatives to oil-derived fuels in the nation’s...
Testimony MURPHY, GREGORY F.
“Legislative Hearing on: H.R: 6733, The “VISN Reform Act of 2025”; H.R...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · May 20, 2026
"And there's the patience of Job when listening to an artificial intelligence. We have that we have this documented within the private system already for pre-op visits when patients call and say, hey, I don't understand this, and they go on and on and on. If we can institute this system, that will then be able to query that veteran's electronic medical record, pull data from this, and really take out the massive bureaucracy, streamline this. I think this will be actually earth shattering for the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Hearings to examine Department of Defense missile defense activities i...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 27, 2026
"We have built in a layered set of capabilities, multi-domain set of capabilities so that we can, we have pulled our capabilities off of the grid to be able to operate independently at the tactical edge if necessary and if they are disconnected from the broader enterprise, if you"
Testimony CISCOMANI, JUAN
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"For years, the U.S. has failed to build enough housing to keep up with today's demand. This shortage has created a significant need for additional affordable housing in southern Arizona and communities across the country. We see a common theme, costs are higher, making it more difficult for families to enter the marketplace. So as you know, earlier this year, I introduced the FAST Housing Act, which directs HUD to launch a new pilot demonstration program for up to 50 communities in need of..."
Testimony ALAN D. PALKOWITZ
Hearings to examine building a resilient health care future with biote...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"We need to make sure that the translational expertise, which is different from what you may find in an academic environment, groups that have the technology, that have the know-how of how to take a hypothesis and convert it into a molecule that actually can be part of a clinical trial and be the source of IP and value creation. That requires an infrastructure, that requires expertise, and that requires investment. So we have to make sure that we can de-risk some of these ideas to the point..."
Testimony POU, NELLIE
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Secretary, I'm so sorry. I know. No, no. I appreciate it. It sounds to me like you're agreeing that you will not be pulling any of the officers from the NORC International Airport so long as the two entities are able to work, and it appears as though that there is cooperation being held. Very well. Thank you so very much. I'm not trying to be rude. I just want to make sure that I get an opportunity to ask the other questions. As you know, last week, I conducted a visit to Delaney Hall. This was..."
Testimony MR. THOMAS HARKER
“DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 13, 2026
"It's Advancing Analytics. It's a system where we pull all of the data from every financial management system, logistic system, and HR system, and we're able to apply analytics, AI, process mining to the entire population. That's given us great insight that's been very helpful as we move forward with the audit. It's going to be one of the key things that gets us across the finish line on the FY28 audit getting us a clean opinion. Yes, ma'am. We have a significant effort going around this so that..."
Testimony LUJÁN, BEN RAY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Glen Smith, of Iowa, to be Under...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Nov 5, 2025
"going with OMB and Mr. Vought that a lot of these grants and things, they've just been getting stalled. And again, not necessarily a question, I just hope that's another area when, at the table, because you'll be in the room, you'll be at the table with the secretary and everyone else, that we say, hey, we've got to find a way to keep these rural clinics open so that when a farmer or someone gets cut by an implement or they're pulling out the bandsaw, man, and something happens and you've got..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Hearings to examine veteran health and healing through adaptive sports...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Feb 4, 2026
"that week of it being introduced to multiple sports changed my life forever. I went to one of the clinics where they show the archery and I was watching everybody else sit around and shoot and I was like, okay, it's cool, but I don't have an arm to use, so how in the world I'm going to be able to do this? And one of the coaches there heard me say it, he reached in his pocket, pulled a string out and tied it around the bow and said, bite down on this and pull. That was before COVID, so I trusted..."
Testimony SPEAKER_17
Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform
house Appropriations Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"is always bipartisan, always, when you go through the process on that, and that is true in the Senate as well. The Senate requires both sides to have to sit down and talk like grown-ups and figure out our differences and to be able to solve those. To be able to have, to be able to remove the requirement to have 60 on appropriations, which is the gist of this proposal on this, would pull away that requirement that we have bipartisan conversation in the Senate. It also would add into it in this..."
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assi...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Mr. Chairman, thank you. Thanks for pulling this hearing together to be an amendment that has been included in the bill that I just want to be able to highlight and that deals with non-profits. There's so many people that consider non-profits exactly like other small businesses and I always smile and say most of them want to operate like in other small business but they're dominantly run by volunteers who struggle with their own life and their own work and they set aside time to be able to also..."
Testimony LANDSMAN, GREG
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Ms. Garcia, just as it relates to the idling rules and kids, I mean, the asthma piece is a big deal. I mean, how expensive, if we were to pull back and just say, you know, we're going to have this one standard and we're not going to have states be able to decide because each state is a little different, the asthma rates go up or down? And, you know, much more"
Testimony SULLIVAN, DAN
Hearings to examine Water Resources Development Act of 2026, focusing ...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"In December, the Lake TAP became as the preferred option. People thought there was momentum building. And the concern is in Juno, right, is the Corps has pulled back, gone quiet without clearly explaining the change in the direction to the community. So what I want to do here is I want to be able to put that issue to rest. I know people in Juno are literally watching this hearing. It's that big of a deal. There is a real frustration in the community. And I think with transparency, and look, I..."
Testimony MASSIE, THOMAS
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 11, 2026
"testimony to the FBI and it's in there. And what happens when you go to the portal at the DOJ to look at what's behind this redaction? Another redaction. So we can't even see them. And then there's some of these files you've pulled down from the website that we will never see because we can't search the redactions. So I have several questions for you. Who's responsible? Are you able to track who in your organization that made this massive failure and released the victims names? Are you able to..."
CRS Report
Sexual Harassment and Employment Discrimination Under Title VII: Selected Legal Issues
Report · Jun 29, 2026
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2, bars employment discrimination based on sex, but it does not expressly prohibit harassment. The Supreme Court has interpreted the...
CRS Report
The National Institutes of Health (NIH): Background and Congressional Issues
Reports · Jan 13, 2025
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is the leading federal agency for biomedical and health research. In FY2024, NIH used its over $47...
CRS Report
Natural Gas Markets Going Global: Changes in Consumption
Reports · Nov 23, 2022
The future of natural gas as a fuel for the global economy depends on many factors, including supply, consumption, prices, transportation, and policies. In 2020, natural gas made up approximately 25%...
CRS Report
Supreme Court Upholds Warrantless Entry in Emergency Aid Case
Legal Sidebar · Feb 12, 2026
On January 14, 2026, the Supreme Court in Case v. Montana resolved when, under the Fourth Amendment, law enforcement may enter a home without a warrant to render aid in response to a public safety...
CRS Report
High-Frequency Trading: Background, Concerns, and Regulatory Developments
Reports · Jun 19, 2014
High-frequency trading (HFT) is a broad term without a precise legal or regulatory definition. It is used to describe what many characterize as a subset of algorithmic trading that involves very...
CRS Report
Remote Learning for K-12 Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Reports · Aug 20, 2021
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, most elementary and secondary schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) across the United States closed schools in February or March 2020. By the middle of...
CRS Report
The Social Security Administration’s Use of Occupational Information in Disability Determinations: Background and Considerations for Congress
Report · Dec 4, 2025
For over a decade, as part of its Occupational Information System (OIS) project, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has been developing a new source of occupational information for making...
CRS Report
Israel: Major Issues and U.S. Relations
Report · Jul 2, 2026
The United States and Israel have cooperated closely for decades, reflecting assessments across several Administrations and Congresses that the countries share a number of strategic interests,...
CRS Report
Competition Among Video Streaming Services
Reports · Sep 25, 2020
Video streaming services allow users to watch movies and television shows over the internet. Some offer video-on-demand, which can be watched at any time, as well as live TV programs being broadcast...
CRS Report
Mileage-Based Road User Charges
Reports · Jun 22, 2016
A mileage-based road user charge would involve assessing owners of individual vehicles on a per-mile basis for the distance the vehicle is driven. Currently, federal highway and public transportation...
CRS Report
Stop the Presses? Newspapers in the Digital Age
Reports · May 24, 2023
During the past 20 years, more than 200 local daily newspapers have either reduced their publication frequency or ceased publishing altogether. Among those that survived, many employ a fraction of...
CRS Report
Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview
Reports · Sep 5, 2024
The number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC, unaccompanied children) apprehended at the Southwest border between U.S. ports of entry while attempting to enter the United States without...
CRS Report
Consumer Finance and Financial Technology (Fintech)
Reports · Mar 15, 2023
Fintech (short for financial technology) refers to advances in technology incorporated into financial products and services. Many companies—both traditional financial firms and new technology-focused...
Testimony BRIEN
Hearings to examine a grateful nation, focusing on maximizing veteran'...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Nov 5, 2025
"their zip code from their original home of record. That is something that they share with us. And so then we're able to discern, you know, we know about a third stay, a third return home to their states and a third return. Once they disperse, that opportunity is gone. Yep. And so we can pull data and share data and make educated decisions on where we think people may go based on their original home of record. And so for us, the best piece of what we do is that we're able to connect with them..."
Testimony DUNN, NEAL P.
Full Committee Markup of 16 Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · May 21, 2026
"This legislation has been approved through this process, incorporating many suggestions from automakers, franchise dealers, and everybody alike. I have been disappointed to see the bipartisan consensus language pulled for what is included today, language that I saw only two days ago. I want to thank Chairman Guthrie, his team, his fellow members, and stakeholders for their workholders on this bill, and I appreciate the commitment of the Chair and the Ranking Member to continue to work on this..."
Testimony PAUL BENDA
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, I can't have you as eloquent as our two other witnesses, and the risk especially to doctors and to seniors that I think they pose in the threat that's out there. I think the education is a key piece to it that's going forward. But I also think people need to recognize the risk that AI, when I talk about the industrialization of this, just as companies are using chatbots to engage individuals in a broader basis and then link that to a human, the criminals are..."