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International Agreements (Part I): Overview and Agreement-Making Process
Posts · Sep 29, 2023
This Legal Sidebar is the first in a three-part series on international agreements and their relationship with the U.S. legal system. The Constitution vests the power to make treaties with the...
Hearing H.R. 4371, the Kayla Hamilton Act; H.R. 4323, the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2025; H.R. 3770, the FIREARM Act; H.R. 3592, the Protect LNG...
house Judiciary Committee · Sep 10, 2025 · Request transcript
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Siegel v. Fitzgerald: Supreme Court Makes Rare Comment on the Bankruptcy Clause’s Uniformity Requirement
Posts · Jul 1, 2022
On June 6, 2022, the Supreme Court decided Siegel v. Fitzgerald, holding that the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017 (the “2017 Act”) violated the uniformity requirement of the U.S. Constitution’s...
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Making it a Priority: What Happens to Employee Claims When a Business Declares Bankruptcy?
Posts · Apr 16, 2019
Workers are not immune from their employer’s financial difficulties. Troubled companies commonly downsize their workforce, cut wages, and curtail employee benefits. Businesses on the brink of...
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 SPEAKER_11
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Well, thank you for the question. I can only speak to what I am responsible for, which is a law enforcement piece. And we are prioritizing the resources that we have. And I don't know if you heard earlier, but we are actually putting money out to the tribes now that hasn't went out before. So, we're actually putting more money out to the tribes where they can put more boots on the ground to be a part of these. So, we are definitely making it work at our programs. And we have to make it better...."
Testimony WATERS, MAXINE
Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"other laws and that people can sue. Do you know what it takes to sue? Do you know you've got to get an attorney? Do you know you've got to pay a lot of money? The average person working every day can't afford to get an attorney. They're just out with no protections. You all know this, and I don't know why you're protecting the credit bureaus. They're ultra-rich folks making a lot of money and making decisions about people's lives. Why be on their side? Even if you were making an error, even if..."
Testimony SANDERS, BERNARD
Hearings to examine the future of social security.
senate Finance Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"And the idea that they talked about is the legislation that I have introduced. And it is not a complicated piece of legislation. It is something I will fight to see become law. And that is we are in a situation right now where if Catherine here makes $10 million a year and the chairman makes $186,000 a year, they both pay the same amount into the Social Security trust fund. If Musk makes, whatever he makes, hundreds of millions a year, he pays the same amount as somebody making $186,000 a year,..."
Testimony MORAN, JERRY
An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"and you should take great pride in Food for Peace under your management. I want to make certain, Senator Hoeven has been not my sidekick, but my leader in the effort to make permanent that transfer from the State Department. Secretary Rubio testified in response to my questions last week of his support for this endeavor, and we want to give you all the tools. I would just ask about one thing, that the necessary employees and staff, my understanding is that you're doing the same program with..."
Testimony TENNEY, CLAUDIA
Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Absolutely. And it's a transmission issue and a pipeline issue and an access issue and a lack of common sense. But let's talk about the positive things, because we want to talk about the H.R. 1 and your help in getting that across the finish line. Obviously, it was a monumental piece of legislation building on 2017 tax cuts that I actually was in Congress for and voted for, and we are grateful to you and your department for making that happen. I also want to make sure and recognize-you talked..."
Testimony ROBERT CEKADA
“Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relations...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 14, 2026
"your teachers would grade your exams, and they were rushing through to do things properly. It would make, as you stated, some administrative mistakes. So that combined with the changes to the 4473 that we proposed, which would make things simpler to be able to answer the important questions without trying to trick anyone. I've had to pause numerous times filling out a 4473 with no concern as to any criminal record, but wanting to make sure that I didn't make a mistake, that somebody was going..."
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine seniors and the workforce.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"But we need to do more than that. Even if we get the RET repealed, seniors still face mountains of administrative red tape to get information on how their benefits are impacted by when they retire. The same red tape also makes it hard for seniors to decide when they should start withdrawing their benefits. Many Americans don't realize that when they start withdrawing, it can actually impact how much they'll be entitled to. This not only affects our seniors retiring today, but all Americans who..."
Testimony TRAVIS FISHER
Hearings to examine the state of the bulk power system.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"That's where I think we're so far afield from free markets that I think a lot of things are on the table. On the plus side, the status quo is so broken that just about anything you do, any reform you make is probably going to be positive. So, on the one hand, mandating, making a monopoly, make decisions that it wouldn't otherwise make. In other words, having a heavy handed regulator to basically say, these are investments that we know you wouldn't make given your incentives, but we know"
Testimony IVEY, GLENN
Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 4, 2025
"If you look at the contrast with China, they're doing exactly the opposite. And they're doing exactly the opposite in the areas where we're in the most competitive areas and where we really need to win. We don't want China to get ahead of us militarily. We don't want China to get ahead of us on quantum computing and AI, but we're making cuts to NIST, we're making cuts to NASA, we're making cuts to the NIH, we're making cuts across the board on some of the most important aspects of what we need..."
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CIRCIA: Notice of Proposed Rule Making: In Brief
Reports · Apr 11, 2024
The federal government is planning to require certain businesses to report when they are victims of cyberattacks. In March 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released...
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.105, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Mar 5, 2025 · Request transcript
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Options for Making the National Flood Insurance Program More Affordable
Reports · Jan 6, 2023
Concerns about the affordability of flood insurance premiums have come to the fore as FEMA introduces a new pricing system known as Risk Rating 2.0, which represents the biggest change to the way the...
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Organizing Executive Branch Agencies: Who Makes the Call?
Posts · Jun 27, 2018
In a series of executive orders, directives, and publicly released recommendations, the Trump Administration has proposed reorganizing the executive branch. The reorganization proposals range from...
Hearing Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country”
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_11 "Well, thank you for the question. I can only speak to what I am responsible for, which is a law enforcement piece. And we are prioritizing the resources that we have. And I don't know if you heard earlier, but we are actually putting money out to the tribes now that hasn't went out before. So, we're actually putting more money out to the tribes where they can put more boots on the ground to be a part of these. So, we are definitely making it work at our programs. And we have to make it better. That's what we're here to do. And, you know, we always look to make things better. I don't think,..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1572, to amend title 18, United States Code, to improve the Federal carjacking statute, S.3062, to require...
senate Judiciary Committee · Apr 30, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.342, to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize an individual who is awarded the Purple Heart for service...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 5183, the District of Columbia Home Rule Improvement Act; 2) H.R. 2693, the District of...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Sep 10, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.29, to make daylight saving time permanent, S.191, to require the Secretary of Transportation to modify certain...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Apr 30, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony SPEAKER_11
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"The 10B51 plan on the publicly traded company side, what in large part they're doing is these predisclosures. And what it does is it sets up the evidence to prosecute an insider trading case. So our colleague from Colorado was referencing this. And so if an individual made that public announcement seven days in advance, it would be pretty easy to show the timeline. Now let's leave that one given person so I don't make an accusation on that given person. But let's say an individual member, you..."
Testimony LEGER FERNANDEZ, TERESA
H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital ...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026
"And we went over earlier that trading involves both the purchase and the sale. You cannot have trading without the sale. And, Chairman, you said that the purpose of this was to make sure that Congress people don't make a profit off of information we get here from serving. Did I recall you saying that correctly? Yeah, as it relates to publicly traded company stock. Let's go back to the question of, do you make a profit when you buy a stock? You make a profit when you do"
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I think in most cases it is. I know some states, we have heard from tribes where there's been some issues with maybe states putting some tribal notifications out, but I think they're trying to work through those to make sure that they've got a good relationship with the state to put those local alerts out as well. I think the biggest thing is to make sure that we get it out everywhere. And I think Amber Alert works well, but it also works in certain regions, so you need to make sure that if..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"Yeah. And we're working with the U.S. Attorney's offices to make sure that tribal cases are being prosecuted to the fullest extent as well and they're not falling through a gap. Because I was actually working for a tribe once I retired from the federal government a few years ago. I went around a tribal program and I seen on the tribal side we had some work to do to make sure our cases were actually getting prosecuted. And we worked very closely with the U.S. Attorney's offices to make sure..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"These different technology tools and things that we're bringing in is helping us use less resources to do things that we normally would have done in the past. One of the things we're doing in the missing and murdered spaces, we're looking at the missing and murdered unit, and where do we have agents located? Why do we have them there? Are they being effective where they're at? I mean, we're looking at the holistic approach of everything that we're doing, and we're making changes. That hasn't..."
Testimony TODD SNITCHLER
Hearings to examine the state of the bulk power system.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Thank you, Senator, for the question. I think I may be the only one here who's ever had to vote on a power siting-related issue in my prior role as the chair of the Ohio Power Siting Board. And so we had a statute that was fairly robust in the jurisdiction that it gave us to make decisions and try to contemplate a statewide or a broader perspective than merely the local community or merely the county level or region that incorporated input from a number of state agencies as well as the..."
Testimony MR. MIKE FLOOD
Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capi...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"like minds, like a health care hub, and you need funders to be there to talk about it. So when I look at the proposals that have been put forth by this committee, as well as in the INVEST Act, I see a few that can be very helpful, and a lot of them are very technical, just common-sense fixes. Again, I'll go back to the AFFE. If we can solve it, I would honest that some people say we're double-counting, and I actually say it's because we are double-counting that is a misrepresented disclosure...."
Testimony JOHNSON, RON
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"but I will point out when we passed one big beautiful bill, Wisconsin went from 1.8 to 6% provider tax because they wanted to, you know, be part of the deal too, and I got a got lobbied by a hospital said, you know, you've got to lobby Dr. Oz to create a waiver so we can that 6% provider tax because if we do it, we can charge our patients $12 million and we'll get reimbursed for $18 million and we'll make a $6 million profit. That was the rationale. It wasn't like, hey, if we can't do this,..."
Testimony MR. JONATHAN LIEBERT
Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"We can pursue both at the same time. And in the future, the work will not be predetermined by an algorithm. It will be shaped by all of us and the choices that we make as we lead our workers into an educated system where we protect, make sure people have access to the tools and make sure that we hold businesses and consumers"
Testimony MR. JONATHAN LIEBERT
Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"is really, really key. Again, all things that we can teach to really make sure that people are getting it, but at the same time, I think for the people that are more intellectually curious anyways, they're going to push it further, and those are the things we need to teach. Not only in the workplace, but making sure that we're teaching our kids as well, our students in academia, is really making sure that they're pushing this to the limit. But again, this is the ability to accelerate your..."
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"So the parliamentary question that I think we've got to be able to deal with is, is this consistent with Lois Lerner? What she also did when she came before Congress, gave an opening statement, testimony, so made a statement, and then refused to answer questions. Are we dealing with the same issue here, where someone is making, you can't make a statement and say I'm not going to make statements at the same time? Okay, thank you, Mr."
Testimony HUDSON, RICHARD
Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improvin...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"This law took important steps to reduce illegal robocalls by requiring providers to implement call authentication, increase fines for intentional violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, authorize tracebook efforts, and establish a federal interagency working group to combat illegal robocalls. The FCC has also taken important steps to reduce illegal robocalls, both in implementing the Traced Act and by working to block these calls from reaching our networks in the first place...."
Testimony THE HONORABLE JAMIESON GREER
Hearings to examine the President's 2026 trade policy agenda.
senate Finance Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"We want to have as much security here. We want to have a level playing field. We want to make sure that our farmers have the inputs they need at a price that makes them competitive and makes them be able to maintain their farms. It's so important to have food security. So I agree with you on these issues. Well, so China, as I think we all know, you know, China's economic policies are closely tied to their political"
Testimony MR. MIKE GONZALEZ
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight o...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026
"I actually agreed with almost everything Representative Morelli said, except until the part you got to the Smithsonian. I think all of history should be presented, the horrors of slavery, the absolute blight that this was in our history, but also the fact that the founders created this system to deal with it, that men marched, you know, to the tomb, the Battle of the Republic, saying, as he died to make men holy, let us die to make them free. die to make them free. That inspiring story also..."
Testimony MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"We're training our program teams and our grant teams. What we have done is we've actually simplified the documents and the terms, making sure we're dialing up the oversight side and the compliance with executive orders, again, to make sure only those who are eligible receive and to make sure millions of dollars went, like in the last administration, to DEI programs and other divisive programs. And so we are also then working to improve the accreditation process, for example, with the SPDCs, and..."
Testimony SCHAKOWSKY, JANICE D.
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"that there are people who are in good faith trying to do best for themselves and their families and their kids, and it's not coming forward for them. So I just am hoping that we're going to do better than we have done and make sure that we make all of these questions that are asked safer and that we make sure that all of our families are getting the best that they need to know and that can protect themselves and their kids. So we have a lot of, we have a lot of work to do. Thank"
Testimony ANSARI, YASSAMIN
Legislative Hearing on the following bill: • H.R. 8003 (Rep. Deluzio),...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"to the groundwater we drink and our farmers use for irrigation. Better geologic mapping allows us to make smarter decisions about where development makes sense makes sense while reducing unnecessary exploration and uncertainty. HR 9649 builds on the success of Earth MRI by testing emerging technologies that can map subsurface resources more quickly and efficiently, providing better information to the public while reducing costs and"
Testimony FLOOD, MIKE
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"weatherization programs for a wide assortment of agencies, and many of them have overlapping purposes, but are so difficult to navigate for grantees. However, when I learned more about the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka's programs, I found them to be much more efficient in getting results. In Cumming County, Nebraska, we were able to work through a local community bank to get seniors on fixed incomes upgrades to their homes that will make it easier for them to make it through the winter. I'm..."
Testimony BEGICH, NICHOLAS J.
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. I speak in strong support of HR 9436, extending the moratorium on North Atlantic right whale regulation implementation. Look, science must drive the process of rule making, and we do not have a sufficient science to drive that rule making process right now. Additional time is necessary, and we hear from folks in the industry that say, hey, time is necessary to get the science right. At the end of the day, I think it's really important that we send a message to the..."
Testimony OLSZEWSKI, JOHNNY
Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnersh...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Okay, I'm clearly not going to get an answer, so I'm going to reclaim my time. I wanted to give you an opportunity there. I think regardless of how important these projects are, taxpayers should not be paying to make members of Congress, to make members of the administration, to make the president or their family richer, nor should taxpayer funding be used to fuel the corruption of any other partner country. So I'll pivot here, Mr. Black, to in December, the DFC announced a letter of interest..."
Testimony MR. THOMAS HARDY
Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnersh...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"One of my biggest priorities is revitalizing our Western Hemisphere program, including providing more staff resources and financial resources to make sure that we remain a leader in the region. I will follow Ben's point of looking to Exum Bank and David Copley for direction. I think our job is to make sure more critical minerals make it in the market and make it in the market that will be able to feed into the exchange when that's set up. That is USTDA's role is that early project preparation,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Senator, thank you for meeting with me. As you know, I spent over 25 years in the uniformed services, and I have had my share of making the mandates for influenza and other vaccines, or at least following. I didn't make the mandate, but I followed leadership as they made the mandate for those vaccines, and I understood why. When you're in congregate living situations, when you're in submarines, when you're in on ships, close quarters, it is really important to make sure that you have what we..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Ma...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Senator, thank you for meeting with me. As you know, I spent over 25 years in the uniformed services, and I have had my share of making the mandates for influenza and other vaccines, or at least following. I didn't make the mandate, but I followed leadership as they made the mandate for those vaccines, and I understood why. When you're in congregate living situations, when you're in submarines, when you're on ships, close quarters, it is really important to make sure that you have what we call..."
Testimony MRS. JESSICA GORMAN
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"them. That was my daughter, and that is who she was until the day she was stolen from us. And I honestly can't make sense of it. I cannot make peace with it. And in what world does the child who spent her life making sure no one was lonely, die terrified and alone on a pier in Chicago? In what world does the girl who saw everyone become invisible to the people in power responsible for protecting her? This cannot be explained away, and it cannot be buried beneath a list of unrelated issues that..."
Testimony DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thirdly, and perhaps nearest and dearest to my heart, is the question of the treatment of the ingestion of copyrighted materials by large language models, LLMs. What does that mean? We use this word a lot. We say LLMs train themselves on copyrighted materials. Well, they can train, but just like the rest of us who train, they have to pay for the training. Licensing agreements need to flourish. They are beginning to happen. We need to make sure that creators, creators who create the stuff that..."
Testimony MR. CHRIS FLOYD
“A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thank you. It's had a direct impact on the number of movies that we make and which movies we make. When we're making a decision as to go forward with the film, we do a profit and loss analysis, and we look at the history of the movies in the last few years, and we look and see what kind of revenues have been generated. As piracy cuts down on the revenues, the legitimate revenues that we're"
Testimony SPEAKER_07
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secur...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Oh, absolutely. So we make a quadruped robot and we make a humanoid robot and we make a box-moving robot. Those are three different types of robots that all have three different types of AI models that allow them to touch, see, and interact with the"
Testimony DR. DENNIS COATES
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"But they typically don't. I think the best way to make sure that the communities are benefiting is to make the make the, I should be clear, if it's a professional stadium, then the owners should pay for"
Testimony SPEAKER_15
Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"If you'll let us know, and you spoke a little bit about this, why is the reauthorization for Earth MRI so critically important within your program, but also for the nation? I think it's important to note the data that we need to make those decisions, but also what comes in the development of science to make us even more accurate in determining where these mineral resources are, which makes us more efficient in how we develop them. Give me a scenario, too, of what would happen if the program..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
Markup of Fifteen Bills
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"What is more, the information can be misleading or inaccurate, making it difficult for consumers to compare prices across health care providers before receiving care. The lack of transparency into health care prices makes it difficult for consumers to make informed decisions, and it also makes it challenging for employers to negotiate more competitive prices. The Lower Costs, More Transparency Act codifies the existing requirements for both hospitals and insurers to make public price..."
Testimony BRITT, KATIE BOYD
Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesot...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Chair. Thank you to all of you for being here, and congratulations on your nominations. Mr. Cruz, you've served in several roles, from Treasury to the Banking Committee to House of Representatives to the White House. As financial services continue to evolve, and credit unions are adopting new technologies to make sure that they're meeting their customers' needs, expanding their digital offerings, and serving increasingly diverse communities in different places, how are you going to make sure..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"We'll certainly look forward to working with you and the relevant agencies on that. I want to talk a little bit to wrap up my time on CBP. Obviously, their role is not just keeping our borders safe, but it's also making sure we're interdicting bad things coming into our country, including counterfeit products and things that are going around our trade laws, as well. I have a piece of legislation, the Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act. We call it PAIL. It..."
Testimony STEIL, BRYAN
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Mea...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026
"What I'm trying to do in my underlying amendment is actually narrow this down to two key areas that I think we should just even remove the appearance of impropriety from. One is public policy, and it was noted by my colleague, a couple areas where individuals could make, where an individual could go online and make a prediction on public policy. I think it's pretty clear we don't want members in that space. I think it would already be illegal under insider trading rules, maybe, maybe not. Let's..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE CHRIS SUNUNU
“The 30,000 Foot View: Competition and Regulation in the U.S. Airline ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Of course. You know, they're all big believers and users in SAF, as you know, and that continues to Sure. So as I think as the industry matures, the economics get better and better, right? Because like any fairly new technology, and it is a fairly new introduction into the industry, it starts out fairly costly, lots of new, I won't say barriers to entry, but you know, costs, R&D, all of our airlines are investing in various forms of research and development to make SAF more accessible, easier..."
Testimony SHARON GOODIE
Hearings to examine the nominations of James Andrew Crowell IV, and St...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"Any reports I can get on psychiatric, psychological, if I'm in a juvenile delinquency court, I'd want to know. How can I make, how can I, I can't make sure, but how can I come closest to making sure that this person is not going to do it? Sorry about"
Testimony MR. CHRISTOPHER SUNUNU
Hearings to examine improving safety across the National Airspace Syst...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"Maybe it's not as good, but at least it can be something that can be put in. We want to make sure it's there and work with the FAA to make sure that the certification is there. We want to make sure that the certified process and the manufacturers can meet the demands of whatever the mandate might come. Oh, gosh,"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artific...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"Many of these groups are doing incredible work with schools and state governments to really empower parents. I'll use Florida as an excellent example of a state who's really taking leadership here, thinking about an issue of consequential decision-making. This is thinking about how we keep a human in the loop so that it's not the AI who's making a decision about whether you get a loan, whether you get into college, whether you get financial aid, what's the result of your insurance claim, but..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artific...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"You were nodding your head. Secretary Martin, just wanted to give you a chance to respond. I appreciate I'm over time as chairman, but I imagine that a product that is interested first in return to investors are, for instance, going to point you to the purchase of other products that they make that might have nothing to do with student outcomes, but are certainly aligned with the profit return. I just want to make sure we really think through what the underlying motivations are of the people..."
Testimony SMITH, TINA
Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting i...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026
"country that we should not be discriminating when it comes to housing. And so, interesting how AI intersects with this, right? Because we know that AI tools can, you know, there's ways that they could be beneficial to housing. They could make it easier to build, they could make it more affordable, they could make it more accessible, but also experts have warned that without anti- discrimination protections they could also, you know, create risks for renters and homeowners. We've all heard about..."
Testimony PALLONE, FRANK
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"we have to also look at the competitive environment to make sure it truly is competitive. We will also discuss a bill that would codify existing requirements for both hospitals and insurers to make health care pricing more transparent by requiring price information to be displayed publicly and in a standardized format. And lack of transparency into health care prices makes it difficult for consumers to make informed decisions, and it also makes it challenging for employers to negotiate more..."
Testimony HOUCHIN, ERIN
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Patients Deserve Price Tags Act is so important. Transparency only works if it is complete, accurate, and enforceable. By requiring hospitals, insurers, and other health care entities to publicly disclose pricing information in a standardized format, and by imposing consequences for those who fail to comply, this bill would help hold industry participants accountable while giving patients the information they need to make informed decisions about their care. This legislation ensures that..."
Testimony FRANK BISIGNANO
Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Well, that's why we, I mean, when we look at every week for an hour and a half as a management team, and that would be, you know, my direct reports and their direct reports, 200 indicators and go through them, you know, we want to make sure we're making hearings more efficient, we're making, by the way, efficient equals quality, too. Better output, less errors, quicker responses to clients. And so I think the only way to do it is look at a balanced scorecard and make sure we have the right..."
Testimony LARSON, JOHN B.
Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Was that wrong, Mr. Secretary? Is that a question? Yes, it is a question. The commissioner's job... That's not what the question was. The question was... I'm answering a reality. You're answering the way you want to answer it. I asked the question, do you think that we should lift the cap on people making over $400,000? Raise your hand in the audience if you're making over $400,000. Raise your hand on the dais if you're making over $400,000. And yet, nobody here in this room is making over..."
Testimony BEAN, AARON
Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"You are looking at private vendors and whatnot, anything that we can do to do better than we're already doing. I want to give you some time. I know it's been publicized this week, 2032 is going to be a crossover date where we have to make changes before that date, make changes. I would hate to see that anybody in Congress would use fear, but we have to make sound decisions, and we've got time to make some decisions. I want to give you some time, your thoughts on that date, your thought on some..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"I'm grateful to you and to Ranking Member Heinrich for including several priorities that benefit Colorado in today's markup, helping us manage water in the face of the severe drought that we're dealing with. It comes from building capacity of water managers to develop projects that make the most of the supplies we have, and making sure that we stay at the cutting edge of water forecasting by understanding our snowpack. In a year like this one, we have to make the most of every drop. That's just..."
Testimony HAYES, JAHANA
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"affirming language, I created environments that did not, literally that were anti-bullying environments and supported those environments, I created collaborative spaces where students could learn because that was my job, to educate students. So this idea that, and I was a pretty good teacher, and I don't care how good you are, you can't make nobody gay, I don't know what they think they're talking about, but you're not that good, none of you, you're not going to make somebody be something, but..."
Testimony SORENSEN, ERIC
"Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"You know, we have to make sure that our trading partners are dealt with fairly. Yes, we have to make sure that we have healthy competition, but our farmers and agribusiness need certainty today. I look forward to working with my caucus and with my Republican friends to make sure that an extension makes sense for American workers and keeps farmers competitive. Thank you all so"
Testimony GREEN, AL
Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"to reinvent the wheel on every occasion and lose the benefit of the institutional knowledge that some persons had that have long gone and made their lives in other places. This would be a good start. Now there are many things that I'd like to see in it, but I'm not going to go through those things because I think that it would spoil the argument that I'm making about making it permanent. I think we can try to find the common ground that we all agree on just to make it permanent. If we can do..."
Testimony MAST, BRIAN J.
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"all members voted any member wish to change their vote clerk shall close the motion is agreed to without objection staff is authorized to make to staff staff is authorized to make, staff, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Staff is authorized to make any technical and conforming changes. That is all the votes for today. We will resume amendment debate and we will vote on the amendments at a later time. So everybody is"
Testimony SHERMAN, BRAD
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"pursued by the State Department that the single most important goal for the preservation of our species should be ignored and I couldn't put this in any stronger stronger language that I think it's well done you know it's kind of laid out in a recent book if anyone builds it everyone dies to think that we would spend trillions of dollars in the United States in Europe in China to make AI more powerful and not even make it a goal of the United States to make sure that these AI systems are under..."
Testimony OGLES, ANDREW
“The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Co...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"name the issue practitioners care about, because getting them right is how we secure the country. More of our software is now written by AI, faster than human reviewers can keep up, which makes security by design practices, where security is built in from the first line of code more important than ever. It makes AI coding tools a real concern when those tools are built on models we cannot fully vet, and it makes agentic AI software that plans and acts on its own across our networks. On an..."
Testimony MR. JACK CABLE
“The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Co...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"a voluntary approach to securing these frontier models. While I agree that it is crucial to make sure these capabilities get in the hands of the right defenders, I believe that ultimately the advantage does lean towards making these models more widely accessible to allow defenders to make use of them ahead of adversaries exploiting. I think part of the answer there, sir, is that the open weight models, while they are not quite as good as the frontier models, they are quite"
Testimony GREGORY PECORARO
"Connecting Rural America to the National Airspace System"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"That's an important question. I think that the way that we'd like to see both EAS and Small Community Air Service Program work together is to look at the larger needs of these communities and figure out in the many years since these programs have been created, how has the industry changed? And I think that's a critical point to make. The way that the airline industry operated 40 years ago or more when these programs were created is very different than it is today. And so the way we're going to..."
Testimony MS. FAYE BLACK
"Connecting Rural America to the National Airspace System"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"You mentioned Republic. They've got Lyft. That's an incredible investment that the private sector is making in the future of our workforce, but making sure that more people from working class backgrounds can afford it through accessible student loans that cover the full cost of flight training, making sure that we encourage manufacturing of the fleet that serve these smaller communities, that's a big one, and making sure when we bring André, Mike, Sharice, Mark, R., Mike, Tom, J., Mike,..."
Testimony ISSA, DARRELL
“Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"to produce in America for sales to countries where the product is already available, could be available legally. The concept being that if you're not making in America until later, you probably won't make in America at all. If you make in America in real time, you will hit the ground running when it becomes available in the U.S. I personally have observed that China has that advantage. They make the products, as does India, years ahead of being able to sell them in"
Testimony BEATTY, JOYCE
Oversight of Prudential Regulators
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"As we're approaching 50 years from the inception of that, I am a big proponent in full disclosure, I've been around for a while prior to being in Congress, working with financial institutions to make sure that that is a standard because as you know, it includes the community and evaluation, for lack of a better word, process to make sure that financial institutions are making an investment. So Chairman Hill, last July the agencies released a proposal to repeal the Community Reinvestment Act..."
Testimony SPEAKER_34
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"We're dealing with a massive bureaucracy with the Department of Defense. Bureaucracies respond to incentives and disincentives, and why would they possibly make tough decisions to divest things, to remove programs, to make major reforms, if all we're doing is throwing good money after bad to the extent where they don't even have to make those tough decisions anymore? I know for a fact that we can be more efficient, that we can spend less money, and have better results for the American taxpayer..."
Testimony MS. MARIAM SOROND
Where Are We?: Examining Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilit...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Congressman, you are absolutely right. Yes, we go to summits, events, talk to them all the time because if we don't, we cannot build products that serve their needs. We absolutely, and we will make sure we protect them. We will make sure we address their concerns, and you're absolutely right, the rural becomes very important, and we intend to make sure that they continue to do their jobs without being concerned about being found. Congresswoman, I appreciate you asking that important question...."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Ac...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"and to the point that you made earlier, it's in the forefront of the manufacturer's mind, making sure that equipment works for their customers. We do not like our equipment to fail. We know how important our equipment is to our customers with making sure that it's working for their business for them. You know, we've been working on this technology for so long, it now is fully integrated into that system. So the pure elimination of DEF can impact the operation of that system, as well as the..."
Testimony WATSON COLEMAN, BONNIE
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Our children will continue to get sicker at higher rates. I won't make our drinking water, it won't make our drinking water cleaner, and it won't make our air quality better. With my amendment, one zip code would not determine whether or not one has access to clean water to drink and fresh air to"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"They're getting more and more technology. And car dealers are concerned that if they're mandated to put new technologies in cars that make them more expensive, that Americans are going to stop buying cars. And so what we're trying to do with this amendment, which is bipartisan and which we've been negotiating all day, is make sure that we do accomplish the goal that Mothers Against Drunk Driving and others have of studying technologies that can help us prevent drunk driving deaths. And at the..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Or the bags that, you know, come out when you make the, when you have impact, airbags. Why not allow the studies to go forward and see what they come up with, and then we can make rational decisions based on expert information and testimony, in my view, and then make the decision? Then use the power of the Congress to make a decision about what should go forward. And maybe there are ways to actually increase public safety and protect the privacy"
Testimony HARRIS, ANDY
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"And that's all part of the rural communities where they live. So we've dealt with, you know, somehow the ways we've dealt with farmers, make sure the crop insurance programs are appropriate, make sure they're appropriately funded, make sure that we protect the farmers in that way. With regards to the communities they live in, so for instance, we increased the loan authority for what's called the Business and Industry Loan Program to $2"
Testimony BURGESS OWENS
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"Let's start off with the Child Care Scam Act and the No Aid for Students Act. When you start looking at what these do, it's actually just oversight. It's make sure there's accountability, make sure there's a system in which there is a sense of when you have reports going and results in, there's reports that are looking at what's happening with that, so we can make sure we're held accountable. It's knowing that as you put the funds in, that there's a backup in which people can really see how..."
Testimony SMITH, ADRIAN
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"I know that the Mississippi case was raised there, and I want to add emphasis at how offended all of the members were of the Ways and Means Committee, both sides of the aisle, and that it's my understanding that there's not a final decision, that the overall case is still under review by the administration. So I don't think anything's been finalized there. But that case highlights the need to do our bill to make sure, like the portion that I've been working on for several years, to make sure..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"and strengthen rural economies. This bill would move INFRA out of the Highway Trust Fund and make it dependent on annual general fund appropriations. Now, I understand the pressure on the Trust Fund, and we need to make hard choices to ensure it's solvent long-term, but moving INFRA to a less predictable funding stream does not resolve the revenue problem. It simply makes funding less predictable for projects that take years to plan, finance, permit, and"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANDREA TRAVNICEK
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · May 20, 2026
"You mentioned, too, where we have the one big beautiful bill, so for water storage, water conveyance. So that is where we are focused on making sure that we are trying to get infrastructure dollars, taking care of some of the projects that have been out there. And then, of course, looking ahead with the budget that we do have, trying to make sure that we're operating, maintaining, and making sure that we're modernizing the infrastructure that we do have. And then at the same time, working with..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE SCOTT TURNER
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"Thank you, sir. And, you know, we've mentioned, you know, the almost $5 billion in improper payments. And Irv Dennis and his team, and I met with them, have assured me that they are working very hard to make sure that those things don't happen in days ahead and to hold people accountable. We have, Irv and his team have a great partnership with the OIG to make sure that we're going after waste, fraud, and abuse internally and externally. And I will say, sir, you know, that makes me very proud,..."
Testimony MR. SCOTT FABER, JD
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"So we know that companies can make these foods without these ingredients because they make them all over the world. They make them for Canada, they make them for the UK, they make them for Latin America and for Europe. So, and here's the good news, they cost the same"
Testimony MR. SCOTT FABER, JD
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"One big problem is resources. The FDA simply doesn't have enough people to manage recalls and to make sure that contaminated product has actually been removed from the shelves. As we think about how to properly fund the FDA, it's not simply a question of we're able to do food chemical reviews or inspect infant formula plants. We also need resources to make sure that we're properly executing recalls and really making sure that contaminated product isn't getting into our homes. Thank you for the..."
Testimony MR. SCOTT FABER, JD
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"its packaging? It would be very helpful, yes. There are a number of proposals that are the subject of this hearing that would make our labels clearer. For example, making it clearer when foods contain more than 10 milligrams of caffeine and making consumers aware that 400 milligrams is your daily value. For example, providing more information about folic acid. For example, as the Truth in Labeling Act requires, putting a front-of-package disclosure on foods so that consumers can, at a glance,..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
Hearings to examine S.749, to amend title 38, United States Code, to e...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Thank you, Senator Banks. I think one of the things we can do, VA has made a lot of progress over the years, and I think we need to double down on what's working. I appreciate your legislation, but there are also several others that are looking at expanding access to the HUD-VASH program or making sure that veterans can access housing that was constructed using low-income housing tax credits. In many cases, the service-connected disability compensation can get in the way, but fortunately, VA is..."
Testimony JAMES, JOHN
AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepay...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Reliability is not theoretical. NERC already warned that regions like MISO face elevated risk as we retire a reliable generation faster than we can face it. So here's the challenge in front of us. We need to build. We need to compete. We need to win. But we cannot do it in a way that forces families to pay more for a reliable energy. That means making sure that those who drive new demand pay their fair share, making sure that our generation mix can actually meet peak demand, making sure policy..."
Testimony MCGARVEY, MORGAN
Examining VA Benefits: Pension and Fiduciary, and VA Life Insurance Op...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"their families, and taxpayer dollars. I'm glad we're holding this oversight hearing today, both for a program that rarely makes the news and another that, when it does make the news, makes bad news. This won't be the end of our work on this and on these programs. Mr. Chairman, I am excited to continue this oversight and work with you"
Testimony FLETCHER, LIZZIE
The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 16, 2026
"And in 2022, there were disruptions after Russia invaded Ukraine that set off a series of supply disruptions in Europe and beyond that affected global prices, as did our decisions here in this country and in this Congress to sanction Russia for its illegal war. And so I do think that's important context. If I had a lot more time, I would talk about how I had a bill that I introduced during the first Trump administration in the early days of the COVID pandemic to fill up the SPR when oil prices..."
Testimony ROBERT O'LEARY
Joint hearings to examine preparations for the FIFA World Cup 2026.
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 15, 2026
"Certainly As I mentioned earlier one of the things we're very proud of is our efforts. The State Department has, from what I understand, has surged resources across the globe, about 400, 450 people. And one of the accomplishments, it has reduced visa wait times from the previous administration that were over one year in over 72 or 75 countries to under 60 days. So, that is making the travel process much easier. In addition, we're working closely with our allies in Canada and Mexico to make..."
Testimony ISSA, DARRELL
“Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"course it is, only to discover that in my entire career, both in and out of government, it was not. And so, again, I want to commend you because that's the kind of hands-on decision-making that we need to have. Additionally, I want to make it clear. The President has an agenda. That agenda is not in conflict on either side of the dais. That is, that although sometimes when you say MAGA is pejorative in this body, that making America and keeping America great is the goal of every aspect of this..."
Testimony SPEAKER_37
“Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the...
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"The threat environment is too dynamic, sir, to allow this shutdown to continue on. for your question sir it's a it's a continued risk that's evolving each and every single day you know we have employees that have to make the choice right now you know we have employees that are single we have a woman that's a single mother who's having to make the choice right now between continuing to care for her aging parents or continuing to care for her child and be able to pay her bills but that type of..."
Testimony SHEEHY, TIM
Hearings to examine enterprise security and information technology ope...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 24, 2026
"We haven't had to use them very often for 80 years. We used a couple a few weeks ago, I know, but how do we make sure that our industrial base that makes those is able to continue to make them when we actually need a lot of them pretty quickly? Do we have a good understanding of what our cost, for example, a 155 shell, what it costs us to make it per unit, what it costs China to make their equivalent per"
Testimony SHEEHY, TIM
A closed hearing to examine low-cost munitions; to be immediately foll...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 24, 2026
"We haven't had to use them very often for 80 years. We used a couple a few weeks ago, I know, but how do we make sure that our industrial base that makes those is able to continue to make them when we actually need a lot of them pretty quickly? Do we have a good understanding of what our cost, for example, a 155 shell, what it costs us to make it per unit, what it costs China to make their equivalent per"
Testimony SULLIVAN, DAN
Hearings to examine the posture of United States Northern Command and ...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 19, 2026
"The last one, in our response, which was NORAD, we launched nine assets, two F-16s, two F-35s, an AWACS, and I think four or five tankers. Now, you know, when these make the news, they never make the news down here, by the way. In Alaska, they make the news. But, you know, we say, oh, the Russians came into our airspace, we intercepted them. But these are highly complex, high-risk missions,"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"I would urge our colleagues to abandon this determination to make life harder for children in our country, and instead join us in passing policy to deliver for America's kids. Together, we could make the child tax credit permanent instead of making tax cuts permanent for the nation's billionaires. We could expand access to health care and support for nutrition for kids in need. We could protect the Department of Education to make sure kids in America get to a quality"
Testimony KRISTI NOEM
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"And I said, because this is going to be a difficult job. It's going to be a hard job. We're going to have to secure our border and make sure we're going after dangerous criminal illegals and remove them from our country, and every day we're going to have to make tough decisions to uphold the law, but to make sure that the consequences for breaking the law are put in place as well. The one thing I would say is I wasn't quite prepared for was the heartbreaking stories I would hear. The families..."
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"I want to let you know. It is about your judgment and decision making. It is about the 260,000 employees that work under you that want to make sure that you are giving information and making decisions clearly. It is about conflict of"
Testimony UNKNOWN
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"But for younger staff members, this is scary to think about any of this information coming out, because no matter what you all think, it will impact their future prospects. They don't, and especially if it's a small staff, they're going to figure out who it is. It's going to be, it's just the ripple effect. So I just want, as we draft this, be very cautious in making sure we're not protecting people. The goal is to have people that are fully ones responsible and making sure and preventing this..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Hearings to examine Water Resources Development Act of 2026, focusing ...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"let's just do a little piece, because eventually the water will surround it. So, we have to do this the whole thing. So, that behavior of asking for authorization for projects when we don't have enough engineering to give you what a good cost is, I own that, and we're working hand in hand with the secretary's office to fix that. We'll see if we can beat, well, we're not going to make it of 26 We will make a commitment to make Word of 28 with the information I on us We own that We have to work..."
Testimony CASEY MEANS, MD
Hearings to examine the nomination of Casey Means, of California, to b...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"for being willing to want to clarify this with me. And also thank you for meeting with me. I really enjoyed our conversation in October with you and your staff. I think the concerns and comments that you're sharing, I think they're incompletely representing my views. And so I'll take the opportunity to share. This is an effective vaccine. I think it's a very important vaccine. And I think it's, I mean, obviously Senator Cassidy knows better than anyone, given his work. This is a vaccine that..."
Testimony CASEY MEANS, MD
Hearings to examine the nomination of Casey Means, of California, to b...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"And the key medical conditions that are causing infertility, we know are lifestyle-related. Certainly that does not mean that all infertility cases can be reversed by lifestyle changes. And also, the onus is on our medical authorities to make sure Americans are seeing that information clearly and loudly and in an empowered way. And that we then use policy and medical education to make systemic changes that make those choices easier, more accessible, and affordable for Americans. And that's..."
Testimony GROTHMAN, GLENN
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"I have always liked these facilities, because not only does it provide a paycheck for these folks, and it makes them like the rest of the society, it makes them like their siblings, it makes them like their friends, to go to work in the morning, to come home at night, to have the pride to be able to have their own money to buy clothes, or food, or what have"
Hearing H.R. 7008 – Stop Insider Trading Act; H.R. 6955 – Main Street Capital Access Act; H. Con. Res. 113 – Establishing the congressional budget for the...
house Rules Committee · Jul 20, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
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..."
Hearing Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the Commissioner of Social Security, Frank J. Bisignano
house Social Security Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
FRANK BISIGNANO "Well, that's why we, I mean, when we look at every week for an hour and a half as a management team, and that would be, you know, my direct reports and their direct reports, 200 indicators and go through them, you know, we want to make sure we're making hearings more efficient, we're making, by the way, efficient equals quality, too. Better output, less errors, quicker responses to clients. And so I think the only way to do it is look at a balanced scorecard and make sure we have the right resource allocation and a technology roadmap to change it. We're not modernizing, we're"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and the Fiscal Year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
WATSON COLEMAN, BONNIE "Our children will continue to get sicker at higher rates. I won't make our drinking water, it won't make our drinking water cleaner, and it won't make our air quality better. With my amendment, one zip code would not determine whether or not one has access to clean water to drink and fresh air to"
Hearing H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027; H.R. 7726 – Stop Child Care...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
HARRIS, ANDY "And that's all part of the rural communities where they live. So we've dealt with, you know, somehow the ways we've dealt with farmers, make sure the crop insurance programs are appropriate, make sure they're appropriately funded, make sure that we protect the farmers in that way. With regards to the communities they live in, so for instance, we increased the loan authority for what's called the Business and Industry Loan Program to $2"
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MR. SCOTT FABER, JD "So we know that companies can make these foods without these ingredients because they make them all over the world. They make them for Canada, they make them for the UK, they make them for Latin America and for Europe. So, and here's the good news, they cost the same"
Hearing Business meeting to markup S.737, to require certain interactive computer services to adopt and operate technology verification measures to ensure...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act to modify a provision relating to the extension of certain dates for the...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management areas, wildlife conservation areas, protection areas, recreation areas,...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of mental or physical disability in cases of organ transplants,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine the state of the bulk power system.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
TRAVIS FISHER "That's where I think we're so far afield from free markets that I think a lot of things are on the table. On the plus side, the status quo is so broken that just about anything you do, any reform you make is probably going to be positive. So, on the one hand, mandating, making a monopoly, make decisions that it wouldn't otherwise make. In other words, having a heavy handed regulator to basically say, these are investments that we know you wouldn't make given your incentives, but we know"
Hearing Hearings to examine the impact of AI on the workplace.
senate Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MR. JONATHAN LIEBERT "We can pursue both at the same time. And in the future, the work will not be predetermined by an algorithm. It will be shaped by all of us and the choices that we make as we lead our workers into an educated system where we protect, make sure people have access to the tools and make sure that we hold businesses and consumers"
Hearing Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnerships
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
OLSZEWSKI, JOHNNY "Okay, I'm clearly not going to get an answer, so I'm going to reclaim my time. I wanted to give you an opportunity there. I think regardless of how important these projects are, taxpayers should not be paying to make members of Congress, to make members of the administration, to make the president or their family richer, nor should taxpayer funding be used to fuel the corruption of any other partner country. So I'll pivot here, Mr. Black, to in December, the DFC announced a letter of interest for an equity investment between Chez Camin, the DRC's state-owned mining company, and another..."
Hearing “A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet After 40”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
DR. BHAMATI VISWANATHAN "Thirdly, and perhaps nearest and dearest to my heart, is the question of the treatment of the ingestion of copyrighted materials by large language models, LLMs. What does that mean? We use this word a lot. We say LLMs train themselves on copyrighted materials. Well, they can train, but just like the rest of us who train, they have to pay for the training. Licensing agreements need to flourish. They are beginning to happen. We need to make sure that creators, creators who create the stuff that we consume, are compensated, small creators too, not just large intermediaries, and we need to do..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artificial intelligence.
senate Children and Families Subcommittee · Jun 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_01 "Many of these groups are doing incredible work with schools and state governments to really empower parents. I'll use Florida as an excellent example of a state who's really taking leadership here, thinking about an issue of consequential decision-making. This is thinking about how we keep a human in the loop so that it's not the AI who's making a decision about whether you get a loan, whether you get into college, whether you get financial aid, what's the result of your insurance claim, but that there's always a human that's reviewing that decision, and Florida has really led that work..."
Hearing "Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency."
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
PALLONE, FRANK "we have to also look at the competitive environment to make sure it truly is competitive. We will also discuss a bill that would codify existing requirements for both hospitals and insurers to make health care pricing more transparent by requiring price information to be displayed publicly and in a standardized format. And lack of transparency into health care prices makes it difficult for consumers to make informed decisions, and it also makes it challenging for employers to negotiate more competitive prices. This bill represents work that this Committee has undertaken for several Congresses..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MAST, BRIAN J. "all members voted any member wish to change their vote clerk shall close the motion is agreed to without objection staff is authorized to make to staff staff is authorized to make, staff, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Staff is authorized to make any technical and conforming changes. That is all the votes for today. We will resume amendment debate and we will vote on the amendments at a later time. So everybody is"
Hearing “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
OGLES, ANDREW "name the issue practitioners care about, because getting them right is how we secure the country. More of our software is now written by AI, faster than human reviewers can keep up, which makes security by design practices, where security is built in from the first line of code more important than ever. It makes AI coding tools a real concern when those tools are built on models we cannot fully vet, and it makes agentic AI software that plans and acts on its own across our networks. On an entirely new attack surface, our defenses were never built to withstand. These are real issues with real..."
Hearing "Connecting Rural America to the National Airspace System"
house Aviation Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GREGORY PECORARO "That's an important question. I think that the way that we'd like to see both EAS and Small Community Air Service Program work together is to look at the larger needs of these communities and figure out in the many years since these programs have been created, how has the industry changed? And I think that's a critical point to make. The way that the airline industry operated 40 years ago or more when these programs were created is very different than it is today. And so the way we're going to serve these communities and support them is going to be very different than it was back then. And so..."
Hearing Rules of the Road: Examining Legislation to Modernize the Clean Air Act's Mobile Source Requirements
house Environment Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_02 "and to the point that you made earlier, it's in the forefront of the manufacturer's mind, making sure that equipment works for their customers. We do not like our equipment to fail. We know how important our equipment is to our customers with making sure that it's working for their business for them. You know, we've been working on this technology for so long, it now is fully integrated into that system. So the pure elimination of DEF can impact the operation of that system, as well as the emissions side of it. So we want to make sure that when we're looking at where can we make sure that we..."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KRISTI NOEM "And I said, because this is going to be a difficult job. It's going to be a hard job. We're going to have to secure our border and make sure we're going after dangerous criminal illegals and remove them from our country, and every day we're going to have to make tough decisions to uphold the law, but to make sure that the consequences for breaking the law are put in place as well. The one thing I would say is I wasn't quite prepared for was the heartbreaking stories I would hear. The families that have lost their children, their brothers and their sisters, to dangerous people that came into..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Casey Means, of California, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Feb 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CASEY MEANS, MD "for being willing to want to clarify this with me. And also thank you for meeting with me. I really enjoyed our conversation in October with you and your staff. I think the concerns and comments that you're sharing, I think they're incompletely representing my views. And so I'll take the opportunity to share. This is an effective vaccine. I think it's a very important vaccine. And I think it's, I mean, obviously Senator Cassidy knows better than anyone, given his work. This is a vaccine that has saved thousands, millions of lives. I don't know the exact number, but I do think that this..."
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Hearing Various Measures
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
WATERS, MAXINE "other laws and that people can sue. Do you know what it takes to sue? Do you know you've got to get an attorney? Do you know you've got to pay a lot of money? The average person working every day can't afford to get an attorney. They're just out with no protections. You all know this, and I don't know why you're protecting the credit bureaus. They're ultra-rich folks making a lot of money and making decisions about people's lives. Why be on their side? Even if you were making an error, even if you were wrong, why would you rather be wrong on behalf of young people trying to get a decent place..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the future of social security.
senate Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
SANDERS, BERNARD "And the idea that they talked about is the legislation that I have introduced. And it is not a complicated piece of legislation. It is something I will fight to see become law. And that is we are in a situation right now where if Catherine here makes $10 million a year and the chairman makes $186,000 a year, they both pay the same amount into the Social Security trust fund. If Musk makes, whatever he makes, hundreds of millions a year, he pays the same amount as somebody making $186,000 a year, $184,000, I'm sorry, that's the number right now. And that is, I think most people understand, that..."
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
MORAN, JERRY "and you should take great pride in Food for Peace under your management. I want to make certain, Senator Hoeven has been not my sidekick, but my leader in the effort to make permanent that transfer from the State Department. Secretary Rubio testified in response to my questions last week of his support for this endeavor, and we want to give you all the tools. I would just ask about one thing, that the necessary employees and staff, my understanding is that you're doing the same program with less people, but I want to make sure that the fact that it's a temporary program now doesn't inhibit...."
Hearing Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
TENNEY, CLAUDIA "Absolutely. And it's a transmission issue and a pipeline issue and an access issue and a lack of common sense. But let's talk about the positive things, because we want to talk about the H.R. 1 and your help in getting that across the finish line. Obviously, it was a monumental piece of legislation building on 2017 tax cuts that I actually was in Congress for and voted for, and we are grateful to you and your department for making that happen. I also want to make sure and recognize-you talked about some permanency today, and I want to make sure that we recognize one of the signature pieces of..."
Hearing “Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relationship to the Tiahrt Amendment”
house Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee · May 14, 2026 · Transcript
ROBERT CEKADA "your teachers would grade your exams, and they were rushing through to do things properly. It would make, as you stated, some administrative mistakes. So that combined with the changes to the 4473 that we proposed, which would make things simpler to be able to answer the important questions without trying to trick anyone. I've had to pause numerous times filling out a 4473 with no concern as to any criminal record, but wanting to make sure that I didn't make a mistake, that somebody was going to get in trouble. So we try to make that a form that answers all the concerns of government and..."
Hearing Hearings to examine seniors and the workforce.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
SCOTT, RICK "But we need to do more than that. Even if we get the RET repealed, seniors still face mountains of administrative red tape to get information on how their benefits are impacted by when they retire. The same red tape also makes it hard for seniors to decide when they should start withdrawing their benefits. Many Americans don't realize that when they start withdrawing, it can actually impact how much they'll be entitled to. This not only affects our seniors retiring today, but all Americans who are actively planning for their future. We shouldn't be making it more difficult for seniors or..."
Hearing Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2025 · Transcript
IVEY, GLENN "If you look at the contrast with China, they're doing exactly the opposite. And they're doing exactly the opposite in the areas where we're in the most competitive areas and where we really need to win. We don't want China to get ahead of us militarily. We don't want China to get ahead of us on quantum computing and AI, but we're making cuts to NIST, we're making cuts to NASA, we're making cuts to the NIH, we're making cuts across the board on some of the most important aspects of what we need to do in the United States to maintain that lead. And with respect to public health, I see my time's..."
Hearing Hearings to examine empowering Main Street by unlocking access to capital.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
MR. MIKE FLOOD "like minds, like a health care hub, and you need funders to be there to talk about it. So when I look at the proposals that have been put forth by this committee, as well as in the INVEST Act, I see a few that can be very helpful, and a lot of them are very technical, just common-sense fixes. Again, I'll go back to the AFFE. If we can solve it, I would honest that some people say we're double-counting, and I actually say it's because we are double-counting that is a misrepresented disclosure. So if we technically fix that, it'll allow these funds to make it into indices and make more liquid..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
JOHNSON, RON "but I will point out when we passed one big beautiful bill, Wisconsin went from 1.8 to 6% provider tax because they wanted to, you know, be part of the deal too, and I got a got lobbied by a hospital said, you know, you've got to lobby Dr. Oz to create a waiver so we can that 6% provider tax because if we do it, we can charge our patients $12 million and we'll get reimbursed for $18 million and we'll make a $6 million profit. That was the rationale. It wasn't like, hey, if we can't do this, we're going to go out of business. No, this is a money-making opportunity for us and you've got to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
LANKFORD, JAMES "So the parliamentary question that I think we've got to be able to deal with is, is this consistent with Lois Lerner? What she also did when she came before Congress, gave an opening statement, testimony, so made a statement, and then refused to answer questions. Are we dealing with the same issue here, where someone is making, you can't make a statement and say I'm not going to make statements at the same time? Okay, thank you, Mr."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
HUDSON, RICHARD "This law took important steps to reduce illegal robocalls by requiring providers to implement call authentication, increase fines for intentional violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, authorize tracebook efforts, and establish a federal interagency working group to combat illegal robocalls. The FCC has also taken important steps to reduce illegal robocalls, both in implementing the Traced Act and by working to block these calls from reaching our networks in the first place. Unfortunately, however, more still needs to be done. Bad actors continue to develop new ways to enter our..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's 2026 trade policy agenda.
senate Finance Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE JAMIESON GREER "We want to have as much security here. We want to have a level playing field. We want to make sure that our farmers have the inputs they need at a price that makes them competitive and makes them be able to maintain their farms. It's so important to have food security. So I agree with you on these issues. Well, so China, as I think we all know, you know, China's economic policies are closely tied to their political"
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, “Oversight of the Smithsonian: Radical Revisionism at the National Museum of American...
house Committee on House Administration · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MR. MIKE GONZALEZ "I actually agreed with almost everything Representative Morelli said, except until the part you got to the Smithsonian. I think all of history should be presented, the horrors of slavery, the absolute blight that this was in our history, but also the fact that the founders created this system to deal with it, that men marched, you know, to the tomb, the Battle of the Republic, saying, as he died to make men holy, let us die to make them free. die to make them free. That inspiring story also needs to be part of the horrors of"
Hearing “Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK "We're training our program teams and our grant teams. What we have done is we've actually simplified the documents and the terms, making sure we're dialing up the oversight side and the compliance with executive orders, again, to make sure only those who are eligible receive and to make sure millions of dollars went, like in the last administration, to DEI programs and other divisive programs. And so we are also then working to improve the accreditation process, for example, with the SPDCs, and we are making sure that our teams are thorough and"
Hearing Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
SCHAKOWSKY, JANICE D. "that there are people who are in good faith trying to do best for themselves and their families and their kids, and it's not coming forward for them. So I just am hoping that we're going to do better than we have done and make sure that we make all of these questions that are asked safer and that we make sure that all of our families are getting the best that they need to know and that can protect themselves and their kids. So we have a lot of, we have a lot of work to do. Thank"
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
ANSARI, YASSAMIN "to the groundwater we drink and our farmers use for irrigation. Better geologic mapping allows us to make smarter decisions about where development makes sense makes sense while reducing unnecessary exploration and uncertainty. HR 9649 builds on the success of Earth MRI by testing emerging technologies that can map subsurface resources more quickly and efficiently, providing better information to the public while reducing costs and"
Hearing Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
FLOOD, MIKE "weatherization programs for a wide assortment of agencies, and many of them have overlapping purposes, but are so difficult to navigate for grantees. However, when I learned more about the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka's programs, I found them to be much more efficient in getting results. In Cumming County, Nebraska, we were able to work through a local community bank to get seniors on fixed incomes upgrades to their homes that will make it easier for them to make it through the winter. I'm talking better windows to keep the warm air inside and the cold air outside. I know they've done..."
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
BEGICH, NICHOLAS J. "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I speak in strong support of HR 9436, extending the moratorium on North Atlantic right whale regulation implementation. Look, science must drive the process of rule making, and we do not have a sufficient science to drive that rule making process right now. Additional time is necessary, and we hear from folks in the industry that say, hey, time is necessary to get the science right. At the end of the day, I think it's really important that we send a message to the fisheries, to Maine lobstermen, and saying we're going to make sure that it's not your jobs that are..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and Erica Schwartz, of...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_05 "Senator, thank you for meeting with me. As you know, I spent over 25 years in the uniformed services, and I have had my share of making the mandates for influenza and other vaccines, or at least following. I didn't make the mandate, but I followed leadership as they made the mandate for those vaccines, and I understood why. When you're in congregate living situations, when you're in submarines, when you're in on ships, close quarters, it is really important to make sure that you have what we call force health protection. So I'm fully supportive of, in certain circumstances, mandating vaccines..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, James...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_05 "Senator, thank you for meeting with me. As you know, I spent over 25 years in the uniformed services, and I have had my share of making the mandates for influenza and other vaccines, or at least following. I didn't make the mandate, but I followed leadership as they made the mandate for those vaccines, and I understood why. When you're in congregate living situations, when you're in submarines, when you're on ships, close quarters, it is really important to make sure that you have what we call force health protection. So I'm fully supportive of, in certain circumstances, mandating vaccines..."
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
MRS. JESSICA GORMAN "them. That was my daughter, and that is who she was until the day she was stolen from us. And I honestly can't make sense of it. I cannot make peace with it. And in what world does the child who spent her life making sure no one was lonely, die terrified and alone on a pier in Chicago? In what world does the girl who saw everyone become invisible to the people in power responsible for protecting her? This cannot be explained away, and it cannot be buried beneath a list of unrelated issues that you all paraded before us. Thanks for telling me without telling me that, you know, you're here, but..."
Hearing American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "Oh, absolutely. So we make a quadruped robot and we make a humanoid robot and we make a box-moving robot. Those are three different types of robots that all have three different types of AI models that allow them to touch, see, and interact with the"
Hearing Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Federal Tax Policy in the Multibillion-Dollar Industry
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
DR. DENNIS COATES "But they typically don't. I think the best way to make sure that the communities are benefiting is to make the make the, I should be clear, if it's a professional stadium, then the owners should pay for"
Hearing Oversight hearing titled "Beneath the Surface: Earth MRI and America's Resource Potential"
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "If you'll let us know, and you spoke a little bit about this, why is the reauthorization for Earth MRI so critically important within your program, but also for the nation? I think it's important to note the data that we need to make those decisions, but also what comes in the development of science to make us even more accurate in determining where these mineral resources are, which makes us more efficient in how we develop them. Give me a scenario, too, of what would happen if the program lapsed. Where would we find ourselves, not just marking time, but where would we regress if this..."
Hearing Markup of Fifteen Bills
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
PALLONE, FRANK "What is more, the information can be misleading or inaccurate, making it difficult for consumers to compare prices across health care providers before receiving care. The lack of transparency into health care prices makes it difficult for consumers to make informed decisions, and it also makes it challenging for employers to negotiate more competitive prices. The Lower Costs, More Transparency Act codifies the existing requirements for both hospitals and insurers to make public price information and strengthens the existing regulatory"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
BRITT, KATIE BOYD "Chair. Thank you to all of you for being here, and congratulations on your nominations. Mr. Cruz, you've served in several roles, from Treasury to the Banking Committee to House of Representatives to the White House. As financial services continue to evolve, and credit unions are adopting new technologies to make sure that they're meeting their customers' needs, expanding their digital offerings, and serving increasingly diverse communities in different places, how are you going to make sure that you keep them safe? Make sure that you're giving them the most up-to-date technology that allows..."
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "We'll certainly look forward to working with you and the relevant agencies on that. I want to talk a little bit to wrap up my time on CBP. Obviously, their role is not just keeping our borders safe, but it's also making sure we're interdicting bad things coming into our country, including counterfeit products and things that are going around our trade laws, as well. I have a piece of legislation, the Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act. We call it PAIL. It just passed through judiciary unanimously just a few weeks ago, and this would help make sure there..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Measures
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
STEIL, BRYAN "What I'm trying to do in my underlying amendment is actually narrow this down to two key areas that I think we should just even remove the appearance of impropriety from. One is public policy, and it was noted by my colleague, a couple areas where individuals could make, where an individual could go online and make a prediction on public policy. I think it's pretty clear we don't want members in that space. I think it would already be illegal under insider trading rules, maybe, maybe not. Let's just make it explicit and clear. Under the jurisdiction that this committee has, our legislation..."
Hearing “The 30,000 Foot View: Competition and Regulation in the U.S. Airline Industry”
house Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE CHRIS SUNUNU "Of course. You know, they're all big believers and users in SAF, as you know, and that continues to Sure. So as I think as the industry matures, the economics get better and better, right? Because like any fairly new technology, and it is a fairly new introduction into the industry, it starts out fairly costly, lots of new, I won't say barriers to entry, but you know, costs, R&D, all of our airlines are investing in various forms of research and development to make SAF more accessible, easier to produce, whatever it may be, trying to get more companies that actually make, giving more time for..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of James Andrew Crowell IV, and Stuart Gordon Nash, both of the District of Columbia, each to be an Associate...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
SHARON GOODIE "Any reports I can get on psychiatric, psychological, if I'm in a juvenile delinquency court, I'd want to know. How can I make, how can I, I can't make sure, but how can I come closest to making sure that this person is not going to do it? Sorry about"
Hearing Hearings to examine improving safety across the National Airspace System.
senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript
MR. CHRISTOPHER SUNUNU "Maybe it's not as good, but at least it can be something that can be put in. We want to make sure it's there and work with the FAA to make sure that the certification is there. We want to make sure that the certified process and the manufacturers can meet the demands of whatever the mandate might come. Oh, gosh,"
Hearing Hearings to examine AI and the American dream, focusing on promoting innovation, affordability and American dominance.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jun 11, 2026 · Transcript
SMITH, TINA "country that we should not be discriminating when it comes to housing. And so, interesting how AI intersects with this, right? Because we know that AI tools can, you know, there's ways that they could be beneficial to housing. They could make it easier to build, they could make it more affordable, they could make it more accessible, but also experts have warned that without anti- discrimination protections they could also, you know, create risks for renters and homeowners. We've all heard about this sort of, you know, the algorithmic pricing of rent as just one example of that. So this is..."
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including post-2026 operations negotiations.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "I'm grateful to you and to Ranking Member Heinrich for including several priorities that benefit Colorado in today's markup, helping us manage water in the face of the severe drought that we're dealing with. It comes from building capacity of water managers to develop projects that make the most of the supplies we have, and making sure that we stay at the cutting edge of water forecasting by understanding our snowpack. In a year like this one, we have to make the most of every drop. That's just one example. The Ute Mountain Tribe in the southwestern corner of Colorado is expected to receive..."
Hearing "Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, and Legal Abuses in America’s Schools"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
HAYES, JAHANA "affirming language, I created environments that did not, literally that were anti-bullying environments and supported those environments, I created collaborative spaces where students could learn because that was my job, to educate students. So this idea that, and I was a pretty good teacher, and I don't care how good you are, you can't make nobody gay, I don't know what they think they're talking about, but you're not that good, none of you, you're not going to make somebody be something, but you do have a responsibility to make sure that they can learn. So creating those safe environments..."
Hearing "Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SORENSEN, ERIC "You know, we have to make sure that our trading partners are dealt with fairly. Yes, we have to make sure that we have healthy competition, but our farmers and agribusiness need certainty today. I look forward to working with my caucus and with my Republican friends to make sure that an extension makes sense for American workers and keeps farmers competitive. Thank you all so"
Hearing Examining Local Needs in Disaster Recovery
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
GREEN, AL "to reinvent the wheel on every occasion and lose the benefit of the institutional knowledge that some persons had that have long gone and made their lives in other places. This would be a good start. Now there are many things that I'd like to see in it, but I'm not going to go through those things because I think that it would spoil the argument that I'm making about making it permanent. I think we can try to find the common ground that we all agree on just to make it permanent. If we can do that, I think we can move forward. And I welcome all of the ideas to be on the table, but let's at..."
Hearing “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
ISSA, DARRELL "to produce in America for sales to countries where the product is already available, could be available legally. The concept being that if you're not making in America until later, you probably won't make in America at all. If you make in America in real time, you will hit the ground running when it becomes available in the U.S. I personally have observed that China has that advantage. They make the products, as does India, years ahead of being able to sell them in"
Hearing Oversight of Prudential Regulators
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
BEATTY, JOYCE "As we're approaching 50 years from the inception of that, I am a big proponent in full disclosure, I've been around for a while prior to being in Congress, working with financial institutions to make sure that that is a standard because as you know, it includes the community and evaluation, for lack of a better word, process to make sure that financial institutions are making an investment. So Chairman Hill, last July the agencies released a proposal to repeal the Community Reinvestment Act rule that was finalized in 2023 to revert back to the 1995 regulations despite major changes in banking..."
Hearing H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_34 "We're dealing with a massive bureaucracy with the Department of Defense. Bureaucracies respond to incentives and disincentives, and why would they possibly make tough decisions to divest things, to remove programs, to make major reforms, if all we're doing is throwing good money after bad to the extent where they don't even have to make those tough decisions anymore? I know for a fact that we can be more efficient, that we can spend less money, and have better results for the American taxpayer and the war fighters than we are currently delivering them. And I know that's true, because Ukraine..."
Hearing Where Are We?: Examining Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilities in the United States
house Communications and Technology Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MS. MARIAM SOROND "Congressman, you are absolutely right. Yes, we go to summits, events, talk to them all the time because if we don't, we cannot build products that serve their needs. We absolutely, and we will make sure we protect them. We will make sure we address their concerns, and you're absolutely right, the rural becomes very important, and we intend to make sure that they continue to do their jobs without being concerned about being found. Congresswoman, I appreciate you asking that important question. Let me just say, first of all, we currently have the licenses. We're currently transmitting. We're..."
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
UNKNOWN "and strengthen rural economies. This bill would move INFRA out of the Highway Trust Fund and make it dependent on annual general fund appropriations. Now, I understand the pressure on the Trust Fund, and we need to make hard choices to ensure it's solvent long-term, but moving INFRA to a less predictable funding stream does not resolve the revenue problem. It simply makes funding less predictable for projects that take years to plan, finance, permit, and"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of...
senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE ANDREA TRAVNICEK "You mentioned, too, where we have the one big beautiful bill, so for water storage, water conveyance. So that is where we are focused on making sure that we are trying to get infrastructure dollars, taking care of some of the projects that have been out there. And then, of course, looking ahead with the budget that we do have, trying to make sure that we're operating, maintaining, and making sure that we're modernizing the infrastructure that we do have. And then at the same time, working with our various"
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
THE HONORABLE SCOTT TURNER "Thank you, sir. And, you know, we've mentioned, you know, the almost $5 billion in improper payments. And Irv Dennis and his team, and I met with them, have assured me that they are working very hard to make sure that those things don't happen in days ahead and to hold people accountable. We have, Irv and his team have a great partnership with the OIG to make sure that we're going after waste, fraud, and abuse internally and externally. And I will say, sir, you know, that makes me very proud, you know, of our team, political, and career at HUD to make sure that we're being good stewards over..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.749, to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend increased dependency and indemnity compensation paid to surviving...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_18 "Thank you, Senator Banks. I think one of the things we can do, VA has made a lot of progress over the years, and I think we need to double down on what's working. I appreciate your legislation, but there are also several others that are looking at expanding access to the HUD-VASH program or making sure that veterans can access housing that was constructed using low-income housing tax credits. In many cases, the service-connected disability compensation can get in the way, but fortunately, VA is already taking proactive steps to do so by regulation. I think there's a lot of good pieces of..."
Hearing AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepayers
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
JAMES, JOHN "Reliability is not theoretical. NERC already warned that regions like MISO face elevated risk as we retire a reliable generation faster than we can face it. So here's the challenge in front of us. We need to build. We need to compete. We need to win. But we cannot do it in a way that forces families to pay more for a reliable energy. That means making sure that those who drive new demand pay their fair share, making sure that our generation mix can actually meet peak demand, making sure policy is grounded in reality, not just ambition. We can and will win the AI race with China, and we will..."
Hearing Examining VA Benefits: Pension and Fiduciary, and VA Life Insurance Options
house Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
MCGARVEY, MORGAN "their families, and taxpayer dollars. I'm glad we're holding this oversight hearing today, both for a program that rarely makes the news and another that, when it does make the news, makes bad news. This won't be the end of our work on this and on these programs. Mr. Chairman, I am excited to continue this oversight and work with you"
Hearing The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget.
house Energy Subcommittee · Apr 16, 2026 · Transcript
FLETCHER, LIZZIE "And in 2022, there were disruptions after Russia invaded Ukraine that set off a series of supply disruptions in Europe and beyond that affected global prices, as did our decisions here in this country and in this Congress to sanction Russia for its illegal war. And so I do think that's important context. If I had a lot more time, I would talk about how I had a bill that I introduced during the first Trump administration in the early days of the COVID pandemic to fill up the SPR when oil prices were record lows, but I have to move on. We did not do that then, and I do wish we had. I do want to..."
Hearing Joint hearings to examine preparations for the FIFA World Cup 2026.
senate Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Transcript
ROBERT O'LEARY "Certainly As I mentioned earlier one of the things we're very proud of is our efforts. The State Department has, from what I understand, has surged resources across the globe, about 400, 450 people. And one of the accomplishments, it has reduced visa wait times from the previous administration that were over one year in over 72 or 75 countries to under 60 days. So, that is making the travel process much easier. In addition, we're working closely with our allies in Canada and Mexico to make travel easier as well. I believe it's CBP or might be DHS has hosted multiple events with our..."
Hearing “Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
ISSA, DARRELL "course it is, only to discover that in my entire career, both in and out of government, it was not. And so, again, I want to commend you because that's the kind of hands-on decision-making that we need to have. Additionally, I want to make it clear. The President has an agenda. That agenda is not in conflict on either side of the dais. That is, that although sometimes when you say MAGA is pejorative in this body, that making America and keeping America great is the goal of every aspect of this body and of the Patent and Trademark Office. Onshoring of manufacturing of all sorts, mining,..."
Hearing “Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the DHS Shutdown on Americans”
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_37 "The threat environment is too dynamic, sir, to allow this shutdown to continue on. for your question sir it's a it's a continued risk that's evolving each and every single day you know we have employees that have to make the choice right now you know we have employees that are single we have a woman that's a single mother who's having to make the choice right now between continuing to care for her aging parents or continuing to care for her child and be able to pay her bills but that type of calculus for individual employees they shouldn't have to make that type of burdensome choice between..."
Hearing Hearings to examine enterprise security and information technology operations of Department of Defense networks and systems; to be immediately...
senate Cybersecurity Subcommittee · Mar 24, 2026 · Transcript
SHEEHY, TIM "We haven't had to use them very often for 80 years. We used a couple a few weeks ago, I know, but how do we make sure that our industrial base that makes those is able to continue to make them when we actually need a lot of them pretty quickly? Do we have a good understanding of what our cost, for example, a 155 shell, what it costs us to make it per unit, what it costs China to make their equivalent per"
Hearing A closed hearing to examine low-cost munitions; to be immediately followed by an open hearing at 11:00 a.m. in SD-G50.
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 24, 2026 · Transcript
SHEEHY, TIM "We haven't had to use them very often for 80 years. We used a couple a few weeks ago, I know, but how do we make sure that our industrial base that makes those is able to continue to make them when we actually need a lot of them pretty quickly? Do we have a good understanding of what our cost, for example, a 155 shell, what it costs us to make it per unit, what it costs China to make their equivalent per"
Hearing Hearings to examine the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 19, 2026 · Transcript
SULLIVAN, DAN "The last one, in our response, which was NORAD, we launched nine assets, two F-16s, two F-35s, an AWACS, and I think four or five tankers. Now, you know, when these make the news, they never make the news down here, by the way. In Alaska, they make the news. But, you know, we say, oh, the Russians came into our airspace, we intercepted them. But these are highly complex, high-risk missions,"
Hearing “Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. Doe”
house Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "I would urge our colleagues to abandon this determination to make life harder for children in our country, and instead join us in passing policy to deliver for America's kids. Together, we could make the child tax credit permanent instead of making tax cuts permanent for the nation's billionaires. We could expand access to health care and support for nutrition for kids in need. We could protect the Department of Education to make sure kids in America get to a quality"
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "But for younger staff members, this is scary to think about any of this information coming out, because no matter what you all think, it will impact their future prospects. They don't, and especially if it's a small staff, they're going to figure out who it is. It's going to be, it's just the ripple effect. So I just want, as we draft this, be very cautious in making sure we're not protecting people. The goal is to have people that are fully ones responsible and making sure and preventing this from happening. And that is the member, the Senator and the House of Representatives member. But we..."
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
SPEAKER_06 "let's just do a little piece, because eventually the water will surround it. So, we have to do this the whole thing. So, that behavior of asking for authorization for projects when we don't have enough engineering to give you what a good cost is, I own that, and we're working hand in hand with the secretary's office to fix that. We'll see if we can beat, well, we're not going to make it of 26 We will make a commitment to make Word of 28 with the information I on us We own that We have to work hand in hand with the local sponsors. We'll see if there's some options where they might be able to..."
Hearing "Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026 · Transcript
GROTHMAN, GLENN "I have always liked these facilities, because not only does it provide a paycheck for these folks, and it makes them like the rest of the society, it makes them like their siblings, it makes them like their friends, to go to work in the morning, to come home at night, to have the pride to be able to have their own money to buy clothes, or food, or what have"
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The Declare War Clause, Part 2: Historical Background, Drafting, and Ratification
Posts · Sep 30, 2024
This Legal Sidebar is the second part of an eight-part series that discusses the Declare War Clause in Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution, which grants Congress the power “To declare...
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Schemes and False Statements: Supreme Court to Consider Scope of Anti-Fraud Liability Under Securities Laws
Posts · Nov 30, 2018
On December 3, 2018, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Lorenzo v. Securities and Exchange Commission, a case involving the scope of anti-fraud liability under federal securities law that...
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Medicaid Supplemental Payments
Reports · Dec 17, 2018
Medicaid is a means-tested entitlement program that finances the delivery of primary and acute medical services, as well as long-term services and supports. Medicaid is a federal and state...
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Lies and Schemes: Supreme Court Expands Securities Fraud Liability
Posts · Apr 24, 2019
The Supreme Court recently held in Lorenzo v. Securities and Exchange Commission that persons who knowingly disseminate false statements to investors violate the “scheme liability” provisions of...
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Foreign Money and U.S. Campaign Finance Policy
Resources · Mar 25, 2019
Introduction Federal campaign finance law and regulation prohibits foreign money in U.S. elections. The public record reveals little evidence that foreign money has intruded into U.S. campaigns...
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Repurposing 3.1-3.55 GHz Spectrum: Issues for Congress
Resources · Mar 16, 2023
Wireless technologies use radio waves, or frequencies, to transmit and receive voice and data signals. The radio spectrum is the range of frequencies used for wireless mobile, satellite, television,...
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A New Civil Service “Policy/Career” Schedule: Issues for Lawmakers
Posts · Jan 29, 2025
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) reinstating and amending EO 13957—an EO issued during the first Trump Administration in late 2020 that had originally directed each...
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International Agreements (Part II): Examining Tools for Congressional Influence Over International Instruments
Posts · Sep 29, 2023
This Legal Sidebar examines options for Congress to influence international instruments. It is the second in a three-part series on international agreements in the U.S. legal system. Part I...