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Hearing “Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK "DEI programs. Our team is going through all their websites, all their documents. It's very complicated, but we're doing it. We're on it. Yes, Congressman. Thank you for the question. Yes. The grants managers are the people with the warrants. They actually, they sign on the line for how much money that is approved. It's clearly a financial function. And my understanding is many years ago there was, and there still is, an Office of Grants Management. They all used to be housed in the CFO's office. But because that was not efficiently run, individual program offices were allowed to hire their..."
CRS Report
Out of Office: Vacancies, Acting Officers, and Day 301
Posts · Nov 1, 2017
Across the executive branch, acting officers are currently serving in vacant advice and consent positions, temporarily filling these offices until a permanent officer is nominated by the President...
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the functions of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
KAINE, TIM "We ended up working over the course of the last month and reached an accord, not on everything within the DOE universe, but on four key components of DOE's work that they should not be transferred, and those components are the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Office of Post-Secondary Education, and the Office of Indian Education, and we've reached a bipartisan proposal before the body today that those would not be transferred out of the DOE. I want to thank my co-sponsors for working with this proposal to come up..."
CRS Report
Defense Primer: Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Resources · Oct 3, 2024
Background The Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (SROTC)—more commonly referred to as the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)—is an officer training and scholarship program for...
CRS Report
CRS Services to District and State Offices: Overview and Selected Resources
InFocus · Jun 2, 2026
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) serves all congressional offices—those on Capitol Hill as well as those in a Member’s home district or state office. This CRS resource guide is designed...
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original resolution regarding Contempt of Congress, S.2732, to strengthen employee cost savings suggestions...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Request transcript
CRS Report
Postal Primer: Post Office Naming
Resources · May 8, 2024
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has independent authority to name or designate its postal facilities. Additionally, Congress may designate a post office through legislation. This In Focus describes...
CRS Report
Supreme Court Holds That SEC Administrative Law Judges Are “Officers” Subject to the Appointments Clause
Posts · Jun 22, 2018
On June 21, 2018, the Supreme Court released its opinion in Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), holding that SEC administrative law judges (ALJs) are “Officers of the United States”...
CRS Report
Support Offices in the House of Representatives: Roles and Authorities
Reports · Aug 30, 2024
Article I of the Constitution, in Sections 2 and 3, authorizes the House of Representatives and Senate to choose their own officers. The number of such congressional support personnel, as well as...
CRS Report
Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI)
Resources · Jun 7, 2024
Background The Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI) can trace its origins to the Second World War, when the U.S. government sought to collect intelligence on...
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Is a TSA Screener a “Law Enforcement Officer”? Court Allows Lawsuit Against United States to Proceed
Posts · Nov 19, 2019
According to a complaint that air traveler Nadine Pellegrino filed in 2009 against the United States in federal court, several Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) working for the Transportation...
CRS Report
Naming of House and Senate Office Buildings and Rooms: Brief Overview
Resources · Sep 4, 2018
Various procedures have been used to designate the names of House and Senate office buildings, as well as of rooms and spaces within the Capitol Complex. The set of procedures used has varied...
Testimony KEATING, WILLIAM R.
United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First F...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Now, I want to ask you, given all that, and given my experience knowing that we're going to combat this, we have to do this on an international basis and a regional basis to be successful, the way I was with those task force, why did the U.S. withdraw from the U.N. on key offices, the offices for children in armed conflict, the office of sexual violence in conflict, the office of violence against children? Why would the U.S. ever withdraw, given what I just laid out, given what Russia's doing,..."
Testimony SCOTT, ROBERT C. "BOBBY"
H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Pro...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"9203 would dictate that the Office of Federal Student Aid and the office that handles program participation agreements should play a role in that. Regardless of which opinion is better, these two offices, the Office of Student Aid and the Federal Student Aid and the Office of Civil Rights, they're two educational offices that lost the most employees in the Secretary's reduction in force last year. Both of these offices have entered into interagency agreements to transfer many of their"
Testimony SPEAKER_42
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"There's no doubt there is room for efficiency. is congressionally, it is statute that there has to be an office in every county, so no offices have closed, even though I think the congressman from Massachusetts mentioned there were office closures. But we are really digging in this year. I visited multiple FSA offices sitting down with the teams that are in there. I've thanked them because some of them are operating at 50, 60 percent of the staff that they had before we came into"
Testimony SHAHEEN, JEANNE
Hearings to examine the nominations of Catherine Dillon, of Maryland, ...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"That particular law with respect to Fulbright grantees? You were the senior bureau official in the Office of Global Women's Issues last year when the administration disbanded that office. And one of the commitments that, or the positions that Secretary Rubio and the department have maintained is that the expertise of the office hasn't been lost because regional offices are now taking over the work of advocating for women. So can you tell this committee if there's an individual in each regional..."
Testimony DAN ADCOCK
Hearings to examine seniors and the workforce.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"that that stays pristine, and that still is enabled, that that database is intact so that we can ensure that benefits are really what they should be. I mean, that's why, for instance, people have been, we've advised our members to go and to start a MySocialSecurity account and to save all their work history, so in case if that information was ever lost by accident of what's going on at the Social Security Administration they would have that Yeah, no, clearly we've been, you know, for the last,..."
Testimony NEHLS, TROY E.
“The Monitoring Racket: The Grift that Keeps on Giving”
house Judiciary Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"Thank you, sir. I agree with what you just stated, Mr. Fry. I think Mr. Garcia, I think you are a key here in my humble opinion and its success. The sheriff's office, and it's an office, you know, I would say department, it's an office. It's an office. He's a duly elected. So he's his sheriff's"
Witness Shawn Steele
Office of Audits and Evaluations; Office of Inspector General; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 hearing
Witness Jennifer McDonald
Community Care Division, Office of Audits and Evaluations, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 hearing
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
CUELLAR, HENRY "in exposing young people to aviation and technical careers long before they start the workforce. And we got to make sure that we start this early. And it's amazing the programs that we have right now. I also want to thank the committee for the 7% increase to our junior enlisted service members, the 6% to our senior non-commissioned officers and company grade officers, and the 5% to our senior officers. This is important. I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for adding this increase. Finally, I want to add one thing that I think we're all very familiar with, and that is the..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.180, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the use of grant amounts for...
senate Judiciary Committee · May 15, 2025 · Request transcript
CRS Report
The Insurrection Bar to Office: Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment
Posts · Sep 7, 2022
In the aftermath of the events of January 6, 2021, in and around the U.S. Capitol, there have been calls for accountability for those who participated, as well as for those who may have helped...
CRS Report
Family Office Regulation in Light of the Archegos Fallout
Resources · Aug 8, 2023
In late March 2021, Archegos Capital Management and its investment bank financiers started liquidating huge stock positions, causing significant turbulence in capital markets. The stock sell-offs led...
CRS Report
The Insurrection Bar to Holding Office: Appeals Court Issues Decision on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment
Posts · Jun 1, 2022
On May 24, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision in Cawthorn v. Amalfi, a case involving Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment (Section 3). That constitutional...
CRS Report
Staff Tenure in Selected Positions in House Member Offices, 2006-2016
Reports · Nov 9, 2016
The length of time a congressional staff member spends employed in a particular position in Congress—or congressional staff tenure—is a source of recurring interest to Members, staff, and the public....
CRS Report
Staff Tenure in Selected Positions in Senators’ Offices, 2006-2016
Reports · Nov 9, 2016
The length of time a congressional staff member spends employed in a particular position in Congress—or congressional staff tenure—is a source of recurring interest to Members, staff, and the public....
CRS Report
State and Local Law Enforcement Officer Staffing
Resources · Sep 12, 2022
Some policymakers have raised concerns about a perceived police staffing crisis and what this might mean for public safety. This In Focus provides an overview of state and local law enforcement...
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Congressional Budget Office, Government Publishing...
senate Legislative Branch Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2026 for Congressional Budget Office, the Government Accountability Office, and the...
senate Legislative Branch Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Budget Hearing – Government Accountability Office, Congressional Budget Office, United States Government Publishing Office
house Legislative Branch Subcommittee · Apr 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Hal Duncan, of Texas, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Brian...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Bradford Pentony Wilson, of New Jersey, to be Archivist of the United States, Hal Duncan, of Texas, to be...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.3966, to prohibit the enforcement of certain contractual clauses that restrict disclosure of sexual abuse of...
senate Judiciary Committee · May 14, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of John Breslow, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, Fleet White, of Virginia, to...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Apr 30, 2026 · Request transcript
Testimony KEATING, WILLIAM R.
United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First F...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Listen, you just said you were talking about having agencies that you didn't have control over, that were ineffective. Okay. Let's talk about one that the Trump administration does have control over, that does have the ability to shape, and that's the State Department. If that's the case, why did the Trump administration, when it has control with the 70% of the department's trafficking in persons office, and that office, as you know, closes legal gaps and deals with online exploitation, sexual..."
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"We ended up working over the course of the last month and reached an accord, not on everything within the DOE universe, but on four key components of DOE's work that they should not be transferred, and those components are the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Office of Post-Secondary Education, and the Office of Indian Education, and we've reached a bipartisan proposal before the body today that those would not be..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Todd Blanche, of Flori...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 23, 2026
"The president retired the trophy on blanket pardons, if you'll remember. His first day in office, he pardoned everyone who assaulted the Capitol, the insurrectionists who came in here with the design to tear up this building, to assault our police officers, and to stop the process of counting the votes in the 2020 election. They did that. He had to remove the vice president from the Senate chamber. The Secret Service thought his future was in doubt if he stayed there under the circumstances. So..."
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"We think it provides greater communication with the states and other cooperators at that level. So that's what's driving that. And that office is going to be much smaller. So we're looking at probably somewhere between eight to 10 employees at most at a state director office compared to having several hundred employees at a regional office. Yes,"
Testimony THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And with regards to your question about the regions, I just want to read, there was a question asked to someone being investigated and asked if he knows what other offices in labor use common interest agreements. And this is the response, I quote, I can say that the two offices I have worked in, the Plans Benefit Security Division and the New York Regional Solicitor's Offices, use them. I also know as a matter of public record that the San Francisco Regional Solicitor's Office has used them..."
Testimony MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"DEI programs. Our team is going through all their websites, all their documents. It's very complicated, but we're doing it. We're on it. Yes, Congressman. Thank you for the question. Yes. The grants managers are the people with the warrants. They actually, they sign on the line for how much money that is approved. It's clearly a financial function. And my understanding is many years ago there was, and there still is, an Office of Grants Management. They all used to be housed in the CFO's..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Earlier this month, ICE officers fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, father of three children, all of them U.S. citizens, in Houston, Texas, during an operation. The officers involved were not wearing body cameras, according to reports, leaving lots of questions about why this happened. Just days later, ICE officers fatally shot Johan Sebastian Guerrero during an operation in Maine. The officers were wearing body cameras this time, but no, they were not turned on. They were not functional. For..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenic...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Good morning, Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Durbin, and distinguished members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. My name is John Adler, and I appear before you today in my personal capacity to provide testimony in support of the nomination of the Honorable Todd Blanche to serve as the United States Attorney General. I respectfully offer my perspective, both as a former colleague of Acting Attorney General Blanche and as a national law enforcement organization leader. My experience in law..."
Testimony MCCLINTOCK, TOM
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"which then set upon him and put him in the hospital. A Democrat member of Congress is currently indicted for assaulting federal law enforcement law enforcement officers at an ICE facility. ICE officers don't want to wear a mask to officers at an ICE facility. protect themselves and their families. Violent mobs egged on by Democratic activists have left them no choice. And with respect to detention, remember that deportation is not a"
Testimony DYLAN HEDTLER-GAUDETTE
Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"such as Inspector General, the Government Accountability Office, the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of Special Counsel, and others. And we must strengthen, empower, and fully resource them to perform their essential"
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Hearings to examine the TRICARE pharmacy program.
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I think the good news is there's things that we can do. Absolutely immediately, I think DHA should engage in an expansive audit using their Office of Inspector General with an interagency agreement with the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Inspector General. They've looked under the hood, and they know where those bodies are"
Testimony THE HONORABLE TODD BLANCHE
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Violent crime arrests are up nearly 114%. To date, we've taken almost 5,000 child predators and human traffickers off the streets, and the Department of Justice has filed nearly 100,000 indictments and informations since January 20th, 2025. Additionally, in just the last four weeks, in just the last month, we've paid $96 million in claims through the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program to eligible surviving families of fallen public safety officers, even while fewer law enforcement officers..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. ...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, roughly half the staff at the Office of Child Care within the Administration of Children and Families has been laid off since President Trump returned to office, undermining our ability to administer grants and make child care more affordable for working families and oversee that children are safe and cared for. This administration has also closed five regional offices, which provided training and technical assistance and administrative support in ensuring..."
Testimony BONAMICI, SUZANNE
H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. ...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"It is a good investment, but it takes people. It takes educators. It takes staff. So I'm introducing this amendment to require that if this program, if CAMPUS is transferred to the Health and Human Services Department, they must restore staff to the Office of Child Care so they actually have the same number of employees as when Donald Trump came into office, and they must restore the office structure as well. I will note that adding the Department of Health and Human Services to undertake this..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"and stuff, but it is something that we need to address. And as I told you beforehand, I think it comes from, you know, 20, 40, 50 years ago when we didn't trust tribal police and stuff and they weren't as sophisticated as they are today. And I will tell you, all the tribal police officers that I've met today, they go through the same training as our state police officers do, our local police officers, and they're every bit as competent and do just as good a job. And that's why Mr. Newhouse's..."
Testimony MR. GREGG ORTO
PACT Act Implementation: Modernizing VA Disability Claims Through Effe...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"The veteran told us that they submitted the claim, or we submitted the claim through Quick Submit, and then we're not seeing it go all the way through. Well, the help desk there says that, okay, well, at one point, they can no longer help us talk to your regional office, the VA regional office, the VA regional office doesn't have that information. So we're having to go back into Quick Submit to try to find, do some forensic evidence finding to find out what's going on with the claim. So that's..."
Testimony JOYCE, DAVID P.
Oversight Hearing - Office of Management and Budget
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Accounting Act of 1921, which created the Bureau budget under the Department of Treasury. Later in 1939, in the Reorganization Act of 1939, the Bureau was relocated to the newly created Executive Office of the President, and in 1970, Congress approved the Bureau's renaming to the Office of Management and Budget. I restate this history because OMB plays a unique role, both as an office created by Congress and one that has been and continues to be responsible for fulfilling the President's..."
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Two billion. It would be used to hire officers, it would be used to train officers, it would be used to support officer wellness programs, it would be used to support resources for law enforcement such as body cameras, different things that they desperately need. Sure. So, I mean, talking specifically about immigration enforcement, like I said during my"
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"But every single state in the United States is missing public safety grant funding that should have been given to them more than nine months ago. So funding from the Office of Justice Programs goes to a wide variety of resources that help protect local safety. They go to law enforcement officers to help with hiring, to help with officer training, to help with officer"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H...
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026
"I'll conclude by urging your support for Amendment 327. This would close gaping loopholes that have prevented our public safety officers, the survivors of fallen officers, and injured officers who have put their lives on the line and been killed or injured in the line of duty. Last year, we made some very important steps forward to make sure that the Public Safety Officer Benefit Program operates as it"
Testimony CASTRO, JOAQUIN
Implementing an America First Approach in the East Asia and Pacific Re...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"The second question I have for you is on ASEAN engagement. Earlier this year, you traveled to several places in Southeast Asia, Singapore, Hanoi, Jakarta, Manila, and Bangkok, among others. In-person and consistent engagements with the region and interlocutors there is paramount, of course, to socializing our views and gaining traction on our own priorities. That's precisely why many of us were perplexed when the Office of Multilateral Affairs in the East Asia Pacific Bureau was shuttered by..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Hearings to examine the nominations of Barbera Thornhill, of North Car...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"I've collaborated closely with our allies to protect the global financial system and counter our adversaries. In those discussions, I have shared with our foreign partners that I'm the son and nephew of career U.S. Air Force officers, the brother and father of two Army officers, and a former Army officer myself. Since the inception of the Cold War, my family and I have served side by side with our allies in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and are deeply committed to these alliances and..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Mack Traynor, o...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Good morning, Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Durbin, and distinguished members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. My name is John Adler, and I appear before you today in my personal capacity to provide testimony in support of the nomination of the Honorable Todd Blanche to serve as the United States Attorney General. I respectfully offer my perspective, both as a former colleague of Acting Attorney General Blanche and as a national law enforcement organization leader. My experience in law..."
Testimony RULLI, MICHAEL A.
State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight ...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"What was exciting for me, Director, is when I realized that we had the Attorney General and we had the auditor working with your office. Because you know what? In life, sometimes we're not perfect. And the wonderful story about America is, like, and you look at our history, we correct our wrongs like we do in Ohio. So we're not all full of ourselves that says that we're perfect in the state of Ohio. We know that we're flawed. But I like the idea that the three branches over there, you've got..."
Testimony CUELLAR, HENRY
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"in exposing young people to aviation and technical careers long before they start the workforce. And we got to make sure that we start this early. And it's amazing the programs that we have right now. I also want to thank the committee for the 7% increase to our junior enlisted service members, the 6% to our senior non-commissioned officers and company grade officers, and the 5% to our senior officers. This is important. I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for adding this..."
Testimony MCCOLLUM, BETTY
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Mr. Chairman, I rise in the strongest support possible from this podium to support the Frankel amendment. Secretary Hickess direct interference in military promotion boards should be a concern for each and every one of us. This is unprecedented, folks. This is not normal. This is not normal behavior at all. This year alone, Secretary Hickess has blocked promotions for at least 40 senior officers. Ms. Frankel mentioned a few, but 40. These officers who have received initial approval from their..."
Testimony LEVIN, MIKE
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"the chain of command and the moment that it becomes a political prize to become a flag officer I think we lose the very thing that makes our military the finest in the world. So ask this if you have an officer that the board chose on merit and then they're suddenly removed and no reason is given what took the place of merit? Something else took the place of merit and whatever that something is it's not the judgment of those seasoned officers who are measuring against our military mission. This..."
Testimony FRANK BISIGNANO
Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"failed service model, the Biden administration's so-called appointment- focused service, turned people away who traveled to our field offices. On the National 800 number, only half of our customers got their calls answered. On the web, self-service features were down 29 hours a week. Turning people away who travel to field offices, only answering half the calls, and having office hours on the web is not meeting our customers where they want to be met. The Trump administration is transforming..."
Testimony FRANK BISIGNANO
Joint Social Security and Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing with the...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"And if you come to our field office, the number one thing asked for is a replacement card, which we've built the technology for them not to have to come. So I think we've elevated the esteem of the department as the largest digital financial service provider in the world, you know, with 102 million digital accounts. And yes, with only 3 percent of our volume coming into field offices and half our staff in field offices, we will never close a field office. Well, we had something called iClaims,..."
Testimony MR. BRIAN BERUBE
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 6917 (Rep. Titus) To take certain land in...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"is done by health aides. So typically if a child, or any person, but most of the time it's a child, gets seen at a health clinic with a dog bite, they're going to call the regional environmental health office, and that's the IHS-supported environmental health office. And what that office does is it tries to get a hold of the dog owner because of this risk of rabies transmission, right? Because if a person gets rabies and becomes symptomatic, they're dead. There's no treatment for it. So I..."
Testimony TITUS, DINA
Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"yes thank you the clerk shall distribute the amendment the amendment thank you mr. chairman I rise in support of my amendment number 312 to establish a foreign service officer career pathway for former USA ID officers this amendment inserts the text of my path to the Foreign Service Act into this bill it was introduced with Senator Brian Schatz earlier this year those who dutifully served as USA ID officers before the Trump administration wrongfully dismantled the agency included some of our..."
Testimony SPEAKER_36
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"This $72 million that's being requested today is for normal ICE and CBP operations, which should be done, which the appropriate thing to do is do it through appropriations. But unfortunately, we could not get Democrats on board to fund these HSI officers, our CBP officers, our ICE officers. Do you know what HSI investigators"
Testimony SPEAKER_09
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"So the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties holds ICE and Homeland Security folks accountable. And since Trump took office, we know DHS has been systematically dismantling that Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, opened the door of more abuses without any meaningful oversight. So we must restore that office. The next amendment, Amendment 91, requires ICE and CPP to maintain accurate online detainee locator system. Again, this is based on a family of five who for 12 days I could..."
Testimony SPEAKER_33
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"those are the types of people Donald Trump feels comfortable around. Those are the people he lifts with the president just hours, hours ago, maybe taped on Saturday and aired yesterday, where he refused to rule this out in the future as well. This is something he feels passionate about. Not that police officers got beat up. Not that police officers lost their lives. He talked about some of the rioters losing jobs. He didn't mention anything about police officers losing their lives, getting beat..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE CRYSTAL CAREY
“Examining the Policies and Priorities of the NLRB”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"you know, there are deadlines that are rolling deadlines under the ethics agreement, and in relation to that, I'm in constant contact with the DAO, which is a designated agency ethics officer in our agency, and I also have two screeners in my front office that review cases before they come before me for consideration, and I think that Laurel and Lanisa, who are here behind me and who are in my front office, would probably say I'm overly cautious at times in relation to any case I open. I always..."
Testimony FOSTER, BILL
Oversight of Prudential Regulators
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"What fraction of all of the entities under your— Okay, yeah, to that end, Mr. Hauptman, you know, I've been working for years to try to get, you know, to have visibility into the back-office providers for credit unions, which has so far, you know, not made it through Congress, and we're going to keep trying on that. But you have the back-office—to your knowledge, have the back-office providers that so many credit unions depend on, have they at least been given access to Mythos to defend..."
Testimony MAGAZINER, SETH
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"the administration deployed thousands of border patrol and ICE officers into American cities, including Minneapolis, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In the chaos that followed, two American citizens were killed. Countless other people were seriously injured. Now I recognize, again, this all happened before your tenure, or much of it happened before your tenure. I asked for the data of how many DHS officers have been disciplined for improper use of force in recent years. And I'll give you credit..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"The president's budget proposes significant funding cuts for grant programs under the Office on Violence Against Women, slashing, for example, $14 million to transitional housing grants and $15 million to legal assistance grants. Both housing and legal assistance are crucial for survivors and their children, enabling them to escape the cycle of violence and to start the long process of actually rebuilding their lives. The administration has again proposed that the Office on Violence Against..."
Testimony ISSA, DARRELL
“Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"billing. As many on this committee know, when the Congress on a bipartisan basis, bicameral basis, made two decisions. One was that fee setting would be transferred substantially to the trademark office, patent and trademark office, but also that fees collected would be embargoed, meaning they are not to be spent anywhere else in any agency, including commerce, in which the trademark and patent office is nestled. That means that there is an obligation to raise enough funds to modernize the..."
Testimony RAMIREZ, DELIA C.
“Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the...
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"I just, I want to make sure for the record, because we are limited on time, a couple questions that actually TSA agents and people back in our districts are asking is, how are ICE agents reducing passenger wait times at the airport? Because passenger wait times have not reduced. of fact, in some airports have increased as a result of now the terror of having ICE agents all over the place. I also want to make sure that we put on the record what training have ICE officers received for these..."
Testimony CURTIS, JOHN R.
Hearings to examine platform power as section 230 turns 30.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"The best analogy I've been able to think of is the post office, so imagine for a moment that I mail a letter to you, and the post office delivers that letter. We would never dream of holding the post office accountable for the content of that letter, but I think we do acknowledge that there are certain things that the post office would be justified in withholding that letter, child pornography or perhaps a bomb, right, or something that we give them that license in certain cases, and my..."
Testimony SESSIONS, PETE
“Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service: The Financial Future Under Post...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"reforms to survive, quote, beyond next year. Without objection, we'll enter those into the record. The opportunity for us to be here together publicly with vendors, people who work for the post office, people who have oversight over the post office, people who want an opportunity for the post office to work and work well, members of Congress, almost every single one of us have people that sing your praises and some that think"
Testimony KRISTI NOEM
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"No, and it's interesting because when President Trump was here in his last term, he opened up an office at ICE to help these families, to give them information on support, you know, or also knowledge on court cases of the individuals who had killed their children. And when Joe Biden came into office, he closed down that Voices office, completely shuttered it because that office also tracked how many victims there really were in the country that had been affected by illegal alien crime. So when..."
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"left him to defend for himself, with deadly consequences. This is a clear case of your officers failing to fulfill the basic duty of care. As a result, this man is dead. So, Secretary Noem, I want to know if there will be any accountability for the incidents I have described today. Will the agents who lied at Columbia face discipline, or the officers who forced their way into my office? What about the officers in Buffalo who abandoned a barefoot, blind refugee in the middle of a freezing night,..."
Testimony MASSIE, THOMAS
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"One of my questions deals with body cameras. I've talked to my local law enforcement, sheriffs and police departments in my district, Republicans and Democrats who hold those offices, and almost unanimously, they support body cameras, and so do the officers and deputies who work for them, because they believe it protects the officers as much as it protects the citizens who may be offending the law in some way and need to be arrested. So I want to ask you for an update on body cameras and your..."
Testimony SPEAKER_31
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"It's on a ticket. She has an independent office. She's a constitutional officer. She's on the ticket, but she is independent as a constitutional officer. Yeah, but she's a constitutional officer. I don't believe that's happened in"
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
"I'm happy to look at that. And just to be very clear, worked spent the last several months working with the Office of Government Ethics to be fully compliant with this process. I take it very seriously. Before, during, and after, if I am in office, I will be in full compliance with the Office of Government Ethics. I think as worked talked about, conflicts of interest are incredibly important to rectify if we're in public service and I am fully committed to continuing to"
Testimony DR. NIKKI NIX
“Career and Technical Education: Developing the Future of Main Street ...
house Small Business Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"them understand what careers align with that outside of just their sphere of influence. up in a household where your dad was a police officer and your grandpa was a police officer and your uncle was a police officer, that's what's familiar to you. So we have to be very intentional about exposing students to careers outside of what they're immediately in contact with, helping them learn about who they are as individuals and then helping connect them to careers that align with those so they can..."
Testimony SPEAKER_19
“From Source to Tap: A Hearing to Examine Challenges and Opportunities...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you all for being here and the work that you all do in general, but in particular around keeping water safe. And I want to talk first about the EPA's Office of Research and Development. So I'm from Cincinnati. We have a big EPA office. We have a big Office of Research and Development, and this is key for safe drinking water in the sense that people, municipalities from all over the country send information our way, our folks test it, determine what's in the water,..."
Testimony PAUL, RAND
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"Law enforcement officers perform difficult and dangerous work, and the vast majority do so honorably. But when a shooting occurs, the proper response is not to dismiss concerns or rush to judgment. Traditionally, the officers are removed from the line. Even in very justified shootings, even in shootings when they've been shove at multiple times, wounded, the officers typically removed in this investigation because we think lethal force is such a thing that should be controlled and restricted..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS...
house Homeland Security Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"In fiscal year 2025, death threats against ICE personnel increased more than 8,000 percent. Assaults on officers have skyrocketed over 1,400 percent. One officer in Minnesota had his finger bitten off by a protester, egged on by elected officials characterizing our offices as the Gestapo or secret police. The families of ICE personnel have been made to feel unsafe in their homes. I know this firsthand because my own family was targeted. But let me send a message to anyone who thinks they can..."
Testimony HOWARD LUTNICK
Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the De...
senate Appropriations Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"But I'd like you to understand we are, for the first time ever, going to use the Post Office. The United States Post Office is going to execute the 2026 test, and the survey we're going to use is the American Community Survey. So we are going to go out with a more sophisticated census, and we're going to use the – we've made a deal with the Post Office, so we're going to pay the Post Office to execute that. But you can imagine the efficiency of already having hundreds of thousands of people who..."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
“Oversight of the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith”
house Judiciary Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"On January 6, 2026, the fifth anniversary of the insurrection, the White House launched a taxpayer-funded website that attempts to rewrite history about what happened on that day of infamy. On January 6, 2021, there was an insurrection at the United States Capitol that resulted in a police officer dying the next day, another four officers dying by suicide in the months thereafter, with at least 140 police officers being injured by the insurrectionists, with 15 of them requiring hospitalization...."
Testimony ROSEN, JACKY
Hearings to examine the nominations of Jared Isaacman, of Pennsylvania...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Dec 3, 2025
"Moreover, there is currently no Deputy Assistant Secretary for Travel and Tourism in place either. As a result, the National Travel and Tourism Office is led today by an acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, further underscoring the leadership gap in this space. And so it all means that tourism remains a sub-office, although critical to our national economy, remains a sub-office overseen by the Assistant Secretary for Industry and Analysis, position for which you are nominated, rather than by a..."
Testimony HAWLEY, JOSH
Hearings to examine Trump's regulatory rollback, focusing on saving Am...
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"And obviously, I think a key function of the Small Business Administration is to protect and promote rural businesses. So let me just ask, what office, what role, rather, does your office, the Office of Advocacy, play in promoting rural small businesses? What steps do you think can Congress take to ensure SBA prioritizes rural areas and rural businesses? Any recommendations you might"
Testimony JON RETZER
Hearings to examine putting veterans first, focusing on the current VA...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Oct 29, 2025
"Yeah, thank you for that question. Thank you for that question. And yes, unfortunately, our national service officers around the country who have been co-located within the VA regional offices are not allowed to conduct normal business to be able to assist the veterans, even though the VA regional offices are closed. We were only allowed 30 minutes. And an example is in North Carolina, we unfortunately went there one morning and we had over 180 pieces of mail. And when you look at that, those..."
Testimony JOYCE, DAVID P.
Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 4, 2025
"Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government will come to order. This hearing is titled the Budget Hearing of the Office of Management and Budget. Members will have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into the record. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I'd like to thank Director Boat for being here today. The Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, plays a central role in most of the decisions made in..."
Witness Daniel Gorfine
Gattaca Horizons; Former Chief Innovation Officer & Director of LabCFTC · 1 hearing
Witness Bill Alexander
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund · 1 hearing
Witness Alissa Czyz
U.S. Government Accountability Office · 2 hearings
Witness Thomas Kimsey
Office of Capital Access · 1 hearing
Witness Cord Byrd
Office of the Florida Secretary of State · 1 hearing
Witness Charles Worthington
Office of Information & Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 hearing
Witness Carol Harris
U.S. Government Accountability Office · 6 hearings
Witness Jeffrey Frankston
Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy · 1 hearing
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. Forest Service"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
TOM SCHULTZ "We think it provides greater communication with the states and other cooperators at that level. So that's what's driving that. And that office is going to be much smaller. So we're looking at probably somewhere between eight to 10 employees at most at a state director office compared to having several hundred employees at a regional office. Yes,"
Hearing “Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Information”
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE ANTHONY D'ESPOSITO "And with regards to your question about the regions, I just want to read, there was a question asked to someone being investigated and asked if he knows what other offices in labor use common interest agreements. And this is the response, I quote, I can say that the two offices I have worked in, the Plans Benefit Security Division and the New York Regional Solicitor's Offices, use them. I also know as a matter of public record that the San Francisco Regional Solicitor's Office has used them fairly extensively, and other offices I know as a result of responses"
Hearing H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act; H. Res. 1335 – Condemning actors seeking to...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_36 "This $72 million that's being requested today is for normal ICE and CBP operations, which should be done, which the appropriate thing to do is do it through appropriations. But unfortunately, we could not get Democrats on board to fund these HSI officers, our CBP officers, our ICE officers. Do you know what HSI investigators"
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
KRISTI NOEM "No, and it's interesting because when President Trump was here in his last term, he opened up an office at ICE to help these families, to give them information on support, you know, or also knowledge on court cases of the individuals who had killed their children. And when Joe Biden came into office, he closed down that Voices office, completely shuttered it because that office also tracked how many victims there really were in the country that had been affected by illegal alien crime. So when I came in, I didn't have any data set to use because Joe Biden and his administration had completely..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Gregory Carl Cook, to...
senate Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
ANNA ST. JOHN "I'm privileged to go to work every day at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. I serve alongside an incredible group of people. Those include my judicial colleagues, our court security officers, everyone in the court clerk's office, and so many more. Their hard work to make sure we have a strong, functioning, efficient judiciary is a testament to the strength of our country and its"
Hearing Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
ANNA ST. JOHN "I'm privileged to go to work every day at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. I serve alongside an incredible group of people. Those include my judicial colleagues, our court security officers, everyone in the court clerk's office, and so many more. Their hard work to make sure we have a strong, functioning, efficient judiciary is a testament to the strength of our country and its"
Hearing the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacists Fight Back [in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans Act]; 2) H.R. 9720,...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
COMER, JAMES "prices, rebates, pharmacy reimbursements, insurers, and pharmacy networks for their own financial gain. Meanwhile, Americans are forced to pay higher prices for drugs. By skimming discounts meant for local pharmacies, certain PBM practices actually drive up prices for patients. Some PBMs have been found civilly liable for these practices and the harmful states across the country. Earlier this year, the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Inspector General found that Caremark alone had overcharged a federal employee health benefits program insurance carrier more than $615 million. The..."
Hearing United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First Foreign Policy Through Strategic Diplomacy and Burden Sharing
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KEATING, WILLIAM R. "Now, I want to ask you, given all that, and given my experience knowing that we're going to combat this, we have to do this on an international basis and a regional basis to be successful, the way I was with those task force, why did the U.S. withdraw from the U.N. on key offices, the offices for children in armed conflict, the office of sexual violence in conflict, the office of violence against children? Why would the U.S. ever withdraw, given what I just laid out, given what Russia's doing, but given what's happening all over the world, Can I answer your question? No, you answered that...."
Hearing H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. 9609, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Student Aid Act"; H.R. 9602, "Less...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_06 "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, roughly half the staff at the Office of Child Care within the Administration of Children and Families has been laid off since President Trump returned to office, undermining our ability to administer grants and make child care more affordable for working families and oversee that children are safe and cared for. This administration has also closed five regional offices, which provided training and technical assistance and administrative support in ensuring that grants reach families and served as a liaison between program administrators and the federal..."
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MS. SARAH PIERCE "Two billion. It would be used to hire officers, it would be used to train officers, it would be used to support officer wellness programs, it would be used to support resources for law enforcement such as body cameras, different things that they desperately need. Sure. So, I mean, talking specifically about immigration enforcement, like I said during my"
Hearing 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 · 2 transcript matches
FRANK BISIGNANO "failed service model, the Biden administration's so-called appointment- focused service, turned people away who traveled to our field offices. On the National 800 number, only half of our customers got their calls answered. On the web, self-service features were down 29 hours a week. Turning people away who travel to field offices, only answering half the calls, and having office hours on the web is not meeting our customers where they want to be met. The Trump administration is transforming SSA into a model of excellence, a digital-first agency that meets and exceeds customer expectations..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews,...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 23, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE IRVING DENNIS "You know, the grant agreement is execution and is a program decision and a program oversight. The office of the chief financial officer is responsible for making sure the funds are available and when appropriated, and then also make sure they are accounted for properly once they are dispersed, which is our primary obligation. We do not control the timing of the NOFAs, the notice of finance"
Hearing Mark-up of: • H.R. 309 (Rep. Nehls), “National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support and Community Outreach Act” • H.R. 1693 (Rep....
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
WESTERMAN, BRUCE "committee's jurisdiction and is another example of how this committee works diligently to find solutions for the American people. We're unleashing American energy, promoting access to our national parks and public lands, and increasing the transparency of federal agencies in our jurisdiction. This committee remains one of the most productive in the U.S. House of Representatives and we're continuing to carry that momentum forward. Today we are considering eight bills on which the committee has reached bipartisan agreement. We're increasing access and investment in our federal lands, honoring..."
Hearing “False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
RASKIN, JAMIE "are the daily bread of the system. In Minneapolis, ICE and Border Patrol agents shot dead Renee Good and Alex Preddy in broad daylight at point-blank range and then defamed both of these innocent Americans, one a mother of three, another a VA nurse, by labeling them domestic terrorists. The new regime at DHS under Secretary Mullen? Well, the jury is still out, but we haven't seen much change yet. Just weeks ago in Texas, an ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a construction worker who had lived and worked in America without any incident. No criminal convictions or charges for 35 years...."
Hearing Hearings to examine advancing the mission, focusing on evaluating the future of VA research.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BLACKBURN, MARSHA "Okay, let's get that for the record. I would like to know, I also want to know how many full-time or full-time equivalents are actually showing up to work and working in person five days a week? One of the biggest complaints that we get in our offices, and I've got six offices in Tennessee, is the fact that VA caseworkers are very slow to get back to the"
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Mr. Chairman, I offer amendment number two on behalf of myself and Senator Blunt-Rochester. Mr. Chairman, last month, this administration announced it was shipping the Office for Civil Rights off to the Justice Department, but before that, they actually fired half of its staff and shuttered seven of its 12 regional offices. They paid civil rights investigators as much as $38 million to sit at home. exploded past 24,000 cases and OCR dismissed 90% of the cases it purportedly"
Testimony MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER
Business meeting to consider S.5038, to prohibit the transfer of the f...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Murphy. Mr. Chairman, just to note that I think we all know what is happening here. This is not an attempt to make the Office of Civil Rights more impactful and more effective. That's just not what's going on. This is an attempt to destroy the Office of Civil Rights by moving it into justice. They have fired scores of attorneys. They have shut down the regional offices. We are at a 12-year low in terms of the number of cases that are being resolved. They are just out of the"
Testimony NEWHOUSE, DAN
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"replace the agency's regional structure with a state office model, which you just summarized. My understanding is that instead of nine regional offices, we will now have 15 state offices, with some serving multiple"
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Ms. Salinas, I do not change my statement previously. What I would tell you is that right now, we're looking at less than 500 employees that we would anticipate having to relocate across the agency. Most of those would be in the Washington office. For instance, in Oregon right now, we talked about relocating folks from the office downtown, and we have basically told them within their current commuting area, the Oregon staff in Portland would have an opportunity to locate without having to..."
Testimony MACKENZIE, RYAN
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"which is an outlandish statement because what we see is that when you have these cases that people become aware of, it shakes confidence in the entire system, and it makes it less likely that people are going to cooperate with the government and go after the bad actors who are supposed to be the targets of these kind of investigations. So I would like to hear from you how the work that the Committee has done in contacting your office, how has that benefited or changed the way that common..."
Testimony MESSMER, MARK B.
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you. The OIG's report found the officer of the solicitor's regional offices had different approaches in utilizing common interest agreements, including the use of written versus oral agreements. And regional offices have varying opinions regarding who signed common interest"
Testimony VELÁZQUEZ, NYDIA M.
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"entrepreneurs all across the country rely on to launch and grow their businesses. In addition, small businesses have been Concerns have also been raised over SBA consolidation of the grant management specialists in the office of chief financial officer and the effect this will have on the issuance of timely"
Testimony ELLZEY, JAKE
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Fitzpatrick, for being here today. As part of the Small Business Administration's reorganization announced this past June, the Office of Entrepreneurial Development will now be administering the Office of Native American Affairs, Center for Faith, and the State Trade Expansion Program, or STEP. I was proud to be a Republican co-lead on Representative David's bill, the Native American Entrepreneurial Opportunity Act, which would codify into federal law a..."
Testimony MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Ranking Member Velasquez, that would be up to if the funds are appropriated and then apportioned to us. So if we have the funds, we will, of course, if the funds Congressman, thank you for the question. Really, what we have been doing since remember, Administrator Loeffler is a business person, and when we came in, we had offices, we had functions that were spread out, such as HR, IT, within different offices, and no company would operate that way. By the same token, we had some programs and..."
Testimony TRAN, DEREK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"So I struggle to understand why the administration claims that these programs are wasteful and fraudulent, especially when I've seen how they contribute to the local economy. As the administration tries to eliminate SBDCs, they have also delayed funding that Congress already approved. My office spent months working with the Small Business Administration to recover nearly $3 million that was owed to the Orange County Inland Empire Small Business Development Center. It should never have taken..."
Testimony ANNA ST. JOHN
Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"I'm privileged to go to work every day at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. I serve alongside an incredible group of people. Those include my judicial colleagues, our court security officers, everyone in the court clerk's office, and so many more. Their hard work to make sure we have a strong, functioning, efficient judiciary is a testament to the strength of our country and its"
Testimony JOHN PETER CRONAN
Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"accurately as I can. Senator, from watching videos, law enforcement officers were assaulted. From what I saw, the Capitol, there was trespass, there was there were assaults on law enforcement officers. Senator, over my time on the bench and as a prosecutor, I've come to realize the importance of the Sentencing Commission in our criminal justice system. Those are for some of the reasons that Mr. Mannion just mentioned, the U.S. sentencing guidelines which are an important factor under Section..."
Testimony GREGORY CARL COOK
Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"That's the natural, logical converse of that, yes. He was sworn into office, so as a matter of law, he was elected to that office, Senator. That would be the natural assumption, yes,"
Testimony ANNA ST. JOHN
Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"I'm privileged to go to work every day at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. I serve alongside an incredible group of people. Those include my judicial colleagues, our court security officers, everyone in the court clerk's office, and so many more. Their hard work to make sure we have a strong, functioning, efficient judiciary is a testament to the strength of our country and its"
Testimony JOHN PETER CRONAN
Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"I do have life tenure, Senator. I'm trying to answer your question as truthfully and question? Senator, from watching videos, law enforcement officers were assaulted. From what I saw, the Capitol, there was trespass, there was there were assaults on law enforcement officers. Mr. Mannion? Senator, over my time on the bench and as a prosecutor, I've come to realize the importance of the Sentencing Commission in our criminal justice system. Those are for some of the reasons that Mr. Mannion just..."
Testimony GREGORY CARL COOK
Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"That's the natural, logical converse of that, yes. He was sworn into office. So as a matter of law, he was elected to that office, Senator. That would be the natural assumption, yes,"
Testimony REBECCA VALLAS
Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social...
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"Ranking Member Wyden, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Rebecca Vallis, and I have the privilege of serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Academy of Social Insurance. This year, as our nation celebrates 250 years of American democracy, we are celebrating this simple but profound idea that lies at its heart, that government exists to serve the people, and that those entrusted with public office are stewards of institutions..."
Testimony HIRONO, MAZIE K.
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"colleagues. And how can we trust that this so-called death will be lasting when he has that his words to us at the hearing do not matter? He was under oath at the hearing, but he's hardly going to prosecute himself for lying to Congress, which he did. Mr. Chairman, I intend to judge Mr. Blanche not by his words, but by his actions. Even though he said he would cooperate with the New Mexico office, Attorney General's office, in their obscene investigation, it seems he will not actually do so...."
Testimony HIRONO, MAZIE K.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Mr. Chairman, I intend to judge Mr. Blanche not by his words but by his actions. Even though he said he would cooperate with the New Mexico office, Attorney General's office, in their obscene investigation, it seems he will not actually do"
Testimony HIRONO, MAZIE K.
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"Mr. Chairman, I intend to judge Mr. Blanche not by his words but by his actions. Even though he said he would cooperate with the New Mexico office, Attorney General's office, in their obscene investigation, it seems he will not actually do"
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"They're just using the federal tax dollars to pay, because we all, we should expect our states to be, have skin in the game. And what we're, what you're saying is, what happens is they don't actually have skin in the game. Mr. Ingram, the HHS Office of the Inspector General recently decertified New York's Medicaid fraud control unit due to a year-long failure to do its job. Despite receiving over 16 million dollars annually and having a staff of 270 people, New York was the worst performing..."
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"doing this. I think, I know in my state, people have been asking questions about Dr. Fauci for years. So, Dr. Fauci, your entry has made clear that you love being the hero, a celebrity, and you're having the eyes of the world upon you. You loved every newspaper profile, every photo shoot, every fancy dinner with the elites. To many Americans who lost family members, who lost trust in our federal government, you're not a hero. Unfortunately, you're a villain. You made yourself the story and..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE IRVING DENNIS
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 23, 2026
"You know, the grant agreement is execution and is a program decision and a program oversight. The office of the chief financial officer is responsible for making sure the funds are available and when appropriated, and then also make sure they are accounted for properly once they are dispersed, which is our primary obligation. We do not control the timing of the NOFAs, the notice of finance"
Testimony THE HONORABLE IRVING DENNIS
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Christopher Phelan, of...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 23, 2026
"Yes, that is the program's responsibility. Yes, our responsibility in the chief financial officer's office is to make sure that the funds are available and appropriated and then accounted for once they are dispersed. Our responsibility is to make sure they are properly accounted for once they are"
Testimony WESTERMAN, BRUCE
Mark-up of: • H.R. 309 (Rep. Nehls), “National Law Enforcement Officer...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"committee's jurisdiction and is another example of how this committee works diligently to find solutions for the American people. We're unleashing American energy, promoting access to our national parks and public lands, and increasing the transparency of federal agencies in our jurisdiction. This committee remains one of the most productive in the U.S. House of Representatives and we're continuing to carry that momentum forward. Today we are considering eight bills on which the committee has..."
Testimony WESTERMAN, BRUCE
Mark-up of: • H.R. 309 (Rep. Nehls), “National Law Enforcement Officer...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"We now turn to the UC package. With the cooperation of Ranking Member Huffman and the other members of the committee, we have worked out an agreement on eight bills scheduled for markup today. As we've done before, rather than going through a formal markup process for each of the bills, I will make a single unanimous consent motion to report out the bills favorably with any amendments that have been filed in the past. I will make a single unanimous consent motion Before we begin, does any..."
Testimony COMER, JAMES
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"prices, rebates, pharmacy reimbursements, insurers, and pharmacy networks for their own financial gain. Meanwhile, Americans are forced to pay higher prices for drugs. By skimming discounts meant for local pharmacies, certain PBM practices actually drive up prices for patients. Some PBMs have been found civilly liable for these practices and the harmful states across the country. Earlier this year, the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Inspector General found that Caremark alone had..."
Testimony COMER, JAMES
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"rather than pass those savings along to patients or the federal government like they're supposed to do. The Oversight Committee is moving the Pharmacists Fight Back Act to rein in PBMs and curb abusive practices. The bill restricts massive price markups and increases transparency in pharmacy reimbursement. Some may argue that this legislation will increase premiums. However, we have real-world evidence out of West Virginia's Insurance Commissioner's Office which demonstrate that the policies in..."
Testimony PALMER, GARY J.
the Full Committee to consider the following: 1) H.R. 6610, Pharmacist...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"During the Clinton administration, they had the National Partnership for Reinventing Government. I don't know how many of you people in here realize this. There are a few members of the Democratic Party that are still in office, that were in office then. But there were 426,000 federal jobs eliminated by the Clinton administration. 13 of 14 federal departments were"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"are the daily bread of the system. In Minneapolis, ICE and Border Patrol agents shot dead Renee Good and Alex Preddy in broad daylight at point-blank range and then defamed both of these innocent Americans, one a mother of three, another a VA nurse, by labeling them domestic terrorists. The new regime at DHS under Secretary Mullen? Well, the jury is still out, but we haven't seen much change yet. Just weeks ago in Texas, an ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a construction worker who..."
Testimony ANDREW ARTHUR
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"By my count, five congressional committees oversee ICE detention. To say nothing of the DHS Inspector General, other internal watchdogs, Office of Professional Responsibility, et cetera, the Government Accountability Office, the media, and internal whistleblowers. Moreover, ICE's detention standards are contractual and as enforceable as any contract, and"
Testimony BLACKBURN, MARSHA
Hearings to examine advancing the mission, focusing on evaluating the ...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Okay, let's get that for the record. I would like to know, I also want to know how many full-time or full-time equivalents are actually showing up to work and working in person five days a week? One of the biggest complaints that we get in our offices, and I've got six offices in Tennessee, is the fact that VA caseworkers are very slow to get back to the"
Testimony GINA CARITHERS
Hearings to examine advancing the mission, focusing on evaluating the ...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"In 2018, the guidance came back for U.S. Preventative Task Force Services to call for shared decision-making. And shared decision-making leaves the patient responsible when, in fact, there's time in the primary care office for the conversation to ensue. But in many cases, if we have men who have cardiovascular disease and other health challenges, the restriction of time inside your physician's office may not lead for that time to talk about what screening could be. If the cut is taken, excuse..."
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Hearings to examine the President's 2026 trade policy agenda.
senate Finance Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Ambassador Greer, have Trump's tariffs increased prices for American families? So you're saying that what the Congressional Budget Office and the Treasury Department's own numbers, that families are paying an average of $1,700 more. Are you saying your own Treasury Department and your own Congressional Budget Office just don't know what they're talking about? Actually, they've been out there in public now for at least the last six"
Hearing H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2025"; H.R. 9203, "Student...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SCOTT, ROBERT C. "BOBBY" "9203 would dictate that the Office of Federal Student Aid and the office that handles program participation agreements should play a role in that. Regardless of which opinion is better, these two offices, the Office of Student Aid and the Federal Student Aid and the Office of Civil Rights, they're two educational offices that lost the most employees in the Secretary's reduction in force last year. Both of these offices have entered into interagency agreements to transfer many of their"
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_42 "There's no doubt there is room for efficiency. is congressionally, it is statute that there has to be an office in every county, so no offices have closed, even though I think the congressman from Massachusetts mentioned there were office closures. But we are really digging in this year. I visited multiple FSA offices sitting down with the teams that are in there. I've thanked them because some of them are operating at 50, 60 percent of the staff that they had before we came into"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Catherine Dillon, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary (Educational and Cultural Affairs), and Yeouk...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
SHAHEEN, JEANNE "That particular law with respect to Fulbright grantees? You were the senior bureau official in the Office of Global Women's Issues last year when the administration disbanded that office. And one of the commitments that, or the positions that Secretary Rubio and the department have maintained is that the expertise of the office hasn't been lost because regional offices are now taking over the work of advocating for women. So can you tell this committee if there's an individual in each regional bureau who's dedicated to addressing concerns of women and girls in the"
Hearing Hearings to examine seniors and the workforce.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
DAN ADCOCK "that that stays pristine, and that still is enabled, that that database is intact so that we can ensure that benefits are really what they should be. I mean, that's why, for instance, people have been, we've advised our members to go and to start a MySocialSecurity account and to save all their work history, so in case if that information was ever lost by accident of what's going on at the Social Security Administration they would have that Yeah, no, clearly we've been, you know, for the last, you know, for more than a year now that we receive lots of calls from our members that have made..."
Hearing “The Monitoring Racket: The Grift that Keeps on Giving”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Feb 13, 2026 · Transcript
NEHLS, TROY E. "Thank you, sir. I agree with what you just stated, Mr. Fry. I think Mr. Garcia, I think you are a key here in my humble opinion and its success. The sheriff's office, and it's an office, you know, I would say department, it's an office. It's an office. He's a duly elected. So he's his sheriff's"
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General, and Christopher Nassar, to be United States...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 23, 2026 · Transcript
DURBIN, RICHARD J. "The president retired the trophy on blanket pardons, if you'll remember. His first day in office, he pardoned everyone who assaulted the Capitol, the insurrectionists who came in here with the design to tear up this building, to assault our police officers, and to stop the process of counting the votes in the 2020 election. They did that. He had to remove the vice president from the Senate chamber. The Secret Service thought his future was in doubt if he stayed there under the circumstances. So President Trump, first day in office, in the second term, gives a blanket pardon to every one of..."
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "Earlier this month, ICE officers fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, father of three children, all of them U.S. citizens, in Houston, Texas, during an operation. The officers involved were not wearing body cameras, according to reports, leaving lots of questions about why this happened. Just days later, ICE officers fatally shot Johan Sebastian Guerrero during an operation in Maine. The officers were wearing body cameras this time, but no, they were not turned on. They were not functional. For both shootings, we've been forced to rely on DHS's bureaucratic description of events, because no..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenico, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "Good morning, Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Durbin, and distinguished members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. My name is John Adler, and I appear before you today in my personal capacity to provide testimony in support of the nomination of the Honorable Todd Blanche to serve as the United States Attorney General. I respectfully offer my perspective, both as a former colleague of Acting Attorney General Blanche and as a national law enforcement organization leader. My experience in law enforcement spans over 30 years, and I was honored to serve under 10 attorney generals as a federal..."
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
MCCLINTOCK, TOM "which then set upon him and put him in the hospital. A Democrat member of Congress is currently indicted for assaulting federal law enforcement law enforcement officers at an ICE facility. ICE officers don't want to wear a mask to officers at an ICE facility. protect themselves and their families. Violent mobs egged on by Democratic activists have left them no choice. And with respect to detention, remember that deportation is not a"
Hearing Hearings to examine exposing fraud in America.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
DYLAN HEDTLER-GAUDETTE "such as Inspector General, the Government Accountability Office, the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of Special Counsel, and others. And we must strengthen, empower, and fully resource them to perform their essential"
Hearing Hearings to examine the TRICARE pharmacy program.
senate Personnel Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "I think the good news is there's things that we can do. Absolutely immediately, I think DHA should engage in an expansive audit using their Office of Inspector General with an interagency agreement with the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Inspector General. They've looked under the hood, and they know where those bodies are"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE TODD BLANCHE "Violent crime arrests are up nearly 114%. To date, we've taken almost 5,000 child predators and human traffickers off the streets, and the Department of Justice has filed nearly 100,000 indictments and informations since January 20th, 2025. Additionally, in just the last four weeks, in just the last month, we've paid $96 million in claims through the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program to eligible surviving families of fallen public safety officers, even while fewer law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty than the prior years. Obviously, these are not just"
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
SPEAKER_15 "and stuff, but it is something that we need to address. And as I told you beforehand, I think it comes from, you know, 20, 40, 50 years ago when we didn't trust tribal police and stuff and they weren't as sophisticated as they are today. And I will tell you, all the tribal police officers that I've met today, they go through the same training as our state police officers do, our local police officers, and they're every bit as competent and do just as good a job. And that's why Mr. Newhouse's legislation to make sure that they have the benefits that they can stay in their communities and stuff..."
Hearing PACT Act Implementation: Modernizing VA Disability Claims Through Effective Technology
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jul 13, 2026 · Transcript
MR. GREGG ORTO "The veteran told us that they submitted the claim, or we submitted the claim through Quick Submit, and then we're not seeing it go all the way through. Well, the help desk there says that, okay, well, at one point, they can no longer help us talk to your regional office, the VA regional office, the VA regional office doesn't have that information. So we're having to go back into Quick Submit to try to find, do some forensic evidence finding to find out what's going on with the claim. So that's one part. The other one is appeals. So if you want to do, if you want to look at a Board of..."
Hearing Oversight Hearing - Office of Management and Budget
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
JOYCE, DAVID P. "Accounting Act of 1921, which created the Bureau budget under the Department of Treasury. Later in 1939, in the Reorganization Act of 1939, the Bureau was relocated to the newly created Executive Office of the President, and in 1970, Congress approved the Bureau's renaming to the Office of Management and Budget. I restate this history because OMB plays a unique role, both as an office created by Congress and one that has been and continues to be responsible for fulfilling the President's policies. Over the course of the second Trump administration, OMB continues to play a central role in the..."
Hearing H.R. 8800 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; H.R. 8884 – Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act; H. Res....
house Rules Committee · Jun 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "I'll conclude by urging your support for Amendment 327. This would close gaping loopholes that have prevented our public safety officers, the survivors of fallen officers, and injured officers who have put their lives on the line and been killed or injured in the line of duty. Last year, we made some very important steps forward to make sure that the Public Safety Officer Benefit Program operates as it"
Hearing Implementing an America First Approach in the East Asia and Pacific Region
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
CASTRO, JOAQUIN "The second question I have for you is on ASEAN engagement. Earlier this year, you traveled to several places in Southeast Asia, Singapore, Hanoi, Jakarta, Manila, and Bangkok, among others. In-person and consistent engagements with the region and interlocutors there is paramount, of course, to socializing our views and gaining traction on our own priorities. That's precisely why many of us were perplexed when the Office of Multilateral Affairs in the East Asia Pacific Bureau was shuttered by the State Department last year. The FY26 NDAA reauthorized an Office of Multilateral Affairs in the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Barbera Thornhill, of North Carolina, to be Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, with...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "I've collaborated closely with our allies to protect the global financial system and counter our adversaries. In those discussions, I have shared with our foreign partners that I'm the son and nephew of career U.S. Air Force officers, the brother and father of two Army officers, and a former Army officer myself. Since the inception of the Cold War, my family and I have served side by side with our allies in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and are deeply committed to these alliances and partnerships. But in these discussions, I've also been very frank about the failure of many of our..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Mack Traynor, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_11 "Good morning, Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Durbin, and distinguished members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. My name is John Adler, and I appear before you today in my personal capacity to provide testimony in support of the nomination of the Honorable Todd Blanche to serve as the United States Attorney General. I respectfully offer my perspective, both as a former colleague of Acting Attorney General Blanche and as a national law enforcement organization leader. My experience in law enforcement spans over 30 years, and I was honored to serve under 10 attorney generals as a federal..."
Hearing State Medicaid Program Integrity: Examining Fraud Risks and Oversight Deficiencies.
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
RULLI, MICHAEL A. "What was exciting for me, Director, is when I realized that we had the Attorney General and we had the auditor working with your office. Because you know what? In life, sometimes we're not perfect. And the wonderful story about America is, like, and you look at our history, we correct our wrongs like we do in Ohio. So we're not all full of ourselves that says that we're perfect in the state of Ohio. We know that we're flawed. But I like the idea that the three branches over there, you've got the Attorney General's office, you've got the Ohio auditor, and then you have you that are all working..."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 6917 (Rep. Titus) To take certain land into trust for the benefit of the Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians. H.R. 8473...
house Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
MR. BRIAN BERUBE "is done by health aides. So typically if a child, or any person, but most of the time it's a child, gets seen at a health clinic with a dog bite, they're going to call the regional environmental health office, and that's the IHS-supported environmental health office. And what that office does is it tries to get a hold of the dog owner because of this risk of rabies transmission, right? Because if a person gets rabies and becomes symptomatic, they're dead. There's no treatment for it. So I remember when I first moved to Bethel doing this as part of the job, and this is a really significant..."
Hearing Various Measures
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
TITUS, DINA "yes thank you the clerk shall distribute the amendment the amendment thank you mr. chairman I rise in support of my amendment number 312 to establish a foreign service officer career pathway for former USA ID officers this amendment inserts the text of my path to the Foreign Service Act into this bill it was introduced with Senator Brian Schatz earlier this year those who dutifully served as USA ID officers before the Trump administration wrongfully dismantled the agency included some of our most talented and skilled international affairs experts our national security really cannot afford to..."
Hearing “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the NLRB”
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE CRYSTAL CAREY "you know, there are deadlines that are rolling deadlines under the ethics agreement, and in relation to that, I'm in constant contact with the DAO, which is a designated agency ethics officer in our agency, and I also have two screeners in my front office that review cases before they come before me for consideration, and I think that Laurel and Lanisa, who are here behind me and who are in my front office, would probably say I'm overly cautious at times in relation to any case I open. I always check the participant list prior to looking at anything in the file. So in terms of how I can make..."
Hearing Oversight of Prudential Regulators
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
FOSTER, BILL "What fraction of all of the entities under your— Okay, yeah, to that end, Mr. Hauptman, you know, I've been working for years to try to get, you know, to have visibility into the back-office providers for credit unions, which has so far, you know, not made it through Congress, and we're going to keep trying on that. But you have the back-office—to your knowledge, have the back-office providers that so many credit unions depend on, have they at least been given access to Mythos to defend themselves? I agree. We just need policy clarity, and we need to have a well-defined defensive"
Hearing “A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security”
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
MAGAZINER, SETH "the administration deployed thousands of border patrol and ICE officers into American cities, including Minneapolis, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In the chaos that followed, two American citizens were killed. Countless other people were seriously injured. Now I recognize, again, this all happened before your tenure, or much of it happened before your tenure. I asked for the data of how many DHS officers have been disciplined for improper use of force in recent years. And I'll give you credit because while your predecessor did not respond to my request for information, your office has begun to..."
Hearing “Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "The president's budget proposes significant funding cuts for grant programs under the Office on Violence Against Women, slashing, for example, $14 million to transitional housing grants and $15 million to legal assistance grants. Both housing and legal assistance are crucial for survivors and their children, enabling them to escape the cycle of violence and to start the long process of actually rebuilding their lives. The administration has again proposed that the Office on Violence Against Women be consolidated with other offices within the DOJ, despite explicit statutory language requiring..."
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 "billing. As many on this committee know, when the Congress on a bipartisan basis, bicameral basis, made two decisions. One was that fee setting would be transferred substantially to the trademark office, patent and trademark office, but also that fees collected would be embargoed, meaning they are not to be spent anywhere else in any agency, including commerce, in which the trademark and patent office is nestled. That means that there is an obligation to raise enough funds to modernize the patent office. Federal workers are stressed today in the patent office because they currently do not..."
Hearing “Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the DHS Shutdown on Americans”
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
RAMIREZ, DELIA C. "I just, I want to make sure for the record, because we are limited on time, a couple questions that actually TSA agents and people back in our districts are asking is, how are ICE agents reducing passenger wait times at the airport? Because passenger wait times have not reduced. of fact, in some airports have increased as a result of now the terror of having ICE agents all over the place. I also want to make sure that we put on the record what training have ICE officers received for these roles. It's my understanding they have no training for these specific roles and that TSOs are not sworn..."
Hearing Hearings to examine platform power as section 230 turns 30.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
CURTIS, JOHN R. "The best analogy I've been able to think of is the post office, so imagine for a moment that I mail a letter to you, and the post office delivers that letter. We would never dream of holding the post office accountable for the content of that letter, but I think we do acknowledge that there are certain things that the post office would be justified in withholding that letter, child pornography or perhaps a bomb, right, or something that we give them that license in certain cases, and my experience after eight years here in Washington is that we all stop right there and say, how does the post..."
Hearing “Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service: The Financial Future Under Postmaster General Steiner”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Mar 17, 2026 · Transcript
SESSIONS, PETE "reforms to survive, quote, beyond next year. Without objection, we'll enter those into the record. The opportunity for us to be here together publicly with vendors, people who work for the post office, people who have oversight over the post office, people who want an opportunity for the post office to work and work well, members of Congress, almost every single one of us have people that sing your praises and some that think"
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_31 "It's on a ticket. She has an independent office. She's a constitutional officer. She's on the ticket, but she is independent as a constitutional officer. Yeah, but she's a constitutional officer. I don't believe that's happened in"
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
CASEY MEANS, MD "I'm happy to look at that. And just to be very clear, worked spent the last several months working with the Office of Government Ethics to be fully compliant with this process. I take it very seriously. Before, during, and after, if I am in office, I will be in full compliance with the Office of Government Ethics. I think as worked talked about, conflicts of interest are incredibly important to rectify if we're in public service and I am fully committed to continuing to"
Hearing “Career and Technical Education: Developing the Future of Main Street Success.”
house Small Business Committee · Feb 24, 2026 · Transcript
DR. NIKKI NIX "them understand what careers align with that outside of just their sphere of influence. up in a household where your dad was a police officer and your grandpa was a police officer and your uncle was a police officer, that's what's familiar to you. So we have to be very intentional about exposing students to careers outside of what they're immediately in contact with, helping them learn about who they are as individuals and then helping connect them to careers that align with those so they can make informed decisions as they move through life. Yeah, okay, great. Back to Nix. Perkins funding is..."
Hearing “From Source to Tap: A Hearing to Examine Challenges and Opportunities for Safe, Reliable, and Affordable Drinking Water.”
house Environment Subcommittee · Feb 24, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_19 "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you all for being here and the work that you all do in general, but in particular around keeping water safe. And I want to talk first about the EPA's Office of Research and Development. So I'm from Cincinnati. We have a big EPA office. We have a big Office of Research and Development, and this is key for safe drinking water in the sense that people, municipalities from all over the country send information our way, our folks test it, determine what's in the water, how to get there, what are the"
Hearing An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript
PAUL, RAND "Law enforcement officers perform difficult and dangerous work, and the vast majority do so honorably. But when a shooting occurs, the proper response is not to dismiss concerns or rush to judgment. Traditionally, the officers are removed from the line. Even in very justified shootings, even in shootings when they've been shove at multiple times, wounded, the officers typically removed in this investigation because we think lethal force is such a thing that should be controlled and restricted that we we always investigate it. That's what needed to happen here and should happen. The process..."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS”
house Homeland Security Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_18 "In fiscal year 2025, death threats against ICE personnel increased more than 8,000 percent. Assaults on officers have skyrocketed over 1,400 percent. One officer in Minnesota had his finger bitten off by a protester, egged on by elected officials characterizing our offices as the Gestapo or secret police. The families of ICE personnel have been made to feel unsafe in their homes. I know this firsthand because my own family was targeted. But let me send a message to anyone who thinks they can intimidate us. You will fail. Despite these perils, our offices continue to execute their mission with..."
Hearing Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the Department of Commerce.
senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
HOWARD LUTNICK "But I'd like you to understand we are, for the first time ever, going to use the Post Office. The United States Post Office is going to execute the 2026 test, and the survey we're going to use is the American Community Survey. So we are going to go out with a more sophisticated census, and we're going to use the – we've made a deal with the Post Office, so we're going to pay the Post Office to execute that. But you can imagine the efficiency of already having hundreds of thousands of people who already work for the federal government, who already have cars, who already pay for the gas, and..."
Hearing “Oversight of the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith”
house Judiciary Committee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "On January 6, 2026, the fifth anniversary of the insurrection, the White House launched a taxpayer-funded website that attempts to rewrite history about what happened on that day of infamy. On January 6, 2021, there was an insurrection at the United States Capitol that resulted in a police officer dying the next day, another four officers dying by suicide in the months thereafter, with at least 140 police officers being injured by the insurrectionists, with 15 of them requiring hospitalization. And I'm proud that we have four former officers as well as on-duty Capitol Hill police officers..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Jared Isaacman, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Dec 3, 2025 · Transcript
ROSEN, JACKY "Moreover, there is currently no Deputy Assistant Secretary for Travel and Tourism in place either. As a result, the National Travel and Tourism Office is led today by an acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, further underscoring the leadership gap in this space. And so it all means that tourism remains a sub-office, although critical to our national economy, remains a sub-office overseen by the Assistant Secretary for Industry and Analysis, position for which you are nominated, rather than by a new Assistant Secretary dedicated solely to focusing on the ecosystem, and it is an ecosystem, it's..."
Hearing Hearings to examine Trump's regulatory rollback, focusing on saving Americans $907 billion and counting.
senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
HAWLEY, JOSH "And obviously, I think a key function of the Small Business Administration is to protect and promote rural businesses. So let me just ask, what office, what role, rather, does your office, the Office of Advocacy, play in promoting rural small businesses? What steps do you think can Congress take to ensure SBA prioritizes rural areas and rural businesses? Any recommendations you might"
Hearing Hearings to examine putting veterans first, focusing on the current VA disability system.
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Oct 29, 2025 · Transcript
JON RETZER "Yeah, thank you for that question. Thank you for that question. And yes, unfortunately, our national service officers around the country who have been co-located within the VA regional offices are not allowed to conduct normal business to be able to assist the veterans, even though the VA regional offices are closed. We were only allowed 30 minutes. And an example is in North Carolina, we unfortunately went there one morning and we had over 180 pieces of mail. And when you look at that, those are time-sensitive issues with effective dates to file initial claims and evidence to support pending..."
Hearing Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2025 · Transcript
JOYCE, DAVID P. "Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government will come to order. This hearing is titled the Budget Hearing of the Office of Management and Budget. Members will have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into the record. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I'd like to thank Director Boat for being here today. The Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, plays a central role in most of the decisions made in the executive branch, particularly as it relates to the federal budget. It's also important to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine exploring process approaches for addressing Social Security solvency.
senate Finance Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript
REBECCA VALLAS "Ranking Member Wyden, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Rebecca Vallis, and I have the privilege of serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Academy of Social Insurance. This year, as our nation celebrates 250 years of American democracy, we are celebrating this simple but profound idea that lies at its heart, that government exists to serve the people, and that those entrusted with public office are stewards of institutions that belong not to any one political party, but to the American people as a whole. Few institutions..."
Hearing Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition and transparency lowers prescription drug costs.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
HIRONO, MAZIE K. "colleagues. And how can we trust that this so-called death will be lasting when he has that his words to us at the hearing do not matter? He was under oath at the hearing, but he's hardly going to prosecute himself for lying to Congress, which he did. Mr. Chairman, I intend to judge Mr. Blanche not by his words, but by his actions. Even though he said he would cooperate with the New Mexico office, Attorney General's office, in their obscene investigation, it seems he will not actually do so. Even though he claims to follow the Constitution and the law, he acts as the President's lawyer,..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
HIRONO, MAZIE K. "Mr. Chairman, I intend to judge Mr. Blanche not by his words but by his actions. Even though he said he would cooperate with the New Mexico office, Attorney General's office, in their obscene investigation, it seems he will not actually do"
Hearing Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of AI surveillance pricing.
senate Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
HIRONO, MAZIE K. "Mr. Chairman, I intend to judge Mr. Blanche not by his words but by his actions. Even though he said he would cooperate with the New Mexico office, Attorney General's office, in their obscene investigation, it seems he will not actually do"
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
SCOTT, RICK "They're just using the federal tax dollars to pay, because we all, we should expect our states to be, have skin in the game. And what we're, what you're saying is, what happens is they don't actually have skin in the game. Mr. Ingram, the HHS Office of the Inspector General recently decertified New York's Medicaid fraud control unit due to a year-long failure to do its job. Despite receiving over 16 million dollars annually and having a staff of 270 people, New York was the worst performing unit compared to other states. This office was only able to secure 85 fraud convictions from 20 to 25,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript
SCOTT, RICK "doing this. I think, I know in my state, people have been asking questions about Dr. Fauci for years. So, Dr. Fauci, your entry has made clear that you love being the hero, a celebrity, and you're having the eyes of the world upon you. You loved every newspaper profile, every photo shoot, every fancy dinner with the elites. To many Americans who lost family members, who lost trust in our federal government, you're not a hero. Unfortunately, you're a villain. You made yourself the story and abandoned the American people to serve your own ego. To begin, I'd like to talk about your relationship..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's 2026 trade policy agenda.
senate Finance Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
WARREN, ELIZABETH "Ambassador Greer, have Trump's tariffs increased prices for American families? So you're saying that what the Congressional Budget Office and the Treasury Department's own numbers, that families are paying an average of $1,700 more. Are you saying your own Treasury Department and your own Congressional Budget Office just don't know what they're talking about? Actually, they've been out there in public now for at least the last six"
Hearing "A One Year Update on DoD’s Struggling Background Check System”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Alissa Czyz, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing “Pathway to Capital: The Role of SBA Lending in Supporting Main Street America”
house Small Business Committee · Sep 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Thomas Kimsey, Office of Capital Access
Hearing Oversight: Advancing VA Care Through Artificial Intelligence
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Sep 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing “An Update on DoD’s Struggling Background Check System”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Feb 24, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Alissa Czyz, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing From Reset to Rollout: Can the VA EHRM Program Finally Deliver?
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Feb 24, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing VA Office of Information and Technology Organizational Structure and Priorities
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing Legislative hearing on the following bills: • H.R. 309 (Rep. Nehls), “National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support and Community...
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Sep 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Bill Alexander, National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund
Hearing Committee on House Administration Rescheduled Elections Subcommittee Hearing, "Maintaining Election Operations in the Face of Natural Disasters”
house Elections Subcommittee · Sep 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Cord Byrd, Office of the Florida Secretary of State
Hearing Securing the Supply Chain: The Defense Production Act in Focus
house National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee · Aug 13, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Jeffrey Frankston, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: “H.R. 984, To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide timely equitable...
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Jennifer McDonald, Community Care Division, Office of Audits and Evaluations, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Hearing “Improving Software Licensing Management”
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · May 19, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing Delivering Quality and Modern Healthcare to Michigan's Veterans and Servicemembers
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jun 12, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing Oversight: “Counting the Money: Preventing Fraud and Abuse in VA’s Bonus Payment Practices for VA Employees”
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Shawn Steele, Office of Audits and Evaluations; Office of Inspector General; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Hearing Ready, Set, Go-Live: Assessing VA’s EHR Modernization Deployment Readiness
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Dec 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Carol Harris, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Hearing Unlocking the Next Generation of AI in the U.S. Financial System for Consumers, Businesses, and Competitiveness
house Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee · Sep 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Daniel Gorfine, Gattaca Horizons; Former Chief Innovation Officer & Director of LabCFTC