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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 "just as long as they comply with the terms and communicate with us, I don't see any reason for any delays or pauses, sir. Congressman, thank you. No, that's exactly the grant system. We had a grant system. That's a system of record. But, no, the rest of it was emails and spreadsheets with different tools, with different nomenclature, et cetera. But, yes, we have 5-year-old laptops. Our operating system when we got here was probably 8 years old, and our technology on the lending side, a different office than mine, is being upgraded, very archaic as well.  Congressman, thank you for the..."
CRS Report
Defense Primer: U.S. Policy on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
InFocus · Mar 26, 2026
Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) are a special class of weapon systems that uses sensor suites and computer algorithms to independently identify a target and employ an onboard weapon system to...
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Federal Standards and Guidelines for Voting Systems: Overview and Potential Considerations for Congress
Reports · Jun 12, 2023
States and localities choose the voting systems used in elections in the United States. They decide which systems to use and contract with vendors as necessary to acquire and maintain them. The...
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Introduction to Financial Services: Systemic Risk
Resources · Jan 5, 2023
Recent Episodes of Financial Instability Systemic risk is financial market risk that poses a threat to financial stability. The 2007-2009 financial crisis was characterized by system-wide financial...
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China’s Corporate Social Credit System
Resources · Jan 17, 2020
China’s construction of a nationwide social credit system has been identified as a major concern by both the executive branch and some Members of Congress, because of the broad controls such a system...
Hearing “DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · May 13, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
MR. THOMAS HARKER "It's Advancing Analytics. It's a system where we pull all of the data from every financial management system, logistic system, and HR system, and we're able to apply analytics, AI, process mining to the entire population. That's given us great insight that's been very helpful as we move forward with the audit. It's going to be one of the key things that gets us across the finish line on the FY28 audit getting us a clean opinion. Yes, ma'am. We have a significant effort going around this so that we can go in and trace the problems that cause the journal vouchers back to their original system..."
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Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA): Water System Security and Resilience Provisions
Resources · Mar 1, 2021
The disruption of a safe and reliable water supply remains a long-standing concern related to the protection of public health. Several events have increased congressional attention to water system...
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CrowdStrike IT Outage: Impacts to Public Safety Systems and Considerations for Congress
Resources · Dec 4, 2024
On July 19, 2024, CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, released a software update to their customers. The update caused certain computer systems to crash, disrupting services across several...
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Small Water Systems: Selected Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Provisions
Reports · Nov 22, 2022
The nation’s public water systems face a range of challenges, including disruptions of safe and reliable water supplies due to cyberattacks or natural hazards, detections of unregulated contaminants...
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Voting Systems and Federal Law
Resources · Apr 4, 2024
Laws regulating voting systems, including voting machines and other election infrastructure, exist primarily at the state and local levels. However, the federal government maintains significant...
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Bank Failures: The FDIC’s Systemic Risk Exception
InFocus · Jul 31, 2026
When Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank failed in March 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) guaranteed uninsured deposits at those banks under the statutory systemic risk...
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U.S. Army’s Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (MSHORAD) System—SGT Stout
InFocus · Apr 28, 2026
Background The Army is developing a new maneuver short-range air defense system (M-SHORAD) to perform short-range air defense (SHORAD). On June 14, 2024, the Army designated the M-SHORAD the “SGT...
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The U.S. Army’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC) System
InFocus · Apr 16, 2026
Background Protecting high-value military sites against enemy cruise missile (CM), uncrewed aerial system (UAS), and rocket, artillery, and mortar (RAM) attacks has long been an important...
Hearing Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Housing and Insurance Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
MS. JILL NAAMANE "Chairman Flood, Ranking Member Cleaver, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to discuss our work on the Federal Home Loan Bank system. The FHL Banks support liquidity in the financial system and promote housing and community development. The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March 2023 renewed questions about the system providing liquidity during a crisis. Today, I will discuss the system's role in providing advances, use of advances during March 2023, and issues revealed by the bank"
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Biometric Entry-Exit System: Legislative History and Status
Resources · Aug 27, 2020
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is statutorily required to develop and implement an automated biometric (i.e., physical characteristics such as fingerprints, face, or irises) entry-exit...
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Election Systems: Recent Action by the Election Assistance Commission
Posts · Apr 3, 2024
The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) was established by the Help America Vote Act in response to problems with the administration of the 2000 elections. Among other responsibilities, such as...
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U.S. Payment System Policy Issues: Faster Payments and Innovation
Reports · Sep 23, 2019
Technological advances in digitization and data processing and storage have greatly increased the availability and convenience of electronic payments. New products and services offer faster, more...
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Election Security: Voter Registration System Policy Issues
Resources · Aug 7, 2019
Discussions about federal election security often focus on protecting voting machines and ensuring the integrity of election results, but voter registration processes may also be vulnerable to...
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.140, to address the forest health crisis on the National Forest System and public lands, S.332, to require a study...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.1674, to modify the boundary of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State of Kentucky, S.2498, to authorize the Secretary...
senate National Parks Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.290, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to upgrade existing emergency communications centers in units of the National...
senate National Parks Subcommittee · Dec 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Request transcript
Testimony MARSHALL, ROGER
Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"Coach thank you so much and welcome to our witnesses today I'm happy to be here to celebrate school choice week I think coach will appreciate this story my college track coach told me the Welcome to our witnesses today. I'm happy to be here to celebrate school choice week. first day of track practice everyone's bragging how great of athletes they were in high school he said don't tell me show me and I think the Republican Party has shown our support for this school choice and the working family..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.1034, to establish the Southwestern Power Administration Fund, S.1242, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry...
senate Water and Power Subcommittee · Mar 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.1034, to establish the Southwestern Power Administration Fund, S.1242, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry...
senate Water and Power Subcommittee · Feb 24, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.90, to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to finalize and implement certain travel...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.90, to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to finalize and implement certain travel management plans...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Dec 2, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.105, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Mar 5, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness Bob Mumgaard
Commonwealth Fusion Systems · 1 hearing
Witness Michael Robbins
Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International · 2 hearings
Witness Jackie Gerhart
Epic Systems · 1 hearing
Witness Jerome H. Powell
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System · 1 hearing
Witness Jerome Powell
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Alex Miller
Hiro Systems · 1 hearing
Witness Major General David Stewart
Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Mark Rogers
Osage Nation Health System · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Richard Dewey
New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) · 1 hearing
Witness Ms. Jennifer Curran
Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) · 1 hearing
Hearing Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections Hearing: “Examining Best Practices for Strengthening Election Security”
house Elections Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
LEE, LAUREL M. "One great example is the EAC's Election Supporting Technology Evaluation Program, or ESTEP. This program offers voluntary security standards and evaluations for non-voting systems like poll books, election day reporting systems, or other election supporting systems not covered by the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. The EAC's Voluntary Voting System Guidelines serve as a baseline certification for new voting systems to evaluate functionality, accessibility, and"
Testimony MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"just as long as they comply with the terms and communicate with us, I don't see any reason for any delays or pauses, sir. Congressman, thank you. No, that's exactly the grant system. We had a grant system. That's a system of record. But, no, the rest of it was emails and spreadsheets with different tools, with different nomenclature, et cetera. But, yes, we have 5-year-old laptops. Our operating system when we got here was probably 8 years old, and our technology on the lending side, a..."
Testimony MS. JILL NAAMANE
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Chairman Flood, Ranking Member Cleaver, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to discuss our work on the Federal Home Loan Bank system. The FHL Banks support liquidity in the financial system and promote housing and community development. The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March 2023 renewed questions about the system providing liquidity during a crisis. Today, I will discuss the system's role in providing advances, use of advances during March 2023,..."
Testimony MR. RYAN DONOVAN
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Having said that, we have offered, during the previous administration, a proposal to use the Community Development Bond Guarantee Fund to help guarantee portions of the advances in order to bring better pricing to CDFI members. That proposal was not advanced, but what I want to leave you with is that there is a lot of attention being given in the home loan bank system to the CDFI community, and we'd be happy to work with you. Thank you, Representative, for the question. I offer a couple of..."
Testimony KEITH SONDERLING
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I think it makes a lot of sense. Our systems at the Department of Labor are more sophisticated based on prior reports and implementing those recommendations than the Department of Education system. They're on a legacy G5 system. We use grant solutions, which is the same system that we owe a title funds are distributed both from the labor side and from the education side to the same states. And from an efficiency standpoint from the states who take this money, they're used to having to go to..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE AMY CONEY BARRETT
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"We are on a different computer system than the lower courts, and I know the lower courts are in desperate need of upgrading their computer systems, and they have been really attacked, and I think in large part it's because these systems are so outdated, and so I know that in their budget request is additional monies to try to improve the cybersecurity of their systems. Because we're on a different system, we don't share the same informational systems, our cybersecurity operates just..."
Testimony CALVERT, KEN
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"prioritize critical modernization efforts Numerous next-generation weapon systems are advancing through various stages of development including sixth-generation air dominance platforms hypersonic weapons and unmanned systems priority investments also include aggressive shipbuilding aircraft procurement integrated command and control systems Long-range fires air and missile defense advanced autonomous systems and enhanced counter drone systems Among the most critical are the components of the..."
Testimony MR. CHRISTOPHER SUNUNU
Hearings to examine improving safety across the National Airspace Syst...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"That is not what is happening around DCA. That is not what is happening around Seattle. It's not what's happening around any of our commercial airports here in the U.S. So it does nothing but help the system to make sure that every piece of equipment in the air is accounted for from a technology standpoint so that the system is – I mean, the national aviation system is effectively a telecommunications system at its core, right? Well, what's the point of that if someone isn't listening or..."
Testimony BARRETT, TOM
Delivering Quality and Modern Healthcare to Michigan's Veterans and Se...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 12, 2026
"There's been allegations that there's been a resistance within VA to embrace community care as a, as a option for veterans by maybe slowing down the implementation or things of that sort. Do you feel that there is a resistance within VA to make community care scheduling as easy VA to make community care scheduling as easy as possible, or is there a reluctance within the VA to maybe skew more veterans toward the internal VA care? Yeah, and with 36 now layered systems on there, it begins to..."
Testimony LEE, LAUREL M.
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections Hearing: “...
house Committee on House Administration · May 20, 2026
"One great example is the EAC's Election Supporting Technology Evaluation Program, or ESTEP. This program offers voluntary security standards and evaluations for non-voting systems like poll books, election day reporting systems, or other election supporting systems not covered by the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. The EAC's Voluntary Voting System Guidelines serve as a baseline certification for new voting systems to evaluate functionality, accessibility, and"
Testimony THE HONORABLE CHRISTY MCCORMICK
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections Hearing: “...
house Committee on House Administration · May 20, 2026
"HAVA funds help states in this endeavor by allowing them to invest in security resources that strengthen election infrastructure. Grant reports show that states use funds to support sustainable security practices, such as network monitoring, endpoint protection, multifactor authentication, automatic system backups, physical security, and cybersecurity efforts. Over the past year, the EAC's Election Technology Office modernized the nation's voting system infrastructure by certifying two voting..."
Testimony MR. THOMAS HARKER
“DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 13, 2026
"It's Advancing Analytics. It's a system where we pull all of the data from every financial management system, logistic system, and HR system, and we're able to apply analytics, AI, process mining to the entire population. That's given us great insight that's been very helpful as we move forward with the audit. It's going to be one of the key things that gets us across the finish line on the FY28 audit getting us a clean opinion. Yes, ma'am. We have a significant effort going around this so that..."
Testimony MR. THOMAS HARKER
“DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 13, 2026
"time yesterday focusing on this. His staff, my staff, we're all looking at how can we get rid right now? Right now, we've got 86 financial systems that are part of our key core financial business systems that are tied to the audit. Our goal is to get that down to less than 10 so that we actually have one general ledger, one entitlement system, one system for each major process. That's going to take time. We have to be able to make sure we don't do any harm by getting rid of those systems, but..."
Testimony MR. THOMAS HARKER
“DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 13, 2026
"We're putting in automation that allows us to use robotic tools inside the computer systems to go pull data that supports the audit testing. And we're using the funding on legacy system decommissionings to go after specific problems that are in certain current systems, either to make an improvement to that system so it works better or to take that system offline and have other things that can replace it. Yes,"
Testimony LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAMES ADAMS
Hearings to examine worldwide threats; to be immediately followed by a...
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Chairman Cotton, thank you for that question. I have to say that the arrow system and the iron dome system are critical defensive systems that prevent adversary power projection from impacting the targets and the friendly areas in Israel. The arrow system itself is the high altitude primarily against MRBMs, and it's proven to be very, very effective against those systems. The iron dome is more of a closer-in system, protecting against rockets and things of that nature. But the combination of..."
Hearing “Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in National Security.”
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
WILLIAMS, ROGER "and other related issues. He holds an MBA and MS in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a JD from Yeshiva University's Cardoza School of Law. And he also is a baseball guy. There you go. And we thank you for being here today. Our next witness is Mr. Daniel Javorowski. Mr. Javorowski is President and Chief Operating Officer at Infinite Systems Engineering at Colorado-based Systems Engineering and Mission Operations Company, specializing in payload integration, space operations, and systems sustainment. He is responsible for the establishing of policies and strategies in..."
Hearing Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer, Frank J. Bisignano
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
ESTES, RON "costs. In sharp contrast, under President Trump, the IRS has cut roughly $2 billion from its 2025 IT budget without operational disruptions, just singling out how bloated the prior spending has become. Can you walk us through the process for retiring these decades-old legacy systems, and how are you prioritizing modernizing systems so that the biggest risks and most taxpayer-visible systems are addressed first? Well, thank you very much for being"
Testimony MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"shocked. We found a system that was not auditable with inconsistent processes that were not accountable to the taxpayers. And when we dug deeper, we realized that the prior administration had a system that relied upon a series of e-mails and disconnected spreadsheets with inconsistent processes. And so it's not a surprise that they had trouble dispersing funds. And so what we did is we rolled up our sleeves and we worked with the grant solutions team and developed an integrated system. So the..."
Testimony MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Congressman, thank you for the question. As I have said, we support the administration's budget of making hard decisions with limited discretionary budget. Congressman, thank you for the question. Yes, our system, our grant system was broken. I also alluded to challenges within SCORE, but our grant system was broken. We were accountable first to the taxpayers. And on the numbers Congressman, thank you for the question. Again, like I said, we, as Secretary Besant said in recent days, it is..."
Testimony MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Congressman, thank you. We told them that they actually were clear. I don't remember. There may be each State had one or two small records within their files, but we did not find, thankfully, fraud and abuse at the Minnesota SBDC, and their team was very good to work with, and we appreciate them. Congressman, thank you. I think what we're doing now of building this new system, and I would add that like any new system, this is a major systems upgrade and expansion. The team is learning how to..."
Testimony FINSTAD, BRAD
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Good. Well, I'm happy to hear that. They have been a huge asset to southern Minnesota. I've seen them in action in communities all over the State, and it's good to hear that they passed the test. So making sure that these centers and programs are funded, it's important to me and the communities that I represent. I'm thankful that the SBA has worked trying to combat waste, fraud, and abuse. What steps can be taken to prevent another funding pause, and how can we here in Congress be helpful? Sir,..."
Testimony MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"We inherited a system that was broken, and there were no controls. It was inconsistent between programs, and so we owed it to the taxpayers to build. We had to build a system that was integrated, the grant system to the finance system. And as we've said before, as Secretary Besant said, it's better to prevent fraud, waste fraud and abuse, than try to claw funds back. But we are working very fast to get the funds out, and I would say just in the last weeks we actually obligated about $8 million..."
Testimony MR. PAUL FITZPATRICK
“Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development.”
house Small Business Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"When it comes to—we are happy to provide technical assistance. I think what we don't want is lots of new ideas that Congress thinks up to serve a very small population. And I think we need to keep it broad and serve all Americans equally. But our team, again, like I said, we're happy to develop and work with you on legislation you're developing. And our Office of Legislative Congressman, thank you for the question. We have actually made major system upgrades and built really an integrated..."
Testimony CLEAVER, EMANUEL
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It has been nearly 15 years since this committee last held a dedicated hearing on the Federal Home Loan Bank System of 2011. Regulated by the FHFA, the system consists of 11 regional banks, each with its own board and executive leadership operating in a common statutory framework. Together, the Home Loan Banks represent a trillion-dollar financial system that provides liquidity to approximately 6,500 members and communities. The work of the system is supported by an..."
Testimony CLEAVER, EMANUEL
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"The FHFA has recommended increasing the Affordable Housing Program contribution from 10% to 20% of net income, and your testimony supports that recommendation. But the Affordable Housing Program is only one part of the system's housing mission. All witnesses have testified, all four of you have testified that the system supports housing more broadly through advances and other mission-oriented programs. And in your testimony, you note that the original system model used collateral requirements..."
Testimony PROFESSOR KATHRYN JUDGE
Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
house Financial Services Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"dividends and in terms of cheap funding to the largest financial institutions. And so the idea is how to look back at those first two stages, so they're taking smart risks that really help smaller financial institutions and really help housing and giving more to AHP. The question actually does a beautiful job framing up the answer. So one, doubling the AHP makes sense. It's a highly profitable system. They no longer have the burden of paying off their F Corp bonds. So having more money..."
Testimony BALDWIN, TAMMY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"for example, the impact aid program. So on the impact aid, are you using the impact and grant systems, IA, impact aid grants, grant systems, IAGS system that was developed for that purpose in education, or are you transferring it into the Department of Labor grants database that you were just telling me in my office that is so incredibly"
Testimony THE HONORABLE AMY CONEY BARRETT
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"for the public is the way to have disagreements that can be very serious about weighty issues and that can be sharp, but that avoid descending into that kind of unhelpful rhetoric that gets very personal. We received, was the number north of 200 million attempts to breach the system, and that's, And that's, you know, on track to practically double this year. AI is making it easier for people to find vulnerabilities and all entities systems and to exploit that. So we're trying to keep up. We..."
Testimony DUCKWORTH, TAMMY
Hearings to examine improving safety across the National Airspace Syst...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 23, 2026
"otherwise known as SMART. It's a very long name, just to get a great acronym, system to predict airspace conditions and optimize the national airspace system. And the SMART system will propose scheduled changes to air carriers to help deconflict the airspace along with providing controllers predictive analytics, something that I think is very positive. Effective rollout of SMART will require the support of all air"
Testimony THE HONORABLE CHRISTY MCCORMICK
Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections Hearing: “...
house Committee on House Administration · May 20, 2026
"This started a focused EAC effort to research best practices around election supporting technologies that are used year-round, such as electronic poll books, electronic ballot delivery, voter registration, and election night reporting systems. In May 2024, the EAC launched the nation's first federal voluntary electronic poll book voluntary electronic poll book certification program. The program has already certified three systems, with two more systems under test. The value of this process is..."
Testimony MR. THOMAS HARKER
“DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 13, 2026
"That uses our ADVANA technology, our process mining, our business intelligence to go in and identify is the initial error in an Army system, a Navy system, an Air Force system? If so, which system, and what can we do to clean up the errors in those systems so that we have better access to data for our lead decision"
Testimony MR. THOMAS HARKER
“DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 13, 2026
"But in addition, there's efforts going on. When I was the CFO of the Navy a while back, we consolidated our general ledger systems. We went from nine general ledger systems down to one. That took about eight years, but it was a systemic elimination of legacy systems, moving all the data into the one general ledger that the Navy operates today. The Navy's in the process of modernizing that"
Testimony MR. THOMAS HARKER
“DoW Financial Management: Examining Progress and New Audit Approaches...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · May 13, 2026
"The Defense Financial Accounting Service, DFAS, has done a similar effort where they've tried to reduce the number of different systems that perform the same function. For example, they'll have systems that will be dispersing systems, they'll have systems that will do entitlements, that will do payment management, that type of thing. And so they've systemically been reducing the number of systems by migrating people from one to another and getting all of the work down to, for dispersing they..."
Testimony BENNET, MICHAEL F.
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"The ranking member mentioned the situation in Florida, and I think you should say it again. The states that are correcting their error rates are making matters worse for them because of the way this system was designed. So if you are interested in, and I'm sure everybody here is, in creating a set of incentives that actually will lead to better results, that will allow us to attack fraud and abuse and waste in these systems, that is not the system that we have today. That's the opposite of the..."
Testimony CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artific...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Permitting is the single largest roadblock. Most people think of permitting reform in terms of energy development or possibly transportation systems, but the communication systems and the AI systems are as important and maybe in some cases, as you're making the case today, more important to be able to move quickly and swiftly. You probably know I am the chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee. We have been in active negotiations with the Energy and Natural Resources Committee at the..."
Testimony SCOTT CAMERON
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"S-3573, the Ammit Litigation Settlement Act amendments would allow parties to extend the statutory deadline for completion of the Pohockee Basin Regional Water System. regional water system. This will allow the department to continue working closely with our Pueblo state and county partners to ensure the best use of the remaining federal funding for construction of the regional water system. The department is pleased to"
Testimony ROUNDS, MIKE
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Okay, we'll provide, we'll ask specifically for that and it sounds like we should be able to get that back in terms of dates and for expectations. Thank you. Also Mr. Cameron, earlier this year I introduced the Dakota Mainstem Water Supply Project Feasibility Study Act which would authorize a feasibility study for the Dakota Mainstem Regional Water System. I've also co-sponsored legislation that would authorize feasibility studies for the Western Dakota Regional Water System and the Lewis and..."
Testimony DUCKWORTH, TAMMY
Business meeting to markup S.1759, to allow for the operation of civil...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The amendment is technical and 100% in support of aligning with the connected vehicle rule. It affords industry regulatory certainty and recognizes the ongoing efforts to onshore production. And the rule states, BIS also recognized, and I quote, BIS also recognizes that the traditional battery management system does not have its own external wireless data link, which is why it rejects commenters' recommendations to include BMS. And if an infotainment module or a battery management system..."
Testimony DR. MATTHEW FUNAIOLE
Charting a New Course: Countering China's Dominance in Global Shipbuil...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I'll just quickly echo that, you know, there, you can look at what China's done and say, is that a model that works for the U.S.? And I agree. It's not a model that works for the U.S. We have other strengths to lean on. We've talked a lot about allies and partners and how that could be part of the solution. But one area that we haven't talked really about is, we've focused on the hardware side of it, but there's a whole software component to this as well. So the onboard systems, the navigation..."
Testimony HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Servic...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"totally dark, opaque system. A Journal of American Medical Association has estimated that about 25% of our health care spend is on administrative processes, pricing failures, waste, inefficiency. I mean even assuming 10% of that is legitimate administrative costs, it provides the opportunity for hundreds of billions of dollars of savings. The gaming and confusion in our health care system drives people crazy and we can put a stop to it. The lack of transparency in our health care system is the..."
Testimony MR. AMOL SINHA
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you for the question, Ranking Member Crockett. Look, I think every legal system, the criminal legal system, the immigration system is rife with racial injustice. We are seeing it play out in the streets every single"
Testimony HILL, J. FRENCH
States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"this in other states. Just this week, this two-week section, Cyber Shield is underway right now at Camp Robinson in Little Rock. 1,100 people, 44 states, 23 countries, and everyone there is geared toward tactical action-taking against a cyber threat, state cyber actor, and I think that this training should be expanded, and one of the things I see is that we don't have any tabletop exercises on an operational attack to a civilian location. It can be Walmart. It doesn't have to be a water system...."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Hearings to examine the nominations of Jules Hurst III, of Virginia, t...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"The system is complex, and I have not been briefed on the details, but I do know that the administration and that the program manager on that effort is laser-focused on ensuring that we do that affordably, and if confirmed, I will work closely with the program manager to ensure that the space elements of that architecture are scalable and can be delivered at an affordable cost. Senator Muera, how vital these systems are, and if confirmed, I would look forward to working with you to ensure that..."
Testimony MAST, BRIAN J.
updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; Gene...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I also want to thank for the work on the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway, one of the most important inland navigation routes in the country, the Jupiter Inlet. We are doing an examination to study should the Jupiter Inlet be a part of that intercoastal waterway system. It is a huge system for marine navigation across our area and I want to thank the committee for working on a provision to examine adding that to the intercoastal waterway system as well. Very important for my community and I thank..."
Testimony LUTTRELL, MORGAN
PACT Act Implementation: Modernizing VA Disability Claims Through Effe...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jul 13, 2026
"Thank you all for being here today. So in the build-out of the IT system or the modernization of the IT system where all of the veteran's data is moving through the system trying to get the benefits kind of under control but processed completely, Mr. Herbert, Dr. Thomas, you mentioned quality of data, and the way that I understand it, which is a great point, the way that I understand when a veteran's information enters into the system, it has to go through a process where the"
Testimony MOOLENAAR, JOHN R.
China’s Economic Espionage and Subnational Influence in the United Sta...
house Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party · Jun 25, 2026
"Pastor Bob Fu in Texas has been a victim of transnational oppression. There was even a hearing of Texas's equivalent committee of your committee. So Texas had a committee on foreign adversary threats. That hearing was shut down by a cyber attack in September of 2024. This is not normal advocacy. It is a pressure campaign from a non-democratic actor acting within our democratic system. It happens across the country, although I highlight just the examples of Nebraska and Texas today. Our openness..."
Testimony FINE, RANDY
H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Pro...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"years. In 2025, all we needed was a new president. The whataboutism about other groups and other no one should be discriminated against on college campuses. But what is clear is what is taking place every single day in our K-12 system, in our university system, in our community college system is unique to Jewish students. And for those who are concerned that what I am proposing may be unconstitutional, I would issue the same warning I issued to those in Florida seven years ago. When you say you..."
Testimony STANSBURY, MELANIE A.
“Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Yeah, okay. This is not a joke, my friend. Let's get real here. There is actual waste, fraud, and abuse in this system. It's criminal activity. It's activity that is just like every single financial system out there. There are bad people who take advantage of financial systems. But the vast majority of beneficiaries of this program are seniors, children, and people living with disabilities. And when you make it harder for them to access benefits, then it means that they go hungry. They skip..."
Testimony MORELLE, JOSEPH D.
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Mea...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026
"You could have Parkinson's disease. You could have other things that would affect your signature. But the system is secure, and the system works. I've never seen anyone in New York, neighbors or otherwise, complain about the voter ID system that we have, and I've never heard anyone complain that someone voted erroneously because of it. The bill we're considering today would end this secure voter identification system. In New York, and in Arizona, and many other states, the bill not only bars..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
"To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conser...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"just saying how thankful we are that we have a great team. I think the day that I was nominated, Ag Media asked me, what is your priority as the undersecretary? If you make it through confirmation, and ultimately I did. But that very first day, I said, we need to modernize our delivery systems. We need to modernize our IT systems. We have antiquated systems—I alluded to it in my opening testimony—that are costing taxpayers a lot of money and don't work very well. And I am happy to say that we..."
Testimony TLAIB, RASHIDA
Future of Payments: Promoting Innovation and Fair Markets
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Well, if our moms were listening, how would we explain FedNow? Okay. Well, let's talk about the model that I'm trying to figure out why the United States has it. So how does the domestic U.S. payment system compare to other countries in terms of consumer protection speed and expense? Is it not that the U.S. system comparably slow and costly? We've been talking about this, that how slow and costly it is. It's about the Brazil in 2020. You know, Brazil's central bank introduced instant payments..."
Testimony HAWLEY, JOSH
Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"support. Mr. Chairman. Senator Hawley. Mr. Chairman, I just, I just want to add my voice in support of this legislation, and I want to thank Senator Hassan for her leadership on this. Prescription drugs are just too expensive. I mean, that's the bottom line. They are way too expensive for every family and every individual in this country, and one of the reasons they're too expensive is that the Big Pharma companies game the system. They tell the FDA one thing, and then they tell the Patent..."
Testimony VARGAS, JUAN
Task Force on Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economi...
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 12, 2026
"I do want to ask this. So obviously there's been a couple of failures in the past. And so we're here today with this system. It seems to have held up. It seems to have been quite resilient, but the situation has changed. I mean, we're talking about data, you know, talking about information, but information is very different today than it was in 1913. And in fact, with the AI revolution that's beginning, I think that is going to be very different once again. What is it in this structure that..."
Testimony LANGWORTHY, NICHOLAS A.
"Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to I...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Ms. Tripoli, how important is that type of transparency for patients trying to make informed decisions about their care and their finances? Thank you. And I think that's exactly why this matters. When prices remain hidden throughout the system, no matter which leg of the stool within our health care system they are, it becomes much harder to understand who is being paid for what services and at what costs. And when health care costs go up, every part of the system seems to blame a different leg..."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine how technological advances are driving transportat...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Across the country, technology applications are improving safety. From smart signals and pedestrian detection systems, to smart parking systems, we are delivering a 40 percent reduction in near-miss conflicts at intersections, to digital alerting systems in Illinois, increasing driver reaction distance and reducing harsh braking, to real-time detection technology in Indiana, keeping workers safe in work zones. The impact on safety is"
Testimony MR. JACK CABLE
“The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Co...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"and I think we have to be thinking bigger, right, about how we can enable these large-scale remediation campaigns, refactoring software systems, right? It will take time and money, but it is also the sort of thing that AI systems can help us with. So I think those are the sort of actions, as well as preventing vulnerabilities at scale, as new software is being built with AI coding tools that are ultimately necessary and will allow us to upscale the security of our systems. I would just agree..."
Testimony MR. THOMAS AUSTIN
Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, "“Oversight ...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 3, 2026
"And I'm committed to engaging with them constantly as I do as a member of the Capitol Police Board, as you pointed out, but also in my role just as the architect. They are a key stakeholder. Sure. So, the way we define catastrophic system failure, Councilman Morelle, is any failure of one of the building's systems, specifically the mechanical, electrical, or plumbing systems that would cause part or all of the building to become unusable for the function it was intended, in this case, the..."
Testimony WILLIAMS, ROGER
“Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in ...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"and other related issues. He holds an MBA and MS in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a JD from Yeshiva University's Cardoza School of Law. And he also is a baseball guy. There you go. And we thank you for being here today. Our next witness is Mr. Daniel Javorowski. Mr. Javorowski is President and Chief Operating Officer at Infinite Systems Engineering at Colorado-based Systems Engineering and Mission Operations Company, specializing in payload integration, space operations, and..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
“Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in ...
house Small Business Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Excess skiff space in GSA, for example, is a great way, like, for a pay-for-fee, like a WeWorks, is another opportunity. I know. No, second of all, I wouldn't say it's broken. I would say it's a system designed for something else. Like if you're going into the Rockies in Colorado, you probably don't want a Corvette. You probably want a Ford one 50, right? So we were designed, the acquisition system was designed for a different era for a different concern. And we have not shifted to the right..."
Testimony MARCO RUBIO
Oversight Hearing – Department of Justice
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"ability to deploy and quickly provide the funding for that, more of a sort of an acute event as opposed to a chronic one, is better than it used to be. We are responding much faster than it was in the traditional system. And the more legacy projects, I think what they'll find over time is once this becomes systemized here and there, they'll become more familiar with our systems, and they'll find that certainty that they need in terms of planning and so forth. But I would just say we'll continue..."
Testimony MARCO RUBIO
Oversight Hearing – Department of Justice
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"I've seen that report. I can't comment on the specific technology that they used. Suffice it to say, look, they do own Chinese systems. They own some Russian systems. And they've developed some native systems, especially in the drone technology. But I don't know specifically of that. I mean, I'd have to refer you to the Department of War. I would hate to comment on something and give you a misleading"
Testimony SEAN DUFFY
Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2026
"traffic snares. I'm going to try to move through this quickly, but I want to talk about what we're doing collaboratively with states to finally make transit safe and clean and dependable. I'm a Republican, and I recognize that our states do not work, not our states, our cities don't work if we don't have good transit systems. But I do think we should expect from those systems that they are clean, that they're safe, that people want to ride them. You should have your 16-year-old daughter should..."
Testimony SPEAKER_37
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"following the input and thousands of policy requests we received not only from members of this committee but from the entire House of Representatives. This year is an inflection point in our nation's history as we take stock of the previous 250 years of American history and, more importantly, imagine what the next 250 years are going to have in store for us. Much like the America 250 celebration this year, the bill is about moving forward and not moving backwards. Americans rely every day on..."
Testimony DESAULNIER, MARK
"Bad Medicine: Politics, Unions, and Antisemitism in Health Care"
house Education and Workforce Committee · May 20, 2026
"Thanks. I want to ask that question in the context of Congressman Frank because of his quote is that prejudice is based on ignorance. So let's talk a little bit about, I'd like to ask you a question of the effect of the actions of H.R. 1 on what is already a pretty discriminatory biased health care system for all of the greatness of the American health care system, and I agree with everything everyone said about as a consumer of health care in my life, particularly recently, we want the best..."
Testimony JENNIFER PATRICK
Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Centu...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 20, 2026
"We have been putting Band-Aids on it. We've been trying our best. The irrigators are on the hook for 75% of the cost of that system. And so, when you're looking at it, they're putting their money into their on-farm infrastructure versus putting it into the system. And so, it's kind of a very tough balance with a 100-year-old system. Normally, we have about two acre feet of water. We had about a quarter of an irrigation that year. And so, the impacts to farms was, you know, we're predominantly..."
Testimony FLETCHER, LIZZIE
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"So the experts have warned us that these chaotic staffing cuts are a direct threat to the safety of our food system. And we should have bipartisan agreement on that, too. Everybody in here is talking about how important it is that we make sure the system works. Well, the system doesn't work if you take out all of the people who do the work. And so we cannot have a safe and healthy food system if there isn't enough staff at FDA to ensure that the agency can perform its essential function of..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"You are moving those programs at an unknown cost to the Department of onto a grant system administered by yet another agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, a grant system that has experienced significant technical difficulties and issues last year that created delays for programs like Head Start and community health centers, a system the Department of Health and Human Services has described itself as antiquated. This is a waste of taxpayer resources that creates additional..."
Testimony BALDWIN, TAMMY
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"You are moving those programs at an unknown cost to the Department of onto a grant system administered by yet another agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, a grant system that has experienced significant technical difficulties and issues last year that created delays for programs like Head Start and community health centers, a system the Department of Health and Human Services has described itself as antiquated. This is a waste of taxpayer resources that creates additional..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine Department of Defense missile defense activities i...
senate Armed Services Committee · Apr 27, 2026
"for this new generation of capabilities, what we're calling Missile Defense System Next, and it will continue to operate as the system of systems integrator for the homeland defense architecture developed and delivered by the Office of the Golden Dome for"
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"made sure that we're sending that strong signal because that was an area we had we were left with you know massive permitting backlogs the permitting backlog on oil and drilling permits was was of of almost in a single year was like probate sized I mean we had 5,600 unprocessed drilling permits we've through 91% of that backlog part of that's me holding on the staff the other part is systems as IT systems we have to support our team members with better IT systems these processes take too long..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"made sure that we're sending that strong signal because that was an area we had we were left with you know massive permitting backlogs the permitting backlog on oil and drilling permits was was of of almost in a single year was like probate sized I mean we had 5,600 unprocessed drilling permits we've through 91% of that backlog part of that's me holding on the staff the other part is systems as IT systems we have to support our team members with better IT systems these processes take too long..."
Testimony SENATOR PETER WELCH (D-VT)
Hearings to examine S.465, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Co...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 15, 2026
"It's like high electricity bills are tough on whoever it is we represent. And Senator Gallego, you were talking about we really have to modernize our transmission system, but the bill that Senator McCormick and I are promoting says, let's take the system and I are promoting says let's take the system we have and enhance it through technology. There's a lot more electrons that can flow through what we"
Testimony COLLIS TEMPLE JR.
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"in the last couple of years have been put in a position of being able to retain some of this money, short-lived money, because majority of those guys probably won't play in the NBA. That's another really, really narrow window to be able to get into that NBA model and have a sustained earning capacity for four, five, eight, ten years. Now, so I'm, from my perspective, we absolutely have to design some system and the system hadn't been designed properly by the NCAA, so we have to figure out..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"A decision like that doesn't just drag the USPTO into covering up for a slush fund that may violate both the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses. It's bad for the integrity of our fairness and objectivity of our system. It begins to fall apart. So I'm not just troubled that you may be violating the basic trademark rules. I'm troubled that in violating the rules to help Donald Trump, you may be acting as a political operative in a way that will destroy our neutral system for regulating..."
Testimony THOMAS G. DINANNO
Hearings to examine arms control and transforming international securi...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 24, 2026
"So again, I don't want to talk too much more about the Russian capability in open forum, but certainly the exotic systems, the underwater system, the Poseidon, the Burevestnik, which is their nuclear-powered cruise missile, these are all systems that fall outside of New START, to your point, that we need to have a direct conversation with the Russians, and I'm sure we will. Thank"
Testimony COMMANDER GREGORY GUILLOT
Hearings to examine the posture of United States Northern Command and ...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 19, 2026
"I am seeing immediate improvement. We can see at longer ranges with more fidelity, and also in a layered approach where one phenomena or one system is no longer responsible solely to detect. We have backup systems as well. I also note, because of the partnership with the Golden Dome for America program office, many of the domain awareness systems that we need for improved NORAD and NORTHCOM detection also serve the purpose of Golden Dome, and so we are really getting two or three for one with..."
Testimony GUTHRIE, BRETT
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U....
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"here. One, people have to afford health care. That's absolutely true, and I disagree with my friend from Colorado that the answer to this is a single-payer system. Then you don't get, I don't think you can look at a system that delivers quality health care that has that system. I will also say that the expense in the health care system, the Affordable Care Act, is still the law of the land, and so when we're dealing with the rising cost of health care, that's the law of the land. But let me..."
Testimony BARRAGÁN, NANETTE DIAZ
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U....
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"why when we get data like this, we don't have Congress making sure we're investing in programs like this to save money. It's really frustrating to see that the Medicaid cuts are going to result in more people being on wait lists and less people getting access to care. My mother is in that program. She had to wait six months to get into it, and we've seen the big difference. Mr. Pollack, I want to ask you, in 2021, Sutter Health, the largest hospital system in Northern California, settled a..."
Testimony BRAD CARSON
Hearings to examine platform power as section 230 turns 30.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"governs an emerging industry rather than how that governance would occur. Enacted when the Internet was still in its infancy, Section 230's consequences have proven extremely difficult to correct once the industry matured. In practice, the very first meta-law on technology often becomes the last major law because it determines who has the power to resist future corrections. I should be clear that Section 230 should not be interpreted to immunize the provider of a generative AI system for harms..."
Testimony SESSIONS, PETE
“Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service: The Financial Future Under Post...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 17, 2026
"The gentleman yields back his time. Thank you. And I will very succinctly tell the gentleman, and he's heard me say this many times, I believe us working together can accomplish this. And I'm talking about the Postal Service, I'm talking about some of their vendors and people back and forth. I think the system is better when it works together. I think the system is better when it views each other as complementary to that system. I think that there are people that do certain things out of their..."
Testimony ESTES, RON
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"costs. In sharp contrast, under President Trump, the IRS has cut roughly $2 billion from its 2025 IT budget without operational disruptions, just singling out how bloated the prior spending has become. Can you walk us through the process for retiring these decades-old legacy systems, and how are you prioritizing modernizing systems so that the biggest risks and most taxpayer-visible systems are addressed first? Well, thank you very much for being"
Testimony FRANK BISIGNANO
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"I've had the benefit of spending a fair amount of my career overseeing financial services technology. I've spent a lot of time converting systems. I could honestly say, and my family would attest to it, I never had a three-day weekend, because back in the day, three-day weekends were times to convert systems and retire systems. I will tell you, our technology leadership, our CIO is very, very strong. We've moved from this concept of modernizing to transformation, because modernizing will just..."
Testimony HERN, KEVIN
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Would you be willing, your team, to look into how the IRS can work with us on this and on tax treatment of this practice? It's one thing to participate in our court system. It's another thing to abuse our court system by outside funds that manipulate the system, create partnerships and other forward derivatives to take this on as a capital tax situation when it should be ordinary"
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
"Thank you. Thank you, Senator Marshall. My dream for this role is, first and foremost, to help nudge, push, inspire our healthcare system towards focusing on root causes and the reasons why we're getting sick, moving towards a real healthcare system and not just a reactive sick care system, which is, of course, also going to lower costs monumentally and unburden, I think, American taxpayers and doctors. I want to see affordable, accessible, real, nutritious food for all Americans because we..."
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
"Things like dementia, cancer, chronic liver disease, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, heart disease, stroke, et cetera. And so this is the systems biology approach that I'm talking about, that our health care system is not currently incentivized to look at the body as a whole system. We have over 100 medical and surgical subspecialties, and they are incentivized to look at one small part of their body. We need to bust that open, look at the body as a system. Take the latest research on this..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
“From Source to Tap: A Hearing to Examine Challenges and Opportunities...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"In fact, over $50 billion are spent by the public every year on bottled water. That money could be better spent, we believe, on fixing our water infrastructure rather than on purchasing bottled water. We also think that there's a real risk here of moving towards a two-tiered drinking water system where large systems have higher quality water and small systems that are struggling have lower quality"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
“From Source to Tap: A Hearing to Examine Challenges and Opportunities...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
"There's hopefully some destruction techniques that will come out soon that will benefit that. But these small systems cannot afford to remove PFAS, the, like the large systems. It's expensive for the large systems as well, but it's a financial burden that we pass along to got to spread"
Testimony SPEAKER_08
Hearings to examine the future of self-driving cars.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Feb 4, 2026
"Yes, Senator. The list is quite long, so I'll try not to belabor everyone here. But I've worked on systems related to crash safety, occupant restraints, autonomous driving systems, driver's assistance systems, automatic emergency braking, and all of them have had some impact on saving lives. Yeah, if you follow the number of deaths on American roads, we've made great strides as an industry since the 70s up until about 2005, where we've sort of leveled off between 35,000 and 40,000 deaths a..."
Testimony PERRY, SCOTT
“Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"my new fire suppression system was going to cost me $250. That's what the people in Harrisburg testified to. But that wasn't what I was going to be charged if I had to put it in now. I fought that, and we fought that, and we won. Because, look, if you want a fire system look, if you want a fire system in your home, God bless you, then put one in. If you can afford it, put one in. But my mom didn't start out with a fire suppression system. We had a potbelly stove that my brother and I cut wood..."
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversi...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"Sir, we are going to maximize the resources available to us to ensure that the veterans get the care that they have earned, that they deserve, that they are eligible for under this program. And we intend to do so in a way that maximizes our efficiency, that we get the highest quality, lowest cost care. But we will reuse the resources that Congress has afforded to us to do so. So, number one, this year, we partnered a program where we are working with CMS on improper payments and overpayments...."
Testimony MFUME, KWEISI
“Curbing Federal Fraud: Examining Innovative Tools to Detect and Preve...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 13, 2026
"with fraudulent actors that humans often can't flag, certain applications that can't be processed correctly and that are paused and reviewed by a human before payments happen. Of course, as we all know and I think as we all agree, the use of any artificial intelligence systems with private data of Americans requires absolute caution, and fraud-fighting officials must receive proper training to ensure that these models are not trained on high-quality data that could be used in the wrong way. An..."
Testimony PAUL, RAND
Oversight hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's big bank welfare p...
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Dec 11, 2025
"Going back to the issue of the money supply tripling, and it's always fascinated me. I know it's not arithmetic. It isn't exactly you don't triple it and have a third, you know, prices go up as tripled. And some of that you could argue that the IRB is if you're going to have massive inflation is a useful tool. But the opposite argument of that is if you have this useful tool, you can have a lot of inflation. It's a way to make inflation not so bad when you're going to pump tons of money into..."
Testimony CRUZ, TED
Hearings to examine America's communications networks.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Dec 2, 2025
"but much work remains. Our efforts show that success is possible. With full funding now secured, the RIP and Replace program is removing the remaining Huawei and ZTE equipment from our networks. GPS offers another example. When threats to our positioning and timing capabilities were identified, we acted decisively by passing the National Timing Resilience and Security Act to establish backup systems. Now, alternative and complementary positioning, navigation, and timing systems are in..."
Testimony JAMIL JAFFER
Hearings to examine America's communications networks.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Dec 2, 2025
"able to eventually find them, but it took us too long. We now have assessed that they were in those systems or were targeting those systems since at least 2021, or were at least going after them. Now, we don't know when they got in. The other real problem is that once they got in, they're burrowed so deep, we're not sure whether we can or have gotten them all out completely. They may still very well be in our systems. At least one provider suggested they've successfully removed the actors they..."
Testimony CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
Hearings to examine how shutdowns threaten air safety, travel, and the...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"bill to get a good head start on that. Do you think the testimony or the impacts on our air service and our aviation systems, if we had that system fully operational, the new system that we want, would there be any difference in the conversation we're having today? And I guess"
Testimony DELEEUW
Hearings to examine the nominations of John DeLeeuw, of Texas, Richard...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 6, 2025
"You know, American Airlines has equipped many of our aircraft with the ADS-B-in technology. We have been using that, and we've been trying the system out. We've worked well with the air traffic controllers in a certain center. At first, everybody's a little bit skeptical, but over the time now, I would have to say that as we've looked through it and we've, you know, tried the system out and we've worked with it, both pilots and the controllers like the system. It is going to improve"
Testimony CHRIS ROCHELEAU
Budget Hearing – Federal Aviation Administration
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 4, 2025
"will ensure longstanding stability and the operational efficiency needed to both support existing operations, future needs, and to meet ever-evolving cybersecurity and resiliency requirements. The President's budget also requests $450 million to initiate the radar replacement program, a multi-year effort to replace the FAA's aging radar systems. The FAA owns and operates hundreds of radar systems that are essential detection and monitoring tools for air traffic controllers. These critical..."
Testimony SPEAKER_05
Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environmen...
house Armed Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"The way that we look at closing the gap is not, as you talk about, programs of record, years of writing requirements, years of acquisition, years in putting these systems in place. Listen, I'm not against exquisite systems, but you're not going to field exquisite systems anytime soon. The question is, how can we take what is an asymmetric advantage, with us being the best creators and innovators on the earth, with us building expendable and attritable systems at the same pace that we see..."
Testimony GEN. JOHN "JACK" M. KEANE
Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environmen...
house Armed Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025
"Much as Dr. Carlin just spoke of, I totally agree. That is kind of where we are now. And so that led to the development of multiple rocket launch systems, the Apache helicopter, the Abrams tank, Bradley fighting vehicles, and air defense systems. Abrams tank, Bradley fighting vehicles, and air defense systems. And they put their money on that. And then we did something else. We exercised right in front of them every two years in something we called reforger. So we achieved credible deterrence...."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
KEITH SONDERLING "I think it makes a lot of sense. Our systems at the Department of Labor are more sophisticated based on prior reports and implementing those recommendations than the Department of Education system. They're on a legacy G5 system. We use grant solutions, which is the same system that we owe a title funds are distributed both from the labor side and from the education side to the same states. And from an efficiency standpoint from the states who take this money, they're used to having to go to education and"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Supreme Court of the United States.
senate Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE AMY CONEY BARRETT "We are on a different computer system than the lower courts, and I know the lower courts are in desperate need of upgrading their computer systems, and they have been really attacked, and I think in large part it's because these systems are so outdated, and so I know that in their budget request is additional monies to try to improve the cybersecurity of their systems. Because we're on a different system, we don't share the same informational systems, our cybersecurity operates just differently. So I'm not sure, I'm not the cybersecurity expert, and we can have staff follow up with you, but..."
Hearing Hearings to examine improving safety across the National Airspace System.
senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation · Jun 23, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MR. CHRISTOPHER SUNUNU "That is not what is happening around DCA. That is not what is happening around Seattle. It's not what's happening around any of our commercial airports here in the U.S. So it does nothing but help the system to make sure that every piece of equipment in the air is accounted for from a technology standpoint so that the system is – I mean, the national aviation system is effectively a telecommunications system at its core, right? Well, what's the point of that if someone isn't listening or someone isn't talking? So the technology needs to be"
Hearing Hearings to examine worldwide threats; to be immediately followed by a closed session in SH-219.
senate Intelligence (Select) Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAMES ADAMS "Chairman Cotton, thank you for that question. I have to say that the arrow system and the iron dome system are critical defensive systems that prevent adversary power projection from impacting the targets and the friendly areas in Israel. The arrow system itself is the high altitude primarily against MRBMs, and it's proven to be very, very effective against those systems. The iron dome is more of a closer-in system, protecting against rockets and things of that nature. But the combination of those two with U.S. systems creates a shield to prevent those attacks from the Iranians impacting key..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act to modify a provision relating to the extension of certain dates for the...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCOTT CAMERON "S-3573, the Ammit Litigation Settlement Act amendments would allow parties to extend the statutory deadline for completion of the Pohockee Basin Regional Water System. regional water system. This will allow the department to continue working closely with our Pueblo state and county partners to ensure the best use of the remaining federal funding for construction of the regional water system. The department is pleased to"
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Justice
house Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Jun 2, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MARCO RUBIO "ability to deploy and quickly provide the funding for that, more of a sort of an acute event as opposed to a chronic one, is better than it used to be. We are responding much faster than it was in the traditional system. And the more legacy projects, I think what they'll find over time is once this becomes systemized here and there, they'll become more familiar with our systems, and they'll find that certainty that they need in terms of planning and so forth. But I would just say we'll continue to communicate with your offices on specific programs, as we've done throughout the year, when..."
Hearing Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U.S. Provider Landscape
house Health Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GUTHRIE, BRETT "here. One, people have to afford health care. That's absolutely true, and I disagree with my friend from Colorado that the answer to this is a single-payer system. Then you don't get, I don't think you can look at a system that delivers quality health care that has that system. I will also say that the expense in the health care system, the Affordable Care Act, is still the law of the land, and so when we're dealing with the rising cost of health care, that's the law of the land. But let me tell you why we're here, and I'm going to talk about my favorite"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Casey Means, of California, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Feb 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CASEY MEANS, MD "Thank you. Thank you, Senator Marshall. My dream for this role is, first and foremost, to help nudge, push, inspire our healthcare system towards focusing on root causes and the reasons why we're getting sick, moving towards a real healthcare system and not just a reactive sick care system, which is, of course, also going to lower costs monumentally and unburden, I think, American taxpayers and doctors. I want to see affordable, accessible, real, nutritious food for all Americans because we know that nutrition and food is one of the key, most important drivers of chronic illness or of health...."
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 · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_05 "In fact, over $50 billion are spent by the public every year on bottled water. That money could be better spent, we believe, on fixing our water infrastructure rather than on purchasing bottled water. We also think that there's a real risk here of moving towards a two-tiered drinking water system where large systems have higher quality water and small systems that are struggling have lower quality"
Hearing Hearings to examine America's communications networks.
senate Communication, Media, and Broadband · Dec 2, 2025 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CRUZ, TED "but much work remains. Our efforts show that success is possible. With full funding now secured, the RIP and Replace program is removing the remaining Huawei and ZTE equipment from our networks. GPS offers another example. When threats to our positioning and timing capabilities were identified, we acted decisively by passing the National Timing Resilience and Security Act to establish backup systems. Now, alternative and complementary positioning, navigation, and timing systems are in development, with NTIA recently identifying at least 50 companies attempting to increase our resilience and..."
Hearing Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environment
house Armed Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_05 "The way that we look at closing the gap is not, as you talk about, programs of record, years of writing requirements, years of acquisition, years in putting these systems in place. Listen, I'm not against exquisite systems, but you're not going to field exquisite systems anytime soon. The question is, how can we take what is an asymmetric advantage, with us being the best creators and innovators on the earth, with us building expendable and attritable systems at the same pace that we see happening elsewhere in places like Ukraine, how do we close"
Hearing Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026 · Transcript
MARSHALL, ROGER "Coach thank you so much and welcome to our witnesses today I'm happy to be here to celebrate school choice week I think coach will appreciate this story my college track coach told me the Welcome to our witnesses today. I'm happy to be here to celebrate school choice week. first day of track practice everyone's bragging how great of athletes they were in high school he said don't tell me show me and I think the Republican Party has shown our support for this school choice and the working family tax cuts bill we have a $1,700 tax credit for scholarships for school choice we've increased in the..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
CALVERT, KEN "prioritize critical modernization efforts Numerous next-generation weapon systems are advancing through various stages of development including sixth-generation air dominance platforms hypersonic weapons and unmanned systems priority investments also include aggressive shipbuilding aircraft procurement integrated command and control systems Long-range fires air and missile defense advanced autonomous systems and enhanced counter drone systems Among the most critical are the components of the nuclear triad all undergoing concurrent upgrade and replacement The land sea and air strategic forces..."
Hearing Delivering Quality and Modern Healthcare to Michigan's Veterans and Servicemembers
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jun 12, 2026 · Transcript
BARRETT, TOM "There's been allegations that there's been a resistance within VA to embrace community care as a, as a option for veterans by maybe slowing down the implementation or things of that sort. Do you feel that there is a resistance within VA to make community care scheduling as easy VA to make community care scheduling as easy as possible, or is there a reluctance within the VA to maybe skew more veterans toward the internal VA care? Yeah, and with 36 now layered systems on there, it begins to question, okay, what, like, at what point are we having too many systems interface with one another,..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
BENNET, MICHAEL F. "The ranking member mentioned the situation in Florida, and I think you should say it again. The states that are correcting their error rates are making matters worse for them because of the way this system was designed. So if you are interested in, and I'm sure everybody here is, in creating a set of incentives that actually will lead to better results, that will allow us to attack fraud and abuse and waste in these systems, that is not the system that we have today. That's the opposite of the system we have today, because it was designed not to make the system better, but to get one vote to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine intelligent networks, focusing on powering artificial intelligence and transforming communications.
senate Communication, Media, and Broadband · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript
CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE "Permitting is the single largest roadblock. Most people think of permitting reform in terms of energy development or possibly transportation systems, but the communication systems and the AI systems are as important and maybe in some cases, as you're making the case today, more important to be able to move quickly and swiftly. You probably know I am the chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee. We have been in active negotiations with the Energy and Natural Resources Committee at the committee chair and ranking member level for really months now to try to get to some of the..."
Hearing Business meeting to markup S.1759, to allow for the operation of civil supersonic flight in the national airspace system under certain conditions,...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
DUCKWORTH, TAMMY "The amendment is technical and 100% in support of aligning with the connected vehicle rule. It affords industry regulatory certainty and recognizes the ongoing efforts to onshore production. And the rule states, BIS also recognized, and I quote, BIS also recognizes that the traditional battery management system does not have its own external wireless data link, which is why it rejects commenters' recommendations to include BMS. And if an infotainment module or a battery management system included in a cellular module for its own wireless communications, those modules should be considered..."
Hearing Charting a New Course: Countering China's Dominance in Global Shipbuilding
house East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
DR. MATTHEW FUNAIOLE "I'll just quickly echo that, you know, there, you can look at what China's done and say, is that a model that works for the U.S.? And I agree. It's not a model that works for the U.S. We have other strengths to lean on. We've talked a lot about allies and partners and how that could be part of the solution. But one area that we haven't talked really about is, we've focused on the hardware side of it, but there's a whole software component to this as well. So the onboard systems, the navigation systems, increasingly autonomous systems are going to be important to the shipbuilding industry...."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for hospital and insurer price transparency, S.4189, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W. "totally dark, opaque system. A Journal of American Medical Association has estimated that about 25% of our health care spend is on administrative processes, pricing failures, waste, inefficiency. I mean even assuming 10% of that is legitimate administrative costs, it provides the opportunity for hundreds of billions of dollars of savings. The gaming and confusion in our health care system drives people crazy and we can put a stop to it. The lack of transparency in our health care system is the proverbial elephant in the room. It's almost unique among other services and goods that Americans..."
Hearing “False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
MR. AMOL SINHA "Thank you for the question, Ranking Member Crockett. Look, I think every legal system, the criminal legal system, the immigration system is rife with racial injustice. We are seeing it play out in the streets every single"
Hearing States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence
house Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
HILL, J. FRENCH "this in other states. Just this week, this two-week section, Cyber Shield is underway right now at Camp Robinson in Little Rock. 1,100 people, 44 states, 23 countries, and everyone there is geared toward tactical action-taking against a cyber threat, state cyber actor, and I think that this training should be expanded, and one of the things I see is that we don't have any tabletop exercises on an operational attack to a civilian location. It can be Walmart. It doesn't have to be a water system. Everything we're practicing, water system, water system, water system, we're just, our brains are..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Jules Hurst III, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary (Comptroller), Richard O'Malley, of Wisconsin, to be a...
senate Armed Services Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "The system is complex, and I have not been briefed on the details, but I do know that the administration and that the program manager on that effort is laser-focused on ensuring that we do that affordably, and if confirmed, I will work closely with the program manager to ensure that the space elements of that architecture are scalable and can be delivered at an affordable cost. Senator Muera, how vital these systems are, and if confirmed, I would look forward to working with you to ensure that we have the right sensing systems and response systems to protect our homeland. Senator, the..."
Hearing updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; General Services Administration Capital Investment and Leasing Program...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
MAST, BRIAN J. "I also want to thank for the work on the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway, one of the most important inland navigation routes in the country, the Jupiter Inlet. We are doing an examination to study should the Jupiter Inlet be a part of that intercoastal waterway system. It is a huge system for marine navigation across our area and I want to thank the committee for working on a provision to examine adding that to the intercoastal waterway system as well. Very important for my community and I thank the committee for the work on it. Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like..."
Hearing PACT Act Implementation: Modernizing VA Disability Claims Through Effective Technology
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Jul 13, 2026 · Transcript
LUTTRELL, MORGAN "Thank you all for being here today. So in the build-out of the IT system or the modernization of the IT system where all of the veteran's data is moving through the system trying to get the benefits kind of under control but processed completely, Mr. Herbert, Dr. Thomas, you mentioned quality of data, and the way that I understand it, which is a great point, the way that I understand when a veteran's information enters into the system, it has to go through a process where the"
Hearing China’s Economic Espionage and Subnational Influence in the United States
house Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
MOOLENAAR, JOHN R. "Pastor Bob Fu in Texas has been a victim of transnational oppression. There was even a hearing of Texas's equivalent committee of your committee. So Texas had a committee on foreign adversary threats. That hearing was shut down by a cyber attack in September of 2024. This is not normal advocacy. It is a pressure campaign from a non-democratic actor acting within our democratic system. It happens across the country, although I highlight just the examples of Nebraska and Texas today. Our openness is a strength. So is our federalist system. But our open system cannot endure endless attacks and..."
Hearing H.R. 8476, "No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026"; H.R. 4795, "Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2025"; H.R. 9203, "Student...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
FINE, RANDY "years. In 2025, all we needed was a new president. The whataboutism about other groups and other no one should be discriminated against on college campuses. But what is clear is what is taking place every single day in our K-12 system, in our university system, in our community college system is unique to Jewish students. And for those who are concerned that what I am proposing may be unconstitutional, I would issue the same warning I issued to those in Florida seven years ago. When you say you will treat antisemitism the same way you treat"
Hearing “Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
STANSBURY, MELANIE A. "Yeah, okay. This is not a joke, my friend. Let's get real here. There is actual waste, fraud, and abuse in this system. It's criminal activity. It's activity that is just like every single financial system out there. There are bad people who take advantage of financial systems. But the vast majority of beneficiaries of this program are seniors, children, and people living with disabilities. And when you make it harder for them to access benefits, then it means that they go hungry. They skip meals. They don't have access to food. They go to our food banks, who are already struggling because of..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Markup on Various Measures
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
MORELLE, JOSEPH D. "You could have Parkinson's disease. You could have other things that would affect your signature. But the system is secure, and the system works. I've never seen anyone in New York, neighbors or otherwise, complain about the voter ID system that we have, and I've never heard anyone complain that someone voted erroneously because of it. The bill we're considering today would end this secure voter identification system. In New York, and in Arizona, and many other states, the bill not only bars signature"
Hearing "To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, and Conservation Programs"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "just saying how thankful we are that we have a great team. I think the day that I was nominated, Ag Media asked me, what is your priority as the undersecretary? If you make it through confirmation, and ultimately I did. But that very first day, I said, we need to modernize our delivery systems. We need to modernize our IT systems. We have antiquated systems—I alluded to it in my opening testimony—that are costing taxpayers a lot of money and don't work very well. And I am happy to say that we are well on our way to doing that. And in that IT modernization, we also are able to develop tools..."
Hearing Future of Payments: Promoting Innovation and Fair Markets
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
TLAIB, RASHIDA "Well, if our moms were listening, how would we explain FedNow? Okay. Well, let's talk about the model that I'm trying to figure out why the United States has it. So how does the domestic U.S. payment system compare to other countries in terms of consumer protection speed and expense? Is it not that the U.S. system comparably slow and costly? We've been talking about this, that how slow and costly it is. It's about the Brazil in 2020. You know, Brazil's central bank introduced instant payments system called PICS. So I wanted a little bit for you to talk about that, because we have FedNow,..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of mental or physical disability in cases of organ transplants,...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
HAWLEY, JOSH "support. Mr. Chairman. Senator Hawley. Mr. Chairman, I just, I just want to add my voice in support of this legislation, and I want to thank Senator Hassan for her leadership on this. Prescription drugs are just too expensive. I mean, that's the bottom line. They are way too expensive for every family and every individual in this country, and one of the reasons they're too expensive is that the Big Pharma companies game the system. They tell the FDA one thing, and then they tell the Patent Office something else, and they keep that disparity to themselves until it comes time for a piece of..."
Hearing Task Force on Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economic Prosperity: Examining the Structure of the Federal Reserve System
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 12, 2026 · Transcript
VARGAS, JUAN "I do want to ask this. So obviously there's been a couple of failures in the past. And so we're here today with this system. It seems to have held up. It seems to have been quite resilient, but the situation has changed. I mean, we're talking about data, you know, talking about information, but information is very different today than it was in 1913. And in fact, with the AI revolution that's beginning, I think that is going to be very different once again. What is it in this structure that will allow it to continue to be robust and necessary? Now, I think the system works and I like the way..."
Hearing "Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency."
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
LANGWORTHY, NICHOLAS A. "Ms. Tripoli, how important is that type of transparency for patients trying to make informed decisions about their care and their finances? Thank you. And I think that's exactly why this matters. When prices remain hidden throughout the system, no matter which leg of the stool within our health care system they are, it becomes much harder to understand who is being paid for what services and at what costs. And when health care costs go up, every part of the system seems to blame a different leg of the stool. In hospitals, they point to insurers, insurers point to hospitals, PBMs point to..."
Hearing Hearings to examine how technological advances are driving transportation innovation.
senate Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "Across the country, technology applications are improving safety. From smart signals and pedestrian detection systems, to smart parking systems, we are delivering a 40 percent reduction in near-miss conflicts at intersections, to digital alerting systems in Illinois, increasing driver reaction distance and reducing harsh braking, to real-time detection technology in Indiana, keeping workers safe in work zones. The impact on safety is"
Hearing “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience”
house Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
MR. JACK CABLE "and I think we have to be thinking bigger, right, about how we can enable these large-scale remediation campaigns, refactoring software systems, right? It will take time and money, but it is also the sort of thing that AI systems can help us with. So I think those are the sort of actions, as well as preventing vulnerabilities at scale, as new software is being built with AI coding tools that are ultimately necessary and will allow us to upscale the security of our systems. I would just agree with that, in that we've already seen adversaries exploiting these systems through campaigns like Volt..."
Hearing Committee on House Administration Full Committee Hearing, "“Oversight of the Architect of the Capitol: Addressing Past Lessons, Present Projects,...
house Committee on House Administration · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
MR. THOMAS AUSTIN "And I'm committed to engaging with them constantly as I do as a member of the Capitol Police Board, as you pointed out, but also in my role just as the architect. They are a key stakeholder. Sure. So, the way we define catastrophic system failure, Councilman Morelle, is any failure of one of the building's systems, specifically the mechanical, electrical, or plumbing systems that would cause part or all of the building to become unusable for the function it was intended, in this case, the operations of Congress. I think probably the easiest way to describe a failure that happened just this..."
Hearing Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
SEAN DUFFY "traffic snares. I'm going to try to move through this quickly, but I want to talk about what we're doing collaboratively with states to finally make transit safe and clean and dependable. I'm a Republican, and I recognize that our states do not work, not our states, our cities don't work if we don't have good transit systems. But I do think we should expect from those systems that they are clean, that they're safe, that people want to ride them. You should have your 16-year-old daughter should be able to take the subway or the transit system at 7 o'clock at night on a Saturday. And if we..."
Hearing H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_37 "following the input and thousands of policy requests we received not only from members of this committee but from the entire House of Representatives. This year is an inflection point in our nation's history as we take stock of the previous 250 years of American history and, more importantly, imagine what the next 250 years are going to have in store for us. Much like the America 250 celebration this year, the bill is about moving forward and not moving backwards. Americans rely every day on the investments made by the previous generations, whether that's the rail system of the 19th century,..."
Hearing "Bad Medicine: Politics, Unions, and Antisemitism in Health Care"
house Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
DESAULNIER, MARK "Thanks. I want to ask that question in the context of Congressman Frank because of his quote is that prejudice is based on ignorance. So let's talk a little bit about, I'd like to ask you a question of the effect of the actions of H.R. 1 on what is already a pretty discriminatory biased health care system for all of the greatness of the American health care system, and I agree with everything everyone said about as a consumer of health care in my life, particularly recently, we want the best and the brightest working as a team when you go into that emergency room. So let's talk about the..."
Hearing Oversight hearing titled “The Federal Reclamation Program’s Next Century”
house Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
JENNIFER PATRICK "We have been putting Band-Aids on it. We've been trying our best. The irrigators are on the hook for 75% of the cost of that system. And so, when you're looking at it, they're putting their money into their on-farm infrastructure versus putting it into the system. And so, it's kind of a very tough balance with a 100-year-old system. Normally, we have about two acre feet of water. We had about a quarter of an irrigation that year. And so, the impacts to farms was, you know, we're predominantly hay up there. But it was one"
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
FLETCHER, LIZZIE "So the experts have warned us that these chaotic staffing cuts are a direct threat to the safety of our food system. And we should have bipartisan agreement on that, too. Everybody in here is talking about how important it is that we make sure the system works. Well, the system doesn't work if you take out all of the people who do the work. And so we cannot have a safe and healthy food system if there isn't enough staff at FDA to ensure that the agency can perform its essential function of regulating our food supply. And so while many of these bills are important, I am concerned that even if..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_07 "You are moving those programs at an unknown cost to the Department of onto a grant system administered by yet another agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, a grant system that has experienced significant technical difficulties and issues last year that created delays for programs like Head Start and community health centers, a system the Department of Health and Human Services has described itself as antiquated. This is a waste of taxpayer resources that creates additional complexity and significant risks for our states and schools, particularly rural"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Education.
senate Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Apr 28, 2026 · Transcript
BALDWIN, TAMMY "You are moving those programs at an unknown cost to the Department of onto a grant system administered by yet another agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, a grant system that has experienced significant technical difficulties and issues last year that created delays for programs like Head Start and community health centers, a system the Department of Health and Human Services has described itself as antiquated. This is a waste of taxpayer resources that creates additional complexity and significant risks for our states and schools, particularly rural"
Hearing Hearings to examine Department of Defense missile defense activities in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2027 and the...
senate Strategic Forces Subcommittee · Apr 27, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "for this new generation of capabilities, what we're calling Missile Defense System Next, and it will continue to operate as the system of systems integrator for the homeland defense architecture developed and delivered by the Office of the Golden Dome for"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Energy.
senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "made sure that we're sending that strong signal because that was an area we had we were left with you know massive permitting backlogs the permitting backlog on oil and drilling permits was was of of almost in a single year was like probate sized I mean we had 5,600 unprocessed drilling permits we've through 91% of that backlog part of that's me holding on the staff the other part is systems as IT systems we have to support our team members with better IT systems these processes take too long they're too manual and we've hired some really great IP people and the priority projects in IT have..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Treasury.
senate Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "made sure that we're sending that strong signal because that was an area we had we were left with you know massive permitting backlogs the permitting backlog on oil and drilling permits was was of of almost in a single year was like probate sized I mean we had 5,600 unprocessed drilling permits we've through 91% of that backlog part of that's me holding on the staff the other part is systems as IT systems we have to support our team members with better IT systems these processes take too long they're too manual and we've hired some really great IP people and the priority projects in IT have..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.465, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reform the interconnection queue process for the prioritization...
senate Energy Subcommittee · Apr 15, 2026 · Transcript
SENATOR PETER WELCH (D-VT) "It's like high electricity bills are tough on whoever it is we represent. And Senator Gallego, you were talking about we really have to modernize our transmission system, but the bill that Senator McCormick and I are promoting says, let's take the system and I are promoting says let's take the system we have and enhance it through technology. There's a lot more electrons that can flow through what we"
Hearing Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school and beyond.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
COLLIS TEMPLE JR. "in the last couple of years have been put in a position of being able to retain some of this money, short-lived money, because majority of those guys probably won't play in the NBA. That's another really, really narrow window to be able to get into that NBA model and have a sustained earning capacity for four, five, eight, ten years. Now, so I'm, from my perspective, we absolutely have to design some system and the system hadn't been designed properly by the NCAA, so we have to figure out another way to set up these guardrails and put a system that's going to be effective to share, do profit..."
Hearing “Oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office”
house Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "A decision like that doesn't just drag the USPTO into covering up for a slush fund that may violate both the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses. It's bad for the integrity of our fairness and objectivity of our system. It begins to fall apart. So I'm not just troubled that you may be violating the basic trademark rules. I'm troubled that in violating the rules to help Donald Trump, you may be acting as a political operative in a way that will destroy our neutral system for regulating source-identifying trademark rights. The trademark system is designed to protect everyone. If applicants..."
Hearing Hearings to examine arms control and transforming international security functions at the State Department.
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Mar 24, 2026 · Transcript
THOMAS G. DINANNO "So again, I don't want to talk too much more about the Russian capability in open forum, but certainly the exotic systems, the underwater system, the Poseidon, the Burevestnik, which is their nuclear-powered cruise missile, these are all systems that fall outside of New START, to your point, that we need to have a direct conversation with the Russians, and I'm sure we will. Thank"
Hearing Hearings to examine the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization...
senate Armed Services Committee · Mar 19, 2026 · Transcript
COMMANDER GREGORY GUILLOT "I am seeing immediate improvement. We can see at longer ranges with more fidelity, and also in a layered approach where one phenomena or one system is no longer responsible solely to detect. We have backup systems as well. I also note, because of the partnership with the Golden Dome for America program office, many of the domain awareness systems that we need for improved NORAD and NORTHCOM detection also serve the purpose of Golden Dome, and so we are really getting two or three for one with many of these systems that are either in development now or being implemented now or will be..."
Hearing Hearings to examine platform power as section 230 turns 30.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
BRAD CARSON "governs an emerging industry rather than how that governance would occur. Enacted when the Internet was still in its infancy, Section 230's consequences have proven extremely difficult to correct once the industry matured. In practice, the very first meta-law on technology often becomes the last major law because it determines who has the power to resist future corrections. I should be clear that Section 230 should not be interpreted to immunize the provider of a generative AI system for harms caused by system outputs. Section 230 protects platforms from liability for content, as the statute..."
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 "The gentleman yields back his time. Thank you. And I will very succinctly tell the gentleman, and he's heard me say this many times, I believe us working together can accomplish this. And I'm talking about the Postal Service, I'm talking about some of their vendors and people back and forth. I think the system is better when it works together. I think the system is better when it views each other as complementary to that system. I think that there are people that do certain things out of their own either best interest, or that's the way their route, and so to speak, went, that there are..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the future of self-driving cars.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Feb 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "Yes, Senator. The list is quite long, so I'll try not to belabor everyone here. But I've worked on systems related to crash safety, occupant restraints, autonomous driving systems, driver's assistance systems, automatic emergency braking, and all of them have had some impact on saving lives. Yeah, if you follow the number of deaths on American roads, we've made great strides as an industry since the 70s up until about 2005, where we've sort of leveled off between 35,000 and 40,000 deaths a year. And it's really tragic, to be"
Hearing “Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream”
house Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
PERRY, SCOTT "my new fire suppression system was going to cost me $250. That's what the people in Harrisburg testified to. But that wasn't what I was going to be charged if I had to put it in now. I fought that, and we fought that, and we won. Because, look, if you want a fire system look, if you want a fire system in your home, God bless you, then put one in. If you can afford it, put one in. But my mom didn't start out with a fire suppression system. We had a potbelly stove that my brother and I cut wood in and stuck it in that potbelly stove to keep warm. Ladies and gentlemen, over the course of my..."
Hearing Community Care Network Next Generation: One Trillion Dollars of Oversight
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "Sir, we are going to maximize the resources available to us to ensure that the veterans get the care that they have earned, that they deserve, that they are eligible for under this program. And we intend to do so in a way that maximizes our efficiency, that we get the highest quality, lowest cost care. But we will reuse the resources that Congress has afforded to us to do so. So, number one, this year, we partnered a program where we are working with CMS on improper payments and overpayments. And so, for the first time, VA has partnered with CMS on payment because we have got veterans who..."
Hearing “Curbing Federal Fraud: Examining Innovative Tools to Detect and Prevent Fraud in Federal Programs”
house Government Operations Subcommittee · Jan 13, 2026 · Transcript
MFUME, KWEISI "with fraudulent actors that humans often can't flag, certain applications that can't be processed correctly and that are paused and reviewed by a human before payments happen. Of course, as we all know and I think as we all agree, the use of any artificial intelligence systems with private data of Americans requires absolute caution, and fraud-fighting officials must receive proper training to ensure that these models are not trained on high-quality data that could be used in the wrong way. An unreliable AI system or an AI system without a skilled workforce to train and use it would be worse..."
Hearing Oversight hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's big bank welfare program, focusing on the IORB regime.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Dec 11, 2025 · Transcript
PAUL, RAND "Going back to the issue of the money supply tripling, and it's always fascinated me. I know it's not arithmetic. It isn't exactly you don't triple it and have a third, you know, prices go up as tripled. And some of that you could argue that the IRB is if you're going to have massive inflation is a useful tool. But the opposite argument of that is if you have this useful tool, you can have a lot of inflation. It's a way to make inflation not so bad when you're going to pump tons of money into the system. But the counterargument would be maybe you shouldn't be pumping tons of money into the..."
Hearing Hearings to examine how shutdowns threaten air safety, travel, and the economy.
senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript
CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE "bill to get a good head start on that. Do you think the testimony or the impacts on our air service and our aviation systems, if we had that system fully operational, the new system that we want, would there be any difference in the conversation we're having today? And I guess"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of John DeLeeuw, of Texas, Richard Kloster, of West Virginia, and Michelle A. Schultz, of Pennsylvania, each...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Nov 6, 2025 · Transcript
DELEEUW "You know, American Airlines has equipped many of our aircraft with the ADS-B-in technology. We have been using that, and we've been trying the system out. We've worked well with the air traffic controllers in a certain center. At first, everybody's a little bit skeptical, but over the time now, I would have to say that as we've looked through it and we've, you know, tried the system out and we've worked with it, both pilots and the controllers like the system. It is going to improve"
Hearing Budget Hearing – Federal Aviation Administration
house Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2025 · Transcript
CHRIS ROCHELEAU "will ensure longstanding stability and the operational efficiency needed to both support existing operations, future needs, and to meet ever-evolving cybersecurity and resiliency requirements. The President's budget also requests $450 million to initiate the radar replacement program, a multi-year effort to replace the FAA's aging radar systems. The FAA owns and operates hundreds of radar systems that are essential detection and monitoring tools for air traffic controllers. These critical systems are facing more frequent structural deficiencies and maintenance related issues as they get..."
Hearing Igniting America's Energy Future: The Promise and Progress of Fusion Power
house Energy Subcommittee · Sep 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Bob Mumgaard, Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Hearing The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 24, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Jerome H. Powell, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Hearing American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets: A Blueprint for the 21st Century
house Agriculture Committee · May 6, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Alex Miller, Hiro Systems
Hearing “Keeping the Lights On: Examining the State of Regional Grid Reliability.”
house Energy Subcommittee · Mar 25, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Richard Dewey, New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)
Hearing The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Jerome Powell, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Hearing "Surveillance, Sabotage, and Strikes: Industry Perspectives on How Drone Warfare Abroad Is Transforming Threats at Home"
house Transportation and Maritime Security Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Michael Robbins, Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International
Hearing "FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024: Stakeholder Perspectives on Implementation One Year Later"
house Aviation Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Michael Robbins, Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International
Hearing Small UAS and Counter-Small UAS: Gaps, Requirements, and Projected Capabilities
house Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee · May 1, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Major General David Stewart, Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office
Hearing Field Hearing: Oversight field hearing titled “Examining 50 years of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act in Indian Country.”
house Natural Resources Committee · Apr 4, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Mark Rogers, Osage Nation Health System
Hearing Health at Your Fingertips: Harnessing the Power of Digital Health Data
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Jackie Gerhart, Epic Systems
Committee Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security Subcommittee
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee