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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 · 13 transcript matches
HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD "Before the IDEA, children like my son were stigmatized, stereotyped, institutionalized. And the point of the IDEA is to make sure that all children, kids with disabilities, without disabilities, get the kind of education where their needs are individually met. And while I am a strong supporter of community colleges and CTEs, kids should have a choice about higher education, vocational education, the IDEA gives kids with disabilities the same platform, the same opportunity as kids without. without disabilities, get the kind of education where their needs are individually met. And while I am a..."
Hearing "Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, and Legal Abuses in America’s Schools"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
MCBATH, LUCY "I know it can be difficult and a thankless task, job, for what you're doing. But that isn't the reason why people stay in public education. You truly are dedicated to our children and our families. You do it for the kids. Our teachers, they do it for the kids. Our superintendents, they do it for the kids. Parapros, they do it for the kids, for the students and the families that have nowhere else to send their child to learn but their public school. For 10 years, I was a single mother working as a flight attendant on the weekends, while I homeschooled my son Jordan during the school week. It..."
Hearing “Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of American Youth Sports”
house Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
LINDA FLANAGAN "I implore you to confront the problems in youth sports and to create solutions that best serve the children who play them. Well, yeah, I think one of the most compelling reasons to support sports, to encourage them at every level, is that they keep kids off their phones in every—I don't know of a setting in athletics where kids are encouraged to run around with their phones. This is Jonathan Haidt, Lenore Skenazy, many others have spoken about how important it is, obviously, to get kids off their technology, and sports allow for that, in fact, enforce that. So to the extent that lower-income..."
Hearing Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
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 “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
GARCIA, ROBERT "U.S. citizens, right? We're talking about also families, U.S. citizen families, and kids who are United States citizens. Is that correct? Well, thank you. I want to just show this image here. This is an image of some kids, including, by the way, one of Liam Ramos' classmates. These are kids that are being held at U.S. detention centers and detention facilities. Now, Reverend Tolgaard, when children hear about thousands of kids being detained, reportedly almost 4,000, that must be terrifying. Is that"
Hearing Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriters, and performers in the digital age.
senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee · Dec 9, 2025 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
SPEAKER_11 "have the actual law in place. Since then, they made sure that they had a law. Even though our son was 17 years of age, we have to look at the... We allowed him to be online before that age, and what if we would have had these laws in place? It would have still made a difference, and even though we lost our only child, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to stand here and stand up for anybody else's kids. You all's kids are my kids, so I'm going to make sure that things get done. Well, God bless you for doing that. Yes. So, there's a number of things that I would like to say with that. First..."
Hearing H.R. 1048, the "DETERRENT Act"; H.R. 649, the "Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025"; H.R. 1069, the "PROTECT Our Kids Act"; H.R. 1005, the...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 12, 2025 · 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..."
Witness Dr. Jennifer Jacobs
Connect Our Kids · 1 hearing
Witness Lee Marshall
Kids to Love · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Tom Neltner
Unleaded Kids · 1 hearing
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
GARCIA, ROBERT "social services, and cash support for low-income families in Minnesota, New York, Colorado, Illinois, and my home state of California. Of course, we know these states have Democratic governors that Donald Trump wants to punish. And we should look at those consequences if we want to talk about fraud. In Minnesota, which we're talking about today, Donald Trump is removing child care funding for the entire state. That frozen funding provides child care for over 18,000 kids. These kids didn't commit fraud. So I want to know why they should be punished. Last night, he said he's withholding all,..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annual Report, focusing on a new day at the CFPB through reform.
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SCOTT, TIM "Can you discuss why an activist CFPB that regulates through enforcement or post or press releases or threats is harmful to consumers? Well, I have a couple of other questions for you, but I'm going to skip my questions. I think you made a really important point that I want to highlight, and then you can have time to comment if there's time left. But I will say without any question, as a kid that grew up in poverty in a single-parent household, the one thing I understand is that when people with good intentions try to limit access, the undetected consequence is higher prices for people living..."
Testimony MCBATH, LUCY
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"I know it can be difficult and a thankless task, job, for what you're doing. But that isn't the reason why people stay in public education. You truly are dedicated to our children and our families. You do it for the kids. Our teachers, they do it for the kids. Our superintendents, they do it for the kids. Parapros, they do it for the kids, for the students and the families that have nowhere else to send their child to learn but their public school. For 10 years, I was a single mother working as..."
Hearing Hearings to examine how social media verdicts demand federal action to protect kids online.
senate Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee · May 13, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing H.R. 7567 – Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026; H.R. 2616 – Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act; S. Con. Res. 33 – Setting...
house Rules Committee · Apr 27, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing "Who's Watching the Kids? How Employers, Innovators, and Parents are Solving America's Child Care Crunch"
house Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee · Jan 13, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing H.R. 1005 – Combating the Lies of Authoritarians in School Systems Act; H.R. 1069 – PROTECT Our Kids Act; H.R. 1049 – Transparency in Reporting of...
house Rules Committee · Dec 1, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_13 "I dealt with some trafficking, child trafficking, when I first got into Congress in 2013. And I actually stepped away from it because at some point it just starts wearing on you, and it's time to just kind of pass the baton because you get really jaded over it. When we stepped in here, we had 450,000 kids missing, 450,000 kids that were given to sponsors that weren't vetted. No home checks, no one was going by to see if they were where they were supposed to be, not even knowing if they were in their same state, not even to see if the sponsor was who they were at all. We've recovered 147,000,..."
Hearing Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SEAN DUFFY "I believe that either we have to invest in this academy and in these young people, or I don't want, I love that I have it and you have it on this committee, but if we're not going to make the investments, you got to shut it down. Maybe you got to give it to the Navy. And I don't want you to do that, but we can't let these kids, American men but we can't let these kids, American men and women in this"
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Health and Human Services.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_20 "Well, I would hope you take a leadership role in making it clear that we should get these ads which just entice kids or dick kids to really bad food off the air."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under Secretary,...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_10 "That would be Senator Marshall, sir. Thank you so much, Senator. I mean, it really is merging Wall Street and Main Street. This is an opportunity for every child under 18 to actually have a stake in the capitalism and the economic success of our country. We're seeing philanthropists like Michael Dell and others donating everything from stock to gifts to provide opportunity for these kids where they'll have a retirement account based on the private sector right out of the gates. We had a very successful launch. We're looking to make sure we get as many children signed up across the country...."
Testimony DR. AARON SPENCE
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"their needs, and put supports and resources in place to ensure that where they have needs, we're meeting those needs. Talking with our families, talking with our teachers about what resources our kids need, and making sure we put those in place so that we can continue to move the needle forward for our kids. Our goal is that our kids thrive. As we've talked about before, I truly believe the funding mechanisms that the federal government"
Testimony HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Before the IDEA, children like my son were stigmatized, stereotyped, institutionalized. And the point of the IDEA is to make sure that all children, kids with disabilities, without disabilities, get the kind of education where their needs are individually met. And while I am a strong supporter of community colleges and CTEs, kids should have a choice about higher education, vocational education, the IDEA gives kids with disabilities the same platform, the same opportunity as kids without...."
Testimony HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026
"Then I was a mayor, and you have 60 people you hire and their stats, governors, even more people. I'm getting probably up to 600 or 700 people I hired in those years. I have always looked for student-athletes, the kids, because that character-building includes how do you work with others? How do you create a team effort where you realize that what happens to you is less valuable than what happens to the group? I also look at kids that play in rock and roll bands or in theater, kids that have..."
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Hearings to examine platform power as section 230 turns 30.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"settings is a fantasy if you are a parent that is a fantasy you are not going to get access to your kids phone all the time they will the tech companies the platforms will work around whatever statutory framework we have and that's why we need a sort of there is no safe cigarette a point of view as it relates to kids who's as you as you're pointing out brains are and bodies are not fully developed so kids off social media app I don't I don't have any objection to empowering users but I do not..."
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Thank you. You touched on something that I think we all saw during the COVID crisis, that when schools closed down and kids are not in school, we saw a huge spike in gun violence and community violence that was impacting kids, either because they were unsupervised, not getting an education, or because they had too much time on their hands. Can you talk about what excluding kids from school could do to our communities? In particular, I'm a little surprised that this pro-crime policy is something..."
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"U.S. citizens, right? We're talking about also families, U.S. citizen families, and kids who are United States citizens. Is that correct? Well, thank you. I want to just show this image here. This is an image of some kids, including, by the way, one of Liam Ramos' classmates. These are kids that are being held at U.S. detention centers and detention facilities. Now, Reverend Tolgaard, when children hear about thousands of kids being detained, reportedly almost 4,000, that must be terrifying. Is..."
Testimony SPEAKER_42
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"That is correct. Kids like my own, kids like the kids in my church, are afraid that that could happen to their parents when they speak out. Thank you for your question. You, meaning all of us, the followers of"
Testimony HAWLEY, JOSH
Hearings to examine the nomination of Casey Means, of California, to b...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"He's a kid. A bright kid, great kid, but still a kid. Is it time to study the effects when it comes to mental health and wellness on these AI chatbot companions for minors? And"
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"social services, and cash support for low-income families in Minnesota, New York, Colorado, Illinois, and my home state of California. Of course, we know these states have Democratic governors that Donald Trump wants to punish. And we should look at those consequences if we want to talk about fraud. In Minnesota, which we're talking about today, Donald Trump is removing child care funding for the entire state. That frozen funding provides child care for over 18,000 kids. These kids didn't..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"have the actual law in place. Since then, they made sure that they had a law. Even though our son was 17 years of age, we have to look at the... We allowed him to be online before that age, and what if we would have had these laws in place? It would have still made a difference, and even though we lost our only child, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to stand here and stand up for anybody else's kids. You all's kids are my kids, so I'm going to make sure that things get done. Well, God..."
Hearing Hearings to examine platform power as section 230 turns 30.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCHATZ, BRIAN "settings is a fantasy if you are a parent that is a fantasy you are not going to get access to your kids phone all the time they will the tech companies the platforms will work around whatever statutory framework we have and that's why we need a sort of there is no safe cigarette a point of view as it relates to kids who's as you as you're pointing out brains are and bodies are not fully developed so kids off social media app I don't I don't have any objection to empowering users but I do not think that is going to actually protect"
Hearing “Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. Doe”
house Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCANLON, MARY GAY "Thank you. You touched on something that I think we all saw during the COVID crisis, that when schools closed down and kids are not in school, we saw a huge spike in gun violence and community violence that was impacting kids, either because they were unsupervised, not getting an education, or because they had too much time on their hands. Can you talk about what excluding kids from school could do to our communities? In particular, I'm a little surprised that this pro-crime policy is something our"
Hearing Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Federal Tax Policy in the Multibillion-Dollar Industry
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BUCHANAN, VERN "And they're five years apart. And at the end of the day, we had seven kids that were Division I kids, most of them were exceptional athletes and everything. And at the end of five years, from their freshman year, through a period of five years in their red shirt year, and there was like one or two left. So these kids are, there's a few kids getting"
Hearing Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program: Early Support, Lifelong Impact
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MOORE, GWEN "to make a distinction between somebody who needs some resources and they're just poor and somebody who's neglecting their kids? If you go in a house and there's no food, is it that they're neglecting their kids or they just need food? How do you train for that? Yeah, that's"
Hearing Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artificial intelligence.
senate Children and Families Subcommittee · Jun 16, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_08 "be helpful. It was the shop teacher in middle school, and I was not that great a shop teacher, at least not on the woodshop side, who used to love to go camping and take kids with him because he didn't have kids of his own, and who would invite shop students, whether they were good or bad, get an A or an F, like, hey, you want to go camping this weekend? I want to do it. That was not what my family did. It turned me into a lifelong outdoors person that I wouldn't have been without Joe McKenzie inviting me to go"
Hearing H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027; H.R. 7726 – Stop Child Care...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
MCGOVERN, JAMES P. "in America. And the Republicans want to cut it. This bill would force eligible families to be turned away from WIC for the first time in 30 years. Just think about that. And it doesn't stop there. This bill cuts fruit and vegetable benefits, not junk food, but fruits and vegetables. I mean, we hear a lot from this administration about make America healthy again. Well, what the hell is going on here? The MAHA Commission's report praises WIC. It says WIC supports healthier moms and kids. It says WIC helps families buy fruits and vegetables. It says WIC improves children's health. So which is..."
Hearing H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_08 "5,340 Americans killed by large trucks in 2024. 5,340 Americans who can't come home to see their kids or kids who can't come home to see their parents, all thanks to large trucks. We're not going to solve that by stopping a large truck a foot"
Testimony KIM, ANDY
Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"You know, we have failed these generations. You know, I'm worried deeply about my kids' generation, not just about my kids, and we are not setting them up for success. Now, the question that we're trying to grapple with is, well,"
Testimony CRIS GULACY-WORREL
Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"That is, that is true, Chairman, and it is basically the outliers, kids in the margins, kids that have dropped out and are functionally nowhere, and every kid that drops out, which is every 26 seconds in America, 1.2 million kids"
Testimony TUBERVILLE, TOMMY
Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"don't want you here anymore. You're a good athlete so let somebody else do it. I spent a lot of my own money teaching kids to read. I had a kid tell me one time after we taught him to read what's the most exciting thing that happened"
Testimony JOHN F. KIRTLEY
Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"amazing technical education programs automotive technology medical technology where kids they'll have three levels kids can go right into nursing they can go to school and nursing or they can go on to college and then go"
Testimony JOHN F. KIRTLEY
Hearings to examine educational choice in America.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
"districts districts ran all the schools assign kids by zip code work great for me work works great for most kids doesn't work great for every kid now in Florida we have a different definition parents can direct the dollars"
Testimony LEE, SUMMER L.
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Conservatives want us to see the definition of equity so they can weaponize it against policies that simply give kids a fair shot. Our country established equity policies like IDEA to give children with disabilities an equal education, and policies like Title IX to end unequal treatment based on sex and force court rulings on desegregation so that black kids could attend the same schools and have the same quality of education as white kids. I feel like I have to say this a lot in this..."
Testimony GRIJALVA, ADELITA S.
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"That brings me to my first question. Mr. Smith, the committee majority has spent most of this Congress promoting culture war bills such as H.R. 2616, Stop Indoctrination and Protect Kids Act, H.R. 7661, Stop Sexualization as Kids Act, and H.R. 8705, the Charlie Act. These bills are the majority's way of forcing conservative ideology into our public"
Testimony COURTNEY, JOE
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Yes. And Dr. King. Yes. So again, the test results showed that younger kids, this morning's results showed that younger kids actually did show some signs of improvement. Middle school, math scores kind of had plateaued and still below pre-pandemic. Again, part of the agenda that we're seeing from the administration is to collapse a lot of the grant programs that have been around for quite a while, including magnet"
Testimony OMAR, ILHAN
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Do parents have the permission slip where they sign if their kids can attend those classes? Yes, because I have opted my kids out because I am the kind of parent that wants to have the responsibility of educating my kids about the kind of information they should receive. This idea that we continuously argue about the fact that parents are losing their rights in these school districts is"
Testimony DR. AARON SPENCE
"Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, an...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"And I think the federal government engaging in these kinds of dialogues about what happens in our schools matters. And I think that we should be focused, as has been said a number of times and here on, the things that are really important and critical to us, the looming teacher shortage in this country, what's happening with literacy, what's happening with numeracy, and how we are attacking those. And the federal government bringing together the collective expertise of researchers and educators..."
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Last year, states including Virginia reported a lot of funding delays and administrative confusion following the transfer of the career and technical education services to DOL and months later the Department of Ed decided to move K-12 and other higher ed programs to the DOL. Now, just the magnitude of these programs, 9.8 million kids in rural schools, 5 million English language learners, 1.1 million students who are experiencing homelessness, 600,000 native students, 26 million kids in schools..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"How do we actually teach? If you teach somebody on AI right now, in two months, it may be outdated, so that's really where the partnership of where we're trying to take to get that education, to get that curriculum into the education system. We need to be talking to the employers and the tech companies who are, employers who are buying this, and the tech companies who are designing this, and that's where the issue has been, not getting that information from them, not having those partnerships,..."
Testimony HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"just restricted to certain people 18 and over. In other words, 16-year-old kids, 17-year-old kids can work in a bank or work in an insurance company a couple days a week while they're in high school and come back and actually learn things that will make them more successful in their jobs. Appreciate"
Testimony MR. MATTHEW BERGMAN
Hearings to examine platform power as section 230 turns 30.
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"of Section 230. We appreciate the bipartisan leadership of this committee in addressing the carnage that is being inflicted on American young people through the deliberate design decisions of social media companies to target kids, to enhance their profits over the safety of kids. And we commend this committee for its successful reporting out of the Kids Online Safety Act last session, which passed the Congress and passed the Senate with 91"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"I would urge our colleagues to abandon this determination to make life harder for children in our country, and instead join us in passing policy to deliver for America's kids. Together, we could make the child tax credit permanent instead of making tax cuts permanent for the nation's billionaires. We could expand access to health care and support for nutrition for kids in need. We could protect the Department of Education to make sure kids in America get to a quality"
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"and Republicans have cut billions of dollars, billions of dollars from health care and food assistance. That is a reality. Instead, with that money, they've used it to hire officers who are now terrorizing cities and killing Americans. That's where our taxpayer dollars have gone. We've taken from food assistance, we've taken from health care, and we superfunded terror on American streets. Now, Donald Trump has unleashed chaos against innocent Americans and across Minnesota, and we're going to..."
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Peaceful protesters are being shot in the streets, children have been snatched from their schools, people dragged from their cars and tackled at work. And we know that parents, of course, have been missing work, and children have been missing school. Now, Reverend Tolgaard, I want the country to really understand the effects on kids. Are you seeing families who can't go to work, who can't go grocery shopping, and who can't take their kids to school or the library or the park because you're..."
Testimony MACE, NANCY
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Do you know approximately how many children in Minnesota are autistic or on the spectrum? Okay, well if you take the CDC's roughly 1 in 36 kids are on the spectrum, we're talking about approximately 33,000 kids. In South Carolina it's about 31,000 or so. What is, do you know what this is per child, spending wise, in the fraud for autistic kids in"
Testimony LEE, SUMMER L.
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Reverend Tolgaard, as a Minnesotan, do you feel that these oversight hearings and the Trump administration's fixation on fraud in Minnesota has made anyone safer in your state? Republicans have been touting alleged fraud in child care centers and the need to protect children, but since the immigration enforcement push, have kids been able to be kids? Have they felt comfortable going to school or playing out in public with each other or with their"
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"Trump's pardons mean that these criminals can avoid paying back more than one billion dollars which they owe their victims and dwarfs much of the fraud that the House majority wants to talk about today. This is actually the opposite of accountability. Instead, the House majority wants to excuse and cut programs which they have done from the start. Now Donald Trump's signature law cut money for health care and food programs. Medicaid and CHIP help almost half the kids in the United States see a..."
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"We are in an affordability crisis and the majority is not going after the real fraud that's being committed to the American public. Now in Illinois, he has threatened funding for more than 62,000 kids, 62,000 kids. And finally in Colorado, the other state that he's going after, more than 16,000 kids will lose"
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"Sewell was 14. He's a handsome kid. This was a great kid. I've gotten to know his parents. And much like your son, Ms. Wood, I mean, this is just a fantastic"
Testimony MOODY, ASHLEY
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"My name is Ashley Moody. I became the first mom of a school kid ever on Florida's Cabinet when I became the Attorney General. My kid was still in school, and I debated how that was going to be a challenge. But ultimately, that challenge of balancing that and making that work became my"
Testimony MOODY, ASHLEY
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"Don't get into the van doesn't work anymore. It's happening in our kids' bedrooms. And we need to be vocal about it and say, if they're not your friend in real life, they can't be your friend online. Let's get that message out. And I appreciate you speaking out. And I hope other kids will not be embarrassed enough to share this with their friends. And we're going to work on that. Please come to my office so we can come up with a"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine balancing the interests of local radio, songwriter...
senate Judiciary Committee · Dec 9, 2025
"we need votes. We voted on the Kids Online Safety Act in the United States Senate and passed it by a margin of 91 to 3 in the last session. And I would invite my colleagues to speak as passionately to the House leadership, which failed last session to give the Kids more than 60 co-sponsors again in the United States Senate for the Kids Online Safety Act and we undoubtedly will for other measures as well. But Big Tech is exercising its"
Testimony TUBERVILLE, TOMMY
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Well, thank you. Work on nutrition, work on physical fitness, work on exercise, because this damn thing right here is killing our kids and killing everybody in this country because they're sitting around looking at it all day long, and if we don't do something about it, it's going to be our fault, not our kids' fault. Thank"
Testimony MCBATH, LUCY
H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. ...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"And now that it is actually law, now that we finally got it done, this president is And now that it is actually law, illegally preventing it from being distributed to schools to keep kids safe and prevent shootings before they actually even happen, before families have to live with what I and so many others wake up to every single day. There's absolutely no legitimate reason that families should be afraid to send their kids off to school every morning and worrying about whether or not they're..."
Testimony LINDA FLANAGAN
“Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of Amer...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"I implore you to confront the problems in youth sports and to create solutions that best serve the children who play them. Well, yeah, I think one of the most compelling reasons to support sports, to encourage them at every level, is that they keep kids off their phones in every—I don't know of a setting in athletics where kids are encouraged to run around with their phones. This is Jonathan Haidt, Lenore Skenazy, many others have spoken about how important it is, obviously, to get kids off..."
Testimony BONAMICI, SUZANNE
“Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of Amer...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"That's really concerning right now when people are struggling to pay their bills, and we're having this conversation at a time when affordability is at the forefront. When parents express concerns about affordability in youth sports, they're not just talking just talking about enrollment costs, it's all of the extras, equipment costs, hidden fees, transportation, gas prices, state of play, hotel policies, gate fees to watch their own kids play. You heard the story about Senator Murphy being..."
Testimony LINDA FLANAGAN
“Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of Amer...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And it's been, that Coach Safely model has been adopted by I think about six states now. It may be, it has to be a state-by-state kind of approach where organizations are, the state mandates coach training for children under the age, who are not in school, because we already have protections for high school and college kids. It's only the younger kids we don't. So I think if other states can look to the model that we see in Alabama and"
Testimony GRIJALVA, ADELITA S.
“Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of Amer...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And more and more, families with lower socioeconomic status are not able to let their children participate in a lot of these opportunities. I have three kids at home, so whenever I'm home, if I'm not here, I'm watching a play or at a school event or at a mariachi performance. I'm fortunate that my kids fell in love with activities that were offered at their school, that were provided by school, but for many families, youth sports are becoming a luxury that public schools can no longer afford to..."
Testimony MS. KATHERINE VAN DYCK, J.D.
“Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of Amer...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"school-run team, it is most likely that your child's practice is going to be there. Their home games are going to be there. When they have an away game, they're probably going to take the school bus there, and so all these barriers that we're talking about in terms of cost and time and travel and facilities go away very quickly when kids have a place to play and when there are not just varsity programs. There are junior varsity programs for kids who are newer to a sport and still developing. So..."
Testimony KILEY, KEVIN
“Field of Fees: Private Equity’s Role in the Commercialization of Amer...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Without objection, I'll submit for the record statements from Mr. Kyle Scott, founder and president of Buying Sandlot, and Mr. Seth Lieberman, founder and CEO of Anchored. Both statements emphasize that the challenges in youth sports are more complex than private investment alone. You know, thinking back on my own upbringing, it's really hard to imagine it without youth sports. Youth sports are really part and parcel of childhood, and it's tragic and alarming that those opportunities are being..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
H.R.4398, the “Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Account...
house Veterans' Affairs Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Caregiving youth is what we're going to call them in this committee and in the title of the bill, but what is it really? It's kids who are taking care of their parents, kids who are taking care of service members and veterans because of chronic disease, illness, or"
Testimony BUCHANAN, VERN
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And they're five years apart. And at the end of the day, we had seven kids that were Division I kids, most of them were exceptional athletes and everything. And at the end of five years, from their freshman year, through a period of five years in their red shirt year, and there was like one or two left. So these kids are, there's a few kids getting"
Testimony STANSBURY, MELANIE A.
“Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"because it is a program that was created to help people who are struggling. It's to help grandparents who are taking care of children. It's to help take care of kids who are in the foster care system. It's there so that when a mom goes through a divorce and she loses her job and is having a hard time, she can take care of her kids. That's what the SNAP program exists for. It is a bridge. It doesn't even cover the cost. I would like to know, can any single person on this panel feed your family..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"I dealt with some trafficking, child trafficking, when I first got into Congress in 2013. And I actually stepped away from it because at some point it just starts wearing on you, and it's time to just kind of pass the baton because you get really jaded over it. When we stepped in here, we had 450,000 kids missing, 450,000 kids that were given to sponsors that weren't vetted. No home checks, no one was going by to see if they were where they were supposed to be, not even knowing if they were in..."
Testimony SPEAKER_13
Oversight Hearing – Department of Homeland Security
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"Don't you point your finger at me. Don't be a hypocrite. I will point my finger at you. Don't you be a hypocrite, then. Thirty-nine hundred kids. You should be as upset about the four hundred and fifty thousand kids that were lost. You didn't say a word about it. For four years, you never said a"
Testimony MOORE, GWEN
Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing on the Maternal, Infant, and Early...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"to make a distinction between somebody who needs some resources and they're just poor and somebody who's neglecting their kids? If you go in a house and there's no food, is it that they're neglecting their kids or they just need food? How do you train for that? Yeah, that's"
Testimony BEAN, AARON
Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing on the Maternal, Infant, and Early...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 25, 2026
"I'm, I look way too young to be a grandfather. How about that? But it is true. And I am blessed with the cutest, most intelligent little toddler grandbaby there is. We think up excuses to take dinner to, uh, to our kids just to see the grandbaby. We will help them with appointments. And my staff knows that if it says, uh, uh, the Congressman is babysitting, uh, that cannot be overridden. I will, uh, we will babysit anytime that we get a chance. So the support that we give our kids and our..."
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Hearings to examine the nominations of Juan Segura, of Virginia, to be...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 18, 2026
"Well, you know, growing up in Iowa, I never had a chance to do vacation in a big family. If we did vacation, it was camping somewhere with a short drive, you know, or going to visit grandparents. So the car trips were an experience, especially with, you know, nine carsick kids. So the first time I got to see the ocean, I saved money and flew to Jamaica. It was the first ocean I ever saw. I got spoiled. That's a great ocean to see, the Caribbean Ocean. And we just kept going back. It's a great,..."
Testimony GALLEGO, RUBEN
Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"Thank you, Governor. I have three kids, and I travel to Puerto Rico with my three kids, and they love eating, and so I end up paying a lot. Governor is mad at them all, so she knows what I'm talking about. One of the things that actually got me first interested, particularly in Puerto Rico, is because I served with a lot of Puerto Rican Marines in the Iraq"
Testimony GALLEGO, RUBEN
Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States ...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026
"Thank you, Governor. I have three kids, and I travel to Puerto Rico with my three kids, and they love eating, and so I end up paying a lot. Governor is mad at them all, so she knows what I'm talking about. One of the things that actually got me first interested, particularly in Puerto Rico, is because I served with a lot of Puerto Rican Marines in the Iraq"
Testimony SPEAKER_08
Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artific...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"be helpful. It was the shop teacher in middle school, and I was not that great a shop teacher, at least not on the woodshop side, who used to love to go camping and take kids with him because he didn't have kids of his own, and who would invite shop students, whether they were good or bad, get an A or an F, like, hey, you want to go camping this weekend? I want to do it. That was not what my family did. It turned me into a lifelong outdoors person that I wouldn't have been without Joe McKenzie..."
Testimony SPEAKER_07
Hearings to examine the future of K-12 education in the age of artific...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 16, 2026
"But if the AI companies are only interested in selling more, in having teachers use it more, how do you protect against teachers being sucked into some kind of algorithmic addictive product like kids are? If the intent is not social benefit, but the product being used for more and more and more, how do you make sure that teachers aren't being sucked in like kids are being sucked in? I think it might be a little naive to suggest that an adult is magically immune to these incredibly strong brain..."
Testimony SPEAKER_30
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"And as the whip pointed out, I mean there is a new report out that only covers 12 states that basically indicates that over 700,000 kids, these were just kids, have already lost SNAP due to the changes in the big, ugly bill. And now we're giving tens of billions of dollars more to"
Testimony FINSTAD, BRAD
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"My wife and I, we like to joke, we grow corn, soybeans, and kids. And there was a time where we have seven kids, and we had seven kids under the age of 11 in our house. And I think about the world that you're living in right now, and not to make light of it, but I remember many times my wife and I coming home, and the house is an absolute"
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
"Building an AI-Ready America: Higher Education in the Age of AI"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"not replacing the teacher. You'll need teachers for that human interaction and that human connection, but a teacher with 30 kids or 180 kids at the higher level, but it doesn't change much from like 12th grade to like freshman year when students have got to pass usually the expository writing requirement and the university math, university-level math, and one of the things that I, as a former community college trustee, that I encountered a lot, what was an ongoing theme is the cost of the..."
Testimony CAITRIONA FITZGERALD
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Technology is changing. We're already, you know, seeing the harms that kids are suffering, especially kids are suffering online due to the harmful business practices of big"
Testimony MOSKOWITZ, JARED
Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America Fi...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"I mean, do you think the administration could do a slightly better job on educating the American people why this is so important and why they should care about that? it's important. And I think that's right. And I think people don't understand exactly the long game that China is playing. And I think it's important for U.S. foreign policy around the world. Mr. Secretary, you know, the war in Gaza is all over my algorithm, all over my feet every day. But you know, it's not on my algorithm or..."
Testimony MCGOVERN, JAMES P.
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"in America. And the Republicans want to cut it. This bill would force eligible families to be turned away from WIC for the first time in 30 years. Just think about that. And it doesn't stop there. This bill cuts fruit and vegetable benefits, not junk food, but fruits and vegetables. I mean, we hear a lot from this administration about make America healthy again. Well, what the hell is going on here? The MAHA Commission's report praises WIC. It says WIC supports healthier moms and kids. It says..."
Testimony MCGOVERN, JAMES P.
H.R. 8646 – Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administrati...
house Rules Committee · Jun 2, 2026
"more than 3.5 million people have lost their SNAP benefits. In 12 states where data is available, 700,000 kids, 700,000 kids have lost their benefits. Let me say that again. This Republican Congress has forced 700,000 children off of nutrition benefits to pay for tax breaks for"
Testimony SEAN DUFFY
Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2026
"I believe that either we have to invest in this academy and in these young people, or I don't want, I love that I have it and you have it on this committee, but if we're not going to make the investments, you got to shut it down. Maybe you got to give it to the Navy. And I don't want you to do that, but we can't let these kids, American men but we can't let these kids, American men and women in this"
Testimony SEAN DUFFY
Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2026
"Some of the finest memories I had with her. And as she had a long death, the kids talked to her about the road trips. I've done those with my own kids. And I think it's a great way. You guys all are from beautiful"
Testimony SEAN DUFFY
Budget Hearing – Department of Transportation
house Appropriations Committee · May 21, 2026
"the good people who pay for it that need it I would take the bus when I was a kid to and from one of the first high school that I attended after football practice and you know late in the evening you know that that's not something that kids do anymore that you just can't you're not not safe in"
Testimony SPEAKER_08
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"5,340 Americans killed by large trucks in 2024. 5,340 Americans who can't come home to see their kids or kids who can't come home to see their parents, all thanks to large trucks. We're not going to solve that by stopping a large truck a foot"
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · May 21, 2026
"If you stop talking, we will accept the amendment. Can we go to 90-10? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Anyone else wish to be heard on the amendment? Are there any amendments to the"
Testimony MR. SCOTT FABER, JD
Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversig...
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"and ask, are they still safe to eat? We faced this challenge in the 1980s with pesticides, and some of you may remember this. We realized we were eating pesticides, especially our kids, and that our kids were more susceptible to the harms that were caused by pesticides. And there's tens of thousands of pesticides. And we began with a fee-funded program at EPA to methodically look back and ask, are these chemicals still safe to eat? And now we've done that and we've done it again. We do it every..."
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"were resolved than the year before. And really, we all have to understand that what that means is kids are being denied equal access to education they are entitled to under law are now also being denied the justice they serve. And that is really wrong. So, you said you were hiring people back. I want to see what those numbers are. I want to see what cases are being resolved, because I think it is really our responsibility to make sure those kids get the education they promised. Okay,"
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 28, 2026
"Okay. Well, as of this morning, 1% of all cases last year were resolved, 78% fewer cases were resolved than the year before. And really, we all have to understand that what that means is kids are being denied equal access to education they are entitled to under law are now also being denied the justice they serve. And that is really wrong. So, you said you were hiring people back. I want to see what those numbers are. I want to see what cases are being resolved, because I think it is really our..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"Well, I would hope you take a leadership role in making it clear that we should get these ads which just entice kids or dick kids to really bad food off the air."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"It's another way to put it, Senator. I would just add that 50% of the states have now, at our request, applied for waivers so that they can get sodas and candies off of SNAP. We're paying for the poorest kids, 63 million poorest kids in this country to get diabetes, and then we're treating 78% of them with Medicaid afterwards. So we're paying at both ends. It makes no"
Testimony ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA D.
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"Can you admit that you said that? Well, let me read exactly what you said. You said every black kid is now just standard, put on Adderall, on SSRIs, Benzos, which are known to induce violence, and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented, to live in a community where there'll be no cell phones, no"
Testimony JORDAN, JIM
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"is released because the detainer is not honored, he's not turned over to ICE, is released to the streets, you're not allowed to go get a guy who's been charged with harming kids if he's near a school, if he's near kids. That was how"
Testimony OWENS, BURGESS
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"My background after coming out of the NFL was corporate environment, business ownership, but I've always, for 40 years, had this desire to work with at-risk kids because my dad did the same thing. He was a professor, but his heart was working with at-risk kids. Well, finally getting to Utah about 12, 13 years ago, I decided to open up a nonprofit called Second Chance for"
Testimony LANKFORD, JAMES
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"in Operation Metro Surge, and have identified over 3,300 children that were unaccompanied minors that we didn't know their whereabouts. They were lost during the last administration, that those kids were also identified as far as where they are. We have some kids that have been lost into labor trafficking and all kinds of things on it. They've done that. So there is some news that's happening. I also want to be able to correct the record on a couple things I've heard just even in conversation..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Ri...
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"When I see the value of that go up, I cheer, but then my kids, I have three kids that are in their late 20s and 30s, it's bad news, because they can't own a home. And that's the kind of conundrum you're dealing with. The third point, this is really critical. Please, please, whatever you decide in terms of policy with respect to housing, please, I'm begging"
Hearing Hearings to examine positioning student-athletes for success in school and beyond.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Mar 26, 2026 · Transcript
HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W. "Then I was a mayor, and you have 60 people you hire and their stats, governors, even more people. I'm getting probably up to 600 or 700 people I hired in those years. I have always looked for student-athletes, the kids, because that character-building includes how do you work with others? How do you create a team effort where you realize that what happens to you is less valuable than what happens to the group? I also look at kids that play in rock and roll bands or in theater, kids that have worked as camp counselors or a local YMCA, those places where you are part of a framework. I remember..."
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
HAWLEY, JOSH "He's a kid. A bright kid, great kid, but still a kid. Is it time to study the effects when it comes to mental health and wellness on these AI chatbot companions for minors? And"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and Erica Schwartz, of...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
TUBERVILLE, TOMMY "Well, thank you. Work on nutrition, work on physical fitness, work on exercise, because this damn thing right here is killing our kids and killing everybody in this country because they're sitting around looking at it all day long, and if we don't do something about it, it's going to be our fault, not our kids' fault. Thank"
Hearing H.R. 9607, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act"; H.R. 9609, "Less Bureaucracy, Better Student Aid Act"; H.R. 9602, "Less...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
MCBATH, LUCY "And now that it is actually law, now that we finally got it done, this president is And now that it is actually law, illegally preventing it from being distributed to schools to keep kids safe and prevent shootings before they actually even happen, before families have to live with what I and so many others wake up to every single day. There's absolutely no legitimate reason that families should be afraid to send their kids off to school every morning and worrying about whether or not they're actually going to come home. That is not normal, and it will never be normal. And we've just got to..."
Hearing H.R.4398, the “Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Accountability Act”; H.R.4805, the “Warrior Impact from Neurological and G-Force...
house Health Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_13 "Caregiving youth is what we're going to call them in this committee and in the title of the bill, but what is it really? It's kids who are taking care of their parents, kids who are taking care of service members and veterans because of chronic disease, illness, or"
Hearing “Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jun 25, 2026 · Transcript
STANSBURY, MELANIE A. "because it is a program that was created to help people who are struggling. It's to help grandparents who are taking care of children. It's to help take care of kids who are in the foster care system. It's there so that when a mom goes through a divorce and she loses her job and is having a hard time, she can take care of her kids. That's what the SNAP program exists for. It is a bridge. It doesn't even cover the cost. I would like to know, can any single person on this panel feed your family for $174 a month? Anybody? Can anybody in this room feed your family for $174 a month? Anybody? Not a..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Juan Segura, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Western Hemisphere Affairs) and to be a...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 18, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "Well, you know, growing up in Iowa, I never had a chance to do vacation in a big family. If we did vacation, it was camping somewhere with a short drive, you know, or going to visit grandparents. So the car trips were an experience, especially with, you know, nine carsick kids. So the first time I got to see the ocean, I saved money and flew to Jamaica. It was the first ocean I ever saw. I got spoiled. That's a great ocean to see, the Caribbean Ocean. And we just kept going back. It's a great, the beaches are great. My family and I, our kids are big swimmers. We like to swim in the ocean. We..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
GALLEGO, RUBEN "Thank you, Governor. I have three kids, and I travel to Puerto Rico with my three kids, and they love eating, and so I end up paying a lot. Governor is mad at them all, so she knows what I'm talking about. One of the things that actually got me first interested, particularly in Puerto Rico, is because I served with a lot of Puerto Rican Marines in the Iraq"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Transcript
GALLEGO, RUBEN "Thank you, Governor. I have three kids, and I travel to Puerto Rico with my three kids, and they love eating, and so I end up paying a lot. Governor is mad at them all, so she knows what I'm talking about. One of the things that actually got me first interested, particularly in Puerto Rico, is because I served with a lot of Puerto Rican Marines in the Iraq"
Hearing H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act; H. Res. 1335 – Condemning actors seeking to...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_30 "And as the whip pointed out, I mean there is a new report out that only covers 12 states that basically indicates that over 700,000 kids, these were just kids, have already lost SNAP due to the changes in the big, ugly bill. And now we're giving tens of billions of dollars more to"
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
FINSTAD, BRAD "My wife and I, we like to joke, we grow corn, soybeans, and kids. And there was a time where we have seven kids, and we had seven kids under the age of 11 in our house. And I think about the world that you're living in right now, and not to make light of it, but I remember many times my wife and I coming home, and the house is an absolute"
Hearing "Building an AI-Ready America: Higher Education in the Age of AI"
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
TAKANO, MARK "not replacing the teacher. You'll need teachers for that human interaction and that human connection, but a teacher with 30 kids or 180 kids at the higher level, but it doesn't change much from like 12th grade to like freshman year when students have got to pass usually the expository writing requirement and the university math, university-level math, and one of the things that I, as a former community college trustee, that I encountered a lot, what was an ongoing theme is the cost of the four-year university, or that it's a struggle for the community colleges to get that it's a struggle for..."
Hearing Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
CAITRIONA FITZGERALD "Technology is changing. We're already, you know, seeing the harms that kids are suffering, especially kids are suffering online due to the harmful business practices of big"
Hearing Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America First Foreign Policy
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
MOSKOWITZ, JARED "I mean, do you think the administration could do a slightly better job on educating the American people why this is so important and why they should care about that? it's important. And I think that's right. And I think people don't understand exactly the long game that China is playing. And I think it's important for U.S. foreign policy around the world. Mr. Secretary, you know, the war in Gaza is all over my algorithm, all over my feet every day. But you know, it's not on my algorithm or anyone else's algorithm here or the kids in college. There's nothing about the Ukraine-Russia war, about..."
Hearing Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food
house Health Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
MR. SCOTT FABER, JD "and ask, are they still safe to eat? We faced this challenge in the 1980s with pesticides, and some of you may remember this. We realized we were eating pesticides, especially our kids, and that our kids were more susceptible to the harms that were caused by pesticides. And there's tens of thousands of pesticides. And we began with a fee-funded program at EPA to methodically look back and ask, are these chemicals still safe to eat? And now we've done that and we've done it again. We do it every 15 years. We need to set up the same kind of predictable reassessment program for the other..."
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
MURRAY, PATTY "were resolved than the year before. And really, we all have to understand that what that means is kids are being denied equal access to education they are entitled to under law are now also being denied the justice they serve. And that is really wrong. So, you said you were hiring people back. I want to see what those numbers are. I want to see what cases are being resolved, because I think it is really our responsibility to make sure those kids get the education they promised. Okay,"
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
MURRAY, PATTY "Okay. Well, as of this morning, 1% of all cases last year were resolved, 78% fewer cases were resolved than the year before. And really, we all have to understand that what that means is kids are being denied equal access to education they are entitled to under law are now also being denied the justice they serve. And that is really wrong. So, you said you were hiring people back. I want to see what those numbers are. I want to see what cases are being resolved, because I think it is really our responsibility to make sure those kids get the education they promised."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
JORDAN, JIM "is released because the detainer is not honored, he's not turned over to ICE, is released to the streets, you're not allowed to go get a guy who's been charged with harming kids if he's near a school, if he's near kids. That was how"
Hearing "Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026 · Transcript
OWENS, BURGESS "My background after coming out of the NFL was corporate environment, business ownership, but I've always, for 40 years, had this desire to work with at-risk kids because my dad did the same thing. He was a professor, but his heart was working with at-risk kids. Well, finally getting to Utah about 12, 13 years ago, I decided to open up a nonprofit called Second Chance for"
Hearing An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript
LANKFORD, JAMES "in Operation Metro Surge, and have identified over 3,300 children that were unaccompanied minors that we didn't know their whereabouts. They were lost during the last administration, that those kids were also identified as far as where they are. We have some kids that have been lost into labor trafficking and all kinds of things on it. They've done that. So there is some news that's happening. I also want to be able to correct the record on a couple things I've heard just even in conversation"
Hearing Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Rising Costs of Housing and Borrowing
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "When I see the value of that go up, I cheer, but then my kids, I have three kids that are in their late 20s and 30s, it's bad news, because they can't own a home. And that's the kind of conundrum you're dealing with. The third point, this is really critical. Please, please, whatever you decide in terms of policy with respect to housing, please, I'm begging"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Donald Blome, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs), Christopher...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "and represent the values that define our nation. I'm here today because of the hard work of a kid who mined at his father's store in Chicopee, Massachusetts, during the Great Depression, because an Italian-American family escaped Mussolini's fascism in 1930, and because a nurse and a pharmacist fell in love in a hospital in Chicago 50 years ago. My grandparents and parents taught me the value of integrity and the importance of hard"
Hearing Leaving the Sticky Notes Behind: Harnessing Innovation and New Technology to Help America's Foster Youth Succeed
house Work and Welfare Subcommittee · Nov 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Dr. Jennifer Jacobs, Connect Our Kids
Hearing Corrosion, Collapse, and Clean-Up: Examining the Potomac Interceptor Collapse.
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Tom Neltner, Unleaded Kids
Hearing Advancing Permanency in Child Welfare: Leveraging Federal Funding for Adoption Programs
house Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Mar 26, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Lee Marshall, Kids to Love
Testimony KAINE, TIM
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"president's choice, but as the nominee to be Secretary of Labor, can you tell me there's some foundational pillars for the IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities and Education Act. Do you know what those foundational pillars are? Let me tell you what the pillars are, okay, because this is something that some think should be pushed over to DOL. The pillars of the IDEA are free appropriate public education, least restrictive environment, individualized education plan, appropriate evaluation,..."
Testimony HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"where he was treated as an individual and people learned how to actually communicate with him and educate with him. Took a teacher realizing that Ben laughed whenever other kids in the room got the wrong answer, which means my son was mean but smart. The IDEA made it possible for people to realize he could raise a hand to say yes or no and interact with material because he's"
Testimony TUBERVILLE, TOMMY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I think it's going to be the savior for fraud. Especially with IBM. There's no way humans can mentally keep up with $5 trillion a year. We can't do it. I don't care how smart you are. And so, we have to have machines to do that and we got to stop it. I mean, we're $40 trillion in debt. It's ridiculous. And we're talking about AI earlier with Senator Hawley, I'll be hopefully governor next year of Alabama. We're going to start in elementary school, start teaching our kids AI. We can talk about..."
Testimony TUBERVILLE, TOMMY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I know our federal government is being broken because of all this fraud. But we have to be able to educate our kids in this AI. A couple of other things I just want to say. We have this 401 plan that we're trying to get through for retirement funds through private equity"
Testimony HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"We've done this in Colorado with CareerWise and demonstrated it's not that hard. Parents do see that their kids don't necessarily have to go to college and get a lot of debt. They can go and be an apprentice in not only trades, but in banks, insurance"
Testimony HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I'm giving you a chance to say that. Right. I agree that those existing laws and setting standards, making sure that we have standards that are going to make sure that kids and American people are held safe, and could be that the tort system will hold AI companies accountable for damages done to our"
Testimony MOODY, ASHLEY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Everybody is freaking out. And I think the words they use are undermining and dismantling programs. So I just want to make sure that we're all talking about the same thing. Because what I watched and what I had to litigate against as the attorney general for Florida in the last administration when we had a chief executive asleep at the wheel and radicals trying to drive the car off a cliff, I mean, it was literally like when I used to pick my kid up from school during free time and they just..."
Testimony SCOTT, TIM
Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annu...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Can you discuss why an activist CFPB that regulates through enforcement or post or press releases or threats is harmful to consumers? Well, I have a couple of other questions for you, but I'm going to skip my questions. I think you made a really important point that I want to highlight, and then you can have time to comment if there's time left. But I will say without any question, as a kid that grew up in poverty in a single-parent household, the one thing I understand is that when people with..."
Testimony SMITH, TINA
Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annu...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I mean, I'd like your response to this. So top researchers in Minnesota recently made a breakthrough in detecting and treating cancer in kids with a National Cancer Institute grant. And what the study did is it looked at what makes African-American children more likely to die from blood and bone cancer. So it seems to me, according to your proposed rule, this kind of research wouldn't be"
Testimony SMITH, TINA
Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annu...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"So what impact would it have? A political appointee would be in the position, according to your proposed rule, of deciding whether this health grant, studying why black kids in this country are more likely to get sick and die from blood and brain cancer, they would be the one who decides whether this grant should be allowed and not the scientists and the doctors and the people who know about health and preventing"
Testimony SMITH, TINA
Hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annu...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I think this is just an example of the absurdity and the bias of this proposed rule and the danger of what happens when you bring political ideology into grant making processes, particularly around health care. I mean, researchers across the country, including in Minnesota, are making breakthroughs in medical advances. And it is not a place for political appointees to be putting their finger on the scale and saying, nope, this seems too woke for me, and therefore these kids aren't going to get..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine the nominations of Donald Blome, of Illinois, to b...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"and represent the values that define our nation. I'm here today because of the hard work of a kid who mined at his father's store in Chicopee, Massachusetts, during the Great Depression, because an Italian-American family escaped Mussolini's fascism in 1930, and because a nurse and a pharmacist fell in love in a hospital in Chicago 50 years ago. My grandparents and parents taught me the value of integrity and the importance of hard"
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"That would be Senator Marshall, sir. Thank you so much, Senator. I mean, it really is merging Wall Street and Main Street. This is an opportunity for every child under 18 to actually have a stake in the capitalism and the economic success of our country. We're seeing philanthropists like Michael Dell and others donating everything from stock to gifts to provide opportunity for these kids where they'll have a retirement account based on the private sector right out of the gates. We had a very..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"You know, I totally agree that Trump accounts are vital and we view this in a couple stage approach. First, we had a very successful launch. We have over 6.5 million kids that are enrolled. We've gotten the seed capital out to"
Testimony BLACKBURN, MARSHA
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Are you all developing partnerships there? Yeah. You know, as we have worked on this Trump account issue, I have so many times thought about when I was a kid, and at that point we had a savings account, had a passbook, and we would take birthday money, holiday money to the bank, put it in the account, and then we would see that interest and then see how that balance"