Video & Transcript Research : 'free expression'
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AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- In his free time, he enjoys mountain biking, reading books, and listening to music.
- Citizens were arrested not for crimes; they were arrested for thoughts that were expressed, for dissent
- American companies, as we see here, and American technology have helped build the tools to surveil free
- I think there still remains lots of concerns on the bill as expressed in committee, and I'll urge a no
- For all the talk we hear about free speech, bombs and bullets seem to rule the day instead.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm here today to express my strong support for this House Bill 3385.
- Well, first of all, the premise of this is to fight the bill coming into effect because it limits free
- It's very free-market supportive.
- So, that free market model of having it under the G permit has provided quite a bit of flexibility. .
- Those are the only two witnesses that we have registered who have expressed a desire to testify.
Bills:
HB223
Keywords:
municipal budget, county budget, local government finance, spending cap, expenditure limit, inflation plus population growth, taxpayer impact statement, budget transparency, property tax, fees, Legislative Budget Board, voter approval, disaster spending, fiscal restraint, Texas Local Government Code, city budget, county expenditures, 1185, senate, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- If you need assistance registering, you can come up here and feel free to ask our clerk to assist you
- asking whether people accepting vouchers would be more comfortable living in developments that are free
- I mean, at our organization, Disability Rights Texas primarily provides free legal services to people
- I express my gratitude to those who came to testify today, especially those that drove from wherever
- On a case-by-case basis, feel free to reach out to me and I'll try to address them.
Bills:
HB164, HB164, HB411, HB627, HB 1226, HB1677, HB1865, HB1997, HB2985, HB3462, HB4188, HB4685, HB4840, HB5370, HB5424, HB5466, HB5509, HB5660, HB5673
Keywords:
HB 164, HB164, Texas Flood Recovery, Reimbursement, and Reconstruction Program, Texas Division of Emergency Management, TDEM, Hill Country floods, July 2025 floods, flood recovery, disaster relief, flood reimbursement, reconstruction grants, resiliency standards, floodplain, base flood elevation, FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, insurance denial, property damage, tenant assistance, rental property
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division 3/12/25
Veterans and Military Affairs Division
Transcript Highlights:
- Our accountant is our treasurer, and he does that free of charge.
- He just kind of expressed, like, he basically just said, 'My stuff's getting worn out.
- He just kind of expressed, like, he basically just said, 'My stuff's getting worn out.
- So the state of Minnesota will not allow a veteran’s spouse to be buried for free next to their service
- a veteran spouse to be buried for free a veteran spouse to be buried for free next<00:37:02.720>
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the poisoning of America, focusing on fentanyl, its analogues, and the need for permanent class scheduling. Feb 4th, 2025 at 09:30 am
Senate Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- Noring, I think it's only appropriate that we should express our condolences for your loss.
- Not on the basis of free speech, but on the basis of product design.
- Of the Communications Decency Act, and what it was meant to do was to protect free speech.
- That's not free speech. Or a grown man sending unwarranted pictures to young ladies.
- Sexual exploitation, this is not free speech. This is criminal behavior. And like Ms.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force (10-8-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- But I really wanted to start off by expressing our condolences for the torrential rain that occurred
- But I really wanted to start off<00:02:55.599>
by <00:02:56.160>expressing <00:02:57.200 - It's free of silos is really important.
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It free of silos is really important. - It free of silos is really important.
Summary:
The interim task force on disaster prevention and resiliency met for its fourth meeting and focused heavily on insurance markets, affordability, and mitigation. Cochairs noted they are working toward recommendations for a later fall meeting. The main presentation came from David Snyder of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, who said the insurance industry sees itself as part of the problem and part of the solution because it ultimately pays for losses created by natural conditions, development choices, and construction practices.
Snyder described rising losses from natural catastrophes, inflation-driven increases in rebuilding and repair costs, more development in disaster-prone areas, wildfire exposure, severe convective storms, hail, and roof damage. He argued that Kentucky should avoid the mistakes he attributed to California, where regulatory responses contributed to a strained insurance market and greater reliance on the FAIR Plan. He said Kentucky’s private market appears to be functioning better, with relatively few FAIR Plan policies, and urged lawmakers to preserve that market through risk-based rates and policies that do not worsen availability.
He recommended a broad mitigation strategy involving stronger building codes, land-use decisions, stormwater infrastructure, public access to risk data, and incentives for resilient construction. He highlighted programs such as the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, fortified-home standards, wildfire-prepared community practices, and examples from Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida showing that mitigation can produce quick returns and insurance discounts. He also suggested catastrophe savings accounts, flexible coverage options, and a whole-of-government approach that includes the insurance department, building-code agencies, first responders, FEMA, NFIP, and NOAA.
In questions, a legislator asked about the prognosis if carriers continue exiting markets and if nothing is done to address affordability and accessibility. Snyder said he could not predict market exits but stressed that regulators should monitor the market closely, use available data, and focus on loss prevention and mitigation. He said insurers want to do business in Kentucky and that the long-term solution is coordinated action among public and private stakeholders to reduce risk and keep coverage available.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 048 Mar 3rd, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- you for standing, but please feel free you for standing, but please feel free to<00:33:46.480>
- Congress in 1790 emphasized that a free Congress in 1790 emphasized that a free people<00:57:42.240
- where the royal charters stifled free where the royal charters stifled free enterprise. enterprise
- FFL transfers, as we all know, are not free.
- The free state of Colorado. Guess what? We live in the free state of Colorado right here.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Judiciary Mar 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The judge threw it out because of this law, Florida, free kill law.
- My child is a free kill. I have had no justice.
- I come here today in support of SB 734, which will repeal what is notoriously known as Florida's free
- These acts against my grandfather all citing Florida's free kill law and due to this.
- This law, the free kill law is not just a shame on the state of Florida.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Part II) Mar 5th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- From an experiential basis, I express my support for Senate Bill 513.
- am currently the Director of Operations for the WIT Program in San Angelo, Texas, where we provide free
- And we advocate for pro-business, free-market policies that support economic growth, including preserving
- We look at free market solutions that lower those costs. ...mainly giving employers the flexibility to
Keywords:
SB 502, Texas peace officers, Health and Human Services Commission, HHSC Office of Inspector General, OIG investigators, law enforcement classification, Schedule C, state employee benefits, injury benefits, peace officer status, commissioned officers, state auditor classification, Government Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, human services, health and human services, law enforcement compensation, public employee benefits, Texas state law enforcement, child welfare
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Our eternal Father, as we unite on this day to do good work, we join in expressing sincere gratitude
- We express gratitude for this hallowed place where its purposes has been and will continue to be fulfilled
- We express gratitude for the beauty of this land.
- Forgive me if I’m not answering this, and feel free to reiterate.
- If not, feel free during lunch or after we adjourn today.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several gallery introductions before taking up Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, on mental health. Senator Bradley explained that the bill is intended to divert clinically appropriate defendants with mental illness from jail to treatment, create pretrial mental health diversion programs, expand grant uses for mental health and substance abuse reinvestment, require evaluations and treatment follow-up in certain probation and prison settings, add Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, and establish a Florida Behavioral Health Data Repository. Senators from both parties spoke in support, emphasizing treatment over incarceration, public safety, and the Murphy family’s role in the bill. The Senate passed the bill 37-0 and then recorded 37 co-sponsors.
The chamber then moved into presentations on SB 2500, the 2025-26 General Appropriations Act. Chair Hooper said the Senate budget totals $117.4 billion, reduces overall spending from the prior year, maintains reserves, keeps employee health contributions level, and includes major investments in water quality, transportation, education infrastructure, and nearly $1 billion in education capital outlay. Committee chairs outlined their portions of the budget, including increased funding for K-12 schools and scholarships, higher education workforce programs, Medicaid and health services, corrections and courts, transportation and housing, and environmental restoration such as Everglades and water quality projects.
Members then asked extensive questions, especially about education funding, school choice, AP/IB and accelerated programs, the Family Empowerment Scholarship, and the FEFP calculations. Senator Burgess repeatedly explained that scholarship funding is being moved “below the line” to improve tracking and that the Senate position is to preserve funding while giving districts more flexibility. Senators also questioned the APD wait list for disability services, opioid settlement spending, arts funding, the My Safe Florida Home condo pilot, and proposed IT and agency restructuring. Several chairs said some issues would be resolved in conference, and no final vote on the budget was taken in the portion provided.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/12/25
Elections Finance and Government Operations
Transcript Highlights:
- urges passage of 2105, its balanced necessary reform that clarifies lobbying violations, protects free
- necessary reform that clarifies lobbying violations<00:08:30.440>
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transparency <00:08:33.000>without ensures - conflation of lobbying with folks Free conflation of lobbying with folks Free Speech<00:26:57.480
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- Yet he was let back out on the street on probation, free to roam our neighborhood.
- There is little oversight of this practice, giving police and other authorities free rein to confiscate
- science is evident that prominent agents are shouldn't even their stakeholders and colleagues with free
- science is evident that prominent agents are shouldn't even their stakeholders and colleagues with free
- It is not risk-free.
Summary:
The hearing covered a wide range of Judiciary Committee bills, with much of the testimony focused on criminal justice, public safety, and civil asset forfeiture reform. Several lawmakers and advocates supported bills to increase penalties or create new offenses related to assaults on sports officials, assaults on transit workers, reckless discharge of firearms, fires and explosives, pill press machines, and drug-induced homicide. Testifiers described rising harassment and violence against youth sports officials and transit workers, as well as the fentanyl overdose crisis and the need for stronger tools to prosecute dealers whose conduct leads to death. Supporters of the sports-official and transit-worker bills emphasized declining referee availability and repeated assaults on commuter rail and MBTA workers. District attorneys also backed bills on reckless firearm discharge and fires/explosives, saying current law does not adequately address dangerous conduct that endangers bystanders.
The committee also heard testimony on several proposals related to youth diversion and prison mitigation. Supporters of the youth court justice fund bill said youth courts are peer-led diversion programs with strong compliance and low recidivism, and argued for a stable funding source rather than annual earmarks. A representative from Bridgewater supported a prison mitigation fund for municipalities that host state prisons, saying the costs of public safety and emergency services are not fully covered. On gun policy, testimony split between supporters of a bill to ban in-state manufacture of assault-style rifles for civilian sale and opponents or skeptics of other firearm-related measures, including a bill on collateralizing firearms and a bill to increase penalties for drug trafficking combined with illegal firearm offenses.
A major portion of the hearing was devoted to civil asset forfeiture reform. Advocates from the ACLU, CPCS, the Boston Bar Association, the Institute for Justice, and others supported bills to increase the burden of proof, improve transparency and reporting, require counsel, and limit or eliminate the current practice of directing forfeiture proceeds to law enforcement. They argued the current system creates perverse incentives, lacks adequate due process, and is insufficiently transparent. District Attorney Paul Tucker defended current forfeiture practices, saying his office has reporting and oversight, uses the funds for investigations and community programs, and warned that reducing forfeiture revenue would hinder crime fighting. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing; the chairs repeatedly thanked witnesses and indicated the bills would remain under consideration.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Sixty One - Thursday, April 30
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a simple technical fix to the current hands-free cell phone law.
- It cleans up a loophole with regards to hands-free driving.
- It cleans up a loophole with regards to hands-free driving.
- No, this is a fix, gentlemen, to the hands-free cell phone law that's on the books.
- Further discussion on the general. to express their support.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then approved the House Journal by roll call vote, 120-0. Members also suspended House Rule 98 to allow hats on the chamber floor, approving that motion 87-32. The chamber then recognized several special guests and personal introductions, including the Eugene High School basketball team, family members of members, and other visitors. One member delivered a lengthy personal privilege speech responding to a U.S. Supreme Court voting-rights decision and urging protection of democracy and voting access.
In committee reports, the House received favorable reports on substitute House Bill 2426 and Senate Bills 866 and 863. The chamber then agreed to a conference on the property-tax omnibus package, Senate Bills 1066 and 1088. On third reading, House Bill 3329 passed 142-0, repealing expired tax credits, and House Bill 3405 passed 138-0, cleaning up SALT deduction language and clarifying it as a deduction rather than a credit. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2426, a parental-rights bill, was debated at length with opposition focused on its school reporting and financial-ledger provisions, but the motion to pass it failed 70-60.
The House then took up Senate Bill 1233, a licensure bill dealing with CPA licensing and other professional licensing provisions. One amendment removing compacts and related language was adopted, a nursing-home physicals amendment was withdrawn, and the bill passed 129-6. Senate Bill 1408, originally a highway-speed bill, was heavily amended to remove some Department of Revenue and other provisions, while adding or revising items including vehicle inspections, motorcycle lighting, hands-free enforcement, driver education, and specialty plates for women’s professional sports; it passed 82-53. The final bill of the day, Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill 863, creating a five-member interscholastic athletic oversight commission for appeals from statewide activities associations, was introduced and debated, with questions raised about its relationship to MSHSAA.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (02/11/2025)
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Transcript Highlights:
- That is the harsh reality of a free market.
- He said this is where the free market comes in.
- get rid of this whole chapter or do something similar to what you're expressing?
- get rid of this whole chapter or do something similar to what you're expressing?
- get rid of this whole chapter or do something similar to what you're expressing?
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, we also have a program that reaches underserved families called Free to Explore.
- Um, we also have a program that reaches underserved families called Free to Explore.
- Um, we also have a program that reaches underserved families called Free to Explore.
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my I I just wanted to, um, express my I I just wanted to, um, express my interest - <01:48:03.760>
our we uh would love to express our we uh would love to express our appreciation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Firstly, I want to express my gratitude toward Ms.
- You have to rob Peter to pay Paul, whatever expression you want to use.
- You have to rob Peter to pay Paul, whatever expression you want to use.
- I'd like to begin by expressing our deepest gratitude to our legislators.
- It's free, but is it really appropriate?
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- I thought this was the land of the free, not the land of restraints.
- They came home from prison and still felt not free.
- I picture being technically free, but perpetually fearful.
- The only thing Tyrell ingested of kratom was from a seltzer drink marketed as sugar-free, alcohol-free
- , and caffeine-free.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on the Judiciary held a lengthy hearing on several juvenile justice and parole-related bills, with much of the testimony focused on H. 2051/S. 1087 to end lifetime parole for juveniles and emerging adults, and H. 1923 to raise the age of juvenile court jurisdiction to include 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds. Chairs Brandy Fluker-Reid and Lydia Edwards opened the hearing by noting the large number of bills and witnesses, the need to keep testimony moving, and special procedures for incarcerated witnesses and sensitive testimony. They also acknowledged the historic nature of the hearing being chaired by two Black women attorneys. No votes were taken during the hearing itself.
Many incarcerated speakers and advocates supported ending lifetime parole, arguing that young people can change, that lifetime supervision creates constant fear of technical violations, and that it undermines rehabilitation, family stability, employment, and reintegration. Several testified about their own trauma, youth, and growth in prison programs, while others emphasized the costs of decades of supervision and the racial disparities in the system. Support also came from elected officials, UTEC, the Transformational Prison Project, United Way, CPCS’s Youth Advocacy Division, the Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, and others, who said juvenile systems are better suited to developmentally appropriate treatment and that the bills would improve public safety and reduce recidivism.
There was also opposition, including testimony from family members of a murder victim who argued that lifetime parole should remain for serious violent crimes and that some offenders are not sufficiently rehabilitated. One virtual witness described a family tragedy involving the kidnapping and murder of her infant nephew and warned that ending lifetime parole could remove needed long-term supervision for dangerous offenders. In addition to the juvenile justice bills, the committee heard testimony on H. 1867, a bill related to continuing care for severe mental illness, and H. 2063, which would increase penalties for assaults on correction officers and other prison staff; the correction officers’ union supported H. 2063 and related safety bills. The hearing continued with many more witnesses and bill topics, but no final committee action was announced in the portion provided.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/25
Children and Families Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- All right, Representative Gilman, feel free to close out your bill. Great.
- feel free to close out your bill. Great. feel free to close out your bill. Great.
- I am the chair of Fentanyl Free Communities.
- I am the chair of Fentanyl Free Communities.
- I want to express my keep it going.
Keywords:
HF1918, Department of Children Youth and Families, DCYF, child welfare, foster care, out-of-home placement, permanency planning, relative search, noncustodial parent, kinship care, family preservation, African American Child and Family Well-Being, racial disproportionality, maltreatment reporting, educational neglect, truancy, school attendance, Great Start compensation, child care provider payments, TEACH early childhood program
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Freeman, you're part of the solution, but I'm just expressing my frustration.
- Freeman, you're part of the solution, but I'm just expressing my frustration.
- Freeman, you're part of the solution, but I'm just expressing my frustration.
- Freeman, you're part of the solution, but I'm just expressing my frustration.
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to record and uh feel free to record and uh feel free to proceed<01:26:37.600
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Because he doesn't express any issue with just accepting any dental insurance that comes his way.
- any issue with just he doesn't express any issue with just accepting<00:25:43.399>
any <00:25: - Over the years, they've expressed frustration in trying to resolve disputes about fines, assessments,
- I'm here today to express our opposition.
- That's really how the free market works, and this competition actually helps keep prices down.
Keywords:
homeowners insurance, property insurance, commercial property insurance, insurance affordability, insurance market stabilization, reinsurance, catastrophic reinsurance fund, self-insured pool, premium costs, coverage notice, liability reform, climate risk, climate change, housing affordability, multifamily housing, rental housing, common interest communities, cooperatives, small business insurance, Minnesota Commerce Department