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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 9th, 2026 at 11:18 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- report having greater confidence and a more positive self-identity, stating that they have greater control
- She's from the border region of Columbus, New Mexico, and Palomas, Chihuahua, and graduated from Deming
- just to say a huge shout-out for a town located very north, in fact, really close to the Canadian border
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Sep 5th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- and the agency is asking these companies to reapply as vendors this year in efforts to tighten the controls
- The supply is very low because we have our border closed on the south end due to the screw worm, which
- Right now, the cattle crossing down at the border is closed due to the screw worm, where there were 1,500
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration Apr 8th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- across the globe, families and businesses are filling the weight of economic forces beyond their control
- To the note at the top, I have lived and worked in the central San Joaquin, the southern border, Orange
- We have our own special considerations being a border community that also run folks letting California
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 11, 2025 - 08:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- fiscal services, budgeting, cash management, policy support, and establishes internal financial controls
- On August 14, 2024, ABC Action News reported that FHP was raking in overtime at the southern border.
- first to say how deeply proud I am of our Florida State Troopers who were serving on the southern border
Summary:
The committee met to review agency program funding as it prepared to build the budget, hearing brief presentations from six agencies and then taking member questions. Florida Division of Emergency Management highlighted its role in response, preparedness, recovery, and mitigation, describing a largely federal pass-through budget, major technology investments, and large disaster and preparedness grant activity. The Department of Commerce, Department of State, Florida Housing Finance Corporation, Department of Transportation, Department of Military Affairs, Florida State Guard, and Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles also summarized their budgets, staffing, and major programs, including workforce and economic development, elections and arts funding, housing assistance, transportation work programs, military readiness, state guard expansion, and highway safety and motorist services.
Members focused questions on several issues: arts and library grant funding and whether award criteria had changed; Commerce’s rural infrastructure and job growth grants and why funds were not being disbursed faster; Florida Housing’s use of SAIL, Live Local, Hometown Heroes, and SHIP funds and how smaller agencies learn about and access funding; and DOT’s work program gap between agency and governor proposals. The most extensive questioning was directed to Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles about long DMV lines, vacancies, overtime, staffing shortages, and the ability to shift funds between divisions. The department said staffing and pay constraints, especially in South Florida, were driving service delays and vacancy rates, and that overtime was being used because troopers were leaving for better-paying jobs.
The Florida State Guard was also questioned about its spending and procurement pace, including aircraft purchases and facilities. Its director said long procurement timelines explained the low initial spending and that obligations had risen sharply as contracts matured. Members also asked about the department’s public opposition to Amendment 3 and whether agency resources were used in that effort; the director said no contracts or purchases were made to influence the vote and said the colonel’s comments were made off the clock. The meeting ended with the chair asking agencies to respond promptly to unanswered questions, and the committee adjourned without any recorded votes or formal actions beyond receiving the presentations and questions.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- building automation systems, you know, automatic lights that turn off when rooms aren’t used, HVAC controls
- HVAC controls, submetering, and improvements to heating and cooling.
- TCQ and the PUC to partner with NADBank to support critical water infrastructure projects along the border
- This allows life insurance to offer loss control measures without filing a new policy.
- Border Patrol Agent Jose Rodriguez Lue Memorial Highway, for the Committee on Transportation.
Summary:
The House convened with a quorum, offered an invocation, led the pledges, and approved a series of routine motions, including excusing absent members and granting permission for several committees to meet while the House was in session. Members also adopted several memorial and recognition resolutions, including H.R. 1023 honoring Christian Beerbill, H.R. 1033 recognizing International Bereaved Mother’s Day, and H.R. 877 recognizing Urban League Advocates Day. The House also recommitted SB 17 and HB 4211 to committee and postponed SCR 27 and HB 2145 for later consideration.
The chamber then took up a long third-reading calendar of bills covering a wide range of topics, including Sunset review measures, health care workforce and pricing, child custody and family law, Medicaid, rural ambulance grants, energy reporting, public information requests, trail development, virtual meeting disruptions, occupational licensing, protective orders, county leave pools, animal cruelty, infrastructure, and higher education. Most bills were explained briefly by their authors and passed with broad support, though several drew notable opposition, including HB 5265, HB 2402, HB 3000, HB 3237, HB 3326, HB 1056, HB 281, HB 3308, HB 1043, HB 1234, HB 1193, HB 294, HB 809, HB 334, HB 2037, HB 285, HB 1353, HB 3960, HB 4044, HB 4264, HB 2807, HB 3349, HB 4406, HB 1593, HB 1899, HB 1201, and others.
Several bills prompted extended debate or amendments. HB 3237, extending public energy-use reporting for state and higher-education buildings, passed after questions about its public-sector-only scope and energy savings. HB 3326, addressing public service loan forgiveness credit for adjunct professors, initially failed on a 69-70 vote but later passed after verification and machine corrections. HB 3211, concerning optometrists in managed care plans, adopted a Buckley amendment before passing. HB 2213 on Texas Windstorm Insurance Association board composition adopted a Metcalf amendment requiring certain board members to be Texas residents. HB 412, dealing with harmful materials and sexual performance of a child, generated extensive questioning about its scope, existing legal standards, and effects on educators and medical professionals; the excerpt ends during that debate.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee, May 15, 2026
Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- So, we're just looking for a little more control over that so we can control our own destiny here in
- So, we're just looking for a little more control over that so we can control our own destiny here in
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And has so much control over our lands. - And has so much control over our lands.
- This might be your ticket to more control over certain federal lands.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- . >> Uh, so we wanted xylazine to be a controlled drug.
- The reason we wanted it to be a controlled drug, it's getting to be mixed with fentanyl now.
- The reason we wanted it controlled drug.
- the local control and voter sovereignty. the local control and voter sovereignty.
- Or if something is out of control, right?
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Veterans and Military Affairs REVISED Feb 12th, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Veterans and Military Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- that that's a fair use of our financial resources to have someone from Texas transfer across the border
- Funded by Ody or controlled by ODVA's foundation, or is that going to be in competition with it?
Keywords:
military discharge, veterans, DD Form 214, confidentiality, grandchildren access, Oklahoma National Guard, education assistance, military benefits, dependents, CareerTech Assistance Act, burial grant, memorial headstone, eligibility requirements, funding, Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, fiscal management, state law, veteran burial, burial assistance, indigent veterans
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 10, 2026 - 04:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- The intent of the district is to install, operate and maintain the stormwater and flood control facilities
- is a bit of confusion as to who gets a Form I-94 and whether you get one when you travel by land border
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Science, Technology and Telecommunications Sep 23rd, 2025
Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- A lot of that focuses on borders and different nations in terms of aquifers, but also a lot of how our
- heard that if we fed coffee grounds to sheep,' It would affect their reproductive cycle, and we controlled
TX
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Capital Investment Cmte hears St. Paul bonding requests for sports facility upgrades 3/20/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- anchor where people want to be, a hub of energy, business, and community that reverberates beyond our borders
- anchor where people want to be, a hub of energy, business, and community that reverberates beyond our borders
- anchor where people want to be, a hub of energy, business, and community that reverberates beyond our borders
- anchor where people want to be, a hub of energy, business, and community that reverberates beyond our borders
- critical for the future of our state, certainly for the future of our city, and for the goal of controlling
MN
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (01/14/2025)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- uh some of them are for flood control uh some of them are for flood control<00:14:59.360>
i <00 - They require certain levels of controls or types of controls depending upon the industry, whereas we
- They require certain levels of controls or types of controls depending upon the industry, whereas we
- They require certain levels of controls or types of controls depending upon the industry, whereas we
- They require certain levels of controls or types of controls depending upon the industry, whereas we
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 01/21/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- The first agency is the Pollution Control Agency.
- That runs down through the Mississippi to the southern border of our state.
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of Mississippi to the southern border of Mississippi to the southern border - I'm the government relations director for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
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again uh deal with land use controls again uh deal with land use controls again
Summary:
Chair Foung Hawj opened the Environment, Climate and Legacy Committee meeting by welcoming members, agency staff, and constituents, and by outlining the committee’s shared-power arrangement for the session. Members introduced themselves and described environmental activities from the interim, including gardening, outdoor recreation, farming visits, Great Lakes work, and a tree-planting trip in Thailand that Hawj said symbolized cultural unity and environmental stewardship.
Ben Stanley, the committee’s nonpartisan counsel, then explained the co-chairs’ operating agreement: Hawj would chair the meeting, Senator John Hoffman would chair the next two meetings, then Hawj would chair the following two, with the chair rotating after each pair of meetings. Agendas would be set jointly, additional meetings would require both chairs’ approval, and passing a bill out of committee would require a majority of all committee members, or seven votes. At Senator Tory Westrom’s request, the agreement was to be emailed to members in writing.
Stanley also reviewed the committee’s jurisdiction, which includes environmental and natural resources bills, legacy funds, and agencies such as the Environmental Quality Board, Department of Natural Resources, Pollution Control Agency, and Board of Water and Soil Resources, along with several related councils and boards. Fiscal analyst Dan Mueller then gave a budget overview of the committee’s agencies, noting that many current biennium appropriations include one-time general fund money that drops back in the 2026-27 base budget. He highlighted funding levels for the Pollution Control Agency, DNR, Metro Parks, Conservation Corps, BWSR, the Minnesota Zoo, the Science Museum, and the Metropolitan Landfill Contingency Action Trust Account, and said the committee’s base-budget area totals about $2.2 billion. He also reviewed the Legacy funds, estimating available 2026-27 appropriations of about $327 million for Outdoor Heritage, $31.7 million for Clean Water, $133 million for Parks and Trails, and $185 million for Arts and Cultural Heritage. No votes or bill actions were taken at this meeting.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't think it would go out of control per project.
- Does that make controls costs over time. Does that make sense? sense? sense?
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fund uh money in the mosquito control fund uh money in the mosquito control - , yes, property taxes are out of control, yes, property taxes are out of control, but<03:53:38.319
- It's because the state isn't of control.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C County & Regional Government Apr 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Commissioners' courts would allow. would still have the local control to decide whether or not to implement
- And so it's very much a local control type issue where you're, you're, you're getting additional law
- Uh, better span of control.
- So with this, we do believe that there will still be sufficient controls in place.
- Uh, so who, who retains control over deciding whether we put it up for our bid or we give it away?
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Nov 6th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Superintendent, I did lose control. It reminds me of when I worked with infants and toddlers.
- States that literally bordered New Mexico would be a comparison, but it's easy to pull in any other state
- I mean, who is in control of that journal? Do they have a slant one way or the other?
- The revenue is controlled by CMS in the state of New Mexico.
- As I said, we don't control the purse strings, and we try to convince our colleagues to invest in things
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Cheryl coordinates everything from the Washington County office. and it's like being an air traffic controller
- take kindly to the incursion but the brief French presence helped to define the Sabine River as the border
- She took charge of arms export control and arms control policies.
Keywords:
teacher compensation, education funding, public school educators, teacher retention, teacher designation, lottery, gambling, internet gaming, mobile application, criminal offenses, aquifer, water management, Edwards Aquifer, sustainability, regulatory framework, SB 565, Texas Water Code, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, compliance agreement
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee Jun 22nd, 2026
Revenue and Taxation
Transcript Highlights:
- And this sits right in Calexico, right on the border there. And...
- in the legislature—the only one—that has the entire border with Mexico from the ocean to the river.
- And often border communities and regions face unique issues and flavors, shall we say, of opportunism
- in the legislature—the only one—that has the entire border with Mexico from the ocean to the river.
- legislature, the only one, that has the entire border with Mexico from the ocean to the river.