Video & Transcript Research : 'free expression'
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Modifying when firearms are permitted on school property 2/25/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, I would just like to express our opposition to this proposal for all of the reasons that you heard
- They're gun-free zones. They've been gun-free zones for a long time.
- They're<00:40:47.599>
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NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Unlike teenagers who can express their symptoms, toddlers cannot.
- <00:57:17.920>
their unlike teenagers who can express their unlike teenagers who can express - We support this because we need to give our educators and students distraction-free learning time to
- This is the bill that would take the current program that provides a free community college course to
- which will leave addition to 59 which will leave the<01:49:23.920>
program <01:49:24.360>free
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 5, February 13, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- involvement in the free market. involvement in the free market.
- You could argue this really isn't a free You could argue this really isn't a free market<01:19:20.239
- No student should fear punishment for respectfully expressing what they believe.
- No student should fear punishment for respectfully expressing what they believe.
- personal expression at K12 schools. schools. schools.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- If you need assistance registering, please feel free to ask my clerk up front.
- Neighborhoods that don't have the ability maybe even to pay because it frees up officers to work there
- I cannot express how much I appreciate you and Mark Herman and the work that you do keeping us safe,
- My residents have the opportunity to express their personal opinions on what they want.
- I appreciate the direction, but as it affects the cost, then feel free to testify.
Keywords:
HB26, law enforcement contracts, sheriff, constable, county commissioners court, commissioners court, private security, special law enforcement district, property owners association, POA, municipal utility district, school district, junior college district, local government, contract policing, supplemental police services, large counties, population over 3.3 million, Texas Local Government Code, Harris County
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 3rd, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- R40 expresses support for immigrant students and reaffirms the state's commitment to ensuring that all
- ACR 40 expresses legislative support for immigrant students in California.
- Colleagues who expressed concern, I agree we need more certainty in the market, absolutely.
- To folks who express concern about the bond, I do believe bonds should be judicious and should be for
- It would free up more home in the housing market.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, May 15, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Speaker, it kills me inside that she took her last breath without being truly free.
- I pray that the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinians will end, and one day they will be free. Mr.
- aiming to criminalize free speech. Mr. aiming to criminalize free speech. Mr.
- <00:51:49.119>
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to <01:00:36.559>the express my deepest gratitude to the express my deepest gratitude
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Ways and Means (01/28/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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a < - Representative Amy, I expressed my concern before to you personally, but give me just a little bit of
Summary:
The committee held a public hearing on HB 135, introduced by Representative Michael Harrington. He said the bill would codify a portion of the New Hampshire Constitution to bar New Hampshire businesses from being required to collect sales or use taxes for other states unless Congress mandates it, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision created an onerous compliance burden for businesses. He described the patchwork of state and local sales tax rules, thresholds, and product exemptions as extremely complex and said the bill was intended to push the issue back toward Congress and the courts.
Members questioned whether the bill’s reference to a “foreign government” would apply to other U.S. states, whether the proposal would conflict with the Supremacy Clause, and whether it would create standing for businesses to challenge Wayfair. Harrington responded that “foreign government” meant any government other than New Hampshire, that he believed the state could challenge the decision in court by passing a law contrary to Wayfair, and that businesses were already being harmed by compliance costs. Some members raised concerns about whether the bill was an unfunded mandate or simply a private compliance burden, and Harrington argued that the state itself would not be collecting the taxes, but businesses would still face recordkeeping and administrative costs.
Sam Garland of the Department of Justice then testified. He said the department was not taking a formal position on the bill, but offered technical comments. Garland acknowledged that Wayfair created significant compliance burdens and noted that states have become somewhat more uniform, with all states now having a $100,000 economic nexus threshold, though not all use the 200-transaction threshold and local tax variation remains substantial. He said the department’s concerns were legal, describing the issue as uncharted constitutional territory involving both vertical and horizontal federalism. No vote or final action was taken during the hearing.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, May 19, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- For his bravery and selfless service, I express gratitude to Chief Meek for his enduring commitment to
- For his bravery and selfless service, I express gratitude to Chief Meek for his enduring commitment to
- Her life was rooted in faith, expressed in service, kindness, courage, and that steady belief that every
- This, in turn, frees up more capital to make loans in the communities they serve.
- members and stakeholders expressing members and stakeholders expressing concerns<05:46:37.040>
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Natural Resources and Environment Apr 29th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, House Concurrent Resolution 80 by Representative Domangue expresses the legislature's commitment
- House Concurrent Resolution 80 by Representative Domangue expresses the legislature's commitment to protecting
- And what I mean by that is, I’m not trying to give industry a get-out-of-jail-free card or the ability
- sand, as Representative Landry mentioned, that moving forward that property can now be considered free
- Aren't they free to contract now? Correct.
Summary:
The House Natural Resources Committee met on April 29, 2026, with a quorum present and took up several bills related to property rights, expropriation, renewable energy recycling, and local permitting. Representative Domangue first presented HCR 80 on private property rights, using it to highlight the 2025 landman code of conduct and the need for stronger guardrails in expropriation negotiations. She then deferred the resolution in order to allow Chairman Geymann to present HB 841, which was described as establishing a code of conduct for landmen and expropriation-related negotiations. The committee heard testimony and watched video examples from landowners describing intimidation, inadequate compensation offers, and the need for fair treatment. Amendments were adopted to broaden the bill to all certificate holders, prohibit threats about court costs and attorney fees, shorten response times, and add graduated fines and public posting for violations. HB 841 was reported favorably as amended, with no opposition cards recorded.
The committee then considered HB 621 by Representative Coates, which would require recycling of decommissioned renewable energy infrastructure to the extent practical. After discussion with DEQ, the bill was amended to clarify that existing universal waste rules apply and to remove language that would have required the renewable facility owner to pay decommissioning costs in that section; the effective date was set for January 1, 2027. Testimony from renewable energy industry representatives supported the measure and explained that solar panels and related components can be recycled at high rates, with established markets for recovered materials. The committee adopted the amendments and reported HB 621 favorably.
Next, Representative Jacob Landry presented HB 595, aimed at preventing local governments from unreasonably delaying or impeding energy projects through permit requirements, especially road permits affecting Haynesville Shale operations. After amendment, the bill required timely action on local road permits and deemed them approved if not acted on within 30 days. Supporters emphasized the economic importance of the Haynesville and the need for predictable permitting, while opponents argued the bill could further erode local authority, particularly regarding carbon capture and sequestration. The committee reported HB 595 favorably. Landry then presented HB 1191, creating a certificate of compliance process for oilfield and exploration and production sites to provide a cleaner path for cleanup, finality, and future investment. The bill drew technical and substantive amendments, including changes to definitions, confidentiality, and the role of DEQ; discussion continued over whether the bill should be deferred to allow more time to work through the remaining issues.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance Mar 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- That frees up money on our campuses.
- I did express this directly in my meeting with the office of the president in my office.
- In June 2025, based on feedback from UC community members who expressed a preference for a UC-developed
- In 2017, the state provided the university with $2.5 million in one-time funds to develop a hunger-free
- basic needs center offering a range of services, including permanent food banks, pop-up pantries, free
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance, chaired by Assemblymember Alvarez, held a hearing focused on University of California budget issues. The committee reviewed UC core operations funding, enrollment trends, federal funding threats, Title IX implementation, and basic needs support. Major themes included the end of the Governor’s multi-year UC compact, the state’s fiscal outlook, UC’s enrollment growth, and the potential impacts of federal policy changes on research, health care, and student aid.
On core funding, the Department of Finance described the Governor’s proposal to continue compact-related support, defer some payments, and authorize a cash-flow loan. The LAO recommended a smaller or no base increase, earmarking some funds for capital renewal, retiring deferrals when possible, avoiding new compact commitments, and funding UC annually rather than through compacts. UC argued that the compact has supported enrollment growth, student services, and operating costs, but said campuses face rising expenses, structural deficits, and limited reserves. Members questioned the effects of deferrals on students and discussed the need to prioritize less harmful reductions if cuts become necessary.
The enrollment panel focused on UC’s growth in California resident enrollment and the nonresident replacement plan at Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego. The LAO recommended maintaining the current enrollment target, funding enrollment separately from base increases, pausing the nonresident replacement plan, and holding enrollment flat in 2027-28. UC said it has already met compact enrollment goals, grown California undergraduate enrollment by about 18,800 students, and that further growth depends on ongoing state support. The committee also discussed the cost of enrollment growth, possible differential nonresident tuition, and a reporting request for UC to analyze the nonresident replacement approach; the motion to adopt supplemental reporting language passed.
The hearing also covered federal funding risks, with the LAO and UC warning that federal changes could affect research grants, medical center reimbursement, and student financial aid. UC said research cancellations and suspensions are disrupting labs and graduate student support, while federal health policy changes could increase uncompensated care at UC hospitals. In the Title IX update, UC described its systemwide civil rights structure, annual student training, and campus support offices, and members praised the work while asking about ongoing concerns and intersegmental collaboration. The final basic-needs item began with Finance stating the Governor’s budget does not change ongoing support, but the transcript cuts off before further discussion or action.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Feb 9th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- These are individuals coming in last year to express their concerns about budget cuts that... ...in last
- year to express their concerns about budget cuts that this legislature made.
- If you don't think that's wrong, feel free to take your hood off and vote no.
- each other and see what the Apostle Paul saw: that there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free
- zip code or their heritage, can stand tall and say, I am an American, I am a Californian, and I am free
Summary:
The Assembly convened after a quorum call, completed the roll, and opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several guest introductions recognizing visitors, students, and a long-serving committee secretary, Tabitha Volga-Sang, who was honored for 32 years of service. Members also took up a procedural motion by Assembly Member DeMaio to immediately consider ACA 14, the Taxpayer Protection Act, without reference to file; that motion failed on a 14-44 vote.
The main policy debate centered on SB 106 by Senator Laird, a budget appropriation to provide $90 million in one-time funding for Planned Parenthood and related women’s health and family planning services after federal cuts. Assembly Member Tangipa offered amendments arguing the money should be directed more broadly to women’s health and hospitals, but the Assembly voted 41-13 to lay the amendments on the table. Supporters, including Gabriel, Sharp-Collins, Gibson, Krell, Bonta, and others, said the bill was needed to preserve access to cancer screenings, contraception, STI testing, and reproductive care, especially in rural and underserved communities, and to offset the effects of federal defunding. Opponents, including Johnson, DeMaio, Patterson, and Tangipa, criticized the bill as lacking transparency, favoring a politically connected organization, and diverting attention from hospital funding and other health needs.
After extended floor debate, SB 106 passed the Assembly 55-10 and was transmitted immediately to the Senate. The chamber then took up H.R. 84, a resolution condemning racism after President Trump circulated racist imagery depicting former President Obama and Michelle Obama. Members from the Black, LGBTQ, Latino, AAPI, Jewish, Native American, and other caucuses spoke in support, saying the post normalized dehumanization and had real-world consequences; Assembly Member Tangipa also stated the post was wrong and apologized on the record. The transcript ends during continued debate on H.R. 84, before a final vote is shown.
UT
Utah 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Interim Committee - November 19, 2025
Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Interim Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- solar and wind that have profiles that... ...solar and wind that have profiles that, you know, are free
- Well, I would submit that maybe when your wind and solar is generating for free, as you say, you're using
- tech, and the TSA, and the decisions made around digital IDs will bear upon everyone's privacy and free
- And you'll have a proper free market system where there's a balance of who's in control and how they
- And so I just wanted to express gratitude.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee Apr 30th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- consistently to all people who participate in our proceedings, regardless of the viewpoints they express
- Our families have consistently expressed that the obstacles to accessing affordable, quality internet
- Forty-seven percent of the respondents in the survey identified free home internet as one of their top
- it to, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm going to look at my consultant, enrollment in Medi-Cal, TANF, free
- Enrollment in Medi-Cal, TANF, free and reduced lunch, CalFresh. Still covers too many Californians.
Summary:
The committee first heard AB 470, which would change California’s carrier-of-last-resort rules and allow a phased transition away from copper landlines in areas deemed well served by alternative phone options. The author and AT&T argued the bill would protect consumers, preserve 911 access, require public notice and CPUC review, and direct investment toward modern fiber and emergency communications. Supporters included a wide range of business, civic, tribal, and community groups, while opponents from TURN, rural counties, labor, digital equity organizations, and local governments warned the bill could let AT&T shed service obligations too quickly, weaken protections for rural and underserved households, and harm workers. After extensive member discussion about CPUC authority, rural carveouts, labor impacts, and reinvestment, AB 470 was passed do pass as amended to Appropriations, with one no vote and one not voting, and the roll left open.
The committee then took up AB 1532, a committee omnibus bill extending funding and surcharge authority for the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program and the TNC Access for All program, while also adding CPUC accountability provisions. Chair Boerner Horvath explained the bill would not raise consumer costs and would require the CPUC to appear at hearings when requested and adopt rules for commissioner attendance. There was no opposition testimony, and the bill was moved do pass and re-refer to Utilities and Energy, though the roll was left open because it had not yet reached the threshold for immediate transmission.
Finally, the committee heard AB 353, the Affordable Home Internet Act of 2025, which would establish an affordability floor for home broadband for low-income Californians after the expiration of the federal Affordable Connectivity Program. Supporters said broadband costs remain too high and that families, students, and vulnerable communities need a state solution now; opponents from the wireless industry and rural county representatives argued the bill would amount to an artificial price mandate and could complicate existing rural broadband buildouts. Members generally supported the goal but raised concerns about impacts on small ISPs and rural areas, and the bill was moved forward with a motion and second while discussion continued about possible exemptions and amendments.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- That is available and it's free to any school district, to any homeschooler.
- It's free to everybody in the state of Texas and you'll see that with the website, it's attracted 65,000
- Yeah, so with the numbers that Chairman Darby expressed, which I think that you agreed with, it, it just
- It's emissions and carbon-free, it's protected from the weather.
- And with robust participation in the ancillary services market, storage frees up natural gas and other
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 22nd, 2025
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- We express that as total new money.
- Another way of expressing that is how... ...much the pie has grown over FY 25, and we are projecting
- Feel free to contact them throughout the session.
- You can feel free to call us, and we may have more details than what's published here.
- If you need to get up, do whatever it is you need to do, please feel free.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- It was also expressed to me that some members do not believe that hiring illegal immigrants impacts the
- There is no fiscal impact on this bill, and e-verify is free to use for all employers.
- So, I have constituents that reached out to me expressing concern there the The incidents of identity
Keywords:
labor, e-verification, immigration, employers, employment eligibility, Department of Labor, penalties, funeral licensing, continuing education, Oklahoma Funeral Directors Association, professional development, licensing requirements, HB3660, natural organic reduction, human composting, soil reduction, green burial, funeral services, cremation, burial permit
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-06-02 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We thank You for our governor, who has led us to be the free state of Florida and lead this nation.
- And I just want to first express my gratitude to this body over the past...
- And I just want to first express my gratitude to this body over the past years because we have funded
- Some of our videos, it was said that you get nothing for free.
- There's an old English expression that's incorrectly attributed to the Chinese, and it says, may you
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Please feel free to make yourself comfortable at the witness table.
- Feel free to present again. Same time frame and welcome again. It's an honor to be here.
- I want to note any opinions expressed here today in my testimony are my own and do not express the views
- I was expressing frustration.
- I was expressing frustration.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
State of the Union Address by the President of the United States (Tuesday, February 24, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So this will be a year to celebrate our country and the heroes who have kept it free.
- Tax-free investment accounts for every American child.
- No one will ever forget the expression of terror on Iryna's face as she looked up at her attacker in
- No one will ever forget the<01:48:28.400>
expression <01:48:28.800>of <01:48:29.040> - terror<01:48:29.440>
on <01:48:30.080>Ireina's the expression of terror on Ireina's
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Motion to bring up HF3405 on House Floor 2/19/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- whistles and Know Your Rights cards and provided shelter, physical shelter, and food to people for free
- Therapists and body workers have stepped up to offer support and healing. people for free.
- Even as they have just people for free.
- I can't kind<00:54:29.440>
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