Video & Transcript Research : 'foreign deployment'

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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 14th, 2026 at 10:07 am

Senate Finance

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  • That you talk about item two, the research development and deployment fund, sorry, for 111 million.
  • One, the research development deployment fund, while soliciting RFIs right now, will have broad autonomy
  • Similarly, the vision for quantum is to be able to make data centers in artificial intelligence deployment
  • Artificial intelligence deployment is exponentially more efficient.
Bills: SB151, HB8, SB177
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 09:37 am

Senate Finance

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  • SB 151 also taxes foreign subsidiary income without providing a foreign tax credit, creating a real risk
  • foreign jurisdiction.
  • If the foreign income was not adequately taxed in the foreign country, the federal government imposes
  • If the foreign income was adequately taxed in the foreign country, the federal government allows a foreign
  • was appropriately taxed in the foreign jurisdiction.
Bills: SB151, HB8, SB177
TX
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  • Competing on this team necessarily involves discussing the policies of foreign governments. analyzing
  • I am deeply concerned that institutions will conflate criticisms and analysis of foreign... governments
  • Hate speech is one thing; criticism of a foreign country or commentary on a certain current conflict
TX
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  • HB 2233 would send a message that ideas are not welcome at our university. universities, and foreign
  • But if someone speaks out against that or puts like a op-ed and they're like, I guess, a foreign student
  • organizations a lot of important weighty measures before this committee this bill deals with our foreign
  • In recent years, there's been a troubling rise in foreign adversaries exploiting student organizations
  • benefits, funding, facility use, or official recognition to student organizations. support from a foreign
TX
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  • transportation of fuels by imposing a tax on what would otherwise be tax-free to be exported to a foreign
  • There's been deployment of the Mexican...
TX
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  • Criminal street gangs and foreign organizations fail to abide by the rule of law and consistently change
  • Identification as a member of a criminal street gang (CSG) or foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by
  • organizations, when an individual is asked directly, "Are you a member of a criminal street gang, foreign
  • It's not uncommon for criminal street gangs and foreign terrorist organizations to claim what is deemed
  • These transnational groups as foreign terrorist organizations.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Border Security (Part II) Apr 10th, 2025

Border Security

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  • piece of legislation currently affects law enforcement agencies that address criminal street gangs, foreign
  • organizations, when an individual is asked directly, “Are you a member of a criminal street gang, foreign
  • the portion that says “or is located at a previously documented area of a criminal street gang or foreign
  • Or it’s not uncommon for criminal street gangs, foreign terrorist organizations, to claim what is deemed
  • February 20th, the Secretary of State formally designated several of these transnational groups as foreign
Summary: The Senate Committee on Border Security heard several bills related to border security, law enforcement databases, DPS aviation maintenance, and transportation motor fuels. SB 2199, after brief invited testimony from the Texas Trucking Association and DPS, was left pending at first and later reported favorably to the full Senate on a 4-1 vote. SB 2332, relating to aircraft owned and operated by the Department of Public Safety, was laid out by Senator Parker, with DPS and TechSOT witnesses explaining that it would centralize DPS aircraft maintenance under DPS, align state law with FAA responsibility rules, and potentially reduce costs and downtime; it was later reported favorably on a 5-0 vote and placed on the local and uncontested calendar. SB 2949, relating to the regulation of transportation motor fuels, was also adopted as a committee substitute and reported favorably on a 4-1 vote, with a member noting continued interest in refining port-of-entry transloading issues. The committee spent the most time on SB 2201, which would revise Texas intelligence database criteria for criminal street gangs and foreign terrorist organizations. Senator Birdwell described the bill as adding safeguards such as requiring officer identification on submissions, setting retention and validation rules, and updating criteria to reflect technology and social media use. Invited witnesses from the district attorney’s office, DPS, and the Texas Anti-Gang Center generally supported the bill and said it would improve reliability and accountability. Public testimony included support from the Texas Public Policy Foundation and opposition from the Texas Civil Rights Project and the ACLU of Texas, which argued the bill’s language on implied or demonstrated self-admission and other criteria was vague, overly broad, and could lead to erroneous inclusion in the database and downstream consequences. After debate, SB 2201 was reported favorably to the full Senate on a 4-1 vote, with Senator Eckhardt voting no. During questioning on SB 2201, members discussed how gang-database entries are used in investigations and prosecutions, the meaning of “family member,” the scope of self-admission, and how “previously documented areas” would be identified in practice. Opponents raised concerns about due process, First and Fourth Amendment issues, racial profiling, and possible federal consequences if state database information is shared. Supporters emphasized that the database is a law-enforcement tool for identifying organized criminal activity and that the committee substitute adds training, audits, and accountability measures. The committee then completed its business and recessed subject to the call of the chair.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EIG-WLA, EIG-HOU-WLA, EIG-HOU, EIG Public Hearings 03-19-2026

Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs

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  • ><00:16:37.640> help<00:16:37.880> with<00:16:38.079> the<00:16:38.200> deployment
  • <00:16:38.839> of out as is to help with the deployment of out as is to help with the deployment
  • Some of these manufactured homes came in with S-traps from foreign countries or wherever they came from
  • <00:57:50.200> countries<00:57:50.680> or with S-traps from foreign countries or with
  • S-traps from foreign countries or wherever<00:57:51.080> they<00:57:51.240> came<00:57
Bills: HB1700
Summary: The joint committees heard several housing, land use, and infrastructure bills. HB 6019 HD2 on electric vehicle infrastructure and HB 1728 HD1 on rainwater catchment systems both drew limited testimony and were advanced. For HB 1728, the chairs said they would designate the Department of Health as the regulator and incorporate suggested technical amendments from plumbing and rainwater industry groups. Both measures were reported out with recommendations to pass, with HB 6019 passed unamended and HB 1728 passed with amendments. HB 1844, which would have required the Land Use Commission to reclassify lands designated for urban growth, drew significant opposition from the Hawaii Farm Bureau and Sierra Club, who argued it would bypass land-use review and threaten agricultural land, water planning, and long-term resilience. Grassroot Institute supported the bill, and the Land Use Commission said the bill raised concerns. After discussion, the chairs deferred the measure in one committee and later the recommendation to pass it with amendments was not adopted in the other committee. HB 1990 on penalties and liens for unresolved residential zoning violations was advanced with amendments. The chairs adopted Grassroot Institute’s suggested changes requiring any county sale of such property to be at no less than fair market value and requiring excess proceeds to be returned to the owner. HB 2424, which would allow county planning agencies to petition for temporary reclassification of certain agricultural lands to rural, also drew mixed testimony; the Land Use Commission raised due process concerns, and agriculture interests opposed it. One committee advanced it with amendments, but in the other committee the recommendation failed after members cited lack of county support. The later portion of the hearing began on HB 1738 and HB 1739. HB 1738 would expand county authority to amend district boundaries for housing on parcels over 15 acres; OHA, Sierra Club, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau opposed it, while Grassroot Institute supported it. HB 1739 would require transit-supportive densities in county TOD areas and limit local restrictions; DPP raised concerns about timing, permitting, and conflicts with existing TOD frameworks, while OPSD and Grassroot supported it. The transcript cuts off before final action on these later bills.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

89th Legislative Session Mar 7th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

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  • mechanisms of the Office of the Governor and the Texas Public Utility Commission to support the deployment
  • HB 1017 by to relating to the creation of the criminal offense of improper entry from a foreign nation
US
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  • I understand this generation that went from time to time again, deployment after deployment, in a different
  • The VA and Oracle endangered patients by rushing the deployment, not ensuring the system was technically
  • Last month, the VA announced that it would be moving forward with pre-deployment activities at the next
  • when we tell them, "Oh, we're spending money but show nothing for it," that's something that is a foreign
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

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  • Our colleagues foreign adversaries.
  • Vote yes on foreign influence.
  • hoping to simply expand their foreign hoping to simply expand their foreign language<04:28:40.479
  • to the CCP that we will not foreign to the CCP that we will not foreign allow<04:29:26.159> foreign
  • We saw how foreign government.
CA
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  • enforcement bulletins on laws prohibiting hate crimes, a hate crimes rapid response protocol for the deployment
  • Thirty-three point four percent of Los Angeles County is foreign-born, and it encompasses a little over
  • know that no matter how deep our roots are here, we are still often seen as other, the perpetual foreigners
  • our beautiful California communities despite how much that might invite the opposition of powerful foreign
  • our beautiful California communities despite how much that might invite the opposition of powerful foreign
Summary: The Select Committee on Hate, Racism, and Xenophobia met to examine the scope of hate activity in California and hear from state agencies, commissions, and community organizations. The chair opened by framing hate as a persistent crisis affecting many protected groups, and Assembly Member Gonzalez briefly joined the committee. The first panel included the California Department of Justice and the California Commission on the State of Hate, both of which presented recent data and policy recommendations. The Department of Justice reported that in 2024 California saw 2,023 reported hate crime events, 2,568 hate crime offenses, and 2,491 victims, with anti-Black bias remaining the most common category, followed by anti-Jewish and anti-Latino bias. DOJ also said referrals for prosecution increased, and it described its hate-crimes guidance, rapid response protocol, and multilingual resources. The Commission on the State of Hate said hate is undercounted in law enforcement data and cited a survey suggesting about 2.6 million Californians experienced at least one hate act in a year, including more than half a million potentially criminal incidents. It recommended permanent data infrastructure, mandatory law enforcement training, and continued funding for community-based prevention and victim support. The committee then heard testimony from representatives of the NAACP, LULAC, Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California, CHIRLA, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, CARE, Equality California, and the Racial Equity Commission. Witnesses described systemic racism, anti-immigrant enforcement, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Asian bias, and anti-LGBTQ+ hate, often linking these harms to political rhetoric, social media, and federal actions. They urged the Legislature to fund programs such as California vs. Hate, Stop the Hate, nonprofit security grants, language access, school and mental health supports, and legal assistance, while also protecting civil rights, due process, and free speech. No formal votes or committee actions were taken during the hearing, but members indicated they would request additional recommendations and continue the discussion in future hearings.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

March 11, 2025 - 08:30 AM

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  • The Office of International Affairs facilitates consular relations between the state and all foreign
  • organizations to help with the training of the license plate agents and tax collectors on all the new deployments
  • that most of them probably interact with the department in some way, whether... on all the new deployments
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

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 16th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

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  • We cannot allow a gap between the retirement. of the ISS and the deployment of commercial space stations
  • encryption states can stay ahead of cyber threats and safeguard critical systems from both domestic and foreign
  • threats. foreign adversaries.
  • encryption states can stay ahead of cyber threats and safeguard critical systems from both domestic and foreign
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 25, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

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  • And that means that we don't have to beg foreign dictators for oil.
  • to beg foreign dictators for oil. to beg foreign dictators for oil.
  • Michael and two Purple Hearts. around the globe with deployments in around the globe with deployments
  • > illegally<03:14:37.120> under foreign nationals here illegally under foreign nationals
  • He once said, quote, “We don't have to give foreign aid.
CA
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  • establishes the policy certainty and clear permitting framework necessary to support large-scale deployment
  • California are facing pressures to cut costs, leading many of them to turn toward cheaper imported foreign-made
  • opportunity for us to invest in California and invest in clean glass and make us competitive with foreign
  • Capture Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program, positioning California to lead the development and deployment
  • And to mitigate the potential risk, this bill does not provide for any large-scale or commercial deployment
Summary: The committee hearing centered first on AB 1243, the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025, which would direct CalEPA to identify major fossil fuel companies, study California’s climate damages, and assess fees on the largest polluters to fund resilience, recovery, and related projects. The author and supporters argued the bill would make polluters help pay for climate harms, protect taxpayers, create jobs in construction and clean energy, and dedicate at least 40% of funds to disadvantaged communities. Support testimony came from environmental justice groups, labor, youth advocates, health organizations, and many individual witnesses, while opponents from the building trades, chambers of commerce, petroleum, and business groups warned it would raise fuel and consumer costs, threaten refinery jobs, and create legal and economic uncertainty. Committee members debated the bill’s impact on affordability, jobs, refinery closures, and whether cap-and-trade already addresses climate funding needs. The committee ultimately voted to give AB 1243 a due pass recommendation to the Judiciary Committee, with the roll left open. After AB 1243, the committee moved to another bill on wildfire mitigation and related resilience work. The author said the measure addresses a long-running wildfire problem and accepted committee amendments, describing the bill as a response to increasingly severe wildfire seasons and the need to help communities stay safe and rebuild after disasters. The transcript cuts off as that presentation begins, so no final action on the second bill is shown in the excerpt.