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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And releasing election results before the polls close on election night from a Class A misdemeanor to
- the authority intentionally fails to promptly supplement the distributed ballots upon request by a polling
- Oftentimes campaigns... ...attract young workers who are minors still living with their parents or college
- It's a three strikes and you're out rule, and that's been the problem.
- This does not interfere with an employee's right to bring claims under workers' compensation laws.
Keywords:
low-THC cannabis, dispensing organization, Texas Compassionate-Use Program, medical use, patient access, registration, healthcare, legislation, credit card fraud, debit card fraud, prosecution, illegal possession, state law, political contributions, address privacy, Texas Ethics Commission, election transparency, campaign finance, election supplies, ballots
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, June 29, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- 6 of rule 20.
- Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Missouri, Mr.
- Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from... Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Kentucky, Mr.
- Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the
- That is just as much a poll tax as the poll tax my father paid when he as the poll tax my father paid
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- We created these rules, and we're a rule of law, not men. We have checks and balances.
- Many of us prefer the old rules. We prefer the agreement we all had to play by those rules, right?
- , federal and constitutional rules.
- Nurses, health care workers, janitors, social workers, security officers, in-home caregivers. school
- and university employees, court workers, airport workers, city, county, state employees, all of whom
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Debate on a bill to require athletic team designations based on biological sex at birth 4/7/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- polls This isn't about polls 80/20. 80/20. 80/20.
- polls, but that they agree. polls, but that they agree.
- suspension of rules for House File 2685. suspension of rules for House File 2685.
- Where rules exist for one simple reason. Where rules exist for one simple reason.
- of rules for House File 2685.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Oct 8th, 2025
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- And so what we did is we polled the state attorney's offices and basically to find out, number one, is
- So what we came up with through that polling was 14 criminal judgeships in the state attorney's office
- And so what we did is we polled the state attorney's offices and basically to find out, number one, is
- So what we came up with through that polling was 14 criminal judgeships in the state attorney's office
- The last part, officer wellness, I'm also a social worker.
Summary:
The committee met for an interim appropriations presentation hearing focused on justice administration agencies. Members heard budget requests from the State Attorney’s Office, Public Defenders, the Justice Administrative Commission, Regional Conflict Counsel, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, and the Guardian ad Litem Office, followed by a presentation from the Department of Juvenile Justice and a brief public comment from a nonprofit advocate. The chair noted that presentations from the Department of Law Enforcement and the Commission on Offender Review would be moved to a later meeting.
The state attorney requested funding to true up underfunded circuits under the existing formula, staff 14 new criminal judgeships, replace declining VOCA victim-services funding with general revenue, and cover a projected due process shortfall. The public defender asked for a higher starting salary for assistant public defenders, funding to restore balance in circuits where public defenders lag behind state attorneys, and staffing for new criminal judgeships. Regional conflict counsel and capital collateral regional counsel also sought salary adjustments, additional attorneys and case costs, and competitive area differential funding to address recruitment and retention issues. The Justice Administrative Commission requested funding for Florida PALM readiness and implementation and for IT hardware and software replacement; it also relayed a clerks’ request for reimbursement related to injunctions for protection, Baker Act, Marchman Act, and sexually violent predator cases.
The Guardian ad Litem Office said it now has a guardian ad litem for every child in Florida and requested salary increases for senior and managing attorneys to reduce turnover. The Department of Juvenile Justice presented a much larger budget request to expand residential and detention capacity, increase per diem rates, renovate and replace aging facilities, fund the Broward detention center rebuild, improve cybersecurity and the juvenile information system, and cover rising lease costs. Members asked questions about staffing, compensation, detention and residential treatment needs, mental health and substance-use services, and the Broward project timeline. A nonprofit advocate then asked for better data collection on protection orders and related court actions to support funding for domestic violence and recovery services. The committee adjourned without taking any formal votes on the budget requests.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, and we have met those rules.
- Per rule 7 of the House Committee on Ethics rules and procedures, if a majority of the whole committee
- Rule 6.10 of the House rules the voters.
- Poll after poll shows that trust in government is declining.
- that<00:13:33.560>
trust <00:13:33.880>in Poll after poll shows that trust in Poll
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee Apr 1st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- include adopting the committee rules.
- The rules have been adopted.
- And if we were to take a poll today, as I mentioned, heard many people mention polls, there were many
- I think that we might have one add-on for the committee rules.
- The rules. Adopting the committee rules. Elhawary? Yes. Quirk-Silva? Yes.
Summary:
The committee met on April 1, 2025, first adopting its rules and then taking up AB 89, a bill to require CIF to align girls’ high school sports with federal policy and restrict participation to biological females. The author and supporters argued the bill was needed to protect fairness, safety, privacy, and competitive opportunities for girls, citing individual student-athlete stories and examples of transgender participation. Opponents, including parents, athletes, advocates, and technical witnesses, argued the bill would stigmatize transgender youth, invite invasive scrutiny and harassment, and solve a problem they said was extremely rare or unsupported by data. After lengthy public testimony and debate, the committee rejected AB 89 on a 2-7 vote and sent it to the Committee on Education as a failed motion.
The committee then heard AB 844, a related measure framed by the author as restoring competitive integrity, protecting student privacy, and bringing California into compliance with Title IX and federal directives. Supporters, including Matt Walsh and a student athlete who said she lost a varsity spot to a transgender student, argued that sex-based sports rules are necessary because biological males retain athletic advantages and that California risks federal funding if it does not change course. Opponents, including educators, parents, LGBTQ advocates, and trans youth, said the bill would increase bullying, harassment, and exclusion, and that existing policies have worked without evidence of harm from transgender athletes. Public comment was again heavily divided, with many speakers on both sides. The transcript ends during public testimony on AB 844, before any final committee vote or action is shown.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee Apr 1st, 2025
Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- As per our committee rules, we're still in the review process for our first hearing.
- Part of our agenda today will include the adoption of the committee rules.
- But I'm also a government worker here, and I strongly oppose this bill.
- I think that we might have one add-on for the committee rules.
- Present members, the rules. Adopting the committee rules. Yes. Quirk-Silva? Yes. Quirk-Silva, yes.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 1692, ESA tutor safety rules.
- SB 1746, elections voting centers polling places judicial sharing.
- SB 1692, ESA's tutor safety rules.
- Rules. SB 1751, death sentence, choice, firing squad. Public safety.
- Poll book printer malfunctions and ballot shortages.
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, roll call, and approval of the prior journal. Members then recognized several guest groups in the gallery, including the Arizona Dental Hygienists Association, deaf and hard-of-hearing advocacy organizations, the Arizona Society of Anesthesiologists, the Doctor of the Day, and Native vote advocates. The chamber also observed a moment of silence for two DPS officers killed earlier that morning.
A long list of bills was introduced and read for first reading, with many measures covering education, elections, health, public safety, tribal affairs, housing, taxation, and government administration. The Senate also received committee referrals and standing committee reports. In Committee of the Whole, SB 1425, relating to elections and July primary cure provisions, was considered, amended, and recommended do pass. The Senate adopted the committee report and then substituted HB 2022 for SB 1425 because the bills were identical.
HB 2022 was then read on third reading and passed with the emergency clause by a vote of 27 ayes, 1 no, and 2 not voting. Supporters said the bill was a bipartisan effort to move the primary earlier, improve ballot return timing, and require observers in every county; one senator cited tribal voting challenges and provisional ballot rejection rates as reasons for supporting the measure, while another voted no over concerns about the emergency clause. The Senate also adopted proclamations recognizing Taekwondo Day in Arizona and American Heart Month 2026, then recessed and later reconvened to introduce additional bills, announce upcoming committee meetings, and adjourn until February 9, 2026.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
FULL INTERVIEW: Election Protection | Senator Liz Boldon Apr 17th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- extra barriers for people to exercise a right that they have, um, it really amounts to essentially a poll
- , as we are seeing an increase and a ramp-up of intimidation and threats against election workers.
- , as we are seeing an increase and a ramp-up of intimidation and threats against election workers.
- And that's a response to the United States Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
- Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Health Care Affordability, Select Apr 30th, 2026
Health Care Affordability, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- But the polling is very clear on this.
- It is a rule that's baked into Medicare, but many private insurances also follow that rule.
- It's a federal rule.
- The public workers and employees for state workers, municipalities in California, recognized this.
- So I think so much of the, like when we, at KFF, we do polling, public opinion polling, and prescription
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 144 by King relating to the plans for the management and inspection of distribution polls referred
- conducting certain medical examinations under telehealth Services and telemedical services under the workers
- and the eligibility of those workers for unemployment benefits.
- the applicability to the election judges of prohibition on the carrying of a concealed handgun to polling
- HB 1159 by Hinojosa relating to the designation of polling place locations on the campuses of certain
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 2 - 03/19/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Poll after poll and any given day talking to folks in our districts show clearly the concern about money
- Um, we have over 30,000 election workers each year staffing our polling places.
- year uh staffing our polling places. year uh staffing our polling places.
- enforcement can come to the polling enforcement can come to the polling place<01:48:47.040>
to - close you can campaign to a polling close you can campaign to a polling place.<01:49:28.639>
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- workers so that we can replenish our ranks.
- as poll workers so that election process as poll workers so that we<00:22:34.480>
can <00:22:34.799 - <01:12:47.040>
of <01:12:47.320>New polling like doing a UNH poll of New polling like - So polls can have an effect on how people vote.
- <02:46:05.399>
of of all a a poll just a a neutral poll of of all a a poll just a a neutral
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- that carries an appropriation, it is referred to the Committee on Appropriations pursuant to House Rule
- Uh, straw poll vote, not an official, but a straw poll vote of 9-0-2.
- straw poll of 902. straw poll of 902.
- <01:02:54.920>
and <01:02:55.040>a and I'm a social worker and a and I'm a social worker - The committee did not take a straw poll.
Summary:
The House opened with a devotional and the Pledge of Allegiance, then moved through first readings and referrals of several bills. House Bill 950, the pay act for certain state employees, was read and referred to Appropriations, and House Bill 951, the government appropriations bill, was read and referred to Ways and Means. Senate bills referred included S. 138 on commercial property assessed clean energy projects, S. 181 on eliminating a pre-sentence investigation requirement for deferred sentences, S. 206 on licensure of early childhood educators, S. 219 on an energy navigator program report, S. 239 on the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Working Group, and S. 291 on travel disclosures for legislators and certain executive officers, each sent to the appropriate committee.
The chamber also read several House concurrent resolutions adopted on the consent calendar. These included resolutions congratulating Rice Memorial High School’s Division Two girls soccer team and Division One field hockey team, designating March 2026 as Athletic Trainers Month in Vermont, and remembering the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters in Japan. The Japan remembrance resolution included a message from the Japanese consul general expressing gratitude for Vermont’s solidarity and friendship after the disaster.
Later, members offered announcements recognizing guests in the gallery, including Rice Memorial athletes and coaches, representatives of the Vermont Association of Athletic Trainers, and students and teachers from Pondbrook and Sterling College. The House also heard a detailed floor speech in support of House Bill 861, which would establish a statewide Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator. The sponsor described accessibility barriers faced by disabled Vermonters, argued that ADA responsibilities are currently uneven across state government, and said a coordinator would improve coordination, compliance, and access across agencies. The House then announced the order of upcoming bills, starting with H. 861 and H. 931, but no final vote on H. 861 was taken in the portion provided.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Mar 31st, 2025
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Transcript Highlights:
- Yes, cooperatives on the polls.
- So we are already required to provide access to polls, non-discriminatory access to polls.
- So under the FCC approach, the poll owner is allocated about 7.5% of the poll, um, to pay for, basically
- A poll is a poll.
- So any rules that come into play, we really need to make sure that the rules are across the board.
TX
Bills:
SB 2, SB 10, HB27, HB18, HB17, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, HB18, SR 1, SR 2, SR 5, HB18, HB17, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, SR1, SR2, SR5, SB2, SB10, HB27
Keywords:
HB 18, Texas Legislature, quorum break, quorum-busting, legislative walkout, absent legislators, political contributions, campaign finance, political expenditures, legislative caucus, specific-purpose committee, Texas Ethics Commission, civil penalty, show cause order, district court, Fifteenth Court of Appeals, session fundraising, travel lodging food expenses, legislative session, compelled attendance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- According to the procedures prescribed by Subchapter B, Chapter 301 of the Government Code and the rules
- Senate Resolution 5 by Hughes, amending the permanent rules of the Senate. Senator Hughes.
- Senate Resolution 5, which bears my name, which I now lay before the Senate, would amend our rules, in
- And of course, when the new Senate comes in in 2027, there's a new rule for the committees going forward
- Here are the rule changes it would make to our committees. It would take...
Bills:
SB 2, SB 10, HB27, HB18, HB17, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, HB18, SR 1, SR 2, SR 5, HB18, HB17, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, SR1, SR2, SR5, SB2, SB10, HB27
Keywords:
HB 18, Texas Legislature, quorum break, quorum-busting, legislative walkout, absent legislators, political contributions, campaign finance, political expenditures, legislative caucus, specific-purpose committee, Texas Ethics Commission, civil penalty, show cause order, district court, Fifteenth Court of Appeals, session fundraising, travel lodging food expenses, legislative session, compelled attendance
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/21/2026 - House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections
Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections
Transcript Highlights:
- From Spain to Indonesia, ruled by Sharia.
- I apologize, you first have to suspend the rules in order to—we don't suspend the rules, and that was
- notwithstanding any other rule.
- Yeah, but it was notwithstanding any other rule. You have to suspend the rules first.
- . ...community participation by casting one's vote at the polls or to return your ballot to the polls
Keywords:
campaign contributions, foreign contributions, constitutional amendments, public disclosure, Arizona Revised Statutes, elections, voter registration, provisional ballots, primary election, voter participation, Muslim Brotherhood, terrorism, foreign terrorist organization, national security, Islamist extremism, Congress, Arizona, domestic security, CAIR, terrorist organization
Summary:
The committee met to hear several measures, beginning with HCM 2001 and HCM 2002, both memorials urging Congress to review and potentially designate the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations. Supporters argued the groups have documented ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood’s stated goal of undermining Western civilization, citing the Holy Land Foundation case, FBI concerns, and testimony from national-security advocates. Opponents, including CAIR representatives, Muslim community members, and civil-rights advocates, said the memorials relied on guilt by association, would stigmatize Muslims, and lacked a factual or legal basis; they emphasized CAIR’s civil-rights work and warned of First Amendment concerns and community harm.
After extensive debate and questions about the relationship between national and Arizona CAIR entities, the committee approved HCM 2001 and HCM 2002 on 4-3 votes, with members on both sides explaining their votes at length. Supporters framed the measures as simple requests to Congress based on existing federal findings, while opponents called them political theater and discriminatory. The committee then recessed briefly.
When the committee returned, it heard HB 2009, which would prohibit committees primarily organized to influence constitutional amendments from accepting foreign national contributions and require donor verification and disclosure of out-of-state funding. The sponsor said the bill is meant to help voters understand outside influence on Arizona constitutional initiatives and suggested it could be broadened to all ballot measures. The bill passed 4-3.
The committee then took up HCR 2001, a proposed constitutional amendment on elections that would limit voting to U.S. citizens, ban foreign contributions to candidate and ballot measure campaigns, require government-issued ID, and adjust early voting and mail-ballot rules. A late amendment clarified that the citizenship requirement applies to primary, general, and municipal elections, set early voting to end the Friday before an election, and refined mail-ballot rules while preserving federal overseas military voting requirements. The sponsor argued the measure would make Arizona elections more secure and efficient, while critics said it would create barriers and longer lines. The transcript cuts off during sponsor questioning on the amendment and ballot-access provisions.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House/Senate DFL Press Conference 1/29/26
Transcript Highlights:
- We fought federal overreach on land use, environmental rules, and election laws.
- We fought federal overreach on land use, environmental rules, and election laws.
- We fought federal overreach on land use, environmental rules, and election laws.
- Workers who organized in factories and in fields.
- These are our workers. These are the people that we love and ICE needs to get the hell out.
Summary:
The meeting was a multi-state press event and hearing focused on alleged federal immigration enforcement abuses in Minnesota and other states. Minnesota lawmakers and invited legislators from Montana, Illinois, North Dakota, Tennessee, and elsewhere described ICE and Border Patrol activity as warrantless, masked, and violent, citing detentions of residents and U.S. citizens, school lockdowns, hospital disruptions, chemical munitions, and the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Brady. Speakers said the actions were terrorizing immigrant communities, communities of color, Native Americans, and families, and argued that the federal government was using Minnesota as a testing ground for broader authoritarian overreach.
Several lawmakers tied the situation to constitutional and civil-rights concerns, saying the conduct violated protections related to due process, free speech, and equal treatment. They urged state and federal officials to resist cooperation with ICE, protect schools, hospitals, churches, and courthouses as safe spaces, and support sanctuary policies. One speaker said Minnesota had never before needed a select committee on federal impacts, but that the current situation justified it; another said a coalition of 27 states was coordinating 85 bills to require coordination with local law enforcement, increase transparency, protect against warrantless arrests and racial profiling, and impose consequences for federal misconduct.
During the press question period, lawmakers from North Dakota and Tennessee said similar enforcement activity was spreading beyond Minnesota, including reported abductions in Fargo and a large federal presence in Memphis that had led to deportations and business closures. Illinois lawmakers said their state had already passed sanctuary laws and would continue pushing back. The event ended with calls for continued organizing, state-level legislation, and collective resistance to federal immigration enforcement practices described by speakers as unlawful and abusive.